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Here the 3 articles of today:Thermaltake Frío Overclocking CPU Cooler Review, Part by Part: Get to Know Your Graphics Card, and Asrock X58 Extreme 3 Motherboard Review



Thermaltake Frío Overclocking CPU Cooler Review
Legit Reviews posted a review on the Thermaltake Frío Overclocking CPU Cooler

Earlier this year Thermaltake launched an air-cooled CPU cooler called the Frio. This cooler has a maximum cooling capacity of up to 220W and is marketed toward overclocking enthusiasts. What exactly can an affordable air cooler do for your CPU? Read on to find out as we test this $59 cooler at 4.1GHz on our Intel Core i7-860 powered test system!

The Frío certainly has a lot to live up to since its name is derived from the Spanish world for “Cool”. The cooler is designed to cool a maximum of 220W which puts this in the “high-end” class of coolers like the latest Zalman or Noctua for what seems to be a pretty economical price of $59.99. This cooler is marketed for overclockers, but is really built for people such as myself who are interested in video editing as well and keeping their temperatures down. It doesn’t hurt that Thermaltake designed the Frío to look uniquely aggressive and very cool...
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Part by Part: Get to Know Your Graphics Card
InsideHW.com has posted article: Get to Know Your Graphics Card

When we take a look at the situation a few years back, a large number of educational texts concerning the basics of motherboard functioning meant that even irregular followers of the IT industry eventually bumped into one of them. On the other hand, graphics cards are somehow always left out, reviewed, but without much explanation for various expressions, acronyms and terms that make most “newbs” startled. Having understood this, we’ve decided to deal with graphics card in the theoretical sense a little. This is, after all, one of the vital (THE vital, if you’re asking the author of this article) system components, the elements of which should be known at least roughly. Since it would be an incredibly arduous task to take pictures of each element on every type of card, we’ve chosen a single referent model - Zotac GeForce GTS250. This card has a rather typical design, therefore ideal for our intentions…
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Asrock X58 Extreme 3 Motherboard Review
Rbmods posted a review on the Asrock X58 Extreme 3 Motherboard

With the new X58 chipset on the market the S1366 seems to have to got another speed bost, we are today looking at the Asrock X58 Extreme 3 motherboard which is filled with some nice features. The queston is though will we see some performance difference compared to older S1366 boards?
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