The Hot Take: Motherboard bending = BAD.
Intel appears to be cooking up a beefier Nova Lake socket clamp to stop its future desktop chips getting bendy or crispy.
If you are a hardware enthusiast, you probably know Intelās independent loading mechanism, or ILM, can warp CPUs over time. The ILM is the retention clamp that holds the CPU in the socket, which sounds dull until your chip starts looking like a Pringle.
According to Hot Hardware Chipzilla released a reduced-load version of the ILM with Arrow Lake, which mostly fixed the issue, but made it optional. Now Chipzilla appearsā¦
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The Hot Take: Interesting to see more try do create pump-less All-in-One H2O setups.
ENERMAX has introduced a new lineup of cooling products designed for the increasing thermal demands of AI systems, workstation platforms, and future high-performance desktop hardware.
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The Hot Take: Yeah looks like that CZ market is going to get a new avenue of revenue soon enough. Hoping the prices can be kept down is my only concern.
MSI has shown off new cooling and power tricks for future Nvidia RTX graphics cards.
The outfit has said that since the company is not expecting a major gamer GPU launch this year, it used the gap to show what might land on future Nvidia RTX cards and what it will have to come up with to match.
MSI said that it is working on three main areas for its next designs: cooling, power delivery and the PCB. The cooling work includes new fans, heat pipes, thermal pads and baseplates, all dressed up as an advanced thermal architecture. The fanā¦
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The Hot Take: As GPU's and CPU's get hotter and hotter only going to become more of the norm, unless they don't get ride of DYI building and maybe allow us to buy GPU's like CPU's w/out cooling solutions.
A user on Reddit is claiming a massive 20Ā°C temperature drop on an ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card simply by removing the stock thermal compound it shipped with and replacing it with a phase change thermal pad based on Honeywell's PTM7950, a proprietary material that gained some notoriety a couple of years ago.
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The Hot Take: With how hot these chips are was only time before they worked with Asetek. Still waiting on the thermo-siphon cooler they've been showing at trade shows. I want that 0 pump sound.
Noctua has confirmed that its long-awaited all-in-one liquid cooler, developed in partnership with Asetek, is almost ready for launch and should be coming in Q2 2026. The cooler has passed Production Validation Testing, meaning it has met both performance and manufacturing targets and is heading into full production.
According to Asetekās announcement, caught by Overclock3d.net, the Austrian-based cooling company is not just going to use its own fans onto an off-the-shelf design, and while the unit is based on Asetekās G8 V2 platform, Noctuaā¦
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The Hot Take: With GPUs and CPUs getting smaller and hotter need better transmission of heat.
A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone's SoC will use. Xerendipity's new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.
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