Cooling & Power

Building your own PC is pretty simple. With all the different guides, and with a little homework on clearances, you can create your own computer with many options for components.

We have enjoyed various products from BeQuiet in the past, and they have yet to disappoint. So when BeQuiet asked us if we wanted to see something new, the Pure Rock 2, we chomped at the bit.

The Straight Power 11 by BeQuiet is amazingly quiet.quiet.

The CHIONE E1A-120R liquid cooler is great for what it is: a small liquid cooler designed to cool a CPU well and do it with some style.

There often isn’t a lot of though put in to power supplies at time of purchase. Here’s some food for thought.

The NZXT E-850 is an 850 watt smart Power Supply Unit (PSU). What’s so smart about it? The CAM software gives you real-time system health state data.

The ORCUS 240 RBW: Everything its little brother aspires to be, and a fair bit more.

For approximately $70 (at the time of writing this), a person can get the ORCUS 120 RBW, an AIO that can keep pace, runs quietly and add a little something aesthetically.

You’re probably familiar with Arctic as the maker of great thermal compound used the world over a decade. You might not know, however, that they make an array of coolers for CPUs and GPUs.