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low-noise fan from Akasa has an optimal radiator for your material. Easy to use and very trendy, it will bring a touch of class to your system with its 3 LEDs.
low-noise fan from Akasa has an optimal radiator for your material. Easy to use and very trendy, it will bring a touch of class to your system with its 3 LEDs.
Akasa is the leader in thermal integration solutions. Basing on quality and consistency, Akasa continues to produce new and innovative components to excite the high-end market. PRODUCT FEATURES: Chipset cooler; 3 Hi-bright blue LED; Lo-noise.
Advantages: Very cool, easy to install Disadvantages: copper on the cpu side far from mirror ( needs a polish )
...Test system:
processor - AMD Athlon FX62 (2 x 2800 MHz / 125W TDP)
motherboard - ASUS M2N32 DeLuxe Wireles Edition (passive cooling system with HeatPipe)
Cooler is very easy to install just one lever.
More experienced users will probably remove thermal compound and polish the surface of the cooler ( it is far from being a mirror ) and then apply high quality thermal compound.
This will give You another 1-2 C less and faster cooling down after stress.
all tests were done using Zalman STG 1 ( high quality thermal compound )
Temperature readings after 60 minutes in idle:
AkasaAK-876 37
Arctic Cooling 64PRO 38
Scythe Katana II 39
Temperature readings after 60 minutes in 100% load:
AkasaAK-876 56
Arctic Cooling 64PRO 58
Scythe Katana II 61
Temperature readings...
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Advantages: Ease of installation Disadvantages: Two hard drives dying out after 1 year of use each
...after 1 year of using it, the hard drive was brand new when I installed it to the enclosure and since I thought it was the drives fault not the enclosures I switched my other hard drive to this enclosure and 1 year later again the same thing is starting to happen with the hard disk slowly dieing out.
I am starting to think this enclosure is problematic and it's not the hard drives fault, I suggest buying another model which includes cooling system unlike this enclosure which is probably the reason why the drives are dying out.
Specs:
Akasa Integral 3.5"" USB2 External Enclosure(Black).
High speed: USB 2.0 interface backwards compatible with existing USB 1.1 port Auto-ejection HDD tray for easy installation Crystal acrylic casing with blue LED illumination Suitable for all 3.5"" internal or external device Aluminum alloy material to enhance...
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Advantages: Neat, Cool LED Mini USB Cable supplied Disadvantages: Horrible Manual, Price
...I was looking for a 2.5" encasing to make use of an old 40GB laptop hard drive and looking through the Maplin's selection I decided that this was the best looking for the price (£29.99). It was the smallest and prettiest on the shelf and also it helped that I like Akasa as a brand because they are usually good in PC accessories.
I then found it at PC World for £19.99, which made it more of a temptation for me to get it.
THE LOOKS
It comes either in black (pic above) or in silver. It is made of aluminium and it looks good with its brushed aluminium encasing. Still though it lacks something, It doesn't feel solid. It has blue LEDs on both sides, one to show is getting power and the other to indicate the HDD inside is being accessed but these lights are slightly deceptive when you buy and see it on the box as the LED stripe effect...
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