If you use a laptop as your only games machine (as I now do) you’ll already know how difficult it is to keep the CPU and graphics card cool inside a cramped case. Finding a decent laptop cooler is an essential if you want to keep your machine stable. I invested in a Canyon laptop cooler a few months ago, which has proven to be reasonably effective, but I...

In order to quiet down the noise coming from my Antec Sonata II I decided to invest in a new case fan. After some time checking various reviews I picked a Noctua NF-S12 and ordered it from Overclockers (at the same time as a new Corsair HX520W power supply and an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU cooler). According to the marketing blurb the Noctua NF-S12 uses a...