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Hardware / Processors - CPU / Thermalright's TRUE Copper - Thee BEST/HEAVIEST Heatsink Known To Man
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on: November 12, 2008, 02:31:51 AM
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The other night I took the plunge and ordered the Thermal right Ultra-120 Extreme (TRUE) Copper edition heatsink. Now that I'm going to possess the heaviest heatsink known to man I can die in peace.   This thing weighs in at a WHOPPING 1900g (4.2 POUNDS)   From jab-tech.com: At Computex 2008, Thermalright displayed three versions of the Ultra-120 eXtreme; original (aluminum), black, and copper. Not surprisingly, the copper version was the one most well received. Many hardcore Overclockers saw it to be the ultimate air cooling device. Inheriting from its predecessor, TRUE Copper has six highly efficient heatpipes with every vital part soldered to them to ensure the highest rate of heat transfer and durability. This is one of the features that you will see in each and every Thermalright heatsink. TRUE Copper’s weight exceeds all of our previous heatsinks. Due to this reason, we strongly suggest installing it on a horizontal platform. Even though in our test lab, TRUE Copper was taken out for a test drive on a vertical platform and ran without a glitch as the motherboard came out unscathed. But since not all motherboards are manufactured the same way in terms of thickness and degree of stress, Thermalright cannot guarantee the condition of your motherboard after TRUE Copper is installed for a certainly amount of time. If you insist installing on a vertical platform, please check to make sure your motherboard is sturdy enough. As most experts would expect, TRUE Copper will be a limited edition to the eXtreme lineup due to the high cost of copper. If you pass up this chance, you may never see another TRUE work of art again so don’t wait anymore and grab one for the collection. Brian y. at XtremeSystems:    Could not leave the pic out of it in all it's glory  I'm not even gonna tell you what a 4600RPM fan pushing 220CFM does for this  Joe Camel at XtremeSystems: wonder what a "push push pull pull" set-up would do   ^ LMFAOWhen my TRUEcu arrives, It'll be lapped, mounted vertically, and sandwiched between a push-pull config with two Noctua NF-P12s. To solve the weight problem, what do you think if I used some clear fishing wire or beading wire to tie the heatpipe endpoints to the roof of my case?   *UPDATE* Vapor (admin) from XtremeSystems had this to say: My concern about the weight isn't damage to the motherboard (they're surprisingly strong), but having poor contact with the CPU due to the cooler being torqued away from the CPU--this will lead to poorer temps than expected, and very likely poorer temps than the regular version of the TRUE.
Someone in the thread mentioned anchoring it to the motherboard-side of the top of the case and I think that'd be a pretty solid solution, it would provide weight support and also force back toward the CPU.
As for the P12s, I don't think they're the greatest fans in the world but I am using them in my cooler testing and a pair of them is definitely the 'sweetspot' for noise/performance in my opinion. A single one of them just performs miserably, but a pair of them performs better than a single S-Flex F (and are quieter), and are even within a couple of degrees of a dual S-Flex Fs. Maybe Yate Loon SLs would be comparable (albeit difficult to mount), or S-Flex Es, or 5V San Aces, but the Noctuas are well built, fairly quiet, and work great as a pair on this cooler. |
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Welcome to Fudzilla Forum / General Discussion / WiFi Competitor Uses Visible Light While Cleaning RF Spectrum
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on: October 09, 2008, 03:06:43 AM
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http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/10/08/wifi-competitor-uses-visible-light/1?tcs=nlWiFi competitor uses visible lightAuthor: Gareth Halfacree Published: 8th October 2008If you're tired of unreliable WiFi connections but still want to do your browsing sans wires, the common light fitting might offer some hope for the future. According to Cellular News, a team at Boston University's College of Engineering is currently working on the ability to use LED lighting as a data communication channel, removing the need for a tethering wire while cleaning up the radio-frequency spectrum at the same time. Professor Thomas Little paints a picture of a world where “your computer, iPhone, TV, radio and thermostat could all communicate with you when you walked in a room just by flipping the wall light switch and without the usual cluster of wires,” - so far, so WiFi. Where the project differs is in the use of visible light rather than radio waves: Little describes the system as “an LED-based communications network that also provides light - all over existing power lines with low power consumption, high reliability and no electromagnetic interference. Ultimately, the system is expected to be applicable from existing illumination devices, like swapping light bulbs for LEDs.” While the project could feasibly work, there's a certain amount of assumption involved here: firstly, that we “switch from incandescent and compact florescent lighting to LEDs in the coming years” as a ubiquitous source of LED-based lighting is necessary for the system to work; secondly, that we're happy to have said LED lights turned on during the day. While the speeds currently offered by the system – a projected 10Mb/s for the early generations – aren't anything to get excited about it's a system that certainly shows promise. Whether it would ever tempt anyone away from the now nearly ubiquitous radio-frequency based wireless networking technologies will remain to be seen – although the increased privacy available by simply drawing your curtains might have the paranoiacs enjoying wireless networking for the first time. Would you be tempted by visible-light networking, or is wireless networking already solved by current RF-based technologies?  ======================================================================================== Radio is still line of sight until you get into about 6-meter and greater bands. My router's wifi signal passes through walls. Just about every single consumer radio technology (at least in my apartment anyway) is not line of sight. WiFi and other 2.4GHz signals (Bluetooth) also pass through your head...not to mention any RF technology that utilizes electromagnetic frequencies. I would definitely advocate this new technology over the current RF standard. There are just one too many cancer patients out there who have faced the effects of constant electromagnetic interference. By using light waves as an alternative, this would not only reduce the effects of electromagnetic frequencies on the body, but it would also clear up the clutter of the current RF situation - all while providing better signal quality to current widespread RF technologies such as cell phones and short range wireless technologies.
