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Tycho
Wanna-Be Webmaster
Joined: 17 May 2003
Posts: 1041
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Tue May 18, 2004 2:43 am |
While I was at work last night the rep from Chenbro contacted me in regards to some updated information on the case. It is nice to see some of things have been added to an already impressive piece of steel.
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You might want to put a note in that says that it is called the Gaming Bomb, but it might be also known as Xpider in North America. Also, the front fan holes that are behind the front bezel support both 80mm or 92mm fans. This is more than enough to reduce the temperature of the up to four hard drives located in the cage behind the fan. With the 92mm in take fan in the front and the 120mm exhaust fan in the back the cooling is hisper quiet, not to mention the face that it is good to about 170 watts of heat disappearing. This means it should be able to handle processors over 4GHz with no problem. The metal mesh large intake grill on the front of the chassis of course is one of our best features.
We have received Intel certification for the chassis for 3Ghz Prescott. Which does indicate that the case can handle the most extreme temperature situations and remove the heat generated from the high performance components that users could install into the case.
When you speak about the noise of the case, it is important to note that your fan selection does influence the noise of the case. For example the use of Panaflow or Vantec Stealth fans cuts down the noise a lot. In the new Xpider II we are having produced for us these new translucent blue UV reactive lighted fans with dual rifle ball bearings and they are very quiet as they are designed to be that way as well as move a great amount of air through the case.
Our hard drive cage placement is in the line of air flow, I am not sure how much better you can get. Our testing data does show a great impact as to the cooling of the hard drives. |
I will be adding this to the end of the article for future reference. |
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Gandalf
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Tue May 18, 2004 1:19 pm |
Prescott... is that the intel next-gen chip or what? |
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Raven
UO Staff
Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 2235
Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Tue May 18, 2004 8:44 pm |
no thats an older chip... i think..
it was before the northwood if i remember... |
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barbos
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 18 May 2003
Posts: 508
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Tue May 18, 2004 8:51 pm |
... Prescott is the newest rehash of the Pentium 4. Though I haven't seen any concrete information suggesting they are worth upgrading to. |
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