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Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the unseasonably-warm-this-year dept.

Kez writes "Over recent years coolers have grown increasingly exotic in design, striving for good cooling performance and low noise even with the most power hungry of CPUs. But sometimes that comes at a price, be it straining the motherboard's socket to its limit, or the wallets of PC enthusiasts. Investigating which coolers do their job well without snapping your motherboard in two, HEXUS.net reviews 25 LGA775 coolers."

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  1. I have found... by mulvane · · Score: 5, Funny

    That the most effective (and costly), is sticking my wife on my processor. Her icy cold personality towards my computers has allowed me to reach near 0 Kelvin on many over clocked processor lines.

  2. wow what a spammy site by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful


    i have seen less adverts on a domain squatters site, running a website must be really expensive if you have to be that desperate to plaster the page with 20+ adverts per page (from multiple advert servers) and as a result create a page that is over 400kb of tracking/advert scripts and images when the actual content you read is about 1kb

    i guess dignity has no place on that site, or this one for that matter for linking to such a pathetic excuse for a website

  3. You might be a loser if...... by LibertineR · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. You use water cooling on your computer, and have friends with whom you regularly compare operating temps.

    2. You rearrainge your workspace to see the built-in temperature guage no matter where you are.

    3. You have a variable speed control for the fan on your power supply, and adjust it based on weather conditions.

    4. You believe that the fan on top of your workstation blowing out actually does anything worthy of the added cost.

    5. Your workspace sounds like a 747 on approach because of all the fans in your workstation.

    Nobody ever got laid over their ability to keep their computer cool. Cool is out, QUIET is in, bitches.

  4. Online "magazines" are going nuts by syylk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok, all nice and cute... ...But ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN pages to describe CPU coolers?

    I mean, WTF? Next time, just put one word per page, alongside 29763410974 banners/links/ads and be done with it. This kind of... err... "journalism" is spiraling down. Quickly.

    I know I will miss some incredibly useful piece of vital information by avoiding to read all 119 pages. But I also know there are more creative ways to offend my own intelligence.