ADVANTI® Online Blog » Product Reviews http://blog.advantionline.com A blog by ADVANTI Staff. Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:58:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Thermaltake Xpressar http://blog.advantionline.com/2008/09/thermaltake-xpressar/ http://blog.advantionline.com/2008/09/thermaltake-xpressar/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:02:06 +0000 ebrahim http://blog.advantionline.com/?p=18  World’s First DC Inverter Type Micro Refrigeration Cooling System

 

 

ThermalTake introduced Xpressar – world’s first computer case with a DC inverter type micro refrigeration cooling system! According to ThermalTake, the Xpressar RCS100 case keeps your components 20°C cooler than a liquid cooling system.

 

The Xpressar RCS100 is a quite big supertower case, it measures 605 x 250 x 660mm and weighs 22.2kg. There’s support for micro ATX and ATX motherboards, seven 5.25″ devices, five 3.5″ devices and 10 expansion cards. The case is made out of 1.0mm SECC steel and features an aluminum front door, the design of the case looks a bit like the Xaser VI

and it has several nice features such as a removable motherboard tray, cable management, a sliding hood and an adjustable PSU bridge. Furthermore, the front also features a compartment with I/O ports, this includes 2x e-SATA, 4x USB 2.0, 1x FireWire IEEE 1394 and HD audio.

 

The most interesting thing about this case is the phase-change cooling system, the Xpressar features a micro vapor-compression refrigeration system, which is a method similar to the one used for air-conditioning. It has a compressor, condenser, expansion valve, evaporator and intelligent IC controller. The cooling system uses a circulating liquid refrigerant as the medium which absorbs and removes heat from the space to be cooled and subsequently rejects that heat elsewhere. The refrigeration cooling system is compatible with Intel LGA775 and LGA1366 (Nehalem) sockets and the compressor uses a max of 50W.

 

- Utilize micro compressor and refrigerant to cool PC, to maximize over-clocking limitation and performance.
- 20ºC cooler than liquid cooling System
- Equipped with intelligent IC controller to prevent condensation
- Thermal resistance can be <0.02 ºC/W under 100% loading.
- High performance micro compressor uses standard 12V power
- Small, low noise, high performance technology.

 

Compatible Motherboards List

MSI P45 Diamond / P45 Platinum / P45D3 Platinum / P7N Diamond (Only for one VGA card plug in 4th slot) / P7N2 Diamond (Only for one VGA card plug in 4th slot) / X48C Platinum (Only for one VGA card plug in 4th slot)
Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 / EP45T Extreme (DDR3) / EP45 Extreme (DDR2) / X48T-DQ6 (DDR3) / X48-DQ6 (DDR2)
Asus Blitz Formula / P5Q / P5QC / P5Q Pro / P5Q Deluxe / P5E Deluxe

Find more info on:  http://www.xpressar.com/

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Conclusion:

This ram cooler kit is fairly new on the market so it might be hard for you to find but I think you really should take a few minutes to find a seller that holds these as they can really give you a slight boost in your overclocking attempts. I don’t think I can tell you much more of this kit more than it does not make to much noise and it will help you. They were well packed and they feel like high quality ram coolers, we will give this our recommended award.

 

Source: http://www.rbmods.com/Articles/Thermaltake/Ramorb/1.php

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