Their entire Xtreem DDR2 and DDR3 kits have been given new heat spreaders. There are still some spreaders from last year's kits still on sale while all of the kits from here on will sport the new look. From a distance, it's hard to tell just how nice the fabrication and details appear. The display case had DDR2 1200 and 1300MHz memory kits as well as DDR3 1800 to 2100+MHz kits. This is the only series to offer 1300MHz DDR2.

DDR2 Series

DDR2 1200 & 1300MHz

And they also had various memory cards, USB sticks, and SSD (Solid State Drives) with improved capacities and designs. Their SSD line currently consists of 32GB and 64GB which should be shipping very soon. They're still working on the 256GB SSD and hope to have them ready soon. Based on its projected price, there's no rush for us regular folks.

New Packaging

SSD Drives 32 to 128 & 256GB Soon

Thermaltake

The Thermaltake booth was all a buzz with a few Press crews checking out the latest goodies. They've always taken their power supplies, heat sinks, and case enclosures seriously. Someone is always seems to be working on something new that offers a unique feature.

Thermaltake Booth

Armor+ Nvidia ESA

Their first case in the long booth line up is the Armor Plus ESA. This falls within Nvidia's SLI Certified Chassis and Enthusiast System Architecture, thus the name. There are three different models: the stock Armor VH6000BWS, Armor Plus ESA VH6001BWS, and VH600LBWS which offers liquid cooling features. It's a really nice chassis now that some useful revisions have been made to improve its predecessor.

Xaser VI

Xaser VI & Armor+

There was one more new addition now called the Xaser VI4000 Series which can be ordered in silver and black, with or without acrylic windows, and with and without liquid cooling. And as per their designs, most all the cases have migrated over to aluminum construction.

The BlacX, BlacX SE, V1 CPU Cooler, and Toughpower QFan Power Supplies. The BlacX and BlacX SE are both an external SATA docking station supporting both 2.5" and 3.5" drives. The SE has four USB 2.0 ports for networking out the drive which is a pretty handy feature. The BlacX is definitely going to attract a lot of attention from notebook and desktop users alike.

Armor

Quad SLI w/ V1 Cooler

The V1 CPU Cooler is a pretty copper heat sink obviously in the shape of a "V". There are two sets of copper fins connecting four heat pipes with a center 110x25mm quiet fan moving about 86 cubic feet of air per minute. Is the market ready for some artistic CPU coolers? Well, we're ready.

Power Supplies

CPU Coolers

It appears Thermaltake has been also working to offer consumers cleaner, more realistic rated power supplies. People will be surprised by how little real world power is needed to keep their quad core systems going. So, that 2000 Watt power supply in their display case is major overkill for most of the regular consumers. The Toughpower QFan 500 and 650 Watt Modular Power Supplies are rated to be at least 85% efficient. Both new power supplies offer three 12 volt rails, topping out at 18 amps each. This is pretty sweet given the rated wattage.

Voodoo

Even though Voodoo is part of HP now, you wouldn't really know it by their booth. It was packed with gamers, some playing and some waiting to play. There were the usual racing games with the race car style chairs and plenty of 30+ inch HD screens. Every booth was naturally powered by several of Voodoo's own Omen game machines.

BlackBird 002

Omen Racing Pit

While the Omen isn't brand new, the HP Blackbird 002 is a joint Voodoo PC-HP venture and is HP's long time coming step in to extreme enthusiast gaming machines. Everything about the Blackbird is SLI, SLI, SLI. It also has integrated liquid cooling with a pretty impressive looking water block. At one booth, someone forgot to close the panel door, so I snapped off a quick couple pictures with my camera phone.

Omen - Chrome Case

Sweet Front

The center display had a custom, solid chrome Omen chassis. It was like looking at a giant chrome mirror with a side window. It was, of course, a liquid cooled SLI configured system with plenty of RAM along with the bells and whistles to make it stand out. It's a seriously pimped, chrome system. You can't order this chassis when configuring your system. But, for the 5K price tag the Omen system costs, it should absolutely come with the chrome case by default. Still, it was pretty sweet.

Pretty Red Voodoo Logo

Must Get Display Case Open...

A couple of developers from 3DBuzz were spotted sitting at a table working with some 3D software that allows you to manipulate the environment. The software is customizable and can do just about anything you can think up. It's just one of the ever evolving ideas between gamers and designers.

Got Game Creation Skills?

Creating The Environment

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