Hardware 19 - The Cockney Cast

Hardware 19 - The Cockney Cast

Posted on 18th Feb 2011 at 10:18 by Podcast with 6 comments

This week's bit-tech and Custom PC podcast is brought to you by Clive, Antony and Paul.

First on the agenda is the continuing Intel Sandy Bridge saga, and what motherboard manufacturers are doing to sort it out. We also comment on MSI's returns strategy, which the company announced on Wednesday.

Next we make some time to talk about the gorgeous Silverstone FT03. It's a pretty peculiar case due to its inverted design, but it's always refreshing to see manufactures taking a different approach.

Finally, Antony gives us a sneaky look at the CPU cooler group test from the latest issue of Custom PC, which went on sale at newsagents yesterday. Make sure you pick up a copy if you want to see which new CPU coolers offer the best combination of cooling and value.


As always, we've also set up our weekly competition, although there's a slightly different twist on it this week. The lucky winner will be able to get their hands on a Mionix Propus 380 mousepad, which will provide the perfect tracking surface for whichever mouse you choose to use.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.

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Enermax to launch CPU coolers

Enermax to launch CPU coolers

Posted on 19th Feb 2011 at 10:32 by Richard Swinburne with 18 comments

During a brief discussion with Enermax recently, a PR person let slip that the company's planning to launch a new CPU cooler range, which will be based on the principles of vortex generator flow technology, while featuring a couple of Enermax's Twister bearing fans.

The cooler has six heatpipes that get direct contact with the CPU, while a Twister fan sits on either side of the tower. Meanwhile, the LEDs can be switched off using the little buttons below each fan in the picture. The fans *should* feature 4-pin PWM power connectors as well, but we don't know whether they'll be tied together with a single connector yet.


More information about the coolers is likely to start doing the rounds soon, though, as Enermax is encouraging folk to visit its booth in the usually wet (sometimes snowy), cold and miserable surroundings of the CeBIT tradeshow in Hannover, Germany, at the start of March.

Does this design look like a winner to you? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.

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Hardware 19 - The Cockney Cast

Hardware 19 - The Cockney Cast

Posted on 18th Feb 2011 at 10:18 by Podcast with 6 comments

This week's bit-tech and Custom PC podcast is brought to you by Clive, Antony and Paul.

First on the agenda is the continuing Intel Sandy Bridge saga, and what motherboard manufacturers are doing to sort it out. We also comment on MSI's returns strategy, which the company announced on Wednesday.

Next we make some time to talk about the gorgeous Silverstone FT03. It's a pretty peculiar case due to its inverted design, but it's always refreshing to see manufactures taking a different approach.

Finally, Antony gives us a sneaky look at the CPU cooler group test from the latest issue of Custom PC, which went on sale at newsagents yesterday. Make sure you pick up a copy if you want to see which new CPU coolers offer the best combination of cooling and value.


As always, we've also set up our weekly competition, although there's a slightly different twist on it this week. The lucky winner will be able to get their hands on a Mionix Propus 380 mousepad, which will provide the perfect tracking surface for whichever mouse you choose to use.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.

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Enermax to launch CPU coolers

Enermax to launch CPU coolers

Posted on 19th Feb 2011 at 10:32 by Richard Swinburne with 18 comments

During a brief discussion with Enermax recently, a PR person let slip that the company's planning to launch a new CPU cooler range, which will be based on the principles of vortex generator flow technology, while featuring a couple of Enermax's Twister bearing fans.

The cooler has six heatpipes that get direct contact with the CPU, while a Twister fan sits on either side of the tower. Meanwhile, the LEDs can be switched off using the little buttons below each fan in the picture. The fans *should* feature 4-pin PWM power connectors as well, but we don't know whether they'll be tied together with a single connector yet.


More information about the coolers is likely to start doing the rounds soon, though, as Enermax is encouraging folk to visit its booth in the usually wet (sometimes snowy), cold and miserable surroundings of the CeBIT tradeshow in Hannover, Germany, at the start of March.

Does this design look like a winner to you? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.

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Forget Facebook and use The Fridge to plan your spring break

In the days before Facebook was a social network with 600 million people, it used to be a nice place to post funny college photos of my roommate?s epic walks of shame or to invite a group of friends to a private party in New York City.

Facebook?s growth has sparked a slew of startups committed to providing users with targeted content sharing, and one in particular has caught our attention: The Fridge, a former Y-Combinator now New York City based startup, which is simply, ?a really cool social network that makes it super easy to share your stuff with only the right people.?

Austin Chang, The Fridge?s Co-Founder, started the company one year ago after spending years working and teaching in the design world and working as an engineer in the first dot-com boom. Like an actual fridge, The Fridge is a place to post things for others to see, and to ?keep your friends fresher.? Online, it acts like a social scrapbook, a place where users can create separate groups for friends, family, work, etc. Groups have an infinite shelf life, but once they are deleted they are gone forever. Security wise, the site implements SSL across the entire service and encryption on passwords.

The format of The Fridge is like a better organized chain email; if users aren?t a part of the discussion, their inbox isn?t inundated with crazy reply-alls. But the service does make it easy to update Fridge discussions via email if the user so chooses.

It?s a souped up FriendFeed or a private Facebook, in which friends can share multimedia posts and have conversations without the rest of the world commenting or being unnecessarily pinged. If someone is not a part of a group that you are a part of, they can?t access it. Group members can comment and like posts Facebook style as well as share individual posts with friends, groups, and on Facebook and Twitter, but mind you, outsiders will only be able to see select posts, not the entire thread of group page. One of the best features of the site, which has been redone twice since last September, is its ?See All Photos? feature that simply displays all photos ever posted into a group.

