Introduction After the X-Navigator we took again a product of the American company aspire with the X-QPack to the chest, which comes along with a similar choice, but a completely different concept. We have to do it here with a tower, nor on a desktop or Barebone housing. It is designed as a Barebone competitor while, differs from them but by using more or less standard intended motherboards and power supplies, and promises a better...

Introduction The present mercury housing was provided us friendly manner by the company Jet computer from Germany us to the test, are – does it like almost all PC Tower – from Asia. Jet computer based in Hildesheim is a major distributor for PC hardware and was founded in 1994. Traded throughout Europe, many products in the range come from Taiwan and China. The Aero-one mercury is offered in a number of different versions, the...

Introduction The 1983 founded Taiwanese manufacturer Lian Li has an excellent reputation among users. Noble case creations on full aluminium base with a particular character are the speciality of the far eastern developers. The current Lian Li flagships include doing the gaming produced by hand and HTPC case of PC-X series, which are distinguished by their special room and cooling concept, as well as many of everyday specified details. We...

Introduction The CPU cooler market has lost in recent years undoubtedly explosive. A growing number of manufacturers and marketing to, whose Produktentwicklungen differ only in detail is stagnant technical concepts. Only a few manufacturers really still trying with courageous projects this Tristesse to break something. To the experimentierfreudigeren Guild is one of the Japanese coolers and peripheral specialist Scythe, which from time to...

Introduction For many customers is very quickly reached the point of price in the threshold of pain, even if of principle in favour of Lian Li has made. This should apply particularly to our today’s test candidates, because with no less than 410 euro we certainly take a housing of price luxury under the microscope. With almost 70 cm height assumes not only the price special proportions. The look is reminiscent of the typical corporate...

Introduction It is housing testing time, time for some changes in the field. On the one hand, it is urgent that computer base still closer to the current market approached, on the other hand, our test system has been so slow in the year. To achieve former, there is a second editor for the Housing Division, Sven Scharpe since 01 January 2011. Through its support and experience, from now on more tests done and thus more current models tested. ...

Introduction The Taiwanese cult company Thermaltake celebrates the tenth anniversary this year. Ten years Thermaltake, this means very much colorful, funny, loud, unusual but for the part very ideas and successful in the areas of PC cooling, chassis and peripherals. Specifically to the former hobbyhorse of the company, to design successful air cooling solutions, it has become recently somewhat quiet and the focus moved increasingly to the...

Introduction After our test of Coolermaster WaveMaster we throw with the Coolermaster stacker a look at one of the first BTX-enabled housing. Coolermaster, headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, deals mainly with cooling solutions for all components in the PC case; Additional cooling are available also for notebooks. The Housing Division is now quite strong and includes five tower case and two desktop housing. Since 1992, Coolermaster is on the...

Introduction Long time no longer a secret is that behind LanCool actually the Lian Li aluminum specialists hide. Under the brand name LanCool, the Taiwanese sell cheaper housing, which are not from the all-aluminum, but have a backbone made of sheet steel. Also at the front, trade-offs must be made in most models of the mark, here mostly plastic instead of aluminium is used. Nevertheless, the housing not least enjoy because of their very good...

Introduction In the currently prevailing warm season come in addition to the people on the PCs also latter sweat. Suddenly it comes to system crashes, because due to the high temperatures the components inside the case work correctly. Case fan, which however exists in many versions and variants help. Fortunately such fan is now provided at the most common cases, sheet metal work are usually unnecessary. We have us 32 fan sizes 80mmx80mm,...

Introduction Recently, we tested a very progressively-designed CPU cooler from the far-Eastern tradition forged from Thermaltake, tried again and again by extravagant product creations in the fields of housing, peripherals, and especially water or air-based component cooling of the sometimes dull mass of market stand out from with the radial-vented SpinQ. Beginning of 2007 Thermaltake presented a CPU cooler in this sense with the v1, which...