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The Consumer Electronics Show is an annual event where all the major companies in the electronics world converge and showcase their latest and greatest products, and Neoseeker is no stranger as a guest. Computer hardware has always been a large portion of the show, but over the past few years the manufacturers seem to be moving more toward events in the conference centers located at various hotels and casinos up and down the strip. There were still quite a few booths set up all over the actual convention space, and lots of new products to look at. The first booth that we came across was InWin.
InWin has been a rising name in the gaming and enthusiast enclosure market since the inception of their gaming case product line in the US around 2009. InWin came to CES this year showcasing several of their mid-tower and full-tower cases, with two of the full tower cases still in the product development stages. The final product will not out exactly like either of the two designs shown below, but the InWin representative explained that they plan to get feedback and suggestions from their customers as to which features they like to ultimately form an amalgam of the two into a new tower for release late spring 2012.
InWin was also showcasing a tech-station case. With a completely open design, this case not only looks cool but promises easy swapping of hardware components for testing while offering exceptional cooling for burn-in tests and suicide runs.
They also showcased an interesting lineup of their new Commander II series of enthusiast power supplies. Soon available in 850W, 900W, and 1200W capacities, these power supplies carry an 80 Plus Bronze rating and features a modular design to ensure a clean internal cable layout system. InWin was also extremely proud of their 80 PLUS Gold and Platinum ratings that have been granted to their standard ATX and TFX format power supplies.
InWin's main attraction was their new "do-everything" Mini-ITX system, the K1. This form factor has been designed primarily toward point-of-sale and other commercial computer needs. However, it can also be attractive to the enthusiast side of the market since its small form-factor and the numerous features (such as internal Wi-Fi, Smart-card readers, and Blue-tooth antenna connectors) make this mini-computer would-be a contender for carputers, kitchen rigs, or limited room applications.
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I'm somewhat interested in trying my hand at converting an aquarium to support liquid cooling a computer for my next rig. I likely wouldn't do it though, since I'm all thumbs when it comes to putting this stuff together. I can dream though >_>
Fractal Designs seems interesting. Never heard of them before, but silent cases work for me. I fold a lot these days (though whether I'll be doing so a couple years from now is another matter), and the noise is irritating since the computer is near my bed >_> I'd need the Core 3000 or something similar though, since I use more than 2 HDDs in my rigs XD
The perspectives used for the camera shots of the Deep Cool fans made them seem humungous to me (like the size of side panels), at first XD
Zotac's liquid cooled display was quite interesting. I do think that the addition of the heatsink would have done wonders for the cooling performance. I say this because the cooling action stems solely from the fluid being able to boil, thus removing the heat. With a bare CPU interface there is not that much surface area or nucleation zones for the boiling action to stem from. With their orange heatsink coated with a very thin layer of diamond dust, the sheer amount of nucleation points was exponentially increased. If you think about it the GPU core, which in my experience, outputs just as much or more thermal energy than a CPU. Since their heatsink + special coolant brought that bad boy down to ~45°C under load, I would count that as pretty damn impressive.
I also really enjoyed the design methodology that Fractal exhibited. I really hope that I can get one to review for you guys.