Mushkin & Alphacool

2, 3 & 4th image are from our friends over at AwardFabrik.

Alphacool has some very interesting products available. They have a water cooling system for Mushkin memory on display at CeBIT. The pipe is just placed under the heat spreader of the Mushkin memory, fits perfectly and is only being offered for the memory brand.


Our friends over at AwardFabrik got their hands on this cooler and got some amazing results - almost 14° Celsius lower than without the setup.


Besides the Mushkin memory water cooler, there is an incredibly slim CPU water block prototype being shown off. The other very interesting product is a GeForce 8950GX2 GPU water block.

North Q

North Q is well known in Germany and Austria for their air cooling products. They do have some resemblance to the Zalman coolers and perform quite well. They also sell power supplies. The one they have on display features a small antenna and a remote control. This gives the user the possibility to turn the PC on or off from a distance.


They also have a low profile HTPC for visitors to take a look at. It has a card reader, display and space for a slim type optical drive. The system was also up and running with a big screen LCD screen.

MSI

MSI is showing off a lot of different DirectX 10 based cards. None of them mention what GPU is being used. Let us give you an educated guess on all the cards: The first and smallest card is a low profile, HDMI equipped DirectX 10 card. This is most likely an entry level GeForce 8 card, a GeForce 8300 or 8400 variant. It does not have an SLI connector and no external power plug. The second card is most likely a GeForce 8600GT card. It does not sport an external PCIe power connector either.


There is a second variant with the same PCB but different HSF. This is most likely a higher clocked version of the GeForce 8600 GT. There is another PCB without a heat sink. This variant is a bit larger, features a black color and an HDMI port. This may be a 8600GTS.


There is a water cooled GeForce 8800GTX using a large radiator for a 12 cm fan. It is clocked at 610 MHz on the GPU and 2000 MHz on the memory.