3 items the article mentioned were games that have been in development for quite a while. Why is a 4 year development cycle a problem? What is wrong with "When it's done"?
I for one am glad that the software developers (3D Realms for Duke Nukem Forever in particular) are taking their time creating this game. I am sick and tired of games being released these days that need patch after patch, often times just to make the game PLAYABLE, let alone enjoyable.
Where and when should developers draw the line? Shouldn't that be for them to decide?
Is anyone else troubled by the fact that this is hosted by a group of lawyers? If you think about it, what better way to find out what's going to be easy to sue about this year than to host a summit like this?
The two-day Policy Conference included keynote speeches from Senator Orrin Hatch and Michael Robertson, CEO of MP3.com, as well as over 70 panelists including Leonardo Chiariglione (SDMI), Edward Felten (Princeton University), Hilary Rosen (RIAA), Chuck D. (Public Enemy), Marybeth Peters (Director, US Copyright Office), Jim Griffin (founder of Pho and Cherry Lane Digital), and John Perry Barlow (Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation).
These people always make silly mistakes. See what I mean? Remove Chuck D. and you'll see how it SUPPOSED to read.
We are asking music/tech companies whose businesses depend upon the labor of musicians to generously help us to include musicians in the debate. Scholarships are in the amount of $500 per artist and sponsorship position in the program, signage and website will be based on generosity.
$500 brings in one musician
$1,000 brings in two musicians
$5,000 brings in 10
$10,000 brings in 20
Gee, with all this math, I can't keep up! Then again, it seems that every other word was "lawyer" on that page, so maybe they just understand their audience.;)
This matters why? I mean, sure, they have to update the textbooks, but why is this worth researching, let alone newsworthy? Can this problem help us solve other problems that need to be solved?
"Professor Torng devoted much of his professional life to developing this highly innovative approach to high-speed processing," he said in a statement. "We cannot stand by while Hewlett-Packard profits from Professor Torng's contributions in this field in violation of Cornell's patent."
Is the patent-owner at all involved, is he even still at Cornell?
You wrote that it's in violation of "Cornell's patent", not "Professor Torng's patent".
Universities often own the patents that professors and students develop while they are employed/working there. The University owns the patent, the professor emeritus gets a cut of whatever royalties they receive from licensing it.
A little Bionic history:
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Bionic Eyes
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· Score: 4, Funny
First off, don't be fooled by the date on this article. Steve Austin has been testing bionic equipment since his crash at NASA.
My only question for this "new" technology is: Do we still have to listen to that damned "Bionic" noise everytime we focus on something with our bionic eyes? I mean geez, that noise got old fast, not to mention that it makes it hard to be discrete when you're using your bionic vision on the hot chick standing next to you. She hears the noise, looks over at you, sees your bionic chubber and knows what YOU'VE been doing. C'mon NASA, hook us up.
who this representative's backers are? I mean, most of the time you hear a politician say something like this to the media, it usually just means that he's fishing for some campaign money.
But maybe this isn't the case, maybe this guy is already backed by the CDR Companies / MP3 Device companies / Any company who doesn't profit from CD copy protection. Because almost certainly, that is why a question like this would be asked.
I'm curious, I went looking on the AIM website for somewhere to send information about a SERIOUS bug like the one that was discovered, and of course I didn't find one. So, I'm not surprised when it said in the Yahoo article that they didn't receive a response back after a week, considering that if they submitted it using the "Found an Error" part of the website, it probably got mixed in with thousands of other messages.
Does anyone know a faster way to contact the major software vendors about a severe security issue BESIDES letting them read about it on the front page of their favorite news portal?
Great, so now I can be jacked into the web while I'm driving, which means that NOW I can look up the license plate of the bitch driving the bimbo box who just cut me off. Yeah, just bounce my laser off of her rear view mirror, and I've got a retinal scan.
