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Written by Mikhail Ivanenkov
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Saturday, 16 June 2007 |
This is a small, neat, very boxy personal laser, coloured in a two-tone black and dark metal finish that will see it fit into most home and business environments without shouting. The layout is conventional with a 250-sheet paper tray at the bottom, a single sheet feed slot above that and the output tray set into the printer’s top surface.
On the top edge of the card there are two additional power connectors, since the card requires the extra 150W to run; if the card is under-powered, it beeps loudly and the computer will not boot. At the other end of the edge are two SLI-bridge connections, although only one SLI bridge is needed for standard two-card configurations. The other connector is for four-card setups, unheard of outside of OEM configurations.
Just last week we test one of the newest coolers from Thermaltake in the V1. A great cooler that provides the user with several different configurations to get the best performance out of their CPU. At a low fan speed the V1 offers silence and average performance, while at higher speeds it provides great cooling for the overclockers out there. But the V1 wasn't the only cooler we received for review. At the same time Thermaltake released a second cooler in the Max Orb.
At first glance, Western Digital's stab at the 750GB mark closely follows Seagate's lead. The 750GB Barracuda 7200.10 achieved its then-industry-leading capacity using four 188GB platters and perpendicular recording technology, and this latest Caviar SE16 does the same. Both drives also feature 16MB of cache and 7,200-RPM spindle speeds. That's where the similarities end, or at least where they become difficult to compare. Hard drive manufacturers can't seem to agree on a collection of consistent specifications to publish, so we're left comparing the 750GB Caviar SE16—model number WD7500AAKS—to its 500GB predecessor, the WD5000KS.
The Shine is a slider and the keypad is as such situated behind the screen when it is not in use and it simply slides out below the screen to reveal the keypad. If you have used a recent Motorola in the RAZR family, then you will be familiar with the kind of keypad that LG outfitted the Shine with. It is not as tactile as a normal keypad, but it is not as bad as a touch screen. When it comes to phone keypads, the same rules applies as it does to PC input peripherals, there is a lot of personal preference that goes into your choice.
The Altec Lansing Bluetooth speakers allow owners to stream music wirelessly from their cell phones. Imagine coming home, pointing your cell phone at your Bluetooth speaker and voila, music starts playing. How about going to the beach and easily listening to music without having to lug around a heavy boom box. With the T515, all you need is your cell phone and the Bluetooth speaker system. Best of all, the T515 is small, lightweight and comes with a convenient carrying case.
Starting with the newest addition to the CoolIT accessory lineup, the PCI mounted cooler is a simple device. Made entirely out of aluminum, with the CoolIT logo acting as a small fan guard, the PCI cooler isn't supposed to be installed in a single PCI slot like most other coolers with a similar name. No, the fan is meant to sit on the outside of the PCI cards and the blue LED 80mm blows cooler air across whatever is installed in the slots. This includes video cards, PhysX cards, audio cards… anything that uses an AGP, PCI or PCI-E slot.
The 3D Rocket II cooler itself is quite large. Being that large you would think that it would be very heavy, but it is only 640 grams. That is heavier than most coolers, but still not that bad. Also most of the weight is towards bottom of the cooler. The name of the cooler is 3D Rocket and Gigabyte has added a plastic ring around that has fins that make the cooler look like a real rocket.
Cooler Master claims to have one of the lowest failure-rates for heat-pipe production in the industry. It says that just five per cent fails quality-assurance testing, compared to an industry average of 20 per cent. Although our tour did range widely through the company's facilities, some elements of the manufacturing process are regarded as industrial secrets, thus no pictures were allowed. The size of the buildings we visited beggars belief. Even when standing as far away as possible, we couldn't fit an entire building into the frame of a wide-angle lens on a digital SLR!
Here we have the power supply itself. The unit is painted flat black to match the sleeved cables. The back of the unit uses a honeycomb style grill to allow plenty of hot air through. A power connector and on/off switch are also present on the rear of the unit. Looking at the bottom, we get a view of the 120mm thermally-controlled blue LED fan. Moving around to the side, we find a specs sticker that gives the complete power breakdown of each rail. Finally on the "front" of the unit we have six modular connectors. A few of the cables are hard-wired but the majority of cables are modular.
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