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- tech tips coverage of Computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCI XCOM alright guys I'm here at the Silverstone booth with Tony and we were to come we're here to check out some of their home theater systems so this is all htpc section earlier this year at CES we showed off this very nice and compact ml0 5 mini ITX HT VZ case so for Computex we are showing the brother of it is called an ml 0 6 it shares the same basic internal structure as ml 0 5 except this front panel is now aluminum instead of acrylic and plastic so moving on we have a brand new case that we're unveiling for Computex this year this is a raven prototype mini case the reason we put it here in the home theater section is that we think this will be a really nice complement for people to put in their living room even though this is designed for a gaming PC so inside if I open this up you'll see that it has a lot of features that will help you feel a really powerful PC out of this so first of all to make it small the case use utilizes a mini ITX motherboard and SFX power supply up front and here on the right side this bracket if I remove it you'll see it'll hold a graphics card really long one two so that you can feel really powerful system with this and on the bottom of the chassis you can actually fit a thin jewel 120 millimeter radiator underneath that's awesome now with with stuff like Steam big picture I brought this up a few times here comfy decks already but with stuff like Steam big picture these kind of computers are being such a big deal because everyone wants to have seen big picture in their home theater they want to use controllers sit on that couch but play PC games do PC games that what's up so now if you could build an awesome system in a case like this that looks really sharp maybe not quite as professional and amazing looking as an aluminum front cover but if you can make sharp good-looking gaming system to run steam a picture that's great so this case it's very cool we're gonna move on and cover some more Silverstone stuff alright we're still here at the Silverstone booth we got something really cool to check out which are SATA power extensions and splitters this is their previous one and so last year we introduced Dave one two four house at out connector so that it's got two capacitive built in which we took a long time to develop because you have to get the right number of capacitor in the right size for them to provide stable enough power for all four connections to your SATA drives one of the things that people really like about this is that they can use it on cases with the hard drive cages that have multiple drives fun some of those really smaller cages users actually have to find that they have to bend this cable rather stiffly like this so why you end up with this yeah you put your putting a lot of stress on your SATA drives so this year we're introducing these two new cables so one is for two connections and one is for four just like before but if you can see we changed the material of the cable to be very very soft and flexible so I can bend it like this and it'll still keep a very straight actually stress-free reactor - it's actually really cool because I personally I haven't broken that much hardware but I've broken a hard drive before by having so much stress from the power connector on it so now what I have to do is I have to actually have the cable pulled down by his app strap so that the hard drive can actually be read from so having more malleable cables like this where you can move it around and torque them a little bit and have no actual issues it's very cool now we're gonna move away from cables and go right over to liquid coolers because these are awesome my favorite part I'm gonna give it to him pretty soon but my favorite part is that they're all metal here it's very sharp and shows true performance I don't really like plastic in my system at all I like full metal cases I like full metal everywhere so that's awesome what do you have to say about this okay so we developed this in-house so this one's a little beat up but you can see just on the radiator design it's different from any other water cooling Raider on the market these use the same type of heating ray of in this thing fender a light high-end very high-end air coolers that you see on the market they're very tough it's very hard to appendant if you've ever seen or used other radiator so you'll know that if you put a lot of pressure on them by hand they've you actually penned the fins but because these are designed more like air coolers that they're not and also they have much greater surface contact with the water piping going through the radiator than traditional radiators designs and the second thing that of course it's all water block it's all metal so the bottom is copper this main body here is unibody aluminum that's though this is actually an older version let's show the newer version okay okay so this is no nickel nickel plated so it looks very nice and even the bracket here is although aluminum so it's very very strong there's some flex like the other middle brackets on the market and this is soldered on the cover bass solder on to the unibody as opposed to screwed on like now the units on the market you're not wasting any space with screws it looks super sharp very very high-quality build that's awesome so when we first came by this computer I had already seen their previous coolers and he said just what guess what this cooler doesn't have a pump at first I thought he was kind of crazy maybe misinformed maybe a lunatic I'm not really sure but then I noticed that okay I can see the water flowing it's not actually rushing rushing rushing as fast as you'd normally is where you can't actually see the water flowing so I started to believe him a little bit and then he explained exactly how it doesn't have a pump and I'm gonna let him do that now okay so we're using a liquid with the lower evaporation point than normal so that means that he found your CPU actually evaporate this liquid causing this flow to go up and condenses back down after it gets cool by the radiator on top so what we can do now is maybe turn off the computer so we can show how much it changes so it's going to turn off the computer there's still gonna be residual heat on the CPU so it's gonna take a little while for it to slow down but you can probably already tell that the