I'll show her; a little hacking, and lets see how she likes her burbclave to be the target for a new Monsanto factory. Then it won't be just GM food anymore, we're talking GM Humans.
Just a little homage to Neal Stephenson. I've probably read Snow crash just a few too many times.
A corporate death penalty is for the most part, a silly idea. The problems are with the people RUNNING the corporation, not the corporation itself. What is to stop a dead corporation's entire board and employees from just creating a totally new corporation doing exactly the same thing?
And what about corporations that have many subsidary corporations? Do they die too?
There are waaaay too many sides to this issue for you to just demand a "corporate death" and not account for them.
Quick, someone patent "Ice glasses" and make a mint selling them to terrorists, or people who want want to keep their privacy! Hmm, or what about skin colored patches that you put on your temples that slowly release chemicals that bring the blood flow to your eyes DOWN.
Or gee, the poor man's way of getting around this, buy a soda before you go, right before you go, you unobstrusively rub ice from your drink around your eyes and face, then wipe off the excess moisture.
It looks like the Australians have been reading JonKatz. The ones who are speaking out read some, took a positive message out of his extremely wordy articles, and took it to the government and said "This is what we want!"
The sad part is that someone in the Aussie government probably read a JonKatz article also, but they couldn't shake the often silly messages he tries to portray as being serious, so they thought "Hey, maybe if we censor the whole net, we'll get this guy too."
Another attempt at humor by myself. Probably a troll though. Who knows.
This could be taken more seriously if it wasn't true that most open source programs are simply feature copies of closed programs.
I do agree that open source programmers do make better use of their resources, because most of the time, their only true resource is their own time and money.
If you want an account here but want to remain anonymous, just sign up for a free email account at hotmail, call it something simple like slashdotAnonymouscoward, and sign up using that email address. This will let you retain a higher amount of privacy while still letting you post without using Anonymous Coward.
An article about privacy on a website that REQUIRES its users to register. C'mon, this is satire begging to happen.
Re:Simple question..
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The Euro
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· Score: 3, Insightful
The fact that Ireland has done extraordinarily well with European integration is probably NOT why it is using the Euro. Ireland has had more than its share of problems with the English, and probably welcome any changes that lead it away from English dependence.
What are YOU smoking? CD isn't the best quality audio out there, DAT is better, hell, 16bit isn't even the highest quality CD, I own about 5 22bit CDs.
Your comment misses many points. There are lossless forms of compression, and they pertain to audio as well.
Re:This would make for a great game.
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· Score: 3, Informative
Well, if there is a game with accurate physics, it would be X-plane. Heck, with this game, you can even land the space shuttle.
The only problem is that right now, we don't have anywhere close to enough data for the other planets. On mars, we got lucky because NASA released all of their data from the explorer.
I can see this is probably going to be like mp3 compression, where people often say "I can tell the difference between that and the original". So, someone will have to develop something silly like "monitor drivers with more blue!"
Not so long ago I reviewed the Z4 waterblock, one of the best waterblocks currently available.But there was still a bridge to cross before the "normal" computer user would install one in his/her box. Why? Because the installation scares many people... "Will it fit in my case?", "How do I get the power cord out of the case without cutting it up?", "How long do I need to make my tubing?"... these kind of questions were asked on a daily base by people who wanted to turn into the watercooling alley, but were afraid of it for various reasons.
The good people at Overclockers Hideout and CPU F/X were aware of these problems and they decided to take care of them. Their solution: The Heat Seeker.
In short, The Heat Seeker is an all-in-one solution leaving the end users without questions and hard-to-install hardware. Basically, what they did was take a very good computer case (can you say Lian Li?) and install a very good watercooling setup (goes by the name "Z4") on the inside.
Is "The Heat Seeker" the way to go for watercooling boxes? What do I get for my money and how does it perform? All these questions and more are answered in the review, so lets buckle up and push the pedal to the metal shall we?