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Hardware / Memory / Micron Releases Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3 1333MHz Memory Modules
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on: September 24, 2008, 08:34:47 AM
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 A month ago, I gave confirmation that Micron was going to be releasing Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3 1333MHz memory modules within the month: August 12, 2008 - Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3 Memory Modules to Debut Later this MonthI have now received confirmation, and have verified on Crucial's website, that the DDR3 1333MHz Ballistix Tracer modules have been released. The following configurations have been listed thus far, with an official press release to follow very shortly: Package: Ballistix Tracer 240-pin DIMM (with LEDs)Feature: DDR3 PC3-10600 Specs: DDR3 PC3-10600 • 6-6-6-20 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1333 • 1.8V • 4GB Kit (2GB x 2)2GB Kit (1GB x 2)2GB standalone1GB standalone http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodule/DDR3/~Ballistix%20Tracer%20240-pin%20DIMM%20(with%20LEDs)~/list.html The only concern I have thus far is if these will run on Nehalem motherboards. Even though Intel has stated that the memory multipliers will remain unlocked on all Core i7 processors, I believe the "memory must be less than 1.65v" rule is still in place, no? Perhaps Micron is working on Nehalem-optimized modules as well, as the email states "[they] will be introducing other Tracer modules throughout the rest of the year."  |
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Software / Games / First Copies of Crysis: Warhead Spotted!
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on: September 17, 2008, 07:30:38 AM
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That's right... inCrysis.com forum member "memz" has already got a copy of Crysis: Warhead and has posted several photos to prove it. We have received a confirmation from Crytek on the authenticity of the Warhead game package shown in the photo below. Congrats to memz for being amongst the early birds and for receiving a custom forum title for being the first one on our forums to post a photo!    Yea, thnx man.. The game is crazy.. On full Settings Vista DX10 1680res. i got 25fps full. 4GB Ram/ATI 4870/Q6600! [/b] The screenshots were taken on 'Very High' (Enthusiast) settings, so he says:   Here is the downloading URL for all the screenshots:
http://www.aramcommunity.com/Crysis_memz.rar
Thank you very much memz !! |
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Hardware / Processors - CPU / Re: Intel's 2.93GHz "Bloomfield" CPU to be named "Core i7 940"?
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on: September 12, 2008, 04:50:56 AM
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============================================================ *MAJOR EDIT*WOW, our original source on the Core i7 940 (Hardware-Infos.com) apparently edited their "Core i7 Processors in mid-October" article to rename the "Core i7 940" back to just "Core i7 900" more accurate translation: "Behind the scenes, the Core i7 900 Extreme edition traded names with the 2.93GHz model, which will be known as Core i7 900." (this still doesn't point to an absolute name for the "Extreme Edition." Perhaps it will share the Core i7 900 name but with an "Extreme Edition" identifier?) And now if you point your browsers to the Core i7 Wikipedia article, you'll find that Source [6] (the source for all the Core i7 processor models) in fact cites the same Hardware-Infos link. Conspiracy? I think more like NDA  looks like Intel's being doing some reediting work on me behind the scenes. They don't want me to distribute this info...oh well, I'm going to say it: THE CORE i7 2.93GHZ MODEL WILL BE KNOWN AS CORE i7 940! :lol: |
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