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Written by Mikhail Ivanenkov
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Sunday, 15 July 2007 |
You have to use a flat bladed screwdriver or other blunt object though to push the wire for the Turbo Cool down between the fins of the Accelero or else it hits the fan blades, this is described in the instructions though.
Ok then, a standard little card with a low footprint on your system. Part of the idea for me is that very point. Physically halfway between onboard and the big old Audigy.
ECS AMD690GM-M2 is a socket AM2 motherboard with on-board video based on the latest chipset from AMD/ATI, AMD 690G, also known by its codename RS690. This is the first chipset coming from the collaboration between AMD and ATI, after AMD bought ATI. We were very curious to compare its performance to the previous on-board video solution from ATI, Radeon Xpress 1100, to its main competitors, GeForce 6100 and GeForce 7025 from nVidia, and also to cheap add-in video cards, like GeForce 6200. Let’s take a look on the performance and features of ECS AMD690GM-M2.
Thermaltake Max Orb at techPowerUp:
Inside the box is a plastic clam-shell that holds the cooler itself, as well as the box of mounting hardware. The hardware consists of a Universal Retension Frame, four LGA775 push-pins, four screws, four stand-offs, one nut and a small packet of thermal compound. Thermaltake also included an AM2 backplate that may be needed for some systems that don't have threads in their stock backplates. There is a multi-language instruction sheet included as well.
Danger Den Torture Rack also at techPowerUp:
The case arrived in a brown box, inside, everything was very well packed. And I really do mean very, very well packed - the panels rest on dampening foam, additionally, each panel is packed separately in plastic wrap. Furthermore, each panel is covered from one side with paper. This prevents it from getting scratched, and makes handling easier. Two pairs of white gloves are provided, so you don't get your fingerprints on the case. As you can see, everything needed for assembly is split up into zip-loc bags that are clearly labeled. This makes installation a lot easier. Danger Den also gives you a very nice vandal-proof switch to power on your PC.
The first thing I noticed after removing the Styrofoam supports and plastic wrap was the size. I guess I didn't know what I was expecting. Everything I had read online described the overall size as small or tiny. Maybe I have gotten used to the mid-tower frame of most of my previous pre-built systems. It seemed wider than I expected, an entire inch wider on both sides of the optical drive bays. After looking up the dimensions and realizing this isn't abnormal compared to other cases, I determined that the small vertical height had sort of created an optical illusion, giving the whole case a kind of 'squat' look. So is it big or small? Well, it is a little larger then anything you'll find at BestBuy, but it is certainly smaller than any full size tower.
Cooler Master NotePal W1 at InsideHW:
It is made of aluminum, partially orbed lines; NOTEPAL W1 will not be unnoticed. Its basic purpose is to separate your computer from the surface for better air flow, which consequently result in better cooling. For better fitting onto the surface, NotePal W1 has rubber supports. Besides, test model has three very quiet 7 cm diameter fans, which additionally lowers temperature. There is also a version with one fan less. We think that feeding of these three fans has a good solution, which consume electricity from one USB port on notebook through cable; no additional are required.
The CNPS7500-CU LED follows in the footsteps of Zalman's famed 'flower' heatsink technology, and just like its predecessors provides low noise cooling. The technology is reliant on the thermal conductivity of copper, as each fin is in direct contact with the CPU. There are no solder joints or other connections, so that dramatically reduces elements of thermal resistance. Coupled with a large slow moving fan, the Zalman CNPS7500-Cu LED uses its sheer surface area with a steady volume of air to cool the processor quietly.
It's a good thing that Mushkin has produced this high performance 4GB memory kit... yes, that's FOUR GIGABYTES! Mushkin quietly released this 4GB kit (2x 2GB memory modules) of PC2-6400 DDR-2 RAM in the first quarter, and PCSTATS is excited to finally be testing the modules for you. The 4GB Mushkin XP2-6400 memory kit has a default speed of DDR2-800, or PC2-6400, all the while maintaining tight CAS latency timings of 4-3-3-10! For 2GB modules, that's impressive.
AMD 690G graphics core runs at 400 MHz and has four pixel shader processors and four vertex shader processors. Competing products from nVidia (i.e. GeForce 6100 and GeForce 7025/7050 families) have only two shader processors and two vertex shader processors, but they run at a higher clock rate (425 MHz on GeForce 6100, 7025 and 7050 and 475 MHz on GeForce 6150 – except LE and SE models) and are Shader 3.0 (DirectX 9.0c). The previous integrated graphics solution from ATI, Radeon X1100, runs at 300 MHz.
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