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Here today's reviews and articles, including Noctua NF-F12 PWM Focused Flow Cooling Fan Review, Zotac GTX680 SLI Review, and Intel Core i7 3820 / X79 Platform



Noctua NF-F12 PWM Focused Flow Cooling Fan Review @ TweakTown
First off let me start by saying I have been a huge fan of Noctua products since they sent me my first cooler to test so many years ago. In the time gone by, Noctua was one of the only companies driven to the perfection to search for a noise free user environment while still delivering some of the best cooling results on the market. To be bluntly obvious, there is only so long a company can utilize one basic concept before technology passes it by and they are no longer competitive. Well, Noctua thought ahead and really came up with a wonderful fan that is one of the most thought-out designs on the market today.

I know, the first thing you are going to say is that Noctua fans are ugly and the colors don't match the theme in your chassis. To that I say simply this, get over it already. These colors have made Noctua fans famous over the years and can be discerned in a crowd at long distances. The technology involved in designing a fan like this newest submission far outweighs the concern for color. Then again I am a function over form sort of guy and the only one to see my rigs is me, unless I choose to host images of it.
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Zotac GTX680 SLI Review @ OC3D
Are you interested in how well the latest nVidia card scales in SLI? Thanks to Zotac we can find out.
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Intel Core i7 3820 / X79 Platform - How much Memory is Ideal? @ PC Stats
While setting up Gigabyte's latest Intel X79 motherboard on the PCSTATS test bench a few week ago, we found ourselves wondering; "what's the ideal amount of memory to use in a Intel Core i7 3820 'Sandy Bridge-E' platform these days?" Obviously, with a 32-bit Windows 7 OS we'd be limited to 4GB of system memory, but what's the magic number for Windows 7 64-bit?
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