I notice that the Strix GeForce GTX 980 card you're using has an "open air" cooler design, rather than a blower. I'm kind of curious about what kind of differences you might see with a blower design, like Nvidia's reference cooler for the GTX 980. Since all of the heat from the GFX card will be exha...

The Cyrorig C1 looks pretty neat; I'm considering it for a low-profile mini-itx build. (The Noctua is a bit too tall when the top fan is attached.) The only problem that I'm running into is that I can't find any Canadian distributors! It's on the US newegg site, but they won't ship here. (I suppose ...

"but we're not convinced it's more than a marginal improvement over an OEM Intel cooler" I'm actually kind of curious where the stock Intel coolers would fit in your charts, since they are certainly the most readily available low-profile coolers available. Any chance of throwing one of them through ...