Heatsinks are a staple of PC cooling technology as we know it. Both passive and active coolers make use of heatspreaders and heatsinks, but a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) recently found what looks like a far better, all-encompassing, and sleeker solution.…
It’s no secret that GDDR6X memory can run very hot on graphics cards equipped with it, most notably the GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3080 Ti, and RTX 3090, some of the best graphics cards on the market. If modding copper shims to your GPU isn’t your cup of tea, there’s an easier way to reduce…
CPU Delidding gadget specialist RockItCool has revealed a pure copper integrated heatspreader (IHS) designed for owners of Intel’s new 12th Generation Core (Alder Lake-S) desktop processors. As spotted by FanlessTech, the new heatspreader offers improved thermals, up to 15 Celsius better than stock, according to the maker. It has been designed to offer some other…