The Fractal Design Node 605 case has one external bay for slim optical drives, which can only be installed if you not using a full ATX motherboard. Internally, the case has two hard drive “hangers,” each one supporting two 3.5” or 2.5” devices. There are rubber rings to reduce noise and vibration of 3.5” hard drives.
Figure 11: One of the hard drive “hangers”
ZM750-HP is a 750 W power supply from Zalman featuring a modular cabling system and a heat-pipe-based heatsink to cool down the secondary rectifiers. Let’s see if this unit survives our tests.
The new High Current Gamer M is a version of Antec’s High Current Gamer power supply series with a modular cabling system. Let’s take an in-depth look at the 620 W model.
Accelero Twin Turbo is a VGA cooler from Arctic Cooling compatible with a myriad of video cards. We tested this cooler with a Radeon HD 4870, a card that is famous for heating a lot. Does it do a good job?
Zalman released a fanless CPU cooler: the FX100. It has a cube heatsink with 10 heatpipes, and can also be mounted with one 92 mm fan. Let’s test it!
The ICE BLADE PRO V2.0 is a CPU cooler from Deepcool with a tower heatsink, four 8 mm heatpipes and a 120 mm fan. Let’s test it.
We compared the performance of nine mainstream 250 GB SATA-300 hard disk drive models from Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital, Maxtor and Hitachi. Which is the fastest 250 GB in the market? Check it out!