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Written by Mikhail Ivanenkov
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 |
Normally, if everything is working, the software driver controls the fan speed in Windows, so when you start a game, the fan speed increases, when you are at the desktop in 2D mode, the fan slows down. Unfortunately, as with the 7800 GT stock cooling, this feature doesn’t always work very well, and you end up with the fan running at full speed all of the time.
Included with the Logisys Dual Heatpipe VGA cooler is an instructions manual, an 80mm fan, an 80mm fan grill, two “U” shaped heatpipes, a Phillips screwdriver, two GPU blocks, two back plates, four tall memory heatsinks, four short memory heatsinks, two large aluminum cooling plates, installation screws and three packages of thermal grease.
Also notice the large number of opening located just above the PCI slots. This opening and the two located in the bottom case work together to cause a "Pressure Differential" which causes the movement of the cool air, which comes from the difference of the exhaust and the intake flow. This pressure draws outdoor air into the interior. This force is called the "The Negative Pressure Effect."
Plastic nipples for the tubing aren't marked, but the manual suggests the above flow pattern. The manual also goes into some detail regarding where the splitters should be placed in an existing system. Since we're adding the Blue Eye to a Galaxy II system, we'll use its' manifolds.
Palm bills the Foleo as a “Mobile Companion” - a device that’s designed to work side by side with a Smartphone - say a Palm Treo device. (It doesn’t have to be a Treo of course but the demonstrations at the event were of course related to the Treo). You can find a list of compatible smartphones here. Think of the Foleo as an extension of your smartphone. Palm’s argument centers on the following - who wants to write and read email on a tiny mobile phone display? Why not have a secondary device deliver a better viewing, composing, and editing experience? To accomplish this, the Foleo wirelessly connects with a smartphone (say a Treo) and synchronizes the inbox between the Foleo and the Smartphone.
The 3007WFP-HC uses the same matte silver stand as the previous incarnations, which is no bad thing. The gas dampened height adjustment works brilliantly, allowing you to move the screen up or down with the pressure from a single finger – pretty good for a screen this size. The stand also allows the screen to pan from side to side very smoothly, which is handy if you want to show something to a colleague. There’s no pivot function, but then I wouldn’t want to position a 30in display in portrait anyway.
The heatsink obscures 768MiBs of GDDR3 memory that runs at a faster speed than the Radeon HD 2900 XT's but interfaces with a narrower memory bus - 384-bit vs. 512-bit. The upshot is that both cards produce over 100GB/s of juicy bandwidth; great for antialising and super-high resolution gaming.
Extra keys are kept to a minimum with the Eclipse II, which is fine by me. Even with the keyboard drawer fully extended on my desk, keys placed along the top edge of a multimedia-style keyboard are near impossible to use. The Eclipse II has the only multimedia key I use often: the volume key, and Saitek places it in a position that is easy to get at. Basic VCR-style controls are included as well. The dimmer and color-change control is in the same area. Both sides of the keyboard have a light strip positioned to illuminate the mousing area.
The 5V rail on the Zephyr is pretty stable, but it has intense spikes periodically. Unlike the 3.3V rail, the Zephyr supplies an exact 5V, but its spikes deviate by 2.17%. The RPP ripples by only 0.41%. Zephyr's consistency wins this one.
Tripp Lite's SMART1500LCD Line-Interactive Digital UPS System offers voltage regulation, surge suppression and long-lasting battery support for personal computers, network workstations, home entertainment systems and media centers. Internal UPS circuits support entry-level PCs or individual VCR/DVR components during power failures. Prevents data loss, viewing interruptions, lost recordings and loss of component programming.
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