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Buying Guide: CPU Cooling Equipment (Part 1)

6/22/2012 9:20:02 AM

Figuratively, we like to smoke the PC hardware. Nothing makes us to be more excited than to see the latest and the best CPU burning the tests. We call that excellent performance is “hissing”; special components is the “as fast as lightning”. We overclocked the device to “be exothermic”.

Description: 980X CPU cooler. With six cores to feed with data and instructions

980X CPU cooler. With six cores to feed with data and instructions


But when we are “exothermic” figuratively, we are “exothermic” literally, and that is bad. PC heat - you know, kind of heat can turn your high-end processor into a $1,000 paperweight - is one of the most irritating culprit that we have to handle in the PC. Excessive heat is clearly one of the biggest barriers to have great overclock, but much cooler equipment that can cope with high temperatures, creating an unpleasant thing: noise, and in many case it is a lot of noise. What is a computer user responsible to do?

You can start by taking a small metal comes with CPU and throw it in the trash. You can not control the temperature of the system with inherent cooling equipment. Some of the best companies in the field of PC components think the removal of excess heat is their duty, and they invest countless time and money into research and development to ensure their cooling equipment are effective.


Description: Orb CPU coolers

Orb CPU coolers


We have assembled a group of CPU cooler that treated heat as an uninvited guess at your PC party. Most cooler equipments have learned some new tricks in the last few years. Many air-cooled devices have combined copper heat pipes in their design, and some equipments have heat pipe worked by special machine, which contacts directly with the integrated heat sink of CPU; and the result is a more efficient product in direct heat transfer from CPU to the heat pipe of cooling device. In other cases, you will see the grilles of the heat sink are sculpted to maximize the air flow, remove the above side of high radiator of memory modules for overclockers, or both. You'll find a lot of cooler devides in these pages using PWM fan (pulse width modulation), which can adjust the speed according to thermal load to achieve the perfect balance between high performance and silent operation.

Finally, cooling by liquid has exploded. With the popularity of the single units, low maintenance, it has never been easier to fight the heat with water. Forget dealing with a mess (radiators, pumps, reservoirs, pipes, etc). In most cases, you can attach a fan chassis and a traditional CPU cooler - which you have to do anyway - you can have a PC cooler equipment with liquid. Some of these equipments also have the PWM fan to keep their radiators cool.

Let's look at some coolest products today. We also like the socket CPU compatibility of each cooler, so you know you have appropriate cooling, and its evaluated noise level. The prices are marked with an asterisk are online prices when we write this article.

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