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    Default NZXT Respire T20 CPU Cooler

    Air coolers are everywhere these days. They come in every imaginable shape, size and layout and offer varying price points and degrees of performance from "awesome" to "don't waste your money." NZXT is fairly new to the CPU cooler market, having released their first air coolers (the Havik 140 and Havik 120) just last year. Both received great fanfare and praise from their reviewers. NZXT decided to release a more budget-friendly set of air coolers dubbed the Respire series. Today we look at the baseline model, the Respire T20.

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    Default Re: NZXT Respire T20 CPU Cooler

    Hey Will, Great job on the T20 review, congrats!
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    Great review Will with some really nice pics, good little cooler for the money too!

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    i would say the T20 is more of a bargain. its only like 1 or 2 degrees behind the T40. nice review Will.
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    Nice review Will! Decent cooler for the money.

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    Will is also working on the NZXT T40 as well as the Sapphire Vapor X CPU cooler, I'll be shipping the Xigmatek PRIME SD1484 out to Will for review next week.
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    that Vapor X cooler has not so good reviews from what i seen around.
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    We'll be finding out shortly ! We also have a new Thermalright cooler review coming up towards the middle of next week, also a new cooler by Silverstone, and a new Sparkle GTX680 review Monday morning
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    you have lots of goodies coming in
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    Yup. plus SSD reviews from Kingston, and Transcend, a couple of 64GB Flash drives from Kingston and a new HD7870 GHz Edition from Diamond. James is back reviewing, and should be receiving a keyboard and mouse from Roccat, Sandy has his first case review coming up, and a couple of Laptop bags. Vinny has a couple case reviews, including the Deep Silence 2 and the NZXT 630, and Kenny's working on a Gigabyte Z77 review and a couple of keyboards and coolers.
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    Thanks guys I'm glad you enjoyed the review! The T40 review is being edited and should be up shortly and hopefully I'll have the Sapphire Vapor-X review written tomorrow afternoon then it'll be up to these guys to final edit it and publish it. Thanks for the warm welcome! And check out my latest mod if you haven't yet Circuit Box - HAF XB mod

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    Hi Will, thanks for the update on the T40 and Vapor X coolers, can't wait to read the reviews !
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