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Offsite Reviews


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 5)

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Here  is the whole reason behind this PC.
"Liquid Metal Cooled Radeon X850XT"


When they asked me to build a Demo PC for this thing the first thing that came to mind wasn't

"Wow, What a great opportunity to build an Awsome Mod"
To be honest my first reaction was:

"Will I get to play with this Graphics card!"

They told me I would be able to and I was "In".
 They had me at Hello you could say.

Sapphire then sweetened the deal by adding this Mobo into the PC.

Sapphires New "PURE" boards are nothing less than Awsome.
Now that I knew of the dream hardware inside I was itching to mod.

Liquid Metal "Blizzard" Demo PC.


Unfortunately I didn't take pics of the box of parts or even the pieces partly installed. Because at this point I have about 2 days to get it put together and running, get pics, get it boxed and shipped. I have worked every night after work for two weeks and two weekends in a Row.  I am tired and kinda loopy.

 Here are a few pics of it being put together.

 

This board is still so new that it doesn't have a place to hook up the fancy bulgan swithes I put up front.  The power and reset are only onboard.

Here is my computer room.  It became quite the mess as well.
Here are some pics I took loading the OS.


You will notice the card in the PC is not the Blizzard card.
They didn't quite have it ready for me yet, So I used the New X800XL instead.
They did still say I would get a later opportunity to "play" with thier new
Liquid Metal Cooled card.  I must admit I am very curious about it.


These are the only pics I have of the bottom inside.
The wiring is a tad messy, but I cleaned it up a after I made sure
everything ran ok.  This is also the only pic of the Drive Cage.
It was two pieces of the Mirror Plex on both sides of the DVD Drive.
The SATA-HD sits on top with the blue light puck.


Its hard to make out because of the mirror of the acrylic.
The Two Acrylic pieces around the DVD are also threaded and screwed in from the bottom of the case.
You can also see 1 of the 2 - 120 mm fans in each corner for freash air intake.
The bottom sits 1" off the ground and gets plenty of cool air from there.
I put silver fan filters on there to keep out the dust and whatnot as well.

Here it is lit just for kicks

 

 

 



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