Page 2 : Specifications
The Specs
With a name as "Heat Seeker" you expect some military device with a heatseeking nose and built-in radar equipment... the truth is not far from it;) but there are some differences... let me show you what I mean.
- Black Lian Li PC61 case made entirely out of aluminium
- 4 front USB ports
- Dual 80mm intake fans with rheobus
- 1 80mm fan behind CPU to take out hot air
- Complete Z4 watercoolingkit consisting of:
- Z4 waterblock
- 5"x7" radiator with top blowhole
- 120mm Sunon fan to cool down the radiator
- CNC machined reservoir 100% aluminium
- Clear tubing
- Manual
- CPU shim
- Artic Silver II
- Funnel (to fill the water reservoir)
Thats what you get when you buy a "Heat Seeker". Not a bad deal huh? Lets take a closer look at the specs now.
As said, Overclockers Hideout uses a Lian Li case as the base of their watercooling box. Although Lian Li cases are far from cheap, they offer a very high quality level and they look so damn fine:). For the "Heat Seeker", Overclockers Hideout chose a Lian Li PC61, which is a cool looking black case made entirely out of aluminium. Besides that, the case comes with a small USB hub, offering you 4 USB ports! This gadget wont do much good for me, but people who have their box on their desk will use these ports a lot to connect joysticks, game pads or other USB devices.
The entire case can be opened up or closed without tools, as everything is done with thumbscrews. The only part where youll need a screwdriver is when you install the motherboard, the hard drives and the cd-rom. All the other stuff is tool-less.
Lian Li equiped the PC61 with that handy rheobus, which controls the two 80mm fans bringing cold air in the case. The rheobus has three values: L, M, H or Low, Middle and High. You dont need a nuclear science degree to understand that the "L" setting runs the fans at a low, no noise speed whereas the "H" tab will add some noise to your setup, but also more airflow. The "M" setting sits somewhere in the middle.
Both fans are sitting behind an easy to remove and washable dust filter, making sure no filthy crap can touch that GF3 Ti 500! Enough blabbering about the Lian Li case, for more details look at this review and this one, both reviews of some sweet Lian Li cases.
The most important part of the Z4 watercooling kit, is of course the Z4 waterblock. Although Z4 makes you think of a new BMW roadster, I can reassure you that it is a waterblock:). The finishing is excellent and the performance is very good to say the least, but Ill get back to that later on. For more detail on the Z4 waterblock I suggest that you read the review I made a few weeks ago.
Apart from the waterblock, there are two other important parts of a watercooler: the water reservoir and the radiator. The radiator that is used in the "Heat Seeker" is one I saw before in kits from OCH and CPU F/X. Dont let the age fool you, the performance is still up to date, especially when you look at the size of it. Something to point out about the Z4 radiator is that it does not slow the waterflow down, unlike some other radiators out there. The radiator is located at the top front of the PC61, just above the cd-rom bays. A radiator needs to be cooled in order to perform as planned, so the engineers at OCH installed a blowhole above it. The cut is perfect and with a 120mm Sunon fan preinstalled you cant go wrong. The fan grill is also present, so dont worry about chopping of a finger or two...
There is also a bad side on the placement of the radiator: you loose one cd-rom bay. There was no other way to install the radiator and still get sufficient cooling to it, so I guess well just have to learn to live with it. Besides, the only way you wont loose a cd-rom bay, is by getting a very large case or put the radiator on the exterior of the case. None of these options were available as it would make the "Heat Seeker" a lot less mobile, scaring of people who often go to LANs.
