Gskill :

Visiting the booth of Gskill was a real jawbreaker to me. I still got one of them precious DDR2 PC8000HZ kits that were and still are great performers. When we saw that 24Gb kit running at 1800mhz with Cas 8 we all thought; amazing stuff. But there was more from Gskill. The PIs series have got really amazing clocks varying from 1600 cas 5 (yep no typo) to 2500mhz cas 9. Ofcourse these clocks are only warranted on a P55 motherboard. It was really impressive to see Frank just swap modules, load the bios settings and the rig posted and tested fine. Lian-Tu saw on our faces that we were happy campers :p Too bad we don't see much of these Gskill products in Belgium.




SSD's present where the Falcon I and II series. The new Phoenix drive , based on Sandforce technology will be available soon.



Icy Dock :

Now for something completely different. Hard drive enclosure specialist Icy Dock showed us some nice screwless removable enclosures. I'm no specialist on this domain but they seemed very easy to use and to setup. Two brand new slick looking USB3.0 ready enclosures were shown, one for 2.5" the other one for 3.5" drives. Benjamin Koprian informed us that all of their internal products are S-ATA 6Gb/s ready. Most external products will be ready soon too. We saw racks with integrated hardware RAID controllers (MB982SPR and MB992RS), so no software install is required. The MB974SP-B rack even had on/off switchable drives. Very practical for the Eco purists.





Lian Li :

No need to introduce this company, unless you are from planet Mars or something. Everyone knows Lian Li, amazingly crafted cases and enclosures, lightweight and sadly also pretty expensive. But you pay what you get for, no arguments possible about that. Picture time, enough of the chit chat. For the enthusiasts we also spotted a benchtable.