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OCAddiction takes a look at ABIT’s flagship Canterwood based motherboard sporting onboard OTES cooling.



One of the most anticipated features of the IC7-MAX3 is the onboard OTES cooling. Motherboard cooling? That's right, ABIT has something special in store for the hardest of hardcore overclockers and cooled notoriously hot spots of the motherboard with their patented Outside Thermal Exhaust System Cooling, more commonly known as OTES. What the OTES does is surround the components that need to be cooled, pulls the hot air off of them, and expels them outside of the PC case, getting the hot air out and away from internal components.
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