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Silverstone Temjin 5 (TJ05)

The Silverstone Temjin 5 is a hybrid combination of form and function. Taking a mini-server style steel chassis with aluminum wave style faceplate and combining it with a glossy enthusiast finish, Silverstone offers up the best of both worlds. Featuring lots of room for expansion, an acrylic side Window, Back lit blue front LCD with fan control, and a tooless design. This extended ATX case could be the perfect gaming rig, Overclocking rig or just your clans own mini-server. It''s high quality finish and roomy interior defy you to pin it to a category.

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Zalman Fatal1ty FS-C77

Zalman expands its line of fine copper flower coolers into the gaming and modding arena with the "Fatal1ty" FS-C77 cooler. This cooler is one of many new enthusiast products to be given the "Fatal1ty" brand. The FS-C77 is geared towards gamers and hardware enthusiast who want not only the fastest running but the coolest looking computers to show off at LAN events. Though there are many after market products out there that do this, Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel is really the first person to move into this market with name recognition and a wide array of products under his brand. But don''t let the branding and the flashy colors fool you, this cooler can perform. Read on to see how well it does against a stock FX-55 cooler and another high end copper after market cooler.

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Sapphire X1800XT Performance Edition

Sapphire burst into the high end graphics arena with both barrells blazing with their X1800XT "Performance Edition". This card delivers 512mb of GDDR3 Memory running at 1.5Ghz, and the powerful R520 core clocked at 700Mhz. This 2 slot high end PCI-E graphics card utilizes Shader Model3.0, HDR, and adaptive AA, allowing you to have unparralled Image Quality along side High Performance. If that wasn''t enough Sapphire includes a great bundle, "Avivo" Technology, and support for digital and analog displays, including HDTV.

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OCZ EL DDR PC-3500 Gold GX

OCZ is a name synonymous with performance and when it comes to Memory they are also synonymous with overclockability. OCZ Technology introduces the EL PC-3500 Gold Gamer eXtreme Series as the latest addition to the Gold Series line of Memory sticks. These two 512mb DDR 433 duel channel memory sticks come with super tight timings and high end performance all under a “lifetime warranty”, even if overclocked. Looking for an upgrade? With special features like OCZ’s “Extended Voltage protection” and “Ultra Low Noise” it’s hard not to seriously think about making the next memory upgrade choice OCZ.

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Fatal1ty FS-V7

In this review we will look at the Zalman Fatal1ty FS-V7 Graphics Card cooler. The Fatal1ty FS-V7 is a two slot copper cooler marketed toward gamers and PC enthusiast alike: with Red Copper fins, Anodized RAM sinks, and a Red LED fan it definitely has the bling appeal. It also comes with the ability to run on 12v in "Performance Mode" as well as a 5v "Quiet Mode" for those of you audiophiles who are gamers as well.

But does this cooler have what it takes to cool the High Clock, High Heat GPU cores out today. That''''s exactly what I intended to find out. Read along as I try out the FS-V7''''s cooling capabilities against an X1800XTPE''''s stock 2-slot cooling solution.

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Work Logs

Sapphire Blizzard: Liquid Metal Demo PC (Page 4)

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Put a Lid on it.

Time to flesh out the details for the top of the case. I needed to add two exhaust 80mm fan grills cut into the plex.

I wanted to stay with my cold theme I had going. I created a design of some Snowflake fan grills with the Sapphire logo inside, then I had my buddy Zapwizard cut them out for me on his handy dandy "Laser".

Even with the plastic on you can appreciate how frikin' cool that is.

Now we add a white LED Fan...

I dunno about you but I get Chills just looking at it. Near the end of week one I had the case completely cut and ready for hardware, which I didn't have... (yet)

But I did have enough to put the thing together and work on lighting. I tried a variety of things. Here you see me trying out two white cathodes (not lit) in the top section. I thought that too much and opted for a single hyper light intead.

To light the bottom I had one blue cathode placed diagonally.

The low light shot on my camera makes these stand out more than they really do.
The True life lighting is very subtle and classy.

{A decal in this side has been blurred as to not reveal any secrets. Shhh.} The dark area above the DVD player bothered me so I created another "light puck"

This time with three blue LED's

This is one of those parts I told you about where I got caught up in the moment and forgot to take pics of the Blue Puck installed. At this point I have everything ready to go. Lights installed, Mobo tray in and Wires ready to be connected...

Waiting for the Mobo, CPU, Memory and of course
The Video card....

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