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Review of Tacens Trio notebook cooler

Summary: Tacens sent us a really compact notebook cooler this time. After having reviewed the Tacens Fero I was eager to test something more portable, which could fit in my notebook bag. This first attempt at a portable notebook cooler by Tacens, does however leave me wanting more.


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Tacens is a young company, they started their business in 2005, but they have grown quickly and taken their place in the computer accessory market. Some of their new products this season are their notebook coolers; Fero, Trio and Fero Light. Three different approaches to the same problem; high heat emitting laptops.

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Review of the Zalman VF2000 LED Hybrid VGA/CPU Cooler

Summary: Zalman’s first hybrid cooler, the VF2000 LED is an interesting product to say the least, it can cool either a CPU or a GPU. In this review we will take a look at what it can do, both as a VGA and CPU cooler.


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The great competition on the cooler market has greatly benefited consumers. We have seen VGA coolers on the market for quite some time now, but this is the first GPU/CPU hybrid cooler we have seen.

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Review of Tacens Fero notebook cooler

Summary: The Tacens Fero is aiming to become one of the best laptop coolers in the market and it is really doing a good job. With its four 60mm fans it produces a strong air flow without emitting too much noise.


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Heat emissions have always been an issue with laptops and the constant race towards higher CPU and GPU performance hasn’t made much contribution to solving the problem. Even the name “Lap-top” suggests we are talking about a product suitable for your lap. But everyone who has tried some serious gaming while resting the laptop in their lap, knows what kind of heat we are talking about (and what it does to your nuts). So the last couple of years, while the laptop sales have peaked, we have seen a lot of new products on the market, aiming to solve this problem. A couple of weeks back we reviewed the “Nexus TDD-9000 Laptop Cooling Pad” and today we will be taking a look a more advanced laptop cooler, the Tacens Fero.

 

Review of the Nexus FLC-3000 Heatsink

Summary: NEXUS is a company that continues to offer high-end cooling solutions to us lovers of silence. Today we will be taking a look at the NEXUS FLC-300 heatsink.


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In the past, we have tested some products from NEXUS, and generally, they all left us very satisfied. I especially think of the LOW-7000, a small heatsink that produced excellent performance. Therefore, it will be a please to see what the FLC-3000 can do compared to its older siblings.

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Review of the Nexus TDD-9000 Laptop Cooling Pad

Summary: The Nexus TDD-9000 is a bold and innovative product that promises great advantages compared to traditional coolers for portable computers.


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We’ve tested many cooling systems for laptops. In general, they all depend on active cooling from fans. Although they’re generally quiet, they also consume a large amount of electricity. Nexus has given us a very innovative cooler for portables. We’re sure it will impress you as much as it impressed us.



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