The biggest, baddest, most utterly ridonkulous PC coolers of all time

January 17, 2013

Most normal people can buy a boxed computer and get along just fine never knowing the first thing about the vagaries of proper PC cooling. (Cue Grandma: There's a fan on my processor? Seriously? What's a processor?) But some of us aren't quite so normal, are we? Some of us tweak and overclock like madmen, coaxing every last bit of speed from our systems, trying to turn a Camry into a Maserati—a fire-breathing, yet somehow whisper-silent Maserati. Indeed, when we speak of "hot-rodding" our PCs, is there a more outwardly obvious way of doing it than adding an array of gleaming, liquid-filled pipes, or a full-blown radiator? You'd be forgiven for thinking you were in an auto-parts store—or maybe an art gallery—if you took but a quick glance at this collection of the most ridonkulous coolers known to man and modder alike. Form and function have never blended so beautifully. Thermaltake V1 One look at Thermaltake's stunning V1 CPU cooler, and you may conjure up images of a dainty Asian hand fan. Those "fans" aren't fans at all, however. (Well, the spinning cooling fan in the center notwithstanding.) They are, as you may have surmised, fins, which are attached to heat pipes, which are attached to a copper base honed to a mirror finish. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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