rate at which the water is flowing is slowing down it's still being heated by the CPU the fan is already stopped as you can see here so the computer is off but you still it's still going not super fast but still going that's very cool this is the same style of technology that is in air coolers and systems already the heat pipes that you have actually have a liquid in them and it's evaporating and then coming back down that's how it's moving heat into the fins but I haven't seen this yet on an actual liquid cooler so it's very very cool thank you for showing us this cooler we're gonna move on to some more things all right guys coming back at you from the Silverstone booth we came over here they've have a digital power power splice this is in their Zeus series it's a 1200 watt which is beast it's a platinum which is beast but something that's a little bit more interesting about this is that it's digital so if you can explain the UI we see here on the screen and explain just how you can change from single to quad which is personally my favorite part ok so this is a digital controlled power supply so that means we could do everything through the software interface here this pulse applies the ability to change from single rail so I have to just click here and it becomes a single rail power supply if I click on quad you can see again all four rails show up on 12 volt and because it's digital control and that means you could actually fine-tune each individual rail like the 3.3 volts I could lower it or increase it okay and hit OK to apply the setting I can do this for all of the rails from the power supply also on the fan control we we have this very simple to understand interface you could choose any fan speed points in which you want to choose for your different power loading levels so I can choose to have a very strong fence be when the powers are loading higher or I could go really low on some of these power settings power supplies have been that interesting beast in your computer because for so long you've been able to change kind of whatever you want about your computer except for the power supply is just kind of sat down there and done its job which is good but not exactly what most people want we're hot routers we want to be able to do whatever we want so it's very cool to see these digital power supplies coming out where you can change anything on the fly that's awesome we're gonna move on all right so Nook has been around for a little while or next unit of computing but they've been not super interesting at least in my opinion until someone like silverstone has decided to come around and just flip the whole thing on its head now it's actually quite interesting you can get a lot of different options and we let you go through it but these two are the ones I'm mainly interested so far okay so this is the PT 14 it's our first nut case so this is designed with endless operation in mind you can see already help from the missing Finn look like top cover yeah there's also a fan option on the bottom where you can install as a safety so if you're placing this nut case in somewhere that you can touch then obviously you won't have to spend running to avoid CP running I mean see be running a 60 or 70 degrees Celsius actually okay for this okay so yeah but not for your skin so if you want to put this somewhere next to you you probably want to have that fan running but if you're putting this away maybe somewhere behind a monitor like that over there then it's probably okay for you to run fin this right because you can mount these on the back of monitors you can mount them on the back of digital signage and stores you run them on the back of anything so that's pretty awesome and for those of you that are not not interested in using a feni's case we also have a very beautiful looking nut case that's just that can utilize the regular intel floor cooler on the Nook and this is really nice looking as that aluminum front panel is just absolutely awesome aluminum on anything just looks absolutely great I know this guy is an interesting beast so let's go through this one so this is a PT 16 we're also showing it for the first time here at Computex it has a built in car reader slot and if I pressed it on the side here I can slit a ha stop of 2 and 1/2 inch I pay for a bit of Drive expansion or external storage it's cool because you know sometimes if it's a huge file it's not really that viable to move it over the network very quickly so you can just pop a drive out and throw it in this thing that's awesome that's very very cool functionality now this guy is interesting this guy isn't actually in the Intel series of nut computers this is AMD so yeah ok so amy has been of course looking at the development of NOx so we believe that it is a like they say Nix they trying to view images om-d decide to also join and we're really happy to also help pop out and popularize a good knock yeah it's very cool so AMD spreading out Intel spreading into something crazy this is all crazy hey guys we here our last stop of the Soviet on booth I wanted to cover this it's not ready yet it doesn't have a name we can't test it out yet but it's pretty crazy so I wanted to make sure you guys could see it can we take off the front here real quick I'm gonna take off the front and reveal what's actually going on here when you take off the top and then the front comes out very very nice-looking case so basically if you haven't noticed yet there's no real motherboard in there there's a there's a there's a control panel but it's not a motherboard so basically what you can do with this is put a put a tiny little power supply in there put a graphics card in there and then connect through thunderbolts who say a laptop if you have a business grade laptop that's just amazingly good looking sharp laptop it doesn't have a graphics card and you want to be a gamer and you don't necessarily want to buy a huge PC you can just thunder bolt this to your laptop once it's ready and be able to play games on that business class notebook or laptop it's been Ultrabook whatever you want as long as it has a Thunderbolt cable you can add tons of power to it Desktop graphics will always crush laptop graphics because you just have all that surface area to put big big big chips and whatever else you want this is a very very cool product thank you for walking us through everything Silverstone booth has been 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