Today sees the release of two new reservoirs for the water cooling enthusiast market. Designed around the popular Liang D5 and D5 vario these products are set to provide maximum compatibility whilst being user friendly. The reservoirs attach directly to the Liang pumps, thus eliminating the need to install tubing from the reservoir to the [...]
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Akasa Freedom Tower CPU Cooler Review
Introduction What constitutes as a bang for buck cooler? First, It must be supplied with a decent fan (or two), have support for both Intel and AMD platforms, and further still must have the same high performance cooling as the elite coolers but without the same expensive price tag. Akasa must be one of [...]
Akasa Venom CPU Cooler Review
Introduction We reviewed the Akasa’ Nero S CPU cooler only just last month dubbed their “premium cooler”. Now however Akasa have come to the market with a cooler capable of mounting two 120mm fans titled, the “Venom”, not to be confused with the Venomous X from Thermalright. Akasa state on the box “King of Cooling”. [...]
Overclockers.com – Three Steps to Overclocking Your i3/i5/i7
Overclockers.com has published a nice guide by Miahallen, a well known and very (very) good overclocker. Here’s an excerpt: So many users are searching around the net these days looking for advice on how to overclock their new systems but don’t know where to start. To help everyone out, I decided a how-to guide was in [...]
Water Cooling Guide for Beginners
First and foremost, why put your PC under water? (No, not literally.) Better temperatures. Higher clocks. Quieter running system. Good looks. Impress the ladies. If you’re a lady, really impress the guys. Whatever your motivation, you’ve come to the right place. You can accomplish all of those and then some. Before you jump into water [...]
Hokie’s Water Upgrade
Hello everybody! If you frequent the forums, you may already know about this, but for those that don’t, here is a little window into the evolution of the water loop in my system. This is my second water loop. The first one was older, but it served its purpose well enough for a couple months. [...]