Last but not least, there is the Z4 water reservoir. This baby can hold about 1.5 liter/0.25 gallon of water, comes with a 145GPH waterpump available in 120v and 230v edition, anodized fittings, a knurled filler cap with an O-ring seal, a non-leak cord, mounting points for LANs and to conclude: it is made entirely out of CNC machined aluminium! Filling the unit is done with the included funnel, making it dead easy to fill it up to the top without spilling a drop... ow yeah:). Once you filled it up, turn the filler cap until it sits tight. Thanks to the rubber O-ring no water will escape this way. The reservoir also has a non-leak cord, which basically means that there is a metal cover on the hole where the power cord leaves the reservoir, again equipped with a rubber sealing making sure no water is spilled. Once filled and closed up, you can shake this baby as much as you want, there isnt water coming out of it. This leaves me with a good feeling when travelling to my buddies with my rig... as arriving there with an aquarium of computer hardware sucks big time.
The tubing is preinstalled as well, so you wont have to worry about cutting it too long or too short...
Also note that an Athlon XP/MP shim is included, as well as a tube of Artic Silver II. No more core crushing and the best thermal paste currently available... what more can you ask for.
So you know what you get... lets see how the installation takes place...
Page 3 : Installation
Installation
The "Heat Seeker" has been made in a way that even a watercooling newbie can get the system up and running in no time! OCH includes a very well written manual with pictures, text, explanations, examples,... everything you need to get the job done.
To be honest, they do all the work for you. The only thing you have to do is install the Z4 waterblock onto your motherboard and connect the tubing to it. Once you done that, fill the water reservoir with the supplied funnel and youre all set. Thats it:).
I want to point out that the Z4 waterblock comes with a very good mounting system. There are two black, plastic tabs included that fit your motherboard perfectly. You attach both with included plastic bolts through the motherboard. Then you bolt the Z4 to these black tabs with 4 metal screws. What does this mean? It means that the Z4 waterblock is attached to your processor through the motherboard, which is the safest way to mount it! Be careful when you bolt down the block to the processor, because if you bolt them down too much you can kill your motherboard! And the good part is, you dont have to remove your motherboard to remove the block from the CPU! Note that these black tabs are "Overclockers Hideout Exclusive" and you wont find them anywhere else.
To get the power cord out of the case, there is a predrilled hole in one of the slot covers. The power cord comes with connectors so you can disconnect the "head" of it to be able to push the cable through that hole. Good thinking!
The water reservoir is installed in the removable hdd rack that comes with all Lian Li cases. Because of this, you loose some hdd mounts, but dont worry, there are enough left to fulfil the average Joes needs:).
Page 4 : Testing
Testing
In order to see how good the "Heat Seeker" performs, I installed one of my own rigs in the unit. Here is a short description:
- ABIT KR7A-RAID
- AMD Athlon 1400
- 2x256MB DDR2100 Crucial
- ABIT GeForce 3 Ti 200
- Accton NIC
- Windows 2000 + SP2 + VIA drivers + Detonator drivers
To give the setup a run for its money, I overclocked the processor to 1.6GHz with a core voltage of 1.85v and ran some prime95 and RC5 loving on it:). After 30 minutes temperatures were measured and compared to the same tests with some of the best air cooled heatsinks out there. All aircooled heatsinks were tested at default speed (1.4GHz). The Heat Seeker was tested at default speed (1.4GHz) and overclocked (1.6GHz).
As you can see, the "Heat Seeker" is performing very well, and leaving the competition with nothing but dust in their face. I am sure that the Lian Li case is pulling its weight in the results as well, because an aluminium case will definitely get the heat away faster than a normal steel casing. All in all I am very pleased with the results and I am not ashamed to show them to my friends and colleagues:). Note that all tests were run at a room temperature of approximately 21 degrees celcius. Another advantage of the Heat Seeker is the noise... it is much more quiet than those high RPM fans installed on most aircooled heatsinks:).
