Cooler Master Cosmos SE, Elite 130, 693, Nepton 280/140, - Computex 2013
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·2014-05-07
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nc.com welcome to The Cooler Master Booth we're going to start with cases
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here this right here is the elite 130
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which as you might have noticed is about 10 more than an elite 120 but actually
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doesn't have appeared to have changed in size much extremely efficient use of
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space is the name of the game with these Elite mitx cases ow I put my finger in a
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fan thank you very much my lovely assistant will help me take the front
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bezel off so you might have noticed the key difference here is that the front
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where we have this 120 mm cooling fan is
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now completely open in terms of ventilation this is going to give you
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better cooling on the inside of the case also check this out fan rad fan hard
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drive you can fit all of those in they're basically going to be right up
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next to each other so the idea is that in addition to mounting ssds up here or
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5 and a/4 inch here you can also Mount ssds I believe there was another spot
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show me where they are yes under the 5 and a/4 inch Bays so you have a ton of
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options in terms of drives the idea is you should be liquid cooling your CPU
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your power supply is going to have a bottom 120 millimet exhaust fan that
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takes the air away from the CPU socket and takes it out of the case your
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graphics card and you can see they've got a radon 7990 in here just to prove a
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point just because we can the sides of the case have ventilation holes so it's
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going to be able to suck fresh air directly from the inside it should be
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noted that it would be optimal to have a blower design graphics card but with the
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way that graphics cards are outputting heat these days with these dual GPU
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designs it's not always possible this
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right here is the cosmos SE or Cosmos mini or whatever you want to call it
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there's not really that much Min about it so maybe that's why they decided to
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call it the SE it's still pretty big that's dual GTX 780s or Titan yeah that
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looks like 780s in there um and not only
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that but check this out single 120 millim liquid cooler okay yawn
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everything's got that dual 120 mm
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radiator up in the top yawn sort of everyone's got that triple 120 mm liquid
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cooling Radiator in the front okay now you now you got my attention how about
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all of those at once as well as retaining support for at least one hard
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drive so many users are doing this these days where they're pulling out all the
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drive cages you can see they're gone they're throwing in one hard drive
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because that's basically all they need unless they get a NZ setup and there are
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two hidden SSD mounts at the back it's got those same rigid carrying handles so
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you can move this baby around with you as long as you have the ARM strength
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which unfortunately I do not the CM 693
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has made some evolutionary changes versus the last generation design so
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number one check this out there's more room for graphics cards because some of
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what would traditionally be three and a half inch hard drive cages has been
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converted to 2 and 1/2 in which isn't to say that you wouldn't have the option to
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go 3 and 1/2 in with them so there are four 2 and 1/2 in mounts here three 3
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and a half inch mounts here and they've also made a kind of an interesting
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change here check this out you can hide your wallet in there now no one will see
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it they'll break into your house and they'll never find your wallet the bad
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news is that if you have a ball or gaming machine like this probably going to steal your computer so they'll get
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your wallet anyway so so much for that idea right moving right along to the
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silencio 352 this is based on the same chassis as the n200 which we've already
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done an unboxing of the key difference here is that it's more optimized for
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silence so you've got a magnetic cover right here that allows you to close off
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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
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noise damp in side panels as well as a fully blocked off front panel this does
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prevent a lot of the noise from reaching the user and then you you can see right
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here you can I'll just yeah whatever we'll just put that there we've got the
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noise dampening material here as well as a removable front fan filter assembly
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it's been a while since I've seen uh oh no those are 120 mil oh good I looked at
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these I was like really you guys put like 92mm fans in this thing no they didn't awesome love it moving right
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along to the next category right along to cooling all-in-one coolers are really
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evolving at a phenomenal rate it used to be that you got a thin radiator you got
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a 20 mil radiator and you got no upgrade ability the iceberg is completely
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different from all of that so you've got a slightly thicker than the thinnest
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ones that are out there 240 mil rad you've got the upgrade ability to do
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pretty much whatever you want now these demos were supposed to have graphics cards on them because you can ultimately
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plug in whichever fittings you feel like but unfortunately they didn't arrive in
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time but what's really cool about this is the fact that these are designed for
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ease of installation with a couple of pretty cool motherboard so that's the
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Maximus 6 oh no that's the Maximus 5 formula but don't worry the Maximus 6 is
