CPU Cooler. hp z556 digital entertainment center. Many "Media Center" PCs are little more than slightly beefier desktops with Windows MCE installed. But Mike Baggaley found that HP's z556 is a viable alternative to building your own HTPC.. The CPU cooler...

• -Conclusions

memory and despite its passive cooler, was reportedly powerful enough to run a few higher-end PC games. All that and blissful silence too? Perfect! The Asus Radeon X550GE PCI-E Video card Video card fans can make a lot of noise. A passive cooler is the only...

• -Confessions of a Serial HTPC Builder - Part 3
• -Motherboard And Memory

cooled. I have seen more robust versions of this card that have been fitted a passive cooler. If you're going to put a low powered video card into a system that might find its way into someone's living room as a PVR, it's always best to use passive cooling...

an active graphics processor cooler (it also used a nasty looking little mini fan that looked like it was just waiting to collect dust and become noisy). The AIW 9600 non-pro version had a nice little passive cooler that was guaranteed to be absolutely silent...

• -Assembling The Cooling System

kits designed to replace active GPU coolers with passive alternatives. Before buying any of these kits, however, you should make sure that they're warranted to work with your graphics card and GPU because not every GPU is suitable for passive cooling. You...

cooler is open, but the CPU cooler is not. By comparison: the same vent is in the Hiper case, but it is equipped with an AMD Athlon 64 board. The CPU cooler directs the hot air out of the case with ease More vents near the power supply unfortunately don't...