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The 18 Best Deals from Newegg’s 2018 Black Friday Sale

Whether it’s a TV or vacuum cleaner, Black Friday tends to be the best time to score deals on just about anything. Computer hardware and accessories are no exception. It can be pretty overwhelming, sifting through all the available options, so we took the time-consuming research out of the equation. Below is a list of our 18 favorite deals from Newegg’s Black Friday sale.

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Cooling

Case Fan Roundup: Twenty Three 120 mm Case Fans Tested

Case fans are supposed to cool your case. As use in this review, a case fan is a fixed-voltage fan. Today we might want to call them non-PWM fans. These fans are “set ‘em and forget ‘em” fans. Except that some of you insist on using fan controllers to vary the speeds of your fans. Imagine that! Well, in any case (in any case – get it?) we’re going to look at more than twenty case fans. I say “more than twenty’’ because I can’t count. We have more than 30 fans and settings that we will be looking at today. If you are interested in counting actual fans, be my guest.

Cooling

15 Case Fans Tested: Ultimate 140 mm Roundup

One question which frequently turns up on forums, “What’s the best fan?”, but even that question is too broad. Let’s tighten our focus to 140 mm case fans. They can move air through your case and stay reasonably quiet while they are doing that. So let’s look at a bunch.

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Reviews

Logisys PS480X2 PSU Review

We’ve got a dubious one here today folks! Logisys wouldn’t dream of sending one of these things out for review, but Glorious Leader stepped up and threw down some cash to make it happen. This thing cost $14.50 shipped with tax, the big question is: Will it explode? If not, will it actually function well enough to run a computer safely? For answers to those questions and more, read the rest of the article!

Reviews

Mechanical Keyboard Showdown

The keyboard is a computer peripheral that many people take for granted. The average user will likely stick with the $5 keyboard that came with their OEM computer until the keyboard dies or they replace the entire computer itself. Looking past the cheap bundled keyboards opens up a wide selection of different brands, designs, and features that a ‘normal’ keyboard can not offer. In this article I will be providing a rundown of some of the higher-end keyboards available on the market — the mechanical keyboards.

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Cooling

How to Add LEDs to Your Fans

People regularly come through the cooling section of the forums asking for fans that match a certain color scheme and they’re willing to sacrifice performance to meet that color scheme. This article details a rather simple mod you can do to run those high performance fans in any color you want.

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Cooling

65 Fans Tested on a Megahalems

The Megahalems comes with no fans of its own. You can choose your own fans, but what fans do you get? How well do they cool your system? How loud are they? When I decided I wanted to cool a 4GHz Core i7 860 with a Megahalems, I figured I would test a few fans and see how well they did. Needless to say, I sort of got carried away. I tested 65 fans in many configurations. Read all about it.