Cooler – 7Review

Cooler Master MasterAir MA620P Review: True Air Bender

Extremely quiet running fans Dual tower design with two RGB fans! It Ain’t Heavy With the introduction of the new AMD AM4 socket, designed specifically for the AMD Ryzen, a big problem immediately appeared. Oddly, there are not many supportive third- party coolers. For those looking to get a new cooler that supports the new … Read more

NZXT Kraken X62 Review

The classy king of AIO liquid cooling All-in-ones like this are undeniably the future of processor cooling. They’ve come a long way over the last six years, from leaky, haphazard, nightmare-installation water blocks, to smooth, easy-to-mount, effective, bomb-proof pieces of equipment. So, what on earth could you do to make these things any better than … Read more

Alphacool Eisbaer 360 Review

“If you eventually want to liquid-cool your GPU . . . the Eisbaer 360 is ready-made for the job.” The majority of AIO CPU liquid coolers are closed loops that have been factory filled and sealed, so you’ll never need to perform maintenance. An AIO’s preassembled design also makes it much easier to install than the … Read more

COOLER MASTER MasterLiquid Pro 240 Review

COOLER MASTER RECENTLY launched a couple of new closed-loop, all-in-one (AIO) liquid CPU coolers: the dual-fan MasterLiquid Pro 240 and the single-fan MasterLiquid Pro 120. We were sent the larger model to try out, so set to work installing it in our test PC First impressions were good: with the two 120mm fans attached to … Read more

Enermax maxpro 700w review

Mark discovers an affordable Power Supply for bigger gaming systems. This anachronism is no more finely presented than in the new Enermax MAXPRO 700w Review (EMP700AGT) that just arrived to me from Germany. Having once worked in the automotive industry making wire harnesses for cars, I’m acutely aware that connectors are a predicable source of electrical … Read more

zalMan reserator 3 Max dual

Bizarre looks means Reserator.

this revieWer’s first exPerienCe of a water cooled PC was with Zalman’s original Reserator. It was a huge water tower which stood outside your machine, cycling hot water out and feeding cold water back into the chassis. Since then Zalman has become one of the biggest names in PC cooling; it was a bit of a worry when it s fied for bankruptcy protection in late 2014.

Thankfully Zalman looks to have escaped by the skin of its heatsinks, which is good news given how effective this weird-looking Reserator 3 Max Dual is. Of all the coolers in this test, the Zalman offers the lowest peak temperatures both at stock speeds and with the overclocked i7-4770K. It manages this in a slightly different way, using a heat-pipe/ heatsink combo which looks more vapour chamber than water cooler.

Length or girth? Length please.

the Pair of therMaltake Water 3.0 coolers in this month’s test offer two ways of looking at the whole liquid-chilling process – do you go for a super-long, 360mm radiator or do you plump for a 120mm fat-boy? This here Water 3.0 Pro is that fatboy, offering a radiator that’s getting on for twice the girth of its Ultimate sibling.

And, were it down to pure cooling performance alone, you could easily make a case for this chubby bast. It is the absolute coolest of all the 120mm coolers in the test, and is capably trading blows with the downright chilliest of even the 240mm jobs. It’s not just about the peak cooling performance either – the time to get back to idle temps is impressively quick too, especially for a smaller radiator.

The lesson today explains why you pick a 240mm radiator to fi to your overclocked CPU as opposed to a wee 120mm job.

And to help us illustrate that point is the new Cooler Master Nepton series of chip chillers. We’ve already spoken about how impressed we’ve been with the Nepton 240M, but this 120XL version perfectly highlights the extra cooling performance you get from a larger radiator.