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Corsair redefines power supply efficiency at CeBIT

Corsair, known for making quite good RAM among other things, is apparently really getting serious about the power supply business. Most power supplies on the market today are anywhere between 50 and 85% efficient, with the vast majority of power supplies being between 75 and 85% efficient under load. Corsair had a brilliant power supply at their CeBIT booth, which had an impressive 90% load efficiency. This allowed it to power an AMD QuadFX system with G80 SLI, 4GB of PC2-8000 DDR2 RAM, and a 150GB hard drive with a 620W power supply (most people at the show expected an 850W-1kW PSU to be required). To be honest, Corsair has actually had this power supply on the market for a while, and probably couldn't wait for CeBIT to make it available. You can get this extremely efficient power supply
here (oh look it's on sale).



Source: The Inquirer

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=27632

CeBIT : Silentflux closed loop liquid bubble pump cooler

Silentflux has a pretty innovative liquid bubble pump cooler on display at their booth in CeBIT. the Silentflux coolers makes use of convection and a special liquid with a low boiling point to circulate liquid within the cooler. They have some low profile solutions for HTPC users as well as a standard version for tower cases. More pictures here for your enjoyment.










More details here, a review by hardware-test.com >>http://www.hardware-test.com/test_show.asp?id=6996

CeBIT : Scythe Watercooled Ninja




Scythe has a redesigned Ninja on display at their booth, where one of the heatpipes is "emptied" and watercooling barbs are attached to it. Very innovative design by Scythe.

Chaintech Apogee to use Elpida Chips




We had a talk with the guys over at Chaintech and more details about the Chaintech Apogee Enthusiast RAMs were revealed to us; the Apogee will be using Elpida chips and will be released in 1000Mhz and 1066Mhz CL5 variants, and it will be quite impossible to run these RAMs at CL4 and below or anything above 1100Mhz. However, the RAMs runs pretty cool at around 40 degrees even in an enclosure without ventilation and will only require low volts to run at the stipulated speeds.

CeBIT : AMD 690G DTX Board Pictured








We saw a very interesting board today, an AMD 690G board codenamed Diamond Mech Board 2 based on the new DTX form factor. AMD has announced the new DTX form factor for Small Form Factors back in January. DTX motherboards are made backward compatible with ATX chassis but case makers are expected to make smaller DTX chassis specially for DTX boards. Even mini-ITX boards can be used in DTX cases. There are two board sizes for DTX; Full DTX and mini-DTX both at 20 cm length but mini-DTX is shorter in width at 17cm compared to 24.4cm. The board shown above is a Full DTX board.

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