Page 5 : Conclusion
Conclusion
The "Heat Seeker" is one great product that makes watercooling accessible for everyone out there. The quality is perfect and the kit comes with everything you need to build yourself a well performing and good looking system. The price seems high, but let me remind you that it contains not only the entire Z4 watercooler setup, it also contains a full featured PC61 Lian Li case and we all know that these beauties dont come cheap! Would I recommend this product? If you can afford it, this is one great buy, so yes I have no problem putting it on my wish list:). Note that Overclockers Hideout gives you the possibility to put your own watercooler together: you can choose your radiator, reservoir,... everything according to your needs and budget. In short, the "Heat Seeker" offers astonishing quality and performance for the right price, and therefore it receives the official Overclockers Online Power Award.
Good
- Quality
- Bundle
- Performance
- Looks
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- Not cheap
- Be careful with the bolts to mount the block to the CPU;)
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It looks like a little recognition and being crowned was it, but I figure maybe someone read something I didn't.
I for one am glad that the software developers (3D Realms for Duke Nukem Forever in particular) are taking their time creating this game. I am sick and tired of games being released these days that need patch after patch, often times just to make the game PLAYABLE, let alone enjoyable.
Where and when should developers draw the line? Shouldn't that be for them to decide?
Is anyone else troubled by the fact that this is hosted by a group of lawyers? If you think about it, what better way to find out what's going to be easy to sue about this year than to host a summit like this?
Hilary Rosen (RIAA)(Public Enemy)
Gee, with all this math, I can't keep up! Then again, it seems that every other word was "lawyer" on that page, so maybe they just understand their audience. ;)
This matters why? I mean, sure, they have to update the textbooks, but why is this worth researching, let alone newsworthy? Can this problem help us solve other problems that need to be solved?
Any astrophysicists mind?
You wrote that it's in violation of "Cornell's patent", not "Professor Torng's patent".
Universities often own the patents that professors and students develop while they are employed/working there. The University owns the patent, the professor emeritus gets a cut of whatever royalties they receive from licensing it.
First off, don't be fooled by the date on this article. Steve Austin has been testing bionic equipment since his crash at NASA.
My only question for this "new" technology is: Do we still have to listen to that damned "Bionic" noise everytime we focus on something with our bionic eyes? I mean geez, that noise got old fast, not to mention that it makes it hard to be discrete when you're using your bionic vision on the hot chick standing next to you. She hears the noise, looks over at you, sees your bionic chubber and knows what YOU'VE been doing. C'mon NASA, hook us up.
;)
Well, the article is from NASA, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised when aliens contribute to the articles.
Bad grammar aside, anyone know what an Ignatiev is? ;)
who this representative's backers are? I mean, most of the time you hear a politician say something like this to the media, it usually just means that he's fishing for some campaign money.
But maybe this isn't the case, maybe this guy is already backed by the CDR Companies / MP3 Device companies / Any company who doesn't profit from CD copy protection. Because almost certainly, that is why a question like this would be asked.
Does anyone know a faster way to contact the major software vendors about a severe security issue BESIDES letting them read about it on the front page of their favorite news portal?
(Note, I only said faster, not better)Great, so now I can be jacked into the web while I'm driving, which means that NOW I can look up the license plate of the bitch driving the bimbo box who just cut me off. Yeah, just bounce my laser off of her rear view mirror, and I've got a retinal scan.
I'll show her; a little hacking, and lets see how she likes her burbclave to be the target for a new Monsanto factory. Then it won't be just GM food anymore, we're talking GM Humans.
Just a little homage to Neal Stephenson. I've probably read Snow crash just a few too many times.
Globally hated? What bullshit. That's why we have the highest amount of legal and illegal immigration per year? Because people hate us?
Way to troll.
is here: That way you only have to wait a longass time for it to load once, instead of a longass time for each of the 5 or 6 pages.
A corporate death penalty is for the most part, a silly idea. The problems are with the people RUNNING the corporation, not the corporation itself. What is to stop a dead corporation's entire board and employees from just creating a totally new corporation doing exactly the same thing?
And what about corporations that have many subsidary corporations? Do they die too?
There are waaaay too many sides to this issue for you to just demand a "corporate death" and not account for them.
