Event Coverage

Computex Taipei 2007 - Part 9

By Zachary Chan - 8 Jun 2007

OCZ's Booth

OCZ's Booth

 OCZ really pushing the limits of niche and enthusiast products this year with plenty of prototypes and technology demos that are actually interesting to see first hand. First up, your conventional liquid cooling setup in this crazy Danger Den demo just to feature OCZ's FlexXLC hybrid air and water cooled memory.

 If elaborate water cooling setup's are not for you, OCZ's latest CPU cooler borders on revolutionary. The HydroJet is a self contained hybrid liquid and air cooling system no larger than your average enthusiast air coolers today. No water pumps, no tubes, no mess. The outer layer is a series of liquid filled heat sink arrays that more effectively offload heat. The core of the cooler is a silent fan that will draw air across the liquid arrays to dissipate heat.

 For something totally out of a sci-fi movie. OCZ introduces the Neural Impulse Actuator, a device you strap onto your head to control your PC through neural electrical signals. At the moment, the Actuator can detect 11 different signals based on your brain, eye and facial muscle activity, all of which are programmable to map to keystrokes or mouse buttons. Since there are only 11 signals, we can't really use it for writing, but hey, playing games can be a fully cerebral activity (can we possibly get any lazier?).

 A more graphical representation of how the Neural Impulse Actuator is used if you couldn't image it just looking at the control unit above.

 Back to more conventional devices, OCZ's acquisition of PC Power & Cooling has come to fruition of a new series of PSU systems. The PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 power supply has quad PCIe connectors, 83% efficiency, ultra silent cooling and certified for both NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX SLI and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT CrossFire. This particular red model is a special CrossFire Edition of the Silencer 750. Nothing really different, just bright red.

 An open Silencer 750 showing its guts.

 Another demo running at the OCZ show room involving water. Seen at CeBIT, but can you guess what these are? Hint: it is called the OCZ ATV.

 The ATV is really a series of USB 2.0 flash drives housed in heavy duty shock-proof and water-proof rubber coating. The Turbo version seen here supports faster transfer speeds.

 Lastly, OCZ showed a new range of flash drives in the market. You may think that it is just another flash drive, but this particular one is based on a FireWire interface and Not USB. The drive has a 40-50MB/s read and 40-45MB/s write speed, with capacities of 2-16GB. The biggest question to ask is whether these will work with current pervasive USB technologies, such as Vista ReadyBoost.

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