Zalman FX100 final pictures

Did Zalman changed their mind since last fall? Our leaked picture showed a different design for the FX100 base. The supercooler will be available globally in March.

Source: Ask-corp.jp

Deepcool's first passive CPU cooler

Deepcool will showcase its first fanless cooler at CeBIT in Hanover, 5 - 9 March. Stay tuned.

Source: Cowcotland

Free SSD for any Foxconn AT-5570 purchase

Sweet deal at Newegg: a free 64GB ADATA SSD for any AT-5570 purchase.

We're still curious about the performance (and the temperatures) of this little box. The lack of vents and the size of the heatsink does puzzle us a bit.

Ixbt.com offers a review and some cool pictures. Our Russian is a little rusty, but they don't look too pleased.

Impactics NUC case

The latest passive NUC case is from Impactics, and it's the biggest yet.

At 170 x 114 x 67 mm and a whopping 1380g, cooling performance should be stellar (the pure copper heat spreader alone is 220g). The D1NU1 series - designed for Intel's D33217GKE and DCP847SKE boards - starts at 99 euros.

"Combined with an Intel NUC mainboard the D1NU series allows to set up extremely efficient, fanless yet powerful computers with a volume of only 1.3 liters. Technically the D1NU is not a case but a heat sink for the built in NUC platform. Two massive aluminium heat sinks are fixed between the front and rear bezel. Lost heat is conducted via a precision milled heat spreader to these heat sinks. As no ventilation holes are required for cooling, the D1NU is suitable for all applications in which noiseless operation, dust protection and low power consumption is required on minimum space.

The heat spreader is precision milled from one solid piece of electrolytic copper (99.99% purity). Front bezel is milled from 4 mm aluminium, while the rear bezel is made of chromium steel. A special soft shield at the rear bezel minimizes electromagnetic interferences."

Assemble Tranquil PC NUC

David Thompson from Tranquil PC just posted a tutorial for silencing Intel's NUC using their case.

It takes about 5 minutes to build a passive, totally silent Core i3 PC with no moving parts.

Fanless NUC from 日本

OlioSpec from Japan launches its own version of the NUC featuring 4BG RAM and a 120GB SSD in a passive aluminum case (for $800+). OlioSpec makes no mention of any kind of performance, only that "temperatures are slightly higher than the fan version".

Indeed, this case looks rather skinny for a 17W TDP to us, and we'd rather go for something a little more heavy.

Source: Akiba-PC

Recycling stock coolers - Part 2

FanlessTech friend and genius inventor Tamas' new creation. The artist is planning an exhibition showing all his wonderful designs, and we'll make sure to keep you updated.

Jeffrey Stephenson's project is completed

It took Jeffrey two months to complete this Art Deco Heater fanless Ivy Bridge HTPC. An exquisite work of art.

✓ Intel Core i3-3225 CPU
✓ Silverstone HE02 passive
✓ Gigabyte Z77N-WiFi
✓ 8GB DDR3
✓ Intel Cherryville SSD
✓ 150W Pico-PSU

Source: Jeffrey Stephenson

Akasa Euler review

Czech site Extrahardware samples the little Euler with a 35 W TDP Pentium, and a 55W TDP i3 (not recommanded by Akasa).

Overall an easy and fast setup, with good enough temperatures. Under heavy load the Pentium G630T reaches 62°C, while the i3-3220 reaches 81°C. Results are slightly better vertically, thanks to the vents on each side of the case.

Interestingly the 55W processor never reaches 50°C under normal usage, including 2 hours of 1080p content.

Source: Extrahardware

Low-powered XBMC media center

Arctic introduces a limited-edition of their passive MC001 nettop based on XBMC 12 (OpenELEC 3.0) for $229 / €199.

"The MC001-XBMC is easy and ready-to-use, it plays all popular audio and video formats and supports full HD 1080p. Pack all your videos, songs and photos into the massive 1TB storage. Control freely from your Smartphone or tablet using one of the many excellent remote control apps available for both Android and iOS or with the bundled Infrared remote.

Watch TV directly on MC001-XBMC and, thanks to OpenELEC 3.0 PVR functionality, you can even record your favourite shows. A multitude of Add-ons will let you extend MC001-XBMC's capabilities beyond your imagination: Listen to radio, Watch online video (YouTube, Vimeo and others), Access your favourite Music on Demand service, show your latest pictures and Use a 1TB Network Storage."

✓ Dual Core Atom D525 (1.8GHz)
✓ ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430
✓ 2GB DDR3 1333MHz
✓ 1TB 5400RPM 2.5" HDD
✓ TV tuner
✓ AirPlay, UPnP/DLNA
✓ 2 x USB 3.0 ports
✓ 5 x USB 2.0 ports
✓ DVD-RW 24x
✓ 802.11 b/g/n
✓ 10/100/1000 Ethernet
✓ 143 mm x 40 mm x 266 mm
✓  3.1 kg

Craziest prototype ever?

Thermalright's engineers surpassed themselves in 2010 with the Sentinel. A spectacular 10 heatpipes 20 towers behemoth.

Pictures: Tweakers.net

Get A Life by Torgny Karlsson

Selected for bit-tech's latest Mod of the Year competition, Get A Life is an amazingly well executed 8-bit-inspired fanless creation.

Source: bit-tech

A closer look at HDPLEX's cooling system

Unlike other companies HDPLEX uses as much as 6 heatpipes, not to mention an additionnal aluminum heatsink. If it works half as well as it looks, it is definitely worth attention.

Source: HDPLEX

The most exciting Haswell processor

"The Core i7-4765T is the lowest TDP Haswell based quad core. It works at 2GHz, has four cores and eight threads and 8MB of cache memory. It supports DDR3 1600, at least officially, but turbo boost can get it all the way up to 3GHz.

This is an impressive score for a 35W quad core. The graphics core of choice is the HD 4600 that goes all the way up to 1200MHz. it comes in Q2 2013, so it should be out to late May or early June, Computex 2013 we assume."

If the rumor holds true, the i7-4765T will power our next PC.

Source: Fudzilla

Seasonic's Platinum 520W PSU unboxing

Linus takes a look at the latest and greatest from Seasonic. Super High Efficiency, solid build quality, and a 7 years warranty make it really hard to resist.

Zalman's TNN-500AF rises again

Dubbed as "the world's first absolutely noiseless, anti dust computer enclosure" almost 10 years ago, this massive dinosaur (32kg of pure aluminum) gets updated.