Or gee, the poor man's way of getting around this, buy a soda before you go, right before you go, you unobstrusively rub ice from your drink around your eyes and face, then wipe off the excess moisture.
It looks like the Australians have been reading JonKatz. The ones who are speaking out read some, took a positive message out of his extremely wordy articles, and took it to the government and said "This is what we want!"
The sad part is that someone in the Aussie government probably read a JonKatz article also, but they couldn't shake the often silly messages he tries to portray as being serious, so they thought "Hey, maybe if we censor the whole net, we'll get this guy too."
Another attempt at humor by myself. Probably a troll though. Who knows.
Hopefully my comment is not a troll:
This could be taken more seriously if it wasn't true that most open source programs are simply feature copies of closed programs.
I do agree that open source programmers do make better use of their resources, because most of the time, their only true resource is their own time and money.
If you want an account here but want to remain anonymous, just sign up for a free email account at hotmail, call it something simple like slashdotAnonymouscoward, and sign up using that email address. This will let you retain a higher amount of privacy while still letting you post without using Anonymous Coward.
An article about privacy on a website that REQUIRES its users to register. C'mon, this is satire begging to happen.
The fact that Ireland has done extraordinarily well with European integration is probably NOT why it is using the Euro. Ireland has had more than its share of problems with the English, and probably welcome any changes that lead it away from English dependence.
What are YOU smoking? CD isn't the best quality audio out there, DAT is better, hell, 16bit isn't even the highest quality CD, I own about 5 22bit CDs.
Your comment misses many points. There are lossless forms of compression, and they pertain to audio as well.
Well, if there is a game with accurate physics, it would be X-plane. Heck, with this game, you can even land the space shuttle.
The only problem is that right now, we don't have anywhere close to enough data for the other planets. On mars, we got lucky because NASA released all of their data from the explorer.
I can see this is probably going to be like mp3 compression, where people often say "I can tell the difference between that and the original". So, someone will have to develop something silly like "monitor drivers with more blue!"
Overclockers Online
The Heat Seeker
Date: 12/27/01 - 11:57:51 PM
Author: Tim Verbist
Category: Cooling
Page 1 : Introduction
Manufacturer: Overclockers Hideout & CPU F/X
... "Will it fit in my case?", "How do I get the power cord out of the case without cutting it up?", "How long do I need to make my tubing?" ... these kind of questions were asked on a daily base by people who wanted to turn into the watercooling alley, but were afraid of it for various reasons.
Price: $349.99
Introduction
Not so long ago I reviewed the Z4 waterblock, one of the best waterblocks currently available.But there was still a bridge to cross before the "normal" computer user would install one in his/her box. Why? Because the installation scares many people
The good people at Overclockers Hideout and CPU F/X were aware of these problems and they decided to take care of them. Their solution: The Heat Seeker .
In short, The Heat Seeker is an all-in-one solution leaving the end users without questions and hard-to-install hardware. Basically, what they did was take a very good computer case (can you say Lian Li?) and install a very good watercooling setup (goes by the name "Z4") on the inside.
Is "The Heat Seeker" the way to go for watercooling boxes? What do I get for my money and how does it perform? All these questions and more are answered in the review, so lets buckle up and push the pedal to the metal shall we?
Page 2 : Specifications
The Specs
... the truth is not far from it ;) but there are some differences ... let me show you what I mean.
:). For the "Heat Seeker", Overclockers Hideout chose a Lian Li PC61, which is a cool looking black case made entirely out of aluminium. Besides that, the case comes with a small USB hub, offering you 4 USB ports! This gadget wont do much good for me, but people who have their box on their desk will use these ports a lot to connect joysticks, game pads or other USB devices.
:). The finishing is excellent and the performance is very good to say the least, but Ill get back to that later on. For more detail on the Z4 waterblock I suggest that you read the review I made a few weeks ago.
...
