Computex 2016 - Day 3

June 4, 2016 | 14:01

Tags: #8pack #computex-2016

Companies: #asus #be-quiet #computex #cooler-master #crucial #nanoxia #silverstone

Computex 2016 - Be Quiet!

Be Quiet! had two new full tower cases displayed at its booth; the Dark Base 900 and Dark Base Pro 900. The general design of the two cases is largely the same. One difference, however, is the left side panel, which is windowed for the Pro edition (using 4mm tempered glass rather than acrylic). The Dark Base 900 Pro also has LED illumination which you can change the position of as well as a wireless charging area for Qi-enabled devices. In both cases, the motherboard tray is removable and you can relocate it to the other side of the case for an inverted layout, or even use it as a bench table – modularity is a prevalent theme throughout the cases, as shown by Be Quiet! using one cage per HDD. 420mm radiators are supported in the front and roof and pump and reservoir mounts are supported too. Both cases ship with three SilentWings PWM fans by default, all fully decoupled from the case. The regular version will ship for €199 and the Pro one for €249 and they'll be available at the end of June.

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While Be Quiet! is well known for its air coolers, this year's Computex marked the announcement of its first foray into liquid cooling with the Silent Loop all-in-one liquid cooler. Available in three different radiator sizes (120mm, 240mm and 280mm), the Silent Loop coolers utilise reverse-flow pumps that are decoupled from the pump housing. You also get Pure Wings 2 PWM fans and full copper radiators, as well as a refill point. MSRPs are €109.90 for the 120mm, €129.90 for the 240mm and €149.90 for the 280mm, with September set as the release date.

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Posted by Fizzban - Sat Jun 04 2016 15:47

I know this is going to go down about as well as a Muhammad joke in a french cartoon, but..it all looks rather boring really. Don't get me wrong, I like flashy lights and 'racing' heatsinks as much as the next guy, but where is the new stuff? Tech just seems so stale to me right now. It looks exactly the same as last years stuff.

Posted by JR23 - Sat Jun 04 2016 17:06

That 800W Titanium SFX-L Silverstone, just, surely the greatest thing at the show and the best PSU to ever exist, can't wait until q4.

JR

Posted by Nexxo - Sat Jun 04 2016 19:27

Fizzban
I know this is going to go down about as well as a Muhammad joke in a french cartoon, but..it all looks rather boring really. Don't get me wrong, I like flashy lights and 'racing' heatsinks as much as the next guy, but where is the new stuff? Tech just seems so stale to me right now. It looks exactly the same as last years stuff.
I think that it may not be radically new stuff, but the quality definitely seems to have levelled up of late. Just look at those Cooler Master PSUs for instance: the internals look a lot better than those of other PSUs I have seen in the past. They're almost like high-end hifi components now.

Posted by Redbeaver - Mon Jun 06 2016 14:28

The ROG cooling looks very cool. But what exites me the most is the M2.

Not specifically those units, but the fact it's getting more common that it must drive the price down sooner than later!

I need one for my ITX build...... got a RAID-0 SSD as main workhorse. Would be lovely to have an M2 as "quick storage", while the REAL storage gets moved to my NAS.

Right now it's sitting on an old (but still healthy) 500GB WD Black....
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