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3R System, a Korean company that specializes in PC cases, cooling products, and power supplies unveiled a new high-end CPU air cooler, the Boss 2. This cooler uses the most common tower-design coolers in its class use. The unit measures 131(L)x95(W)x152(H) mm, and weights around 730 g (1.61 lbs). The cooler design consists of a CPU block that doubles up as a tiny heatsink. Here, five heatpipes make direct contact with the CPU. The heatpipes propagate through a dense array of aluminum fins. Its air-flow is care of a 120 mm LED-lit fan that rotates at speeds between 1000 and 2000 rpm, 53.5 CFM to 78.5 CFM, with a noise output range of 19 to 32 dBA. Sources indicate that the cooler will be released worldwide very soon, though there is no word on its price. Sources: CPUsers.gr, Cooln.kr
Hey Bta, any idea if Xigmatek gave them the OK to use this design? If I remember correctly Xiggy own the rights to the 'HDT' design and have been fighting legal battles because of other companies using their design.
If such a deal has to be made, and they gave them the rights, the company should mention it by using the "HDT" branding, and mentioning a note on patents. I've not seen it on any of the material I've seen so far about this cooler.
Note 3R Came out with a HDT design WAY before Xigmatek. So are companies going to get sued for heatpipes, fins, and the heatsink