Recent content by thekaidis

Advantage (and part of the reason for the size delta) for the EK is that it incorporates a small reservoir. If they would sell it without the pump that would be ideal though, since it should just be a standard DDC.

Was it seriously easier for Dell to RFP, design, manufacture,& validate a unique blower AIO than it was to just...have a 92mm fan location anywhere on the chassis?

Right? Priorities, man. Kind of like saying "if someone breaks into your house and takes you hostage, they might be able to access your browser history!"

Alphacool's QDCs are pretty crap. Significant leakage during connection/separation since the screw threads mean the valves don't snap open/closed cleanly and are held in a partially unsealed state for a couple seconds. Very messy. If you go into it expecting that though they're OK for...

mDTX is just mITX with 2 expansion slot positions. So if a case can fit an ITX board with a dual-slot GPU, it will fit a mini DTX board.

This, exactly. It might not be a huge deal to a consumer who's building 1 or 2 systems, but I work for a system integrator and being able to customize a cable harness to have exactly 0 excess cable length for a particular system is invaluable.

Why are they still calling it the IB-E? Shouldn't it be SKL-X?

Filter BEHIND the fans...wat lol That cabling looks awful. Airflow looks awful. Filters look awful. So, not bad for an Antec case.

It'll probably sell if it hits the $99.99 mark street price. The MSRP of 860 Evo is $199 but it sells for <$130.

That impeller looks way too robust to be an Asetek design. Is Corsair going back to CoolIT?

No 10G ports? Shame.

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Is XPOWER not an MSI trademark?

Import taxes/tariffs, shipping, higher reseller markup.

The question is, are they dressing up a minor improvement to make it look more significant than it is. When AMD increased the clock speed of the 7970 they called it the 7970 GHz Ed., not 7990.