Any rig worth it’s salt will have some fast DDR3 installed but MHz is not the only key to a good performer. Timings and compatibility and reliability matter more to the end user than speed.
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DDR4 has been with us for some time now and manufacturers are starting to produce mainstream and branded products.
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We recently reviewed the Raijintek Themis CPU Cooler from Raijintek and we liked it. Raijintek have around nine CPU air cooler offerings one of which we have for review today, the Aidos CPU cooler.
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Raijintek are a relatively new company, established in 2013, a late comer to the PC component market. They have come into a market with well-established household names such as Corsair and Noctua, so what do you do?
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You would have thought there was only a certain few ways to cool a CPU but apparently there is not. We have a second small form factor CPU cooler on test from them and we didn’t hold back. Just like the NH-D9L it is a 95mm fan which comes in a single fan configuration, with capability of a second fan if required.
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Noctua have been around for 9 years now and from the very start they have been producing cooling hardware for enthusiast rigs across the world. Their cooling fans are instantly recognisable due to their unique colour scheme, often a topic of conversation.
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be quiet! is a PC component brand owned by German company Listan GmbH & Co. KG, who manufactures power supply units, CPU coolers, PC chassis and chassis fans. be quiet! started out in life rebranding and manufacturing power supply units until more recent years when coolers and chassis started to appear on the market.
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With the advent of the X99 Chipset from Intel, a bunch of new motherboards are needed to support this. Intel also released a revised Intel i7 CPUs to support this.
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When you think of computer chassis you will almost always think of an enclosed chassis. Also, you will more than likely try and balance looks, features, size and air flow. Well, there are some chassis out there that turn the norm on its head, for example the MicroCool Banchetto 101.
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Small form factor chassis are fast becoming the modders norm with a full range of well-designed and almost niche market chassis being released. Gone are the days of being exclusive to HTPCs and welcome the days of high powered mITX rigs and Steam Boxes.
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XTracGear, who you may know as XTracPads, started making precision mouse surfaces for gamers since the brand was created in 1999. The now more familiar XTracGear was created in 2003 when PCXmods.com was started and XTracPads brand went worldwide.
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Noctua have been around for 9 years now and from the very start they have been producing cooling hardware for enthusiast rigs across the world. Their cooling fans are instantly recognisable due to their unique colour scheme, often a topic of conversation.
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Solid State Drives are common place now and we are several generations ahead of the initial release examples. If you have a mid to high end system you will most likely have an SSD in your rig.
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Today we are looking at two extremes of a product range, the XTracGear Ripper and the Ripper XXL mouse surfaces. XTracGear, who you may know as XTracPads, started making precision mouse surfaces for gamers brand was created in 1999.
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For many years now NVidia graphics releases have been the source of much anticipation and controversy with most of us expecting to recapture the massive FPS boosts and feature rich graphics performance we see on occasion.
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