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| 2006 E3 - Day 2: Hardware & Cooling | |||||||
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2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)
Introduction:
If you've been wondering just how many booths and vendors there are at the E3 Expo, check this link with the complete list. It's pretty difficult to complete a full tour and see every exhibit and conference. It's actually almost impossible to fully catch every detail information wise from the event. When a year has been a profitable one, more vendors and demonstrations are present. Naturally, the economy has been pretty good, thus a robust E3.
Sapphire had there exhibit showing off the Nvidia Dual GPU, SLI, and Quad kits that they hope you can afford. They were also sporting their unique, white PCB AM2 socket motherboards breaking from the normal green. The Sapphire units are waiting and expected out as soon as the first AM2 processors hit the shelves. They will also have Intel units to help spruce up the upcoming cores.
 X1800XT |
 Shared Memory Cards |
 X1900XTX and Pro |
 X1600PRO and X1800PRO |
 PC-A9RD580 |
 PC-A9RD480 |
 PC-A9RD Advantage |
Here on display are a couple of Sapphire's best and upcoming with some more economical liquid cooling using the Cooler Master Aquagate. This was more of a video card display as opposed to the extreme liquid cooled systems you will see down the pages.
Sapphire was showing off their new Toxic 1900 XTX liquid cooled video cards. These cards are self contained with its own mini-12v pump and pre-filled before shipping. Ambient LEDs are becoming more and more popular in place of the 5000+/mcd versions that have blinded us for the last 5 years.
 PC-A9RD480 |
 Toxic X1900XTX |
 Coolermaster AquaGate |
 Toxic Close up |
 AquaGate Close up |
This is Cool-It System's new radiator and pump system that has yet to be released. It was just being unpacked from the box as the crew walked up. Its Brand new and not even in the press releases. Those are 80mm fans at the front and back moving air through the fins to keep it cool. You can see the barbs in the shots. It looked as though it was meant to be an internal option connecting to the front or rear intake fans. A case with a separate chamber or removable hard drive bays would serve as a perfect wind tunnel to house this, or just mount it to the outside of the case.
 New Cool-It System |
 Radiator |
 and Pump Unit |
Many of the vendors had displays that we've already seen in reviews and news releases around the web. I would associate E3 with every facet of gaming entertainment to include computer gaming hardware from every maker even if they aren't a huge mainstream maker. While there were many booths, there really wasn't a great number of gear that has evolved by leaps or bounds. However...
Cool-It was present and had a machine that claimed bragging rights that rival Voodoo PC's Omen machine. Using the Freezone CPU Cooler, they were able to achieve higher scores and benchmarks including over clocking. If you're familiar with Voodoo PC's Omen series game rig, then you have seen or read about their over clocked 2.95Ghz FX-60 dream machine with impressive scores. We love to see rival companies show off new concepts and gear at E3.
 Fresh out of the box |
 Coolit Freezone Unit |
 Hydraulic Hinged Doors |
 ThermalTake Tai Chi |
 Two 7900 GTXs |
 Tai Chi 5000 Inside |
 Chrome Heat Pipes |
 Corsair XMS Pro |
 Alien Green UV |
 Compressor Close up |
Cool-It used the ThermalTake Water-cooled Tai-Chi aluminum case to show off their latest achievement using the Freezone Cooler sporting the alien UV green. That's Cosair XMS Pro 4400 in the slots. This was of course a demo machine showing off the eye candy as I doubt they achieved their extreme over clock with four 1GB sticks of XMS Pro. The LEDs are always a nice touch when you want to show off your system.
The video cards you see are dual GPU in SLI! Notice the massive heat-pipe, heatsinks spanning the length of the video cards. This made for very attractive video cards not to mention it had a serious bling factor.
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