CES 2009 - Cases, Coolers, and Power Supplies
by Christoph Katzer on January 14, 2009 3:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Zalman with New Coolers and Power Supplies
There will be a new larger CPU cooler, the CNPS9900 LED. It can cool any of the new processors including the Core i7. The second cooler started as a graphics card cooler; once installed the engineers of Zalman found out it has the potential to cool even modern CPUs, so they added all of the necessary mounting brackets.
Finally, Zalman released two new power supplies. These power supplies don't come with a series name, but there is a large Extreme written on them. The two new power supplies come are rated at 660W and 770W. We had a closer look and it appears these two new power supplies are made by Enhance, just like the ZM850 and ZM1000. Both new power supplies come with 80 Plus Bronze certification, which is a slightly higher efficiency standard than vanilla 80 Plus.
If you want to see nice video footage from the CES head over to German PC-Max.
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pastyface - Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - link
I'm not a huge fan of the styling of the new case but I sure do like the effort you have put into the cable management system.strikeback03 - Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - link
err, Mini-Skeleton. Looks a lot smaller than the regular one. Does it fit uATX boards, or only mini-ITX or something proprietary?Christoph Katzer - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
Only Mini-ITXgomakeit - Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - link
The white color for the air ducts on the sides look weird. I'd prefer a plain black color. But then again it might be just some prototype mold. And how about adding some sound dampening materials on the sides (since they already put that much thought to noise)?Ryun - Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - link
I question the efficiency of such large case fans mounted on the top of cases nowadays but if you're going to add the 200mm fan -please- add some protection from the environment. I own the Antec 900 and there are a number of different small, metal objects or liquids that could potentially fall into the case and do damage. If you could add something like the optional "spoiler" on the P182 (but without the mesh) that could act as a cover to still allow airflow to be routed out of the case that would be superb.I would also say to get rid of those plastic handles on the top and bottom of the case; they look kinda cheesy.
Lastly I would personally like a window, but I know others don't like them so that's not really too important. Looks pretty cool overall excluding my issues with the case.
Also, when's the P183 supposed to release?
pizan - Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - link
The OCZ case just looks like a Thermaltake re-brand. Xaser VI anyone?tayhimself - Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - link
A whole lot of ugly being sold at CESstrikeback03 - Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - link
I vote that the next decent camera reviewed be sent to Christoph for use after the review is finished. The output of whatever he is using looks similar to my brother's HP from 2002.Was that a passive cooler for i7 in the Silverstone case there?
Christoph Katzer - Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - link
I know. Wanted something handy and that cam served me well in daylight. Didnt know it would end up like that on products. It's a DSC-T70 btw...strikeback03 - Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - link
Wow, that is a modern camera too. Back to the drawing board, Sony.