... ow yeah :). Once you filled it up, turn the filler cap until it sits tight. Thanks to the rubber O-ring no water will escape this way. The reservoir also has a non-leak cord, which basically means that there is a metal cover on the hole where the power cord leaves the reservoir, again equipped with a rubber sealing making sure no water is spilled. Once filled and closed up, you can shake this baby as much as you want, there isnt water coming out of it. This leaves me with a good feeling when travelling to my buddies with my rig ... as arriving there with an aquarium of computer hardware sucks big time.
...
... what more can you ask for.
... lets see how the installation takes place ...
With a name as "Heat Seeker" you expect some military device with a heatseeking nose and built-in radar equipment
- Black Lian Li PC61 case made entirely out of aluminium
- 4 front USB ports
- Dual 80mm intake fans with rheobus
- 1 80mm fan behind CPU to take out hot air
- Complete Z4 watercoolingkit consisting of:
- Z4 waterblock
- 5"x7" radiator with top blowhole
- 120mm Sunon fan to cool down the radiator
- CNC machined reservoir 100% aluminium
- Clear tubing
- Manual
- CPU shim
- Artic Silver II
- Funnel (to fill the water reservoir)
Thats what you get when you buy a "Heat Seeker". Not a bad deal huh? Lets take a closer look at the specs now.
As said, Overclockers Hideout uses a Lian Li case as the base of their watercooling box. Although Lian Li cases are far from cheap, they offer a very high quality level and they look so damn fine
The entire case can be opened up or closed without tools, as everything is done with thumbscrews. The only part where youll need a screwdriver is when you install the motherboard, the hard drives and the cd-rom. All the other stuff is tool-less.
Lian Li equiped the PC61 with that handy rheobus, which controls the two 80mm fans bringing cold air in the case. The rheobus has three values: L, M, H or Low, Middle and High. You dont need a nuclear science degree to understand that the "L" setting runs the fans at a low, no noise speed whereas the "H" tab will add some noise to your setup, but also more airflow. The "M" setting sits somewhere in the middle.
Both fans are sitting behind an easy to remove and washable dust filter, making sure no filthy crap can touch that GF3 Ti 500! Enough blabbering about the Lian Li case, for more details look at this review and this one, both reviews of some sweet Lian Li cases.
The most important part of the Z4 watercooling kit, is of course the Z4 waterblock. Although Z4 makes you think of a new BMW roadster, I can reassure you that it is a waterblock
Apart from the waterblock, there are two other important parts of a watercooler: the water reservoir and the radiator. The radiator that is used in the "Heat Seeker" is one I saw before in kits from OCH and CPU F/X. Dont let the age fool you, the performance is still up to date, especially when you look at the size of it. Something to point out about the Z4 radiator is that it does not slow the waterflow down, unlike some other radiators out there. The radiator is located at the top front of the PC61, just above the cd-rom bays. A radiator needs to be cooled in order to perform as planned, so the engineers at OCH installed a blowhole above it. The cut is perfect and with a 120mm Sunon fan preinstalled you cant go wrong. The fan grill is also present, so dont worry about chopping of a finger or two
There is also a bad side on the placement of the radiator: you loose one cd-rom bay. There was no other way to install the radiator and still get sufficient cooling to it, so I guess well just have to learn to live with it. Besides, the only way you wont loose a cd-rom bay, is by getting a very large case or put the radiator on the exterior of the case. None of these options were available as it would make the "Heat Seeker" a lot less mobile, scaring of people who often go to LANs.
Last but not least, there is the Z4 water reservoir. This baby can hold about 1.5 liter/0.25 gallon of water, comes with a 145GPH waterpump available in 120v and 230v edition, anodized fittings, a knurled filler cap with an O-ring seal, a non-leak cord, mounting points for LANs and to conclude: it is made entirely out of CNC machined aluminium! Filling the unit is done with the included funnel, making it dead easy to fill it up to the top without spilling a drop
The tubing is preinstalled as well, so you wont have to worry about cutting it too long or too short
Also note that an Athlon XP/MP shim is included, as well as a tube of Artic Silver II. No more core crushing and the best thermal paste currently available
So you know what you get
Page 3 : Installation
Installation
... everything you need to get the job done.
