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Watercooling a processor is not an option commonly accessible to the amateur builder; it requires a careful selection of pumps, radiators, tanks, hoses, coolants and acquired knowledge to ensure compatibility. For example, mixing copper and aluminium waterblocks can create rust particles within the coolant, anti-fungal agents must be carefully mixed in, lines must be bled of air, water seals tested and more. Not a simple process for the faint of heart.
Corsair has set out to make basic watercooling accessible to the masses via their Hydro H50 and H70 lines of CPU coolers, both now available under and around the 100$ mark. These kits are pre-assembled, fully sealed closed loops and should serve your machine reliably for years to come. Let’s see how it fares to the everyday builder in comparison to the stock Intel cooler.
If I’ve learned anything from Final Fantasy XII, it’s that any game, no matter what the publisher and their track record might be, can take a horrible turn for the worse. Rarely do I buy games anymore and when I do, I’m often left with a rumble in the gut while I ask myself why I just pissed away 60$ on a piece of plastic when I could have leased it for nickels on the dollar. Look, when I first heard of Red Dead Redemption, I was far from being sold. Another shallow western spaghetti shooter with no soul. We’ve seen many of those before, right?
The least I could say is, so far, I’ve been proven wrong. From to moment I’ve picked up the game, my butt has not left the couch until it was forced to do so by the looming challenge of going to work the following day.
I don’t usually review movies. The reasons are many, but the onus lies mostly on my abhorrent lack of knowledge in the domain, so when I take the time to write an article on a film, you’d better assume it was worth the trouble.
To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I grabbed the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Blu-Ray off the aisle of my local rental store. We sat down that night and fired it up on my newly, boxing-day acquired, Sony XBR HDTV.
I set off to EB Games after work last night to pick up a copy of Borderlands. A curious game I had been hearing about more and more over the last few days as its release date crept closer.
As luck would have it, EB Games had sold all of them, except the PS3 version. Bummer.
