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Written by Dusan Srbljak
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
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Page 1 of 9 Every single one of you, prepared or not, will soon have to come to terms with the fact that the conventional cooling of the CPU needs to be replaced by a better, more efficient one, or simply stick with the default clock of your CPU, thus maybe even question the stability of the aforementioned in the upcoming hot summer days. To some of you, the main reason for switching to a more advanced cooling system may as well be – silence, whereas some are simply bored with the old cooler and wish to replace it.
In our laboratory we have 9 fresh CPU coolers this time, courtesy of 5 different manufacturers. These belong to different price ranges, so the cooling performance differs greatly as well. What is important is to recognize what you really need. To start with, let's check out the testing setup.
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