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By: Chris Angelini
Intel’s Core i7 is still brand new, launched less than a month ago. Thus, it’s not surprising that the aftermarket for i7 cooling is still relatively thin. Even though our very own Thomas Soderstrom has Swiftech’s latest LGA-1366 water block in his lab for testing already, there doesn’t seem to be much available for sale just yet. And so we’re forced to go with air cooling in the quest to tune our little i7 920 on MSI’s X58 Eclipse. Not that air is a bad thing. In my Editor’s Corner: Overclocking Core i7 piece, I was able to get the 920 running stably at 3.8 GHz without much effort using Thermalright’s Ultra 120 Extreme.
Like the Extreme, Vigor Gaming’s Monsoon III LT boasts massive copper fins with heatpipes running through them. Unlike the Thermalright cooler, however, Vigor’s design employs two arrays of fins with a space in-between. Another difference is that Vigor uses four pipes, like Thermalright’s Ultra 120. The Extreme ups the number to six. But while our reference Ultra 120 Extreme might have an advantage in raw surface area, Vigor’s Monsoon kicks things up a notch with cooling. Two 120mm fans move a lot of air, quietly. And the shroud attaching the fans to the heatsink does a much better job keeping the fans, heatsink, and power cables attached than the Ultra 120 Extreme’s clip-on fan bracket. Finally, the Monsoon’s fans are of the four-pin variety, controlled by PWM signals from the motherboard.
Sure, $60 is a lot to pay for an air cooler. But if it lets you take your sub-$300 Core i7 920 up to 3.33 GHz without even having to adjust voltage, then it pays for itself as you save $700 from the cost of a 965 Extreme.
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The model is way too skinny. she makes the hardware look cheap.
The model is way too skinny. she makes the hardware look cheap.
I did notice there were two girls in there, but even if you add them up you still get too little meat to call that a woman.
Wow, I can't believe I'm reading complaints about these girls. They are skinny, but not anorexic, they look like they're in very good shape. My girlfriend is getting jealous
I personally like the brunette for the articles.. Something about her reminds me of Christmas.. The blonde, not so much..
Wait, Did I miss something? What happened to part 2 and 3 of the 2008 Holiday Guide? All I see is part 1 and now this one....
nevermind - I see the links in this article, but I didn't notice them on the Guide section.
The model is way too skinny. she makes the hardware look cheap.
Were you looking for "fat girls gone wild" when you opened this review? Seriously, this had to be the dumbest complaint of the year.
does anyone know if intel really can tell if your CPU has been just mildly overclocked? with no burn marks ect. i wonder about that cause id love to overclock it's fun to tinker with, but could not afford getting a bum chip, and it not be under warranty.
Nice to see the update about the Seagate fix, finally.
That "the Gigabyte’s board with 2 graphics slots" is a sweet looking motherboard. and for anyone who just needs one graphics card slot i bet this be an alswome rig as well. a deffinit choice if i upgrade to the core 2 quad route. prolly go nehalem core i7 though
Wow, I can't believe I'm reading complaints about these girls. They are skinny, but not anorexic, they look like they're in very good shape. My girlfriend is getting jealous
Yeah, but the point is compared to Sarah (particularly with long hair in 2006) these ladies aren't in the same league. Some of us like women who look at least a little curvy.
I know I should probably comment on the products not just the modeling talent, but since this is where the conversations begins, I'll jump in to the fray.
Were you looking for "fat girls gone wild" when you opened this review? Seriously, this had to be the dumbest complaint of the year.
the actual dumbest "comment chain" of the year were on spotlight where hundreds of comments criticized Tamara for using a mac, dressing to casual, dressing to formal, being to expressive, being not expressive enough, being sexy, not being sexy... well I just find it amusing that nobody cares how Ben Meyer and Rob Wright look or dressup.
Fat girls gone wild... how drastic. What about water-cooled hot chicks ?
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I did notice there were two girls in there, but even if you add them up you still get too little meat to call that a woman.
lmao
I'm surprized I'm the first to catch it, but the motherboard in the picture is not the UD3R, it is the UD3P. The UD3P has 2 PCIe 16x slots, whereas the UD3R only has one. It you click to see the full sized picture you can read (barely) the correct model number.
It must suck to handle all that hardware but not be able to keep it.
well I just find it amusing that nobody cares how Ben Meyer and Rob Wright look or dressup.
Ben and Rob posing in Christmas gear, that would be funny.
I am sure that none of you boys have the hardware that these ladies would be interested in anyway.
Keep your flash drives in your pockets. ;-P
Sorry but my floppy drive has been replaced with a hard drive,... I wonder if I can place my RAM in the slot, I wouldn't try turning it on until after everything is in. I would like to monitor the cable being managed. It might get hot, but if we have a fan, I shouldn't have to twist those knobs to control things much,...
So I keep seeing everyone recommending the E8600.. but why when an E8400 is $100 less and the only difference is that it's not factory overclocked? Or is something on the E8600 that much better?