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nc.com we're here in the be quiet! Booth here at computex 2013 where we've got
some products to no I'm just kidding I'll talk normally guys so we're here in the be quiet! Booth where we've got some
new products to show off this one right here is the be quiet! pure power so it's
not really modular you know it's still got a really nice look to it so you got
a be quiet! fan in there of course these are legendary fans very very as you may
or may not have guessed extremely noisy no just kidding they're quiet okay so
there's that going for it non- modular power supply but what I like about this
one is it's meant to compete with something like a builder series from
Corsair in terms of price and capacities available and check this out be quiet!
actually puts a reasonable number of connectors on the thing it's a 600 W
power supply that we have right here and look at that four PCI S6 plus two pin
connectors very very nice the problem with what most manufacturers are doing
these days is they're forgetting that we're not dealing with Pentium D anymore
with fourth generation core series processors code name Haswell as we like
to call them the power consumption is actually so low unless you're
overclocking to an insane amount that you could easily run two graphics cards
like 6600 TI or GTX 660 Ti or something
along those lines with a fourth generation processor and you're not
going to exceed 600 watts so it's great to see a power supply that actually has
the right number of connectors for the kind of system you can build with it
these two things over here aren't really new but this one is this is the power
zone so you can tell from The Styling this is going to be more for like your
uh your show rig so you got some cool textures on the side there you've got
some cool sort of grills on the back there and then you've got aha that's a
silent Wings 3 Fan H right now silent
Wings 2 are the fans that are out there on the market as Standalone this is a
single rail power supply and check this out it's 80 plus bronze so it comes in
at a pretty attractive price point but you've still got support for a bunch of
really cool stuff like a fully modular interface right here as well as you see
those fans ports you have adapters that are included with the power supply that
allow your PSU to actually control your case fans as well so your power supply
not only keeps itself quiet but it also keeps the rest of your system more quiet
we going to party like it's 13 12 tonight we got oh wait no this is oh
crap no I got this wrong this isn't body rock okay this is the Shadow Rock to
from be quiet! so this is a pretty big
departure from what we've seen in the past from them for air coolers and one
of the things that you guys are going to like about it in terms of departure from
the past is that this is going to be priced at 40 bucks us so it's a large
quad thick heat pipe Tower cooler that's
got a nice plate on the top so it doesn't look sort of ridiculous and it's
also got a ton of fan mounting options so on every corner you've got room for
these fan Clips to go either way so you never have to worry about oh well you
know I had to orient my uh my CPU Cooler this way so I wasn't able to have like
you know my fan blowing towards wherever no you have the option to put it
wherever you want and again the pricing
is going to be very very attractive this one right here is intriguing to me this
is the Shadow Rock Slim So what this does is it has okay so it has smaller
heat pipes but get this this is Taiwanese made so it's manufactured in
Taiwan it uses higher quality heat pipes this is actually the same OEM that
builds the heat pipes for MacBook Pro so they're very high quality heat pipes
extremely high quality materials get the same performance as Shadow Rock 2 except
that because it's so slim so they're using a custom 20 mm design for the fan
so that it is lower profile you can actually install this in for example x79
platforms where you have high-profile dims on either side or even on something
like a Z87 platform where you want the fan and you want your high-profile dims
and you don't want to have any interference whatsoever this one is
incredibly intriguing to me they've also expanded the fan Mountain Clips on
something like the dark Rock 2 it was a little bit difficult you couldn't really Mount two fans unless you would really
did some modding but with this one they've left the gaps open so you could
even install a couple of different fans on it if you wanted thanks for checking
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