Cebit 2008 Coverage Part 1

Tradeshow & OC events by jmke @ 2008-03-16

We explore the Halls at Cebit in Hannover 2008, in this first part of our coverage we show the latest products from Titan, Sparkle, Calibre, JetWay, Coolermaster, Biostar, Gainward, Arctic Cooling, Asrock, OCZ, Be Quiet!, Revoltec, Twintech3D, HIS, Galaxy, FSP, Xirex, Silverstone, CoolIT, Scythe and a special LN2 OC session at Mushkin.

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Biostar, Gainward and Arctic Cooling

BioStar

Biostar mainboards, notice the onboard video Sub-D and DVI-I connectors.

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Integrated cooling, the VGA heatsink is connected to the mosfet heatsink via a thick heatpipe, one fan is making sure that nearly the entire system is not overheating. Lower-end setups only off-course, this is not possible using the HD3870X2 video card.

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Biostar P35 mainboard, performance at acceptable price, up to 1600MHz front side bus.

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Gainward

The Gainward 8800GT 1Gb Golden Sample. Unfortunately, no fancy high-end video connectors, but you do get a dual slot heatpipe cooler and slightly adjusted clock speeds.

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Overclocking is introducing many new product features and overclocking software is one of those, underneath is Gainward’s Expertool which allows overclocking the GPU core, shader and VGA memory clock on NVIDIA video cards.

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Arctic Cooling

Arctic Cooling showed us their Accelero Extreme last year, this year we get to see the Twin Turbo, a smaller more affordable version which should still be very capable of competing with other aftermarket video card coolers. And it will be dual slot instead of triple slot.

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Compared to the Accelero Extreme, you also get better compatibility:

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A new product from the AC stall, laptop cooler:

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And aftermarket memory heatsinks, actively cooled:

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The Freezer Xtreme is looking to be quite the contender, with a 120mm fan squeezed in the middle of this large heatsink it’s bound to improve performance over earlier AC offerings.

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4 large diameter heat pipes spread out to a large collection of aluminum fins:

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Last but not least, a band new retail PSU with high efficiency and lower operating noise, at 550W it’s a mainstream unit, no price known yet.

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Comment from Sidney @ 2008/03/16
So many new products to be tested this year.
Comment from Rutar @ 2008/03/16
the Orochi looks massive no matter what perspective you look at it
Comment from jmke @ 2008/03/25
Part 2 of Cebit 2008 coverage finally hit the web. We´ll be showing product highlights from EVGA, Asus, MSI, Foxconn, DFI, Zotac, Zalman, G-Skill, Team Xtreem, Abit and Sandisk.
http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=684
Comment from Rutar @ 2008/03/25
What's up with all the companies making their own passive cooler instead of just putting an S1 on the G92 cards?
Comment from jmke @ 2008/03/25
in-house dev+production most likely cheaper than licensing their tech
Comment from Rutar @ 2008/03/25
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Originally Posted by jmke View Post
in-house dev+production most likely cheaper than licensing their tech
I doubt it, the pricing of the S1 cooled GT of ECS @ Newegg BEFORE Newegg jacked up the price (was below 200 when it started).

 

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