[NEWS] ACBEL R88 PSU HITS THE MARKET

fig.1. The R88 series, 500, 600, 700, 900, and 1100watt units.

AcBel latest offering, the R88 series has already hit the market.

Available from a 500watt unit upto the kill-a-watt unit.

Each R88 unit is 80plus certified at SILVER level.

So, this means that each unit can achieve at least 85% efficiency

factor.

fig.2. The kill-a-watt unit, really takes a lot of space, 19cm long.

fig.3. The 500watt unit, comes with dual PCIE power.

[NEWS] AMD 45nm OPTERON HITS THE MARKET

fig.1. OPTERON 2380 for socket F server platform.

AMD latest 45nm quad-core OPTERON has already hit the market.

With its new improvement on its FPU, this processor also comes

with larger capacity of L3 cache memory.

fig.2. Comes without fansink? Have to search for an aftermarket ones.

[NEWS] MSI MOA: INDONESIA @ THE TOP

Master Overclocking Arena (MOA), is the first international

overclocking contest organized by MSI. Was held at Huashan

Cultural-Creative park Taipei Taiwan.

The day of the competition, November 9th 2008. At early morning,

all contestant gathered for a final briefing about rules etc. There are

13 OC teams from 11 different countries.

 

fig.1. There are thirteen OC teams participated.

(hardwarezone.com)

Enough explation, let's talk about the overclocking time.

These components are given to the contestants:

- Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

- MSI P45D3 Platinum MOA Special Edition

- OCZ DDR3 PC3-16000 Platinum Edition

- MSI N9800GTX+ MOA Special Edition

- CHIMEI 22GH LCD monitor

- Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB

- Genius keyboard

- MSI gaming mouse

- Enermax MODU82+ 625W SLI

fig.2. France OC team preparing some mobo modifications.

(hardwarezone.com)

fig.3. Each team uses the provided LN for cooling the processor.

(hardwarezone.com)

Differ from the previous regional OC contest, this is pure

overclocking contest, only benchmarking is needed here,

SuperPI MOD 1.5 8M and 3DMark01 SE.

The first round, SuperPI MOD 1.5 8M benchmarking.

50 minutes time limit are given for achieve the best result.

final result: 1st Indonesia - 2nd China - 3rd Greece

fig.4. Alva & Rekky at the top of the 1st round, result: 7.5s.

(hardwarezone.com)

2nd round, 3DMark 2001 benchmarking.

50 minutes time limit are given. But at the middle of this

session, the judge decided to give another 50 minutes.

final result: 1st Greece - 2nd South Africa - 3rd Taiwan

fig.5. Greece OC team at the top with 101711 points.

FINAL RESULT

Thanks to the great result at the 1st round, Indonesia team leads

and placed at the 1st place, Greece at 2nd place, and Taiwan at 3rd

place.

fig.6. Indonesia OC Team at the first place, congrats.

(hardwarezone.com)

fig.7. Greece OC team at 2nd place.

fig.8. 3rd place, Taiwan OC team also achieve a good result.

That's all folks, see you next year for another MSI OC contest.

If we're lucky enough, we'll meet again.

fig.9. All contestant, win or lose, don't give up, cheers.

(hardwarezone.com)

[PREVIEW] RANAISSANCE, FOXCONN X58 MOBO

RENAISSANCE, it's the latest FOXCONN mobo solution for intel CORE-i7 processor.

DIGITAL LIFE, it's the theme of this mobo.

Focusing on digital multi-media enjoyment for end-user.

fig.1. FOXCONN RENAISSANCE retail box.

Digital multi-media, include gaming needs, but why only providing single LAN interface?

fig.2. RENAISSANCE I/O side panel, nothing special here.

This mobo provides three PCIE 2.0 16x expansion slots.

Two of them capable of running at real 16x mode, while the third only works at 8x mode.

[PREVIEW] intel CORE-i7 RETAIL VERSION

Intel new processor finally hits the ratail market.

