Will says that he loves the approachable price ($140 retail) and size of this Kraken variant, even if the small screen isn’t ...

One of the most important decisions you can make when planning out your gaming PC build is how to keep all the components in your case cool. Proper cooling increases the lifespan of your parts and can ...

M any of us splurge on high-end 360mm AIO coolers to keep our CPU temperatures as low as possible. I do that too because they ...

Every overclocker and gamer knows that a solid CPU cooler can make a real difference in benchmarks and in games, so for that extra edge, you need a good aftermarket CPU cooler. There are lots of good ...

A research project from China demonstrates a passive cooling method involving salt water to enhance an unknown CPU performance by up to 32.65%. Evaporating and absorbing moisture from its surroundings ...

[G3R] writes to us about a mod they did on a HP ProDesk/EliteDesk 400 G3 miniPC they use as a home emulation center. The miniPC would overheat as soon as the CPU load increased, resulting in frame ...

Heatsink technology has rapidly improved over the last few years. The introduction of heatpipes, use of large radius fans and the sophisticated mounting mechanisms have all aided these developments.

One very important thing mentioned in our CPU cooler methodology article was that as processors get smaller and smaller, the concentration of heat is tough for many coolers out there to control.

Heatsinks and CPU fans can be very large, limiting the hardware configurations in any computer, but what if you could condense and combine them into one component? At CES 2015, startup CoolChip ...

Those Dell heatsinks are very difficult to remove. I've removed the heatsink from a 700Mhz Slot 1 Cumine that was a Dell OEM CPU. I used a pair of snips to "chop up" the plastic clip right close to ...