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very similar and this one right here is the G1 sniper 5 so this is a custom gray
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pre-done liquid cooler that I personally think is incredibly cool moving right
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along we've got this is neat this is the neptun
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28040 so you can actually Mount either
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140 mm or0 mm fans to it it's got two
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full sets of mounting and because it uses a slightly thicker than normal
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radiator as well as 38 in corrugated
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tubing you're going to get the advantage of improved air flow more mass means
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more cooling so this is definitely a good thing as well as the advantage of
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having this corrugated tubing design that in spite of the fact that it
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doesn't have quite the same Bend radius as some of the ones that have come into
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fashion lately it is extremely good at preventing evaporation of the cooling
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liquid so you don't have to worry about ever having to top it up now this guy
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right here is a prototype this is a seiden 12d check that out there's a fan
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in the Middle with two super slim radiators on either side and rather than
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unlike the MCR stack implementation that swifttech tried a couple of years ago
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this one it's actually integrated into one unit where the fan actually slides
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in between so you don't have to worry about any kind of fussy cabling or or
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tubing or anything like that the one disadvantage is the radiators are
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running in seral as opposed to parallel which might amount to a little bit more
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Flow Restriction but as long as the pump's designed to handle it we shouldn't be too worried about it so
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this is the nepton 140 I showed you the 280 before so basically same idea 140 mm
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radiator nice thick design and you can mount either a 120 mil or a 140 mil fan
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to it the hyper 103 as well as the gem 2
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mini this one right over here are both designed for applications where you
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might have stuff in the way for example these Riser power delivery pcbs that
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asusa started putting on their mitx boards or high-profile memory kits such
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as is these hyperx Predators from Kingston last but not least over here
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for cooling are the jet flow 120 mil fans they have an extremely linear
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performance curve so they perform very well at almost any RPM and they have a
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very wide RPM range at which they can operate so anywhere from 800 to 2,000
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RPM they come with a couple adapters they come with some LED lighting effects
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and all that kind of cool stuff and it's pretty hard to go wrong now on to power
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supplies so here's a neat little thing Cooler Master show going off now we're
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going to go through some of the components here and we've got a fluid
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Dynamic bearing extremely quiet fan from prot Technic to give you guys some idea
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there's a very famous brand that's uh number one for power supplies in Germany
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that uses this fan and uh they have a very good reputation for being extremely
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silent so it's there you go there's that high quality components so there's a
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custom DC todc module there's Japanese solid capacitors which are basically
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more expensive and better and developed for military and service great
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applications Ultra flat modular Cable Systems all this is very cool but what
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I'd like to really talk about is what's on these little displays right here so
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this is a Cooler Master power supply and this is competitor C and the hint is
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that it's not competitor Cooler Master so it's going to have to be someone else
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who starts with a C now here's a bit of a lesson about 80 plus 80 plus in its
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regular form its bronze form silver form gold form and platinum certification
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level only accounts for power supply efficiency at 20 50 and 80% load and
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100% low cap crap I can't remember whatever don't worry about it it
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accounts for power supply efficiency down to 20% load but it doesn't go any
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lower than that so the specification can have power supplies that meet the
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specification above 20% load but then drop off dramatically so what Cooler
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Master has done with the v850 here is they have tuned it for excellent idle
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power consumption so you can see here that with two ident icle systems started
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at the same time idling at the desktop they are able to achieve idle power
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consumption that is up to about they say once you actually get the desktop going
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and open up like YouTube or something it's about a 20 watt difference but when
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you're doing absolutely nothing it's up to about a seven eight n watt difference
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between these two platforms to put that in perspective a fluorescent bulb is
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going to draw about 13 Watts so it's pretty much like having an extra light
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on in your house at all times when you have your computer running if you don't
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have a power supply that's efficient at low loads especially when you consider
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that I mean these are high performance gaming machines these are core i7s these
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are new Haswell platforms these look like GTX 680 Lightnings at the very
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least they're some kind of lightning edition card but even a high performance
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computer now is capable of idling at very low power consumption numbers and
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let's face it even if you have an extreme gaming rig you're not playing
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games all the time so you shouldn't be ignoring your idle power consumption so
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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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