Silicon Madness Turns Two Today

It was two years ago that Silicon Madness came to existence, back then as simply siliconmadness.blogspot.com, now moved to siliconmadness.com
Silicon Madness is a personal effort of mine to bring a new point of view on the hardware industry, one where critical opinions can be expressed without the need to please a hardware sponsor or other dogmas of the industry.
SM's aim is to provide independent product value assertion, in a way that you - the customer - has the best choice for your dollar or euro.
Big changes coming soon to celebrate this two year lifespan and website growth. Silicon Madness will be moving to a dedicated server, and new software, by the end of the year(hopefully). Plans to integrate SiliconMadness with a new bulletin board software were users can also express their views are already well underway and the above picture is an early look at the overall revamp that coming soon.
We will also be looking for contributors by that time, and hope to be able to collaborate with readers to make SiliconMadness a website of computer hardware and technology excellence.
It has been thrilling to provide insights to SM readers during this time and articles like the ones below have been great fun to write and read, as confirmed by the SM audience. In no particular order, popular posts from SM:

• AMD Phenom II X2 550 Unlocking & Overclocking
• AMD Phenom BIOS Myth Debunked
• First Shots Of 32nm Intel "Clarkdale" Running
• Nvidia And The Missing LGA 1156 Chipsets, published one month before any insights from Nvidia PRs.
• ECS Showcases 880G, later renamed 785G
• Phenom II X4 925 First AM3 Benchmarks
• The First AMD "Propus" Die Shot
• Another Take At Xbox "Jasper" Power Consumption
• Intel's Self-Tuning Processor

It has been a great pleasure to contribute to the PC hardware and technology community for these two years as a hobby and I hope you have enjoyed the journey so far.

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 rev 2

Arctic cooling revises it's old favorite for cheap builds.
The Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 and Freezer 64 are old favorites among silent PC and overclocking enthusiasts. The first one was targeted at LGA 775 processors, back from the Pentium 4 days, while the Freezer 64 was AMD compatible.
The new cooler adds compatibility with LGA 1366 and 1156, keeps the LGA 775 compatibility and unifies with the added support for AMD AM3/2/2+ and 939 sockets.
The price of this cooler is excellent at 21eur and the performance is well summarized by AC's charts:

It is an excellent cooler, probably the best at it's price range. While it can't compete with big towers like the TRUE and clones, it is an excellent choice for tight budgets and HTPCs. The fan used has fluid dynamic bearings and are among the best you can buy on the market. The performance delta and noise reduction more than justifies the extra cost over the stock cooler.