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Two decades of innovation and we still get sore fingers

Posted on 19th Mar 2009 at 11:06 by Antony Leather with 6 comments

Antony Leather
I'm often asked how to build a water-cooled PC and what components are compatible with what. Mainly what frightens people is the assumed complexity of the cooling system compared to air cooling.

Having just completed the labs test for Issue 69 of Custom PC involving numerous CPU coolers, I can honestly say that mounting a waterblock like the D-Tek FuZion V2 is an awful lot easier than many CPU coolers I've seen.

In fact, the FuZion V2 costs a lot less than most air-coolers too. Alright, I'll concede that you need to fork out for pumps, radiators and reservoirs too, but the fact remains.

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Cooler Master Hyper N520 - New CPU cooler

Posted on 25th Feb 2009 at 08:38 by Richard Swinburne with 2 comments

Cooler Master dropped in to show off its latest N520 CPU cooler yesterday afternoon. Priced at around £25, it's certainly affordable and sports a slightly new dual fan centre off-set style that covers any potential dead zones that would otherwise exist in a single fan set up.

Cooler Master Hyper N520 - New CPU cooler

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