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Pentium J2900 CPU Review @ Hardware Secrets

January 8, 2015 Comments Off

"Recently, we analyzed the ASRock Q2900M motherboard, which brings an on-board "Bay Trail-D" Pentium J2900 CPU. In this article, we will compare the performance of this processor to other three low-cost, low-TDP CPUs that we reviewed recently: the Sempron 2650, the Celeron J1800, and the A4-5000 to see whether the Pentium J2900 is faster […]

Noctua NH-U9S CPU Cooler Review @ Modders-Inc

January 8, 2015 Comments Off

Technology is on a relentless march toward efficiency with each new design an improvement over the previous. Some are small, some are big but it is always moving forward. Even on something as simple as a fan and heatsink, improvements in manufacturing and fan design to balance performance, noise and cooling are expected. Larger […]

DeepCool Gamer Storm Lucifer Heatsink Review @ Frostytech

January 7, 2015 Comments Off

"The DeepCool Gamer Storm Lucifer heatsink is a fairly large CPU cooler, very much resembling a passive thermal solution on quick glance due to its boxy footprint and widely spaced aluminum fins. The heatsink isn’t a passive cooler though, its single fan is very much required to keep the Lucifer from becoming like its […]

AMD FX-8320E AM3+ Processor Performance Review @ Benchmark Reviews

January 6, 2015 Comments Off

AMD released a slew of new FX-series CPUs in September, 2014, including the FX-8370, FX-8370E, and the subject of our review, the FX-8320E. This is the low end of AMD’s eight-core FX series of enthusiast CPUs, and the “E” suffix marks it as a low-power variant; nonetheless, AMD touts it as a viable CPU […]

INTEL i7-5960X “Haswell-E” HEDT Processor Review @ HardwareBBQ

January 5, 2015 Comments Off

The eight-core flagship piece of meat called the i7-5960X has a base clock of 3.0GHz armed with 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes with the MSRP of $1059 at the time of launch. The base model SKU for the Haswell E- the i7-5820K- is a six-core processor with DDR4 233MHz support. But it has a reduction of […]

Raijintek Triton AIO Liquid CPU Cooler Review @ Kitguru

January 3, 2015 Comments Off

Today we are going to take a look at an interesting water cooling product – the Raijintek Triton, an ‘all in one’ CPU cooler. The Triton has been designed to be user upgradable … in fact Raijintek take things a step further and actively encourage users (who have the necessary skills) to customise their loop. […]

Noctua NH-D15 CPU Cooler Review @ LanOC Reviews

January 2, 2015 Comments Off

While water cooling has been especially popular over the last few years, there are still a lot of people who would prefer to not deal with the additional risks and installation complication. On top of that, when you are looking for really high end cooling it actually costs a lot more than you think […]