For now, only intel X58 series mobo has supported this processor.

fig.1. Core i7-920 RETAIL BOX

fig.2. Wow, first batch, made in Costa Rica

fig.3. BX8060920 = BOX CODE for i7-920

For initial release, there are three SKU released:

[1] the cheapest one starting at U$350-U$375

CORE i7-920 - 2.66GHz QUAD CORE, 8 thread, 8MB shared L3-cache

[2] the middle one, starting at U$700-U$725

CORE i7-940 - 2.93GHz QUAD CORE, 8 thread, 8MB shared L3-cache

[3] the flagship, starting at U$1200-U$1250

CORE i7 Extreme 965 - 3.20GHz QUAD CORE, 8 thread, 8MB shared L3-cache

[PREVIEW] Again, another intel X58

Intel X58 original board, it's intel version board.

fig.1. Intel X58 board, pretty unusual layout.

This mobo only provide 4 DIMM slots.

The three blue DIMM slots provided for triple-channel mode.

Its CPU PWM circuit just like the old ones, not so efficient compared to others.

fig.2. Foxconn intel X58, it's really Foxconn.

The X58 chip cooled by a strange heatsink.

Its just like a speaker driver unit.

[PREVIEW] Another intel X58 motherboards

Another intel X58 based motherboards

fig.1. ASUS RAMPAGE II EXTREME

This mobo provide a unique "onboard" OC feature

Take a look at the panel below DIMM slot.

Low level OC, can it replace "clockgen" function?

fig.2. OC panel for extremist.

Other features are mostly the same as the previous RAMPAGE.

[PREVIEW] MSI ECLIPSE - RETAIL VERSION

Here are some photos of ECLIPSE RETAIL VERSION

fig.1. The RETAIL-BOX (coolaler.com)

fig.2. The BOX contents (coolaler.com)

fig.3. BOOT screen, another eclipse (coolaler.com)

Some new features:

MSI Dr.MOS (digital PWM) is also applied for ICH.

MSI GreenPower Genie, monitor & manage M/B power consumption

HI-c CAP is now applied for CPU's power circuit

2-phase switching power circuit for powering DIMM

It seems that this M/B is being targeted for extreme use.

And, for gamers, don't worry, there is an X-Fi sound module included.

[CONTEST] RESULT: HWZ IRONTECH 2008 GRANDFINAL

Choosing VGA, RADEON or GEFORCE??? (hardwarezone.com)

Pretty challanging OC contest, each contestant must not only

setup/install his PC. But, he has to deal with the component choosing,

to achieve best price per performance ratio. And in the end, each

contestant must run some power consumption test, to test his PC's

performance per watt ratio.

Here is the result

The 1st position: Jeremiah (Singapore)

The 2nd position: Alva (Indonesia)

The 3rd position: Rangsee Traiwongyoi (Thailand)

Top three contestants for SEA region (hardwarezone.com)

[CONTEST] HWZ IRONTECH GRANDFINAL

The finalists from all over South East Asia

gather at Singapore for another showdown. (hardwarezone.com)

There are:

- Alva & Rekky (Indonesia OC Team)

- Ng Teng Liang & Alex Tan (Malaysia OC Team)

- Ronaldo Bejarin & Gil Navarro (Philippines OC Team)

- Tianyi & Jeremiah (Singapore OC Team)

- Rangsee Traiwongyoi & Third Phokha (Thailand OC Team)

The top three then will be participated for the upcoming OC Contest

at Taipei (Taiwan).

The main contest parted become five phases (challanges):

- choosing components

- rigging

- setup

- benchmark

- power consumption test

continue...

[PREVIEW] ACBEL R88 SERIES

AcBel R88 (700watt) internal shot (hkepc.com)

Complete L-C components on AC filtering part.

Two NCC capacitor at primary part.

DC-DC VRM at secondary part.

[PREVIEW] INTEL BLOOMFIELD CORE i7

MSI X58 Eclipse + CORE i7-965 + g.skill DDR3 (coolaler.com)

Soon, intel will launch its new CPU, a new architecture, named CORE i7

CODENAME: intel BLOOMFIELD

This time, intel comes with its new integrated memory controller,

which supports native triple channel DDR3

[NEWS] UPCOMING ACBEL R88 SERIES

AcBel Polytech Inc. releases a new PC PSU series

THE R88 series

This R88 series has some unique fatures, such as:

- Active Clamp Forward converter design for 900/1100w

- 80PLUS Certified (SILVER)

- true power with overclocking capability

- adoption of Japanese & Solid state capacitors

- scratch-resistant wrinkle paint casing

- support multi-GPU (SLi & Crossfire)... a usual one ^^

This R88 series wattage will be rated started from 

500w, 600w, 700w, 900w,  and the kill-a-watt one (1100w).

