Month: April 2004

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Toshiba MK6022GAX 5400/16mb cache Notebook Drive

Reviewed today is the MK6022GAX, the highest performance notebook drive in Toshiba‘s lineup: A 5400 RPM, 2.5" drive with 16 mb of cache. It surely performs, but does it plumb the sub-20 dBA depths or remain in more audible >20 dBA territory? Here’s our acoustic report on the Toshiba MK6022GAX.

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Review: ActiveCool AC4G Thermoelectric cooler

With Intel CPUs soaring well over the 100W mark, questions about the efficacy of conventional heatsink and forced air cooling arise again. The AC4G system from ActiveCool employs one of the likely alternatives: Thermoelectric Cooling. Thermoelectric Coolers (TEC) are nothing new, but Active-Cool aims to put the technology to work in a new way, by

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Chill Innovation CP-350A PSU

The name Chill Innovation came up in in the SPCR forums, with some European members suggesting a close look at this 350W 120mm fan PSU. Not long thereafter, there came a promotional e-mail from Chill Innovation; naturally I responded with a request for a sample. That sample recently arrived, and now we have another PSU

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Review: ASUS QuieTrack CRW-5232AS & CD-S520/A4

ASUS QuieTrack CRW-5232AS & CD-S520 are examined for noise performance in SPCR’s second optical drive review. The new optical drives fare well against earlier ones regarded as quiet — or at least noise-reduced.

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Zalman ZM400B PSU

The Zalman ZM400B-APS is a solid ATX12V v1.3 compliant PSU that is very quiet at lower power levels. The current capability of the 12V line is high enough to handle all but the most loaded systems, the high >75% efficiency ensures it stays reasonably cool throughout the power range, and it can handle the heat

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160G/8mb-cache Faceoff: Samsung vs. Seagate

Seagate Barracuda and Samsung SP Series hard drives are topics of endless discussion in the SPCR forums. We have also featured reviews of these drives, some in direct comparison. However, this is the first time that we’re considering the current ATA performance leaders of each series, head to head. The review is Edward Ng‘s debut

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Review: Hush ATX PC

Seems like only yesterday that we were oohing and aahing about the Hush Mini-ITX PC but amazingly, that was five months ago. It was around the time that the Hush ATX PC was released: A larger more powerful version of the original, revamped for the much hotter Intel P4 processor. Here is our review of

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