Cooling

Hydrogel looks like a worthy cooling coating for a 15°C benefit versus a heatsink alone, but your workloads must give the material enough low-load time to rehydrate.

Noctua has released an updated version of its NH-L9a for AMD’s newest consumer platform. This 37mm tall cooler is available in both traditional and chromax.black livery starting from $45.

Akasa’s Gecko Cooler with blower design claims to generate

Both the Noctua NM-SD1 and SD2 have 150mm (6-inch) shafts, magnetic tips, and rubberized grips. They are available now for under $10 each.

Be quiet! has added the Pure Rock LP cooler with 45mm height to its value range. It will become available mid-month and should retail for $49 or less.

Bykski’s huge external cooler offers 3x3 fan array with 30 cooling channels, and is powerful enough to cool a quad-GPU setup, or up to 2,000W.

Intel’s Arc A380 gets the passive treatment using a vintage Arctic Accelero S1 GPU cooler. Fully Silent PCs, the system maker, says he will follow up with some test data in due course.

The generative AI-powered heatsink design from Diabatix, copper 3D printed by Amnovis, looks strikingly different to traditional heatsinks, but is claimed to offer 22% better cooling.

What does it take to cool Intel’s Core i9-13900K, and how much performance do you give up going the cheap air cooler route?

Streacom now offers 6mm copper heat pipes in 150, 200, 250 and 300mm lengths, with cooling blocks and accessories to mate with the pipes.

Raijintek's Morpheus 8069 fanless cooler dissipates up to 360W, provided good airflows inside chassis.

This $399 AiO should comfortably keep your new Raptor Lake or Raphael CPU chilled, as well as being ready for hot high-performance SSDs.

There is a lot of churning in the Noctua roadmap October update, but thankfully the Next Gen NH-D15 CPU cooler hasn’t been pushed back this time.

The NA-TPG1 helps you avoid excess paste embarrassments.

Arctic to release next-generation ultimate performance thermal compound, the MX-6.

If you bought a Noctua cooler since 2006, it will be ready for or upgradable to provide AMD Socket AM5 compatibility. Proof of purchase is required to apply for the free upgrade offer.

But it seems to be a little less thermally conductive than its gray stablemate.

A new VRM cooling solution has been created that will work in almost every computer case featuring a rear chassis fan, and it's actually quite useful.

Arctic has released a free service kit for all owners of defective Liquid Freezer II AIOs, featuring a bad gasket.

Testing future cooling solutions for CPUs