At 3am, eight [M]ad people left their cosy homes and rode towards Europe’s largest IT Exhibition. After getting lost and driving in circles for a while we ended up in Hannover, Germany at 10 o'clock; on the following pages, we will take you along a trip of photos from hardware to come and gadgets to see!

Cases: Shuttle & CoolerMaster

First stop, cases! A large part of the exhibition halls were filled by case manufactures, showing of their latest creations.



"Shuttle's XPC systems are becoming very popular (site)"


“Biostar’s miniPC is real beauty (site)


“From another angle”


“This Shuttle gives a new meaning to word: shiny”


“The now famous Shuttle Wall was also present this year”


“CoolerMaster showed of their new cases, this one called the “Stacker” has room for 11 5.25” drives! (site)”


“This case offers excellent airflow, 3x120mm in the front, 1x120mm in the back with room left to add more fans!”


“The new “Cavalier 4” and the older CM desktop model, stylish!”

Cases : Server and Rack mount

Chenbo’s rack mount cases (site)


“The cases are made to house dual and more CPU systems, Dual Xeon mobo in this one”


”A 1U case, ideal for your webserver”


“The RM216, the next [M] webserver?”




“I think there is still some room left for your HD”


“Case Master is a new company with lots of interesting products, their brandnew rack mount case is going to a high quality yet inexpensive creation (site)


“Yeong Yang had very large cases on display, these can easily house 2 complete systems (site)

Cases: Midi/Maxi Towers

Chenbro also had midi towers on display, this new Gaming bomb look-a-like comes in a lot of different colours, I like the red the most though:


"Click the picture to view the white version of this case"


"More colours"


"Lian Li was also present with a great set of cases, their latest, the PC-V2000, has enough room to fit all your HD's and a watercooling kit! (site)"


"A stylish plexi case from BlackNoise (site)"


"You could almost see through the whole stand of Beantech, they showed of a nice selection of high quality plexi cases (site)"


"This BeanTech case looks mighty fine, broken glass effect does pay off"


"Case-Master is ready to launch a whole new product line of midi-tower cases, this one is made of high quality materials, sporting a sound sensitive CCFL at the front which can be disactivated by the flip of a switch (site)"


"A Gaming Bomb look-a-like with a few extra features and a very attractive price if I heard correctly"


"Don't recall who made this case, but it surely is a looker"


"This case from Avance Technologies has the inside upside down, the CPU is at the bottom of the case, just like the upcoming BTX standard. (site)


"Another fine looking case from Lian-Li"

Cooling: Phase Change

A lot of ultra-cool equipment was found on the exhibition grounds this year, nVentiv and Asetek were battling for the fastest system @ Cebit.


"A vanilla nVentiv Mach II, this super speedy system was used for.. browsing a forum, as you can see on the right side of the photo"


"nVentiv's new gear, the Mach II GT (site)"


"The Evap-head needed some extra cooling apparantly"


"Most flashy mounting system ever?"


"Running at -53°C.. quite chilly"


"The obtained speed from this 3.2Ghz CPU. Not bad at all!"







"The new Asetek VapoChill LS (site)"


"The evap head looks more sturdy then nVentiv's, and you can see mounting holes for an A64 setup also there!"


"This Danfoss compressor up close"


"4Ghz power with a plug and play phase-change cooling!"

Cooling: Water Cooling

Watercooling was quite popular at the show, going from all-in-one kits, to great looking custom setups




"The Asetek Waterchill cooling down the CPU/GPU and NorthBridge"


"Innovatek had some good looking kits on display (site)"






"An original reservoir to say the least"






"A cool "Innova-Li casemod" by Tom Versteeg for Epox. Watercooling components are (c) Innovatek, more pics from this mod can be found here"

Intermezzo


"When looking for a place to grab a cofee and something to eat we came across some very interesting reserved parking spots :)"



"Multimedia Beemer!"


"On the inside it looks even more impressive"


"A new swiss pocket-knife / tool kit"


"There was enough neon/ccfl light at some stand to make you think you were in the "pink district" of Cebit"


"no comment"




"Powercolor shall now be known as Tul, as long as the sales ladies get to keep their job, they can change their name as often as they want ;)"

Cooling by Zalman

Zalman has been striving for silent systems, their TNN cases are real beauties:










"The Zalman Reserator 1. The name might suck, but the design and performance surely doesn't!"




Specials


"SWEDX had a very popular stand, their wooden design PC's drew a lot of people and with good reason! (site)


"Build it yourself case-kit from Aerocool shows its potential! (site)

Drive Racks


"Case master had some very sturdy drive racks on display, as well as 3in1 5.25" bay drive bays"


"These drive bays were seen here and there at the show, Raidsonic's solution looks quite stylish (site)


People


"Our humble crew ready for action"


"Strolling through the crowd"


"At the Case Master stand"


"A view from above, Cebit on saturday 20th was crowded!"


"Reviewing the pictures that were snapped :)"


I hope you enjoyed our picture walkthrough, if you have questions or comments about any of the photo's don't hesitate to drop a line at our forums here (no registration required)

Till next year!