Water-cooling systems look spectacular inside a PC. But do you really need them? For most gamers, the honest answer is… no.

The cooler you use for your CPU can greatly impact your PC's performance, especially under demanding workloads. If you cheap out on it, you may encounter thermal throttling issues, which means you won ...

For 22 years (till 2022), I only used air coolers. Stock Intel and AMD coolers and a cheap Cooler Master air cooler were enough to keep each of my processors (up to the Ryzen 5 1600) cool enough. When ...

Noctua NH-D15 G2 is top in class but also top priced by a lot. Makes me appreciate just how good (the best of) the affordability competitors have gotten. IMHO: Noctua’s fans are superior to everything ...

The one thing that stands out to me, however, is that Arctics acoustic performance was ok, pretty much in the middle of our charts, which is fairly common for AIO coolers vs air coolers, and it got me ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Cooler Master has just taken the wraps off of a couple of next-gen CPU coolers with the introduction of the new G11 AIO and V8 3DVC, both capable of ...

Adam Corsetti is a Commerce Writer from the United States. An avid gamer since childhood, Adam became hooked on video games after using the original Nintendo NES console. During college, he created a ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. be quiet! had a few new products showcased during CES 2026, where the company showcased its first-ever products with an LCD screen: the new Light Loop IO ...

When I reviewed the Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360, I was blown away by the level of quality and features it had to offer. Arctic has a great reputation already, well known for great quality fans, and ...

They also released their offset mounting kit for AM5(mainly, but works with AM4), Noctua post/press release about it. I find it curious they mentioned der8auer's collaboration on the direct die kit ...