The Zalman Z9 Plus offers a wide variety of features you don’t typically find in cases of similar price. You’ll notice the full black paint job, both inside and out, to go along with the multitude of blue LED fans and ventilation holes for superior cooling. The front of the case is mainly composed of [...]
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Zalman Trimon ZM-M220W Stereo Monitor
While visiting Zalman at a few trade shows, I was introduced to their new stereoscopic 3d monitor: the Zalman Trimon 22-inch monitor. nVidia has been showing off their own solutions that use any regular monitor, so what makes this monitor different, and why would you want to buy one? I spoke with Richard Chung of [...]
Zalman ZM-NC1500 Ultra Quiet Notebook Cooler Review
Notebook computer pack an awful lot of electronics into a small space. As notebooks get more powerful, so does their heat output, and people who use their notebooks as a “desktop replacement” feel all of that power on their legs (please no dirty jokes). “Gaming-worthy” notebooks have more heat issues than an office-class laptop. The [...]
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 [...]
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 Review
OH. MY. GOD. That was my initial reaction when looking upon the new Sapphire HD 4850 X2 video card. nVidia and ATI are constantly feuding. These bitter PR battles have resulted in a new more powerful video cards every six months or so. This is both good news and bad news for PC gaming enthusiasts. On one [...]
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 [...]
Sapphire HD4870 Toxic Video Card Review
The PC gaming industry has seen many graphics chips come and go. Companies like 3dfx, S3, Trident, Intel, nVidia, ATI and others have tapped into the gaming industry and have produced 3d accellerators for the PC, and most of them have gone. There are only two major players in the PC graphics industry: nVidia and [...]
Zalman CNPS 9500 Heatsink Review
When you think cool, you think of Zalman. Or you think of Prince. Either way you have one Killer Chiller. Today my subject is none other than the Zalman CNPS9500. When you take the classic Zalman flower design and combine it with an ultra-quiet fan, a unique heat pipe array, and a little LED bling, [...]
ThermalTake V1-Ultra CPU Heatsink
The Humble Heatsink isn’t so humble anymore. There used to be a time when a heatsink was a bare chunk of aluminum, without any fans, anodized coating, lapped surfaces, or anything resembling the metal beasts in today’s world. The heatsink knows it’s the most important part of your computer system, so manufacturers cater to this prima [...]
Zalman ZM-MFC2 Multi Fan Controller
Zalman computer products have been advertising the silencing factor of their products for many years. Most of their heatsinks are even packaged with their ”Fanmate” to let the user adjust the fan’s RPMs, thereby reducing the noise the fan produces. To achieve a virtually silent computer, some users have used several Fanmates or other rheostats to reduce [...]
ThermalTake ToughPower 850W PSU Review
There was a time when a bright lightbulb consumed more electricity than a powerful computer. Those days are long past, as even a modest computer today will eat up an average of 300 watts or more. The ultra-powerful hardware that tempts the PC enthusiast hungers for more electricity to fuel it, thus creating the need [...]
ThermalTake iFlash 120mm Cooling Fan Review
One of the first products to come from the pre-fabbed modding scene were LED fans. At the time these clear whirlwinds with multi-colored LEDs were absolutely fascinating, and the clear fans were much more interesting to look at than standard matte black fans. These fans gave us a reason to take up a Dremel and [...]
Zalman CNPS 8700 LED Heatsink Review
Zalman has been making some of the most innovative and quiet after-market heatsinks in the computer industry for several years. They have had to keep up with the thermal trends as processors became more powerful over the years, which has had the unfortunate side effect of making their products rather large. One of Zalman’s best [...]
Zalman VF 1000 LED VGA and ZM-RHS888 Heatsink
The power of PC video cards has grown beyond the processors that host them. Today’s graphics processors have more transistors than even the most powerful dual-core CPU, which translates into alot of heat production. Even when the GPU is idle, it can generate massive amouts of thermal waste that must be disposed of via heatsink. [...]
CoolIt Systems Freezone CPU Cooler
Extreme overclockers are always looking for bleeding-edge ways to get every once from their hardware. They use powerful fans, extensive water-cooling setups, and even thermoelectric plates to make sure their rigs run reliably, even when pushed beyond the intended performance envelope. Recently, hardware manufacturers have been producing “all-in-one” watercooling devices, which are easy to install, [...]
Zalman CNPS 9700 NT CPU Heatsink
Zalman is a leader when it comes to third-party heatsinks and accessories. They have been making quality PC products for many years, focusing on efficient design, which in turn have produces some of the best products available. Their CNPS (Computer Noise Prevention System) products have been some of the most effective heatsinks available, and have [...]
Scythe MINE CPU Cooler Review
In an ever-ending quest to find true silence, I have previously used watercooling, but today fans and cooling solutions have progressed to their its max and aircooling is becoming just as silent. Zalman is a leader in this industry, but there are many other heatsinks that do the job just as well. One of these [...]
Zalman ZM-CS1 Socket 775 Bracket
I have always loved Zalman’s coolers. The CNPS line have been some of the top-performing and quietest air coolers for the past few years, so they are installed in every single one of my computers… at least until I got a Core 2 Duo. My loyalty has swayed between Intel and AMD as the two [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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