True Copper is mother of all CPU coolers

COPPER IS GREAT for cooling, but it has the fundamental flaw of being overweight. A full sized multi-Heatpipe copper CPU cooler will easily exceed 1Kg, like Thermalright’s True Copper, on review at Legion Hardware. Actually the True borders the 2Kg threshold which, we guess, is a record in itself. It’s one of the best ever coolers, says Steven – if you can overlook the ludicrous size, weight and price ($100). Read it here.

MSI’s Eclipse SLI board is on test at Hexus. The board, while a X58 board, doesn’t sport any Nvidia hardware to support it, so all the work is done on the Intel hardware – so it is effectively capable of Tri-SLI at 16x/16x/4x. The numbers are interesting, and you can see QuadFire and Tri-SLI there.

Xbit Labs has been working on some VGA charts and they’ve got some interesting numbers for this Autumn’s main gaming titles. In a fairly long article, it covers Devil May Cry 4, Dead Space, Race Driver Grid, Mass Effect, The Witcher (Enhanced Edition), Stalker and Spore. Find out which CPU+GPU combo gives you best bang for your buck. Right here.

Tom’s Hardware has started this month’s system building marathon with a $625 gaming budget. An Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200-based system coupled with an HD 4850 and some serious memory kit will get very playable frame-rates in all but a few titles at 1920x1200. Time to spend some money… get it here.

A while back WD launched their Green drives, hoping to capitalise on the eco-conscious, storage-valuing customer (performance is in the Raptors, anyway). Techware Labs is testing their 1GB, and they think it’s awesome: performance, quietness and low power consumption… Read why.

Samsung’s NC10 netbook is on test at Bit-Tech. Tim, whose experience with netbooks has left him wanting, has found the NC10 to be the One. Yes, long battery life, great ergonomics, muck-proof and not too expensive (although £300 borders on expensive), make up what Bit-Tech thinks is a winner. Read the rave, here.

Apple’s month-old launch of the new MacBooks was coupled with the announcement of the companion 24-inch LCD LED-backlit display. Ars Technica is looking at the display right now, and they’ve seen just how hooked it is on the new MacBook. Lots of nice things you can do with it, including powering up your MacBook… should do well with the new IGP *cough* sorry *cough* mGPU. Get it here.