A couple of months ago, ARCTIC has released the Accelero Xtreme 7970, an aftermarket cooler designed to cool AMD's flagship video card, the Radeon 7970. The Accelero Xtreme's signature design is its three 92 mm fans plus the huge 84-fin heatsink that you'll notice almost immediately. Now we all know that the Accelero Xtreme will be a huge upgrade if you have a reference cooler especially in the temperature department. So we stepped it up some more. How will the Accelero Xtreme fare against OEM non-reference coolers like the ASUS DirectCU II?

The name ARCTIC is synonymous to air cooling especially when it comes to cooling your CPUs. Today we'll be looking at ARCTIC's latest enthusiast-grade CPU cooler for Intel's socket 2011 as well as 1155 and 1156 platform. It features Direct-Touch heatpipes, fan vibration absorptions, and a brand new mounting system. We took note of the 'enthusiast-grade' label as soon as we received the box all the way from across the globe. Let's check it out if it's really for enthusiast.

Watercooling has come a long way. Now we have all-in-one cooling systems that are affordable and easy to install. Corsair's H100 is one of them and as of the time of this writing is Corsair's flagship as far as all-in-one watercooling systems go.