The HipCase is composed of Black Leather and is also available in Brown Leather or Nylon material. There is a beige stitch surrounding the outside edges of the black leather. The front flap has an embossed DLO logo in the center. It measures 12cm across and is 7cm tall. It is approximately 2.5cm in depth.
At 4,200 RPMs and 31.6 dBA, the RAM Fan will mostly likely be a little on the loud side in our test case. That's not to say it won't work well in helping reduce the heat emitting from our memory modules, but it just means that it will also contribute to your system's overall noise level. The fan is powered by a three-pin power connector that will plug directly into your motherboard or fan controller. This is a good feature because too many fans nowadays have molex connectors instead of three-pin power connectors.
Windows Home Server (WHS) is actually built off of Windows Server 2003's codebase, so you know that it's a really solid operating system and has lots of administrative features for networks. What Microsoft has done is made it so you don't have to ever touch the server computer after you install the OS because you administer the server from the Windows Home Server Client Console from a client PC connected to the network. From there you do everything from create user accounts, manage the servers's storage, and use WHS add-ins. The console's interface is really sleek and easy to use.
My client is half Japanese and wanted something similar to Yuugou while also incorporating his family symbol, the Tomoe. Basically, the design is a simplified Yuugou frame with inset panels which are an abstraction of the symbol with a shoji panel and paper behind that to create a very nice contrast and sense of depth.
Last month we looked at the ALiveNF7G-HDReady from ASRock, which was a great budget motherboard that had integrated NVIDIA GeForce 7050 graphics that made it suitable for an HTPC or multimedia setup and it came topped with Gigabit LAN support and IEEE-1394 Firewire. We are back with ASRock today as we look at their ConRoe1333-DVI/H motherboard. ASRock's ConRoe1333-DVI/H is based on Intel's 945G Chipset and is compatible with Intel 1333MHz Core 2 Duo processors, uses GMA 950 graphics, and is home to many more features.
The ATX 20+4 pin connector uses a construction where the +4 pin part can be removed, actually it is not part of the connector and can not clip to it. When installing the unit you have to press both connectors together when inserting them into the socket. Other manufacturers use a clip-on system here which is a bit easier to use.
So, you've got an HDTV with just one or two HDMI ports, but you've got that high definition satellite set-top box, you've got that glossy wonder known as Apple TV, you bought yourself an HD DVD player in preparation for your new home theater experience, and you're itching to get in on some Virtua Fighter 5 or Resistance: Fall of Man. But you don't want to have to crawl behind your TV each time you want to switch sources. Well, that's where this lovingly simple solution comes into play. The XtremeHD HDMI Switcher from XtremeMac is simplicity itself. It swallows up to four HDMI sources and spits out a single HDMI cable that you can connect to your HDTV. There's no strange configuration to consider, no software to setup. Just plug it in and it's good to go.
The newest Express chipsets to found on the shelves holding the gaze of the consumer are the G33 and P35 paired up with the ICH9,DH,R chipset. The official top secret code name assigned by Intel to the chipsets is Bear Lake. The new P35 is naturally the newest chipset and boasts a few improvements over the previous successful P965, Q965, and 975 chipsets. A few of those include full 1333MHz processor and DDR3 support which has already made some huge waves among overclockers. Other features the new chipset supports are Intel ViiV Processor technology support for digital home entertainment, Rapid Recover Technology, Turbo memory for improving boot times, Quiet System and Matrix Storage Technologies via the Intel I/O Controller Hub.
By far the most common component in any modern (and pre-modern for that matter) computer is the fan and just about every computer in existence contains at least one. Their primary duty is to keep air moving either inside a case or across a heatsink in hopes of keeping things cool and increasing system stability. On the surface it would seem that the more fans you have running the better and early casemodders took this theory to the extreme with some wild and crazy case mods.
The Lexa Blackline is a nice looking rig. The window could be a little smaller, to hide some of the wire mess, but not a big deal. The red LED fans are a change from the blue ones most rigs use, and the black/red combination is a cool look. I ran the front, rear, and side 120mm fans with 12v, and the trio are surprisingly quiet. So quiet that I may not change them to 5v in the future as I usually do. Keep in mind if you run them at 5v, the LEDs probably won’t light up much. The red HDD led is different…goes very well with the theme.
