CES 2009 - Cases, Coolers, and Power Supplies
by Christoph Katzer on January 14, 2009 3:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Zalman with New Coolers and Power Supplies
There will be a new larger CPU cooler, the CNPS9900 LED. It can cool any of the new processors including the Core i7. The second cooler started as a graphics card cooler; once installed the engineers of Zalman found out it has the potential to cool even modern CPUs, so they added all of the necessary mounting brackets.
Finally, Zalman released two new power supplies. These power supplies don't come with a series name, but there is a large Extreme written on them. The two new power supplies come are rated at 660W and 770W. We had a closer look and it appears these two new power supplies are made by Enhance, just like the ZM850 and ZM1000. Both new power supplies come with 80 Plus Bronze certification, which is a slightly higher efficiency standard than vanilla 80 Plus.
If you want to see nice video footage from the CES head over to German PC-Max.
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JonnyDough - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
What's the name on that new GPU cooler by Zalman? Looks really nice. I think I'll get it for my 8800GTS if it fits it. Do you know if the memory heatsinks come with it? They're nice and spikey.Evinyatar - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
That's the VF2000. Looks like a nice CPU cooler for low profile HTPC's.JonnyDough - Sunday, January 18, 2009 - link
Aye. I hope it fits 939 and 478 though. I wish there were more good universal heatsinks.JonnyDough - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
It's good to see Thermaltake filling the wattage ranges of PSUs. We need 350w PSUs too!JonnyDough - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
Is that a new SilentFlux cooler I see in the Silverstone Raven case? Silent Flux coolers are made by Noiselimit (Noiselimit.com). I haven't seen that particular one before. I'm curious to know more about it if you have any info on it. Thanks.~Ry
Christoph Katzer - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
They came with sll of the i7 systems for the show...JonnyDough - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
I noticed too in SilverStone's silver HTPC case that they have another Noise Limit bubble pump cooler. Any particular reason they're using those in their displays this year?JeBarr - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
I can think of a few good reasons to flip the motherboard 90 degrees to the front, but if they only did this to accomodate 18" graphics cards from the future then what a waste. I did like the ABS black pearl that has the mobo mounted on left side instead of right, if viewed from the front of case. I did like that design except that the mobo mounted too high-up in the chassis, which prevented the 4th hd4850 with aftermarket cooler from fitting in so that project was scrapped. Just might be a new option now with this Raven, but if it is gonna retail for more the the lian-li pc80 then forget it.yehuda - Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - link
It's nice to see Antec update this model. I can see they've added audio ports on the front and expanded the side grille. Still, no Firewire, eSATA or a card reader. Any idea what has changed on the inside?Anubis - Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - link
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