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Written by Mikhail Ivanenkov
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
Thermaltake V1 CPU Cooler at ThinkComputers:
As I said the V1 has a very unique design to it, especially for a Thermaltake product. The cooler has 2 sets of heatsink fins with a fan in the center. The 110mm fan is clear and has blue LED's that will light up when your PC is powered on. The heatsink fins are all copper, giving you the best thermal dissipation possible.
The story is different with PS/2 keyboards. One of my favorite keyboards is the "old" Microsoft Natural Multimedia, but they are only available in the PS/2 flavor. Microsoft and Logitech only recently started making USB-only keyboards, which don't have the features that my old favorite has.
When we think of Mini-ITX boards, the first name that comes to mind is VIA. It was VIA who started this trend of a 17x17CM baby motherboard with all the features jam packed into it. VIA’s main problem with Mini-ITX is power, or lack there of. Until now, VIA has only had one CPU to pack onto its EPIA boards, that being the C3, which by all accounts is no where near what you would need to run a media center in HD.
Sapphire HD 2600XT at XSReviews:
On the "top" of the 2600XT are two Xfire (crossfire) bridge connectors which allow you to connect two cards of this type together. It may also, in the future, allow for 3 GPUs to be connected together, or two graphics cards and a PPU (physics processing unit).
One think you will notice missing from the specifications table above is a noise level value. The beautiful thing about this piece of swiss engineering is that it requires no fan or moving parts. This completely passive design relies on the heat dispersion of the four heatpipes, the amount of surface area provided by the aluminum fins and the natual airflow in your case to cool your GPU. This is nice because it not only is completely silent, but you don't have to worry about the fan dying. Let's take a closer look, shall we?
Cooler Master's 750W has some impressive specs. With both ATX V2.2 and EPS V2.91 support, this PSU has support for all current enthusiast motherboards. In my opinion, active PFC is a must for high-watt PSUs these days and the 750W has this feature, along with an efficiency rating of over 80%. This will not only assure your components are happy with the power delivered to them, it will save you a few bucks on your power bill as well. The specs I like best here are the output capacity numbers. While many PSU vendors would sell this PSU as a 900 Watt unit, Cooler Master keeps it real by listing it at its continuous output capacity. Nice going, Cooler Master! The 750W is also relatively compact for a PSU of this wattage. At 5.9 X 5.9 X 3.4 inches, this unit should fit in virtually any ATX compatible case.
Of course SonicStage isn't all bad. You can use it to rip tracks to Advanced ATRAC lossless format and play them back, a codec which to my ears is every bit as good, if not a touch superior, to open source FLAC lossless files. It also exchanges stats on what you've been listening to and how often with the NW-E015, allowing it to build up an accurate picture of your favourite music without you having to rate each track by hand.
Built around a steel SECC chassis, the NZXT HUSH uses aluminum panels and a plastic front bezel to complete the look. NZXT's Classic Series is better known for cases which are modern yet not over-the-top in designed appearance. NZXT can a large selection of cases which cover every personal taste, but for most consumers it will be the mid-level Classic Series that will hold their next system.
With all the overclocking and modding that people are doing today, devices to monitor components within the system are much needed. Even with the best in cooling and software that tells us what temperature the cpu and gpu core are running at, it is always better to have direct reporting from a hardware device. And the MFC2 is one of those hardware devices. The MFC2 will give you about the same data as most other front panel devices. The advantage the MFC2 have over the others is that it looks good.
And it doesn't get much more compact that the ridiculously skinny Slim Mouse from 2P. This mouse is so thin that it fits inside the PC slot on the side of your notebook. In this way, you don't even need to dedicate a pocket in your backpack or laptop bag for the mouse: it fits INSIDE your notebook.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 11 July 2007 )
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