Surely you've heard of Sunbeamtech by now. Sunbeam and I go back a long ways, over 5 years. My first CCFL was by Sunbeam, which was the product that got them started. They were by far the best on the market, and still are. Today, I am reviewing the Sunbeamtech Freezing storm. As you might imagine by the name, the Freezing Storm is designed for some extreme cooling. We'll see during the course of the review what Sunbeamtech has done to help keep your rig cool.
One of the most popular CPUs on the market right now is the Q6600, thanks to the fact that it offers four cores at 2.4GHz. But what about the Xeon's? Their prices are also more affordable now, with their X3210 2.13GHz retailing for $260. Read on as we pit this Quad-Core against the rest of our fleet.
I like goofy gadgets, I always have, but some are just goofier than others... Like what I have for review today from our friends at Brando WorkShop, it's called the USB Think Light and it's shaped like a light bulb that gets brighter or dimmer depending on how fast you type... Well my kids liked it anyway...
The new VX450W is a lower powered, less ambitious model that seeks to fill a value niche. It's one of two models in the VX series; the other being a 550W version that has yet to be released. The VX450W does not feature detachable modular cables like those found on the HX series. Corsair's marketing makes a big deal about the unit's eco-friendliness, emphasizing the high efficiency and active correction for very high power factor. These features are hardly unique to the VX450W, however, and could be found in numerous PSUs even dating back a couple years. The packaging is very similar to the HX series, with a classy, understated look that suggests a lot of time, money and attention have been paid to this aspect. There's little doubt that Corsair's marketing/PR is on the ball.
The Zalman ZM-DS4F ships in a stand plastic and cardboard box. The headset is held in place by a plastic case inside the cardboard box. So the headset should arrive in perfect working condition at your location no matter how rough it gets handled by the shipping company. On the package you can read about how the headphones are built, right from which types of audio drives are used to how they are positioned within the ear cups. This is nice to give you a first impression what to expect. Inside the package you find a brief "User's manual" and of course the headphones.
For a basic computer build, the Wing RS case is a good choice. It has a simple but sleek look and installing drives doesn’t get any easier. The price is right too at around $50 US.
The Kandalf case has ten tool-free 5.25" bays with a dust filter on the front of the case, one is taken by the power switch/LED with a free 3.5" slot, and another is reserved for routing coolant tubes and has a bushing for protecting the tubes. The rest of the 5.25" bays can also be converted to 3.5" bays if so desired. A stash box included with the case can fit into any of the 5.25" bays and provide convenient storage for CD/DVD, Flash cards, USB drives, etc,. One great thing about these bays is that if the 3.5" drive going into the power switch/LED slot has a cable too short to reach the bottom of the case, it can be moved into any of the lower slots to give it reach. It is a very useful feature since many motherboards have USB and Firewire slots at the bottom and most card reader drives have cables too short for such a tall case.
Fortunately ThermalTake took care of this problem by labeling each connector on the back. The first four connectors are on 12V1 and are used for peripherals like hard drives, DVD burners and other devices that use 4-pin Molex or Serial ATA power connectors. The 12V2 line is used to power the motherboard and your processor and voltage line 3 and 4 are used for your graphics card(s). This should balance the load a bit over each voltage rail.
In the past thirty years the possibilities for travelling entertainment have gone from time-honoured to high-tech, kicked off by the appearance of the very first Walkman and crowned today with MP3 and personal media players (PMPs). Go out and spend a couple of hundred quid now and you can have widescreen entertainment in the back seat, watch your favourite TV, look at photos and listen to your favourite music all on the same device. Creative's Zen Vision W is aimed at letting you do all that – on one multifunctional device.
The Xfan 360 is an external unit that clips onto the Xbox 360's rear exhaust grill. Because it merely assists the exhaust, cooling is still performed using "negative case pressure", which means that fresh air is drawn into the case from the simple vaccuum the exhaust creates.