Kita tunggu saja kehadiran PSU ini di INDONESIA.

[CONTEST] HWZ IRON-TECH 2008

Alva take the 1st place (hardwarezone.com)

Another PC overclocking contest.

Was held at Mangga-2-Square, on September 20th 2008.

Local ocers take a participation here, like alva, hendy, eki, patar, raihan, and afiat.

this contest was sponsored by MSI International.

the result:

winner: Alva Jonathan "lucky_noob" with 34 point of score

runner-up: Eki "jengkol" with 25 point of score

A-DATA, 2nd position in the DRAM WORLD

[NEWS] AcBel 80plus BRONZE: i8-570

AcBel Polytech Inc. releases a new mainstream PC PSU series.

This series, named the i8 power series.

Each unit will come with 80plus certification.

This i8 features:
- Dual forward converter design
- Support Intel/AMD dual/quad core CPU
- 85+% high efficiency (80plus BRONZE level)
- Allows overclocking 100W continuously
- Support nVIDIA SLi & ATI Cross-fire VGA cards
- Intel ATX 2.3, ActivePFC

- Scratch resistant wrinkle paint casing

A-DATA SALE!!!

A-DATA DDR2 module SALE!!!

.: VITESTA SERIES :.
DDR2-800 PC6400 CL5 1GB = 220rb*
DDR2-800 PC6400 CL5 2GB = 420rb*

.: EXTREME EDITION: DUAL-KIT, nVIDIA EPP support :.
DDR2-800 PC6400 CL4 2GB-kit = 490rb*
DDR2-1066 PC8500 CL5 2GB-kit = 625rb*

* brand new, LIFETIME warranty, with HEATSPREADER

ACBEL PROMO: DIGITAL POWER 550watt

AcBel back in promo

AcBel LCD 550watt PC PSU

active PFC
"though" black case, with 120mm LED fan
hi-quality components, "nippon-capacitor"
LCD display, plus monitoring software
SLI support
brand new box
only Rp.950.000,00 for first 10 units

Looking for an excellent thermal paste kit?

Hi quality thermal paste by ArcticSilver...
[1] Arctic Ceramique
specialized thermal paste for CPU, VGA, & chipset aplication , short period of curing time
[2] ArctiClean
specialized for removing thermal paste

Plenty award around the web given for this ArcticSilver.

For more specific info, just visit the site, www.arcticsilver.com

Price? Only for 100rb, you can get:
1pcs Arctic Ceramique 2.5gr
1set ArctiClean 60ml-set

AcBel Power Supply Unit

"Received more than 30 “Best Supplier” awards from International leading Companies - IBM, Apple, Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC..."

For your PC, it's time to get some reliable PSU unit, such as AcBel PC PSU.

For its excellent quality, you don't have to spend much.

For your modern PC, these models should be perfectly fit:

[1] AcBel E2-470, 80mm Fan

... supports EPS 8-pin, 1x PCIE power, 2x SATA, 5x Eazy-Plug molex, 1x FDD

[2] AcBel iPower-510, 120mm LED Fan

... supports EPS 8-pin, 1x PCIE power, 2x SATA, 5x Eazy-Plug molex, 1x FDD

[3] AcBel i8 Power 570, 120mm Fan, 80plus Bronze awarded

... supports EPS 8-pin, 1x PCIE power, 6x SATA, 5x Eazy-Plug molex, 1x FDD

[4] AcBel digital Power-550, 120mm LED Fan

... supports EPS 8-pin, 2x PCIE power, 4x SATA, 6x Eazy-Plug molex, 1x FDD

[5] AcBel M8-750, 120mm Fan, 80plus Bronze awarded

... modular PSU, quad 12v rail, support 8-pin PCIE, 80plus certified

Available for sale at these outlets (Bandung only):
[1] Bandung Electronic Center, jalan Purnawarman
... Compumax, ART, Dhamma, Vinaya, Tetra, Aurora, Arena
[2] Bandung Electronic Mall, jalan Naripan
... Flux, Genesis, TerraMedia
[3] IBCC Plaza, jalan A.Yani
... DTZ, Cahaya
others,
... OverDrive, jalan Ciwaregu no.36
... Zona, jalan Dago no.278
... MCS, STT Telkom