segunda-feira, 31 de outubro de 2011

Life in the lab with Noctua's CPU coolers

URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techreport/articles/~3/-3dpWmmRW08/21873


Modern PC hardware has a shorter shelf life than the average teenage idol. While it's common for CPUs, graphics cards, and other components to remain serviceable for years after their initial releases, most retire to closet file servers, auxiliary BitTorrent boxes, and other secondary systems far removed from the limelight of an enthusiast's primary desktop. Can you blame them? With each fresh generation of parts comes better performance, lower power consumption, quieter cooling, and tantalizing new capabilities. The aging stars of yesteryear just can't keep up.

Obviously, the turnover in some component categories is higher than it is in others. Playing games on a three-year-old graphics card involves more trade-offs than living with a case of the same vintage, for example. Cases can remain in their prime ...

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