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We've long maintained that Rosewill's Thor v2 is one of the best deals floating around for enthusiasts. In that enclosure, Rosewill has a product that's fairly feature rich, quiet, and offers stellar performance. Yet the Thor v2 isn't the flagship of their enclosure line, but today we have that flagship in house. Given its predecessor's stellar performance, expectations are pretty high for the Blackhawk Ultra.
Computex 2012: NZXT's Cryo V60 & X60 Notebook Coolers
With features like configurable TDP with Ivy Bridge and more users moving to notebook-only usage models, finding new ways to add extra cooling to increasingly small form factor notebooks...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2012
BitFenix Prodigy Review: The Affordable Performable Mini-ITX
The mini-ITX form factor is starting to pick up steam these days, and with good reason. Micro-ATX boards are already capable of essentially hitting feature parity with full ATX...
77 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/1/2012
Streacom Updates Passive HTPC Chassis Lineup with FC9 and FC10
The advent of CPUs with low TDPs (but having enough power to handle HTPC duties) has resulted in passive HTPCs becoming more and more popular. Streacom (started in 2010...
15 by Ganesh T S on 5/23/2012
SilverStone FT03 Mini Review: We'll Make You Fun Size
One of the first cases we reviewed back when we initially established our case testing methodology last year was SilverStone's FT03, a very unique Micro-ATX design guaranteed to be...
66 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/22/2012
PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III 400W
We have already reviewed quite a few PC Power & Cooling products on AnandTech, but this time we will be looking at their first series with modular cables and...
17 by Martin Kaffei on 5/19/2012
Corsair Vengeance C70 Case Review: Going for the Gamers
Corsair has had an excellent run as a case designer, showing growth with each new enclosure by adding some features, subtracting other ones, moving things around, and generally continuing...
41 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/17/2012
Cubitek HPTX ICE Review: How Far Aluminum Can Go
Aluminum has been experiencing a bit of a renaissance in the notebook industry, spearheaded largely by Apple and now Intel's ultrabook initiative, but as a construction material for desktop...
20 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/11/2012_carousel.jpg)
SilverStone Grandia GD07 Review: Centering and Serving Your Media
The last time we reviewed one of SilverStone's Grandia enclosures, it was the GD04, and it was a review that launched the first major revamp of how we test...
36 by Dustin Sklavos on 4/29/2012
Codegen P-Case 460W - Low Price, Poor Quality
Today we will review a Codegen PSU. This product is not available in the US as they sell it in some European countries only, but it's still a nice...
26 by Martin Kaffei on 4/27/2012
FSP Aurum Xilenser AU-500FL 500W
FSP is one of the largest manufacturers for OEM power supplies and adapters. Now they're launching a new fanless series, the "Aurum Xilenser", for users that want absolute silence...
41 by Martin Kaffei on 4/20/2012
Fractal Design Core 1000: How Little is Too Little
Extreme budget enclosures are interesting creatures. While the best balancing acts usually show up around the $100 price point, and going north of $150 will generally get you the...
51 by Dustin Sklavos on 4/13/2012
Antec Eleven Hundred: The P280's Gloves Come Off
Towards the end of last year, I took a visit out to Antec's campus in Fremont to see two new cases: the headlining P280, and the shortly-to-follow Eleven Hundred...
38 by Dustin Sklavos on 4/9/2012
Corsair Obsidian 550D: Starting to Specialize
We've been keeping track of the evolution of Corsair's line of enclosures since the Graphite 600T was released. Even as the newer enclosures generally found themselves lower and lower...
58 by Dustin Sklavos on 3/29/2012
Introducing Our 2012 Case Testbeds and Revised Methodology
Over the past year we've tested more than twenty different enclosures using our existing testbed and produced a mountain of comparative data. The goal of the undertaking is produce...
29 by Dustin Sklavos on 3/29/2012
Corsair TX vs. OCZ ZT 550W
In this review we will compare two almost identical products from OCZ and Corsair. Even so, there are still some differences between the offerings. With 550W both PSUs deliver...
42 by Martin Kaffei on 3/26/2012
Rosewill Capstone 450W and 650W 80Plus Gold
We tested the Hive 550W a short while ago, and now Rosewill is following up with their Capstone series, which should be more efficient (80 Plus Gold certification). In...
32 by Martin Kaffei on 3/21/2012
Rosewill Hive 550W
Rosewill sent us their newest model Hive with 550W. The rated power makes these models good for most common GPUs as well as powerful CPUs. Features such as 80...
30 by Martin Kaffei on 3/17/2012
XFX 1000W Pro Series 80 Plus Platinum
We've recently tested the first 80 Plus Platinum PSUs to hit our labs, courtesy of Seasonic and Enermax. Both were good if expensive PSUs, and next up on the...
29 by Martin Kaffei on 3/1/2012
Seasonic Platinum Series 860W - Platinum without the Fuss
In a short time we've seen quite a few companies come out with their first 80 Plus Platinum power supplies. A couple weeks ago we reviewed the Enermax Platimax...
68 by Martin Kaffei on 2/24/2012
Lian Li's PC-90: The Hammer Strikes Hard
The majority of the enclosures from Lian Li that we've tested so far have been designed for mini-ITX and micro-ATX builds, but today we have on offer one of...
53 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/21/2012