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nc.com welcome to The Cooler Master Booth we're going to start with cases
here this right here is the elite 130
which as you might have noticed is about 10 more than an elite 120 but actually
doesn't have appeared to have changed in size much extremely efficient use of
space is the name of the game with these Elite mitx cases ow I put my finger in a
fan thank you very much my lovely assistant will help me take the front
bezel off so you might have noticed the key difference here is that the front
where we have this 120 mm cooling fan is
now completely open in terms of ventilation this is going to give you
better cooling on the inside of the case also check this out fan rad fan hard
drive you can fit all of those in they're basically going to be right up
next to each other so the idea is that in addition to mounting ssds up here or
5 and a/4 inch here you can also Mount ssds I believe there was another spot
show me where they are yes under the 5 and a/4 inch Bays so you have a ton of
options in terms of drives the idea is you should be liquid cooling your CPU
your power supply is going to have a bottom 120 millimet exhaust fan that
takes the air away from the CPU socket and takes it out of the case your
graphics card and you can see they've got a radon 7990 in here just to prove a
point just because we can the sides of the case have ventilation holes so it's
going to be able to suck fresh air directly from the inside it should be
noted that it would be optimal to have a blower design graphics card but with the
way that graphics cards are outputting heat these days with these dual GPU
designs it's not always possible this
right here is the cosmos SE or Cosmos mini or whatever you want to call it
there's not really that much Min about it so maybe that's why they decided to
call it the SE it's still pretty big that's dual GTX 780s or Titan yeah that
looks like 780s in there um and not only
that but check this out single 120 millim liquid cooler okay yawn
everything's got that dual 120 mm
radiator up in the top yawn sort of everyone's got that triple 120 mm liquid
cooling Radiator in the front okay now you now you got my attention how about
all of those at once as well as retaining support for at least one hard
drive so many users are doing this these days where they're pulling out all the
drive cages you can see they're gone they're throwing in one hard drive
because that's basically all they need unless they get a NZ setup and there are
two hidden SSD mounts at the back it's got those same rigid carrying handles so
you can move this baby around with you as long as you have the ARM strength
which unfortunately I do not the CM 693
has made some evolutionary changes versus the last generation design so
number one check this out there's more room for graphics cards because some of
what would traditionally be three and a half inch hard drive cages has been
converted to 2 and 1/2 in which isn't to say that you wouldn't have the option to
go 3 and 1/2 in with them so there are four 2 and 1/2 in mounts here three 3
and a half inch mounts here and they've also made a kind of an interesting
change here check this out you can hide your wallet in there now no one will see
it they'll break into your house and they'll never find your wallet the bad
news is that if you have a ball or gaming machine like this probably going to steal your computer so they'll get
your wallet anyway so so much for that idea right moving right along to the
silencio 352 this is based on the same chassis as the n200 which we've already
done an unboxing of the key difference here is that it's more optimized for
silence so you've got a magnetic cover right here that allows you to close off
that don't worry the real one is going to have stronger magnets it's going to allow you to close off that top panel
noise damp in side panels as well as a fully blocked off front panel this does
prevent a lot of the noise from reaching the user and then you you can see right
here you can I'll just yeah whatever we'll just put that there we've got the
noise dampening material here as well as a removable front fan filter assembly
it's been a while since I've seen uh oh no those are 120 mil oh good I looked at
these I was like really you guys put like 92mm fans in this thing no they didn't awesome love it moving right
along to the next category right along to cooling all-in-one coolers are really
evolving at a phenomenal rate it used to be that you got a thin radiator you got
a 20 mil radiator and you got no upgrade ability the iceberg is completely
different from all of that so you've got a slightly thicker than the thinnest
ones that are out there 240 mil rad you've got the upgrade ability to do
pretty much whatever you want now these demos were supposed to have graphics cards on them because you can ultimately
plug in whichever fittings you feel like but unfortunately they didn't arrive in
time but what's really cool about this is the fact that these are designed for
ease of installation with a couple of pretty cool motherboard so that's the
Maximus 6 oh no that's the Maximus 5 formula but don't worry the Maximus 6 is
