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Review: Akasa Powermax 1000 PSU

Simon Crisp — 2008-01-22T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 22 January 2008 at 00:00:00

A big power supply but not too noisy

Not so long ago 1,000W power supply units (PSUs) were for serious high-end systems only. Now they are commonplace and Akasa is the latest company to join the gang with...

Review: Asus M2N32-SLI Premium Vista Edition motherboard

Simon Crisp — 2007-04-30T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Monday 30 April 2007 at 00:00:00

An AM2 board packed with features

Upon opening the box of the M2N32-SLI Premium Vista Edition, you are immediately struck by the amount of kit Asus has crammed in....

Review: Coolermaster Real Power Pro 1000W PSU

Simon Crisp — 2007-04-24T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 24 April 2007 at 00:00:00

A 1,000W power supply with no less than six 12v rails

Yet another huge power supply to join a steadily growing number of PSUs around the 1,000W mark. However, Coolermaster’s Real Power Pro is the world’s first six-12v rail model and...

Review: Coolermaster Gemini-ll CPU cooler

Simon Crisp — 2007-04-20T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Friday 20 April 2007 at 00:00:00

An extra-large CPU cooler that also keeps your motherboard temperature in check

The penchant for huge CPU coolers shows no sign of diminishing. Coolermaster 's latest model is so big it’s marketed not only as a CPU cooler but a combined CPU...

Review: Zerotherm GX810 graphics card cooler

Simon Crisp — 2007-04-19T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Thursday 19 April 2007 at 00:00:00

A great design and it's quiet, the GX810 is well worth the money

You may not have heard of Zerotherm before, but parent company Apack has been around since 1999. The GX810 is their latest graphics card cooler suitable for ATI’s X1300 to...

Review: Zalman VF-900-CU VGA cooler

Simon Crisp — 2006-09-13T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 13 September 2006 at 00:00:00

A stylish cooler for your graphics card

Zalman’s latest VGA cooler has been designed to replace the stock coolers on ATI’s Radeon X1900 and Nvidia’s Geforce 7900 series....

Review: Enermax Galaxy 1000W PSU

Simon Crisp — 2006-09-12T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 12 September 2006 at 00:00:00

Keep your dual-core, quad-SLI, multi-HDD PC happy with this powerful PSU

Yes, that’s right, a 1000W power supply. It seems like only yesterday that we thought a 450W PSU was overkill, but Enermax has certainly surpassed that with the Galaxy 1000W....

Review: Zalman CNPS8000 CPU fan

Simon Crisp — 2006-09-11T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Monday 11 September 2006 at 00:00:00

A quiet and effective fan that's ideal for home-theatre PCs

Unlike the current trend for oversized coolers, Zalman's latest CPU cooler has been designed for installation in lower-profile cases, being just 62.5mm tall....

Review: Enermax Warp PC case fans

Simon Crisp — 2006-07-06T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Thursday 6 July 2006 at 00:00:00

Keep your PC fans dust-free

The number one enemy of PC case fans is the dust that builds up on the blades over time. A fan coated in a thick layer of dust not only...

Zalman FS-V7 Fatal1ty VGA cooler

Simon Crisp — 2006-01-12T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Thursday 12 January 2006 at 00:00:00

A special edition of the V700 graphics card cooler

A perfect companion to the FS-C77 CPU cooler featured last month, the FS-V7 is the special Fatal1ty edition of Zalman’s popular VF700 series of graphics card coolers....

Zalman FS-C77 Fatal1ty

Simon Crisp — 2005-12-12T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Monday 12 December 2005 at 00:00:00

Zalman extends its range of quiet fans

Professional gamer Johnathan Wendel (aka Fatal1ty) continues to lend his moniker to a range of PC products, the latest being the FS-C77 CPU cooler....

Enermax Liberty Modular PSU

Simon Crisp — 2005-12-07T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 7 December 2005 at 00:00:00

An efficient power supply for enthusiasts

Most power supplies come with an excess of cables attached to them. If you don’t use them all, they will hamper cooling unnecessarily....

Zalman ZM-VHS1 and ZM-NB32K

Simon Crisp — 2005-11-23T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 23 November 2005 at 00:00:00

Cheap, simple cooling for your PC

A couple of small but useful new coolers from Zalman, the Korean masters of all things cooling. First up is the ZM-VHS1 – a small heatsink designed to cool the...

Elan Vital Greenerger SSM

Simon Crisp — 2005-11-17T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Thursday 17 November 2005 at 00:00:00

A silent power supply

The SSM part of the Elan Vital Greenerger power supply stands for Super Silent Mode and, although the supply comes with a 120mm cooling fan, this is only used when...

Enermax EG285ST-BW

Simon Crisp — 2005-11-17T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Thursday 17 November 2005 at 00:00:00

A cooling fan that's great for small form factor cases

The trouble with building a small-format PC is that the run-of-the-mill Micro ATX power supplies don’t pump out that much power....