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 pump itself. This saves the consumer money, space and time.

The products are available in two flavours, bay and tank designs.

http://www.xspc.biz/d5bayres.php

http://www.xspc.biz/d5tankres.php

This reviewer would be very interested to see what XSPC comes up with next.

Author Gilgamesh

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”. Now this isn’t to be taken offense but Akasa is more known for their low cost budget coolers delivering serious bang for buck for any consumer, CPU or GPU cooling. When a company takes a brave step to dub there cooler so, one can only be pessimistic. However, no doubt it will probably be the best cooler Akasa produce to date. With the tag line on the box, “unlock Venom GAME ON!”, we could be in for a real treat with a cooler offering a lot of cooling potential.

About Akasa

Akasa design and manufacture a comprehensive range of high quality technology products including coolers, heatsinks and fans. They work closely with Intel and AMD to ensure the products match the complex demands of CPU and form-factor technology. So when new, advanced technology arrives, Akasa have the products and expertise to make it work for you.

Specifications

Heatsink Material: Aluminum fins, Copper heatpipes

Weight: 805g

Cooler Dimensions: 120x96x160mm

Socket: Intel LGA775/1156/1366, AMD AM2/AM3

Fan Speed: 600-1900RPM (PWM Controlled)

Noise Level: 6.9-28.9dB(A)

Today we are proud to announce a world exclusive! Gilgamesh at overclockerstech was lucky enough to be amongst one of the few people in an exclusive club, testing a new water block by XSPC. This site is not allowed to publish detailed photos as of yet, but we have been authorised to publish the following image.

The new XSPC block

We are not allowed to post intimate details of the various features of this block, however we can confirm that FINALLY we have a block that KILLS the Heatkiller 3.0 (copper version)

Before posting the following results one must notice that the mounting mechanism creates a much closer contact between the CPU and the water block, judging by its mounting mechanism.

The initial testing results are between one and two degrees BETTER performance than the Watercool Heatkiller!

This preview shall be appended with the full results shortly! However one must note that the testing has been carried out on a PROTOTYPE waterblock!

Author gilgamesh

We all remember the good old days; arguing who has the best cooler – you either were a TRUE or IFX-14 lover!  This reviewer however was a TRUE fan; simply down to how easy the heatsink was to fit on the board, as compared to the huge IFX-14. However; both did have with their own issues. The IFX-14′s downfall was largely due to a poor base. Today we see an eagerly awaited upgrade of the IFX-14 in the form of the ‘Arrow’, but not from Thermalright – instead, a sister company called Cogage.

About Cogage

Thermalright Inc. saw an issue with their high-end cooler – cost!  To remedy this, they created a daughter company called Cogage. Aimed at the more mainstream market, it was founded in order to make higher-end product more readily available due to its lower prices.

Specifications

The specifications from Cogage’s website:

We recall from last year a question that many pondered – just how far can air cooling go? Air cooling can only go so far and it won’t be long until we hit the limit. We’ve already seen some companies take to water cooling solutions with all-in-one kits – some more successful than others. It won’t be long until some of the bigger names start to find new ways to adapt air cooling for the masses and take it to a new level. There are already rumours of vapour chambers and TEC’s in the future. However, one such company that we are reviewing today has taken a step ahead of the big rivals and taken air cooling to a whole new level – liquid metal.

About

Many people will be unfamiliar with Danamics and wouldn’t have known they produce CPU coolers. Founded on the principle of providing manufacturers of electronic hot spots the very best in cooling, Danamics started in 2005. Since then, Danamics has worked on developing, manufacturing and commercializing their core technology, which centres around the principle of using liquid metal as a heat remover. Danamics were keen to improve on their earlier cooler; the LM10. Much hyped and talked about, it proved to be only average and couldn’t keep up with the very best standard air coolers, let alone justify such a high price tag! They redesigned the whole cooler from the ground up but have kept the same Sodium Potassium Alloy used for cooling.

