The PC aftermarket is so dynamic that it’s often hard to keep up with all the new products. This is especially true with coolers in general and CPU coolers in particular. The “King-of-the-Hill” may be relegated to “Second-Best” in a matter of weeks as manufacturers bring new products to market. While the difference in performance [...]
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Akura 628
Arkura was established in the year 2000 and started producing heatsinks, this particular model is the 628 which supports up to an Athlon XP 2100+. The design of this heatsink resembles that of the Dr Thermal and the Thermoengine. This heatsink is designed for quietness which seems to be a big trend in the heatsink [...]
Noctua NH-C12P CPU Heatsink Review
We here at OCMS have reviewed several products from our European pals at Noctua and I was very pleased to hear they contacted me again for some new products up for review this time is the “Noctua NH-C12P” CPU cooler. Ding dong! Oh, Jolly! The frigging mail dude arrived with a nice big package that [...]
How to Overclock your PSP
The chip in your PSP was designed to run faster than it does out of the box. By default, the CPU runs at 222Mhz, but the MIPS R4000 processor was designed to run at 333Mhz with a 166Mhz bus. I don’t need to spell out for you what it means that the most powerful handheld gaming device [...]
ECS EliteGroup GeForce 6100PM-M2 V2.0 Motherboard Review
The funny thing about how expensive technology is, is that as soon as you buy something that costs $300, it’s automatically obsolete and is worth roughly 1/3 of the original price. Actually, it was pretty much obsolete the moment you bought it. The world of the PC DIYer is a fantastic world, but the price [...]
Evercool Formula 2 VGA Cooler
If you are a PC gamer (or computer enthusiast for that matter), then you no doubt are constantly keeping on top of the curve of the latest video cards the industry is pumping out every three months or so. Many of these behemoths use up so much electricity and pump out so much heat that [...]
CoolIt Systems RAM Fan Review
I have been directing extra airflow to my computer’s memory ever since RAM heatspreaders came out. I figured that if there was an actual need to distribute heat produced by the memory, then that heat could be better dissipated by some extra airflow. Nearly every DDR2 module now has heatspreaders, and DDR3′s specifications actually require [...]
Tuniq Tower T-120 CPU Heatsink
Who needs fancy, expensive water cooling for your CPU when you have 1¾ pounds of aluminum fins, heatpipes, and a 9-blade 120mm fan? Enter, the Tuniq Tower 120. It is, simply, the best CPU cooler you can buy; and for $50, it may very well change your life. The Tuniq Tower 120 Ultra Silent CPU [...]
Thermalright HR-05 HighRiser Northbridge Heatsink
Desktop motherboards usually don’t require any active cooling, as their chipsets do not run that hot. In recent years the increasing clock speeds and number of integrated devices are pushing these chipsets harder, making them hotter. Most motherboard’s North Bridge takes the brunt of this work, as it handles communications between the main CPU and [...]
Danger Den nVidia Watercooling Kit and MAG II LE Pump
As our faithful readers might know we have a small history to reviewing DangerDen products (henceforth referred to as “DD”), and OCMS is proud to review yet another piece of fine craftsmanship in watercooling: the first NVIDIA-recommended watercooling kit in the world! Yes, that’s right! DD got the NVIDIA recommended seal, making it the first [...]
Jetart VC2000 Graphics card cooler
For all the aftermarket equipment out there, your average consumer could easily be swallowed with all of the flashing lights and bright sound of the third party computer hardware industry. Sure to the average computer user, adding on nifty new peripherals or replacing parts that in their eyes they have no need to replace. My [...]
Thermalright V1 Ultra VGA Heatsink
After many years of producing some of the top-performing CPU heatsinks in the world, Thermalright has entered the video card cooling arena. The manufacturer has previously released the V1 and V1-Ultra, designed to handle the latest pixel-crunchers form nVidia and ATI. Companies like Zalman and ThermalTake have been conquering the PC enthusiast market with innovative [...]
OCZ XTC PC2-4200 Gold Dual-Channel DDR2
PC gamers have always been on the bleeding edge of technology. As a matter of fact, PC gamers have been the driving economic force creating the need for monster video cards faster processors, and PC evolution in general. DDR2 memory is the latest offspring of the PC evolution, providing more memory bandwidth per cycle than [...]
AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 Review
The FX-60 is AMD’s newest and most powerful desktop dual core processor solution. This chip is based on the Toledo core and runs at an impressive 2.6GHz with a 13x unlocked multiplier and 200MHz HTT speed. This is the fastest production AMD dual core processor available, and is a pretty impressive piece of hardware with [...]
Overclocking Overview
Definition: hardware overclocking : Any adjustments made to computer hardware (or software) to make its CPU/GPU/RAM run at a higher clock frequency than intended by the original manufacturers. Typically this involves replacing the crystal in the clock generation circuitry with a higher frequency crystal, changing jumper settings, or software configuration. If the clock frequency is [...]
1GB Wintec Amp-X DDR2 PC5400
Wintec Industries was founded in 1988 and is one of the world’s leading original equipment manufacturers (OEM), of memory modules, and a top supply-chain service supplier for value-added resellers (VARs). They currently have trade association memberships in such organizations as JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council), EIA (Electronics Industries Alliances), CFA (Compact Flash Association), SD [...]
AkwaFlo RAM Cooler
As of late, there seems to be a distinct split in the water cooling field. One half consists of those trying to hit the absolute maximum overclock while the other half is trying to achieve an ultra-silent cooling system with excellent temperatures. I was recently given the opportunity to review a cooling component that could [...]
SilenX Luxurae Hard Drive Silencer
Noise reduction is something that is slowly starting to become more of a focus in computers these days. More companies are manufacturing products that run quieter or even better, silent. There are also more technologies being implemented to reduce noise output, things like PWM (Pulse Wave Modulation), heatpipes, and quieter hard drive motors. All of [...]
Asus Extreme N6600GT – SLI Part 2
As a continuation on our evaluation of the nForce4-SLI hardware that Asus sent us for review, we are going to take a closer look at Asus’ SLI compatible Extreme N6600GT series of video cards. This is Part 2 of a three part suite of articles. Part 1 took a look at the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe [...]
ATi Radeon X800 Pro
Although PCI-Express has hit the market it has not taken over AGP, at least in my opinion. Because of that there is still plenty of room for companies to fight for the best AGP card on the market. Nvidia and ATi are always racing to be the first on the market with the fastest and [...]
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