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is nc.com all right guys I'm here at the Silverstone boost with Tony and we're
here to come uh we're here to check out some of their home theater systems so this is our htpc section
earlier this year at CES we showed off this very nice and compact ml05 miniitx
htpc case so for computex we're showing
uh the brother of it it's called The m06 it shares the same basic internal
structure as the ml05 except it front panel is now aluminum instead of acrylic
and plastic so moving on we have a brand
new case that we're unveiling for comput
Tex this year this is our Raven prototype uh mini case uh the reason we
put it here in the home theater section is that we think this will be a really
nice complement for people to put in their living room even though this is
designed for a gaming PC so inside if I
open this up you'll see that it has a lot of feature that help you build a
really powerful uh PC out of this so
first of all um to make it small the case use utilizes a mini ITX motherboard
and sfx power supply up front and on here on the right side this
bracket if I remove it you you'll see
it'll hold a graphics card really long one too so you can build really powerful
system with this and on the bottom of the chassis you could actually fit a
thin um dual 120 mm radiator
underneath that's awesome now with with stuff like Steam Big Picture I brought
this up a few times here at computex already but with stuff like Steam Big
Picture these kind of computers are being such a big deal because everyone
wants to have Steam Big Picture in their home theater they want to use
controllers sit on their couch but play PC games cuz PC games are what's up so
now if you can build an awesome system in a case like this that looks really
sharp maybe not quite as professional and amazing looking as an aluminum front
cover but if you can make a sharp goodlook gaming system to run Steam Big
Picture that's great so this case it's very cool we're going to move on and cover some more Silverstone stuff all
right we're still here at the Silverstone Booth we got something really cool to check out which are SATA
power extensions and Splitters this is their previous one and I'm just going to
go right to you so uh last year we introduced a one 124 uh Power SATA
connector so that it's got two uh capacitor built-in which we uh took a
long time to actually develop because you have to get the right number of capacitor and the right size for them to
provide stable enough power for all four connections to your SATA drives um one
of the things that people really like about uh this is that they can use it on
cases with hard drive cages that have multiple drives but some of the really
smaller cages uh users actually have to find that they
have to bend this cable rather stiffly like this so what you end up with is
that you you're putting a lot of stress on your side at drives so this year uh
we're introducing uh these two new cables
so uh one is for two connections and one
is for four just like before but if you can see we changed the material of the
cable to be very very soft and flexible so I can bend it like this and they'll
still keep uh a very straight um actually
stress-free connector to your SATA drives that's actually really cool
because I personally I haven't broken that much Hardware but I've broken a
hard drive before by having so much stress from the power connector on it so
now what I have to do is I have to actually have the cable pulled down by a
zap strap so that the hard drive can actually be read from so having more
malleable cables like this where you can move it around and torque it a little
bit and have no actual issues is very cool now we're going to move away from
cables and go right over the liquid coolers because these are awesome my
favorite part I'm going to give it to him pretty soon but my favorite part is that they're all metal here it's very
sharp and shows True Performance I I don't really like plastic in my system
at all I like full metal cases I like full metal everywhere so that's awesome
what do you have to say about this okay so we developed this inhouse so um okay
so let's take a look at this this one's a little beat up but you can see uh just
from the radio to design it's different from any other
water cooling radiat on on the market these use the same type of heting Ray uh
heting fin array like the highend very
high-end air coolers that you see on the market they're very tough it's very hard
to bend them uh if you ever seen uh or
used uh other radiators you'll know that if you put a lot of pressure on them by
hand they you'll actually bend the fence but because these are designed more like
air coolers they're they're not and also they have much greater surface contact
uh with the water piping going through the radiator than traditional radiators
designs okay and the second thing that um of course it's our water block is all
metal so the bottom is copper this main
body here is uh uni unibody aluminum
that's this is actually older version let's show the newer version little
B okay so this is nickel nickel plated
so it looks very nice and even the bracket here is Al aluminum so it's very
very strong doesn't Flex uh like the other middle brackets on the market and
this is soldered on the copper base solder onto the unit body as opposed to
screwed on like the other units on the market you not wasting any space with
screws it looks super sharp very very high quality build that's awesome so
when we first came by this computer I had already seen their previous coolers
and he said just what guess what this cooler doesn't have a pump at first I
thought was kind of crazy maybe misinformed maybe a lunatic I'm not
really sure but then I noticed that okay I can see the water flowing it's not
actually rushing rushing rushing as fast as it normally is where you can't actually see the water flowing so I
started to believe him a little bit and then he explained exactly how it doesn't
have a pump and I'm going to let him do that now okay so we're using a liquid
with the lower evaporation point uh than normal so that means uh the heat from
your CPU actually evaporate this liquid causing this uh flow uh to go up and
condenses back down after it gets cool by the radio on top so what what we can
do now is maybe turn off the computer so we can show how much it changes so it's
going to turn off the computer there's still going to be residual heat on the CPU so it's going to take a little while
for it to slow down but you can probably already tell that the rate at which the