Since launch last August, Chang has seen 30,000 registered users create 20,000 groups focused on group vacations, community groups like sororities and fraternities, event planning and small-medium sized conferences. For conferences, the message board lets everyone meet each other before hand, then during the conference it acts like a repository, and afterwards organizers have one place to look at all of the conversations. He?s also seen it used in classrooms. Professors can share things with an entire class that they find on the web. Think of it like what Google Buzz never was, minus the realtime element.

Once you?ve joined more than a few groups, the ?Shared Groups? feature shows you which contacts you share group connections with. This information is creating a very interesting cluster-social graph, ?a fractal network of data,? if you will.

?The friend request isn?t how we relate people to each other anymore,? explains Chang. ?Our relations are based on specific interests, groups and shared connections with other people.?

The Fridge will be moving (slightly) away from its privacy and permissions ethos and focusing more on targeted contented with its upcoming Public Groups feature and events platform. Chang wants the Fridge to be the simplest and easiest way to share whatever you want. Also in the near future, the company will be releasing an iPhone app that Chang says will be like ?if Path and FriendFeed decided to have a baby.?

With $800K in funding, the 5 person team is now focusing on pushing its product for spring break, having just announced a partnership with SWAT marketing for college kids heading to Lake Havasu, AZ. SWAT is incentivizing college kids to join by giving out a free trip if they sign up 10 people. Check it out here and brace for nudity.

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Forget Facebook and use The Fridge to plan your spring break

In the days before Facebook was a social network with 600 million people, it used to be a nice place to post funny college photos of my roommate?s epic walks of shame or to invite a group of friends to a private party in New York City.

Facebook?s growth has sparked a slew of startups committed to providing users with targeted content sharing, and one in particular has caught our attention: The Fridge, a former Y-Combinator now New York City based startup, which is simply, ?a really cool social network that makes it super easy to share your stuff with only the right people.?

Austin Chang, The Fridge?s Co-Founder, started the company one year ago after spending years working and teaching in the design world and working as an engineer in the first dot-com boom. Like an actual fridge, The Fridge is a place to post things for others to see, and to ?keep your friends fresher.? Online, it acts like a social scrapbook, a place where users can create separate groups for friends, family, work, etc. Groups have an infinite shelf life, but once they are deleted they are gone forever. Security wise, the site implements SSL across the entire service and encryption on passwords.

The format of The Fridge is like a better organized chain email; if users aren?t a part of the discussion, their inbox isn?t inundated with crazy reply-alls. But the service does make it easy to update Fridge discussions via email if the user so chooses.

It?s a souped up FriendFeed or a private Facebook, in which friends can share multimedia posts and have conversations without the rest of the world commenting or being unnecessarily pinged. If someone is not a part of a group that you are a part of, they can?t access it. Group members can comment and like posts Facebook style as well as share individual posts with friends, groups, and on Facebook and Twitter, but mind you, outsiders will only be able to see select posts, not the entire thread of group page. One of the best features of the site, which has been redone twice since last September, is its ?See All Photos? feature that simply displays all photos ever posted into a group.

Since launch last August, Chang has seen 30,000 registered users create 20,000 groups focused on group vacations, community groups like sororities and fraternities, event planning and small-medium sized conferences. For conferences, the message board lets everyone meet each other before hand, then during the conference it acts like a repository, and afterwards organizers have one place to look at all of the conversations. He?s also seen it used in classrooms. Professors can share things with an entire class that they find on the web. Think of it like what Google Buzz never was, minus the realtime element.

Once you?ve joined more than a few groups, the ?Shared Groups? feature shows you which contacts you share group connections with. This information is creating a very interesting cluster-social graph, ?a fractal network of data,? if you will.

?The friend request isn?t how we relate people to each other anymore,? explains Chang. ?Our relations are based on specific interests, groups and shared connections with other people.?

The Fridge will be moving (slightly) away from its privacy and permissions ethos and focusing more on targeted contented with its upcoming Public Groups feature and events platform. Chang wants the Fridge to be the simplest and easiest way to share whatever you want. Also in the near future, the company will be releasing an iPhone app that Chang says will be like ?if Path and FriendFeed decided to have a baby.?

With $800K in funding, the 5 person team is now focusing on pushing its product for spring break, having just announced a partnership with SWAT marketing for college kids heading to Lake Havasu, AZ. SWAT is incentivizing college kids to join by giving out a free trip if they sign up 10 people. Check it out here and brace for nudity.

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Enermax to launch CPU coolers

Enermax to launch CPU coolers

Posted on 19th Feb 2011 at 10:32 by Richard Swinburne with 18 comments

During a brief discussion with Enermax recently, a PR person let slip that the company's planning to launch a new CPU cooler range, which will be based on the principles of vortex generator flow technology, while featuring a couple of Enermax's Twister bearing fans.

The cooler has six heatpipes that get direct contact with the CPU, while a Twister fan sits on either side of the tower. Meanwhile, the LEDs can be switched off using the little buttons below each fan in the picture. The fans *should* feature 4-pin PWM power connectors as well, but we don't know whether they'll be tied together with a single connector yet.


More information about the coolers is likely to start doing the rounds soon, though, as Enermax is encouraging folk to visit its booth in the usually wet (sometimes snowy), cold and miserable surroundings of the CeBIT tradeshow in Hannover, Germany, at the start of March.

Does this design look like a winner to you? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.

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