very similar and this one right here is the G1 sniper 5 so this is a custom gray
pre-done liquid cooler that I personally think is incredibly cool moving right
along we've got this is neat this is the neptun
28040 so you can actually Mount either
140 mm or0 mm fans to it it's got two
full sets of mounting and because it uses a slightly thicker than normal
radiator as well as 38 in corrugated
tubing you're going to get the advantage of improved air flow more mass means
more cooling so this is definitely a good thing as well as the advantage of
having this corrugated tubing design that in spite of the fact that it
doesn't have quite the same Bend radius as some of the ones that have come into
fashion lately it is extremely good at preventing evaporation of the cooling
liquid so you don't have to worry about ever having to top it up now this guy
right here is a prototype this is a seiden 12d check that out there's a fan
in the Middle with two super slim radiators on either side and rather than
unlike the MCR stack implementation that swifttech tried a couple of years ago
this one it's actually integrated into one unit where the fan actually slides
in between so you don't have to worry about any kind of fussy cabling or or
tubing or anything like that the one disadvantage is the radiators are
running in seral as opposed to parallel which might amount to a little bit more
Flow Restriction but as long as the pump's designed to handle it we shouldn't be too worried about it so
this is the nepton 140 I showed you the 280 before so basically same idea 140 mm
radiator nice thick design and you can mount either a 120 mil or a 140 mil fan
to it the hyper 103 as well as the gem 2
mini this one right over here are both designed for applications where you
might have stuff in the way for example these Riser power delivery pcbs that
asusa started putting on their mitx boards or high-profile memory kits such
as is these hyperx Predators from Kingston last but not least over here
for cooling are the jet flow 120 mil fans they have an extremely linear
performance curve so they perform very well at almost any RPM and they have a
very wide RPM range at which they can operate so anywhere from 800 to 2,000
RPM they come with a couple adapters they come with some LED lighting effects
and all that kind of cool stuff and it's pretty hard to go wrong now on to power
supplies so here's a neat little thing Cooler Master show going off now we're
going to go through some of the components here and we've got a fluid
Dynamic bearing extremely quiet fan from prot Technic to give you guys some idea
there's a very famous brand that's uh number one for power supplies in Germany
that uses this fan and uh they have a very good reputation for being extremely
silent so it's there you go there's that high quality components so there's a
custom DC todc module there's Japanese solid capacitors which are basically
more expensive and better and developed for military and service great
applications Ultra flat modular Cable Systems all this is very cool but what
I'd like to really talk about is what's on these little displays right here so
this is a Cooler Master power supply and this is competitor C and the hint is
that it's not competitor Cooler Master so it's going to have to be someone else
who starts with a C now here's a bit of a lesson about 80 plus 80 plus in its
regular form its bronze form silver form gold form and platinum certification
level only accounts for power supply efficiency at 20 50 and 80% load and
100% low cap crap I can't remember whatever don't worry about it it
accounts for power supply efficiency down to 20% load but it doesn't go any
lower than that so the specification can have power supplies that meet the
specification above 20% load but then drop off dramatically so what Cooler
Master has done with the v850 here is they have tuned it for excellent idle
power consumption so you can see here that with two ident icle systems started
at the same time idling at the desktop they are able to achieve idle power
consumption that is up to about they say once you actually get the desktop going
and open up like YouTube or something it's about a 20 watt difference but when
you're doing absolutely nothing it's up to about a seven eight n watt difference
between these two platforms to put that in perspective a fluorescent bulb is
going to draw about 13 Watts so it's pretty much like having an extra light
on in your house at all times when you have your computer running if you don't
have a power supply that's efficient at low loads especially when you consider
that I mean these are high performance gaming machines these are core i7s these
are new Haswell platforms these look like GTX 680 Lightnings at the very
least they're some kind of lightning edition card but even a high performance
computer now is capable of idling at very low power consumption numbers and
let's face it even if you have an extreme gaming rig you're not playing
games all the time so you shouldn't be ignoring your idle power consumption so
this was a really cool demo in cooler Master's Booth I think we're pretty much wrapped up here don't forget guys we're
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