water is Flowing is slowing down it's still being heated by the CPU the fan is
already stopped as you can see here so the computer is off but you can still
it's still going not super fast but still going that's very cool this is the
same style of technology that is in uh air coolers and systems already the heat
pipes that you have actually have a liquid in them and it's evaporating and
then coming back down that's how it's moving heat into the fins but I haven't
seen this yet on an actual liquid cooler so that's very very cool thank you for
showing us this cooler we're going to move on to some more things all right guys coming back at you from the
Silverstone Booth we came over here they've have a digital power power spice
this is in their Zeus series it's a 12200 watt which is Beast it's a
platinum which is beast but something that's a little bit more interesting about this is that it's digital so if
you can explain the UI we see here on the screen and explain just how you can
change from single to quad which is personally my favorite part okay so it's
a digital controlled uh power supply so that means we could do everything
through the software interface here um this power supply has the ability to
change from single rail so all I have to do is click here and it becomes a single
rail power supply if I click on quad you
can see again all four rails show up from 12v and um because it's digital
control that means you could actually fine-tune uh each individual rail like
the 3.3 volts I could lower it or
increase it okay and hit okay to apply
the setting I can do this for all of the rails on the power supply also on the
fan control we we have this very in uh
simple to understand interface you could
choose any fence be points in which uh
you want to choose for your uh different Power loading levels so I can choose to
have a very strong uh fence speed when
the power is loading higher or I could go really low on some of these uh power
settings power supplies have been that interesting beast in your computer
because for so long you've been able to change kind of whatever you want about
your computer except for the power supply has just kind of sat down there and done its job which is good but not
exactly what most people want we're hot rers we want to be able to do whatever we want so it's very cool to see these
digital power supplies coming out where you can change anything on the Fly
that's awesome we're we're going to move on all right so knck has been around for a little while our next unit of
computing but they've been not super
interesting at least in my opinion until someone like Silverstone has decided to
come around and just flip the whole thing on its head now it's actually
quite interesting you can get a lot of different options I'm going to let you go through it but these two are the ones
I'm mainly interested so far okay so this is the pt14 our first uh nut case
so this is design with finless operation in mind you can see already tell from
the hising fin look alike top cover yeah
there's also a fan option on the bottom where you can uh install as a safety so
if you're placing this uh nut case in somewhere that you you can touch then
obviously you won't have this fan running uh to avoid uh CPU running I
mean CPU running at 60 or 70° C actually
uh okay for the CP itself but not for your skin so if you want to put this
somewhere next to you you probably want to have that F running but if you're
putting this away maybe somewhere behind the monitor like that over there then
it's probably okay for you to run fin this right cuz you can mount these on
the back of monitors you can mount them on the back of digital signage and storage you can mount them on the back
of anything so that's pretty awesome and for those uh of you that are not you
know not interested in using a Fess case we also have a very beautiful looking
nut case that's just uh that can utilize
the regular Intel uh blower cooler on
the knock and uh this is really nice looking it's also aluminum that aluminum
front panel is just absolutely awesome aluminum on anything just looks
absolutely great and now this guy is an interesting Beast so let's go through
this one so this is a pt16 we're also showing it for the first time here at
computex it has a built-in car reader
slot and if I press it on on the side
here I can slid a hot swap of two and a half in Drive Bay for a bit of uh Drive
expansion or external storage it's cool
because you know sometimes if it's a huge file it's not really that viable to
move it over the network very quickly so if you can just pop a drive out and
throw it in this thing that's awesome that's very very cool functionality now
this guy is interesting this guy isn't actually in the Intel series of nut
computers this is AMD so yeah okay so um
AMD has been of course uh looking at the
development of KN so we believe that um it it is a like they say n
next TR next year so MD decided to also
join and we're really happy to also help help out and popularize the Knuck yeah
it's very cool so AMD spreading out Intel spreading into something crazy
this is all crazy hey guys we're here at our last stop of the Silverstone Booth I
wanted to cover this it's not ready yet it doesn't have a name we can't test it
out yet but it's pretty crazy so I wanted to make sure you guys could see
it can we take off the front here real quick sure we're going to take off the
front and reveal what's actually going on here we can take off the top and then
the front comes out very very nice looking case so
basically if you haven't noticed yet there's no real motherboard in there
there's a there's a there's a control panel but it's not a motherboard so basically what you can do with this is
put a put a tiny little power supply in there put a graphics card in there and
then connect through Thunderbolt to say a laptop if you have a business grade
laptop that's just amazingly good-look sharp laptop but doesn't have a graphics
card and you want to be a gamer and you don't necessarily want to buy a huge PC
you can just Thunderbolt this to your laptop once it's ready and be able to play games on that business class
notebook or laptop thin Ultrabook whatever you want as long as it has a
Thunderbolt cable you can add tons of power to it desktop Graphics will always
Crush laptop Graphics because you just have all that service area to put big
big big chips and whatever else you want so this is a very very cool product
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