Liquid Metal you say?

Sodium Potassium Alloy (aka NaK) is a top substance for heat transfer. However, reading through the nice detailed warning booklet, it is highly reactive to air and water. Something that puts many people off due to the fact that if the substance were to leak, well, watch out for an explosion! This NaK is pumped around the cooler’s nickel plated heatpipes via the electromagnetic pump which is silent and features no moving parts. This pump is a REV.2 (PowerBooster 2) over the previous LMX Pump, which Danamics has told me is smaller, cheaper and more effective. Note – this does get very hot so be careful! Moving parts are totally eliminated as the magnetic force is created within the particles of the liquid metal causing it to flow.

See the image below for the step-by-step of how this electromagnetic flow works:

Step-by-step

In an ever-increasing partnership with XSPC, overclockerstech can exclusive bring to you information about the new DFI  Waterblock!  This is designed to fit on the DFI UT X58 T3EH8 systemboard. This product is designed to cool not just the northbridge but all the of the board. I.E The PWM’s the North and Southbridge.

Note that the amount of wattage that goes through the DFI UT PWM’s is around 200 watts plus 75 watts for the MCH making a total of 275 watts;not factoring into account the small wattage of the ICH! Usally most of this heat is then outputted into your case-this increasing CPU temperatures and possibly limiting your Overclocking score!

Needless to say-they will be available within the week, and overclockerstech will be the first to review this product.

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At these high temperatures, it would be prudent to make sure you have a sufficient radiator available (especially if you require near-silent cooling)

Overclockerstech recommends the following products for use with this waterblock.

XSPC RX280

www.xspc.biz/rx240.php

XSPC RS360

www.xspc.biz/rs360black.php

These radiators available from www.cclonline.com, www.watercooled-pcs.co.uk, www.aqua-tuning.co.uk

Today we have an exclusive: Diamond Flower International have come up trumps with their new system board.  The world of the computer enthusiast has been awaiting the X58 chipset from Intel with baited breath.  Rumors of tri-channel DDR3 and the chipset being able to support BOTH ATI Crossfire and nVidia SLI have been running amok the hardware forums on a number of sites for quite some time.  Today we can lay to rest some of the more wild rumors and confirm others.

DFI have been very busy with their design and have come up with some very interesting specifications.

Chipset / CPU	Intel X58 + ICH10R (Socket 1366)
Front Side Bus	FSB 133MHz
RAM	DDR3-1333MHz
PCI Express	40 Lanes PCIE (16/8/8/4)
Power	8 phase digital server PWM system
Chipset Power	Extra 2 phase PWM for DRAM / 1 phase for Northbridge / 1 phase for VTT
Cooling	Heat-pipe cooling system with “Flame Freezer” module
Display	Debug LED
Other	Advanced power/reset button
BIOS	Replaceable CMOS design
Other	ABS technology ready
Multi-GPU	Supports both ATI Crossfire and nVidia SLI

DFI X58 Mainboard Images

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Initial Design Thoughts

As clearly shown, this looks to be a fairly early design without the thermal array coupled to the system board itself.  A good idea, which is a real credit to DFI in this reviewer’s opinion, is the removable BIOS chip; this allows BETA testers to swap out their BIOS.  This can also be of use to overclockers.  Another point is that the clear CMOS header has been re-placed to a more suitable area, unlike the P45 board which was placed too close over the PCI express slot.  Notice the tri-channel DDR3 RAM slots, as rumored over these last few months.  Turning towards the onboard power/reset switches, these look to have a more ‘classy’ feel and it does make sense to develop these this way.  Next we heard rumors that the X58 will support both SLI and Crossfire.  This has indeed borne out to be correct, so many overclockers will be glad to finally ditch those nVidia chipset motherboards and opt for an Intel chipset instead.

DFI looks as though it is heading the right way with this motherboard; however it will be interesting to see what DFI can come up with to cool this beast of a system board.

gilgamesh