:).
:).
The "Heat Seeker" has been made in a way that even a watercooling newbie can get the system up and running in no time! OCH includes a very well written manual with pictures, text, explanations, examples,
To be honest, they do all the work for you. The only thing you have to do is install the Z4 waterblock onto your motherboard and connect the tubing to it. Once you done that, fill the water reservoir with the supplied funnel and youre all set. Thats it
I want to point out that the Z4 waterblock comes with a very good mounting system. There are two black, plastic tabs included that fit your motherboard perfectly. You attach both with included plastic bolts through the motherboard. Then you bolt the Z4 to these black tabs with 4 metal screws. What does this mean? It means that the Z4 waterblock is attached to your processor through the motherboard, which is the safest way to mount it! Be careful when you bolt down the block to the processor, because if you bolt them down too much you can kill your motherboard! And the good part is, you dont have to remove your motherboard to remove the block from the CPU! Note that these black tabs are "Overclockers Hideout Exclusive" and you wont find them anywhere else.
To get the power cord out of the case, there is a predrilled hole in one of the slot covers. The power cord comes with connectors so you can disconnect the "head" of it to be able to push the cable through that hole. Good thinking!
The water reservoir is installed in the removable hdd rack that comes with all Lian Li cases. Because of this, you loose some hdd mounts, but dont worry, there are enough left to fulfil the average Joes needs
Page 4 : Testing
Testing
:). After 30 minutes temperatures were measured and compared to the same tests with some of the best air cooled heatsinks out there. All aircooled heatsinks were tested at default speed (1.4GHz). The Heat Seeker was tested at default speed (1.4GHz) and overclocked (1.6GHz).
:). Note that all tests were run at a room temperature of approximately 21 degrees celcius. Another advantage of the Heat Seeker is the noise ... it is much more quiet than those high RPM fans installed on most aircooled heatsinks :).
In order to see how good the "Heat Seeker" performs, I installed one of my own rigs in the unit. Here is a short description:
- ABIT KR7A-RAID
- AMD Athlon 1400
- 2x256MB DDR2100 Crucial
- ABIT GeForce 3 Ti 200
- Accton NIC
- Windows 2000 + SP2 + VIA drivers + Detonator drivers
To give the setup a run for its money, I overclocked the processor to 1.6GHz with a core voltage of 1.85v and ran some prime95 and RC5 loving on it
As you can see, the "Heat Seeker" is performing very well, and leaving the competition with nothing but dust in their face. I am sure that the Lian Li case is pulling its weight in the results as well, because an aluminium case will definitely get the heat away faster than a normal steel casing. All in all I am very pleased with the results and I am not ashamed to show them to my friends and colleagues
Page 5 : Conclusion
Conclusion
:). Note that Overclockers Hideout gives you the possibility to put your own watercooler together: you can choose your radiator, reservoir, ... everything according to your needs and budget. In short, the "Heat Seeker" offers astonishing quality and performance for the right price, and therefore it receives the official Overclockers Online Power Award.
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The "Heat Seeker" is one great product that makes watercooling accessible for everyone out there. The quality is perfect and the kit comes with everything you need to build yourself a well performing and good looking system. The price seems high, but let me remind you that it contains not only the entire Z4 watercooler setup, it also contains a full featured PC61 Lian Li case and we all know that these beauties dont come cheap! Would I recommend this product? If you can afford it, this is one great buy, so yes I have no problem putting it on my wish list
Good
- Quality
- Bundle
- Performance
- Looks
Bad
- Not cheap
- Be careful with the bolts to mount the block to the CPU