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Noctua Confirms Comet Lake-S is Compatible with LGA115x
Back in February, we first heard rumors that while Intel’s 10th-Gen Comet Lake-S platform would be transitioning to a new socket design (specifically, LGA1200) it would (perhaps surprisingly) still work with comparatively older 115X socket designed coolers. Well, following an official post by Noctua, the high-performance cooling manufacturer has confirmed…
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Intel Coffee Lake Mainstream 6 Core CPUs Reportedly Set for Early 2018
Last year, a set of interesting Intel slides leaked out. Looking past Kaby Lake and into Coffee Lake, the slides purportedly showed 6 cores CPUs entering the mainstream Intel lineup. Since the beginning of the Core series, 4 cores have been the maximum we ‘ve seen on the mainstream platform. According…
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SilverStone Releases Nitrogon NT09-115X Slim-Profile CPU Cooler
There are many obstacles one need to take into consideration when building small form factor builds and one of them is the CPU cooler. It needs to be powerful enough to cool your system, but most importantly, it needs to fit into the chassis. SilverStone released a new CPU cooler…
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Intel May Increase Mainstream Core Count for Cannonlake
Intel has long limited the mainstream platform to 4 physical cores, with 8 threads due only to Hyper-Threading. This has held true for the longest time, with power users who wanted more cores making the jump to LGA 1366 and 2011. According to an Intel CPU engineer profile, Intel will start…
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Gelid Launched Low Cost and Low Profile 1U Intel CPU cooler
Cooling is an important factor in compact builds such as SFF and 1U rack mounted systems, but it’s something that can be tricky at times. You either get something that isn’t very effective or you get something that is loud. Gelid has just launched their newest cooler, the Polar, and…
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