These fins act as the fundamental heat dissipation method for an air cooler, and strangely the NH-P1 comes with fewer than the tightly packed NH-D15. The NH-P1 also features a grid of cut-outs horizontally through the more relaxed design, which again should help airflow naturally flow ...
, delivers a single-tower, single-fan cooler that delivers essential CPU cooling performance while keeping things quiet. You shouldn't use this for air cooling or extended heavy loads with a top-end i9, but for stock operation on mainstream chips, this is a quiet, affordable cooling champ....
I plan to use the integrated GPU and two NVMe SSDs, meaning a careful choice of motherboard and I might even be able to squeeze by with an mATX motherboard. I like my current Meshify C, but it feels way too big for a setup like that. I LOVE the new Meshify 2, but that's even...
For the air cooling system, I used ID-Cooling’s Frozen A720 Black, which is one of the two best air coolers that I’ve tested on any CPU. For the liquid cooling system, we’ve used Cooler Master’s Atmos 360 AIO. Each system has 32GB (2x 16GB) of DDR5 and MSI’s Z790 Tomahawk...
For a much more affordable option, the best budget CPU is the Intel Core i5 13400F, although as noted below, Intel chips come with a potential caveat as things currently stand. The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X is the best mid-range chip, thanks to its excellent all-round performance and ...
look. It’s also easily one of the best CPU coolers on the market with its stacked fin array that ensures least airflow resistance, four heat pipes that boast Direct Contact Technology to better battle the heat, and a wide speed range for fine-tuning cooling performance and silent operation...
How to apply thermal paste to a CPU Applying thermal paste to the CPU is a crucial step, but it's a fairly simple task. The XTM50 paste has low viscosity, so you can use the 'Dot method' to apply the paste and let the mounting pressure do its thing. But if you're too worried...
Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 is one of the best high-performance dual-fan liquid CPU coolers that you can buy for your processor. It comes with a big 240mm radiator and two 120mm fans for much better cooling performance. The liquid cooler has a copper base plate for excellent heat diss...
the TDP of the CPU that needs to be cooled is an important factor in the decision-making process. While TDP is not the most accurate representation of power consumption, it does offer a vague idea of the amount of cooling power that you might need. Other factors that are important to con...
The tool tests four major components of the system: CPU, RAM, GPU, and drive. To test the CPU, it executes complex calculations involving integers and floating-point numbers. For the GPU test, it runs six 3D game simulations. RAM tests measure multi-core bandwidth and latency, while drive...