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CeBIT 2014: A Quick Tour

Tradeshow & OC events by leeghoofd @ 2014-03-13

The Hannover Messe is getting less and less interesting for hardware enthusiasts as myself. Almost all the interesting vendors were located this edition at the Planet Resellers booth; selling is the name of the game, not just show your brand new lineup to the masses. Some big names didn't even bother to prepare a booth for the CeBIT 2014 tradeshow: Gigabyte was not present at all. Neither was ASUS, besides a small stand with professional Laptops. The Media usually got invited into small press meeting rooms to get an insight in upcoming products; definitely not the way to go, but the current outcome is the result of a small and steady decline in interest from the hardware manufacturers. Main focus remains at CES in Las Vegas and Computex in Taipei. In this last article we are looking at some great products from eVGA, Enermax and Bloody Inc; for MSI and Fractal we direct you to the two CeBIT specials.

EKL Alpenföhn

EKL Alpenföhn has received numerous awards for their products over the years. Their products providing good performance, but most of all being near silent cooling solutions. We took some piccies of the existing lineup with the Himalaya 2 CPU cooler and the Peter 2 VGA cooler.

On day two of CeBIT the guys from EKL showed us the first Eco version of the Brocken2 CPU cooler. Less heat pipes, smaller radiator surface and a smaller Fan should still provide adequate cooling at a mere 30 euros.

The Peter2 VGA Cooler has been updated to fully support the AMD R290X series. According the EKL guys it is a complete nightmare to keep a universal VGA cooler compatible with the new hardware, hence this could partly explain the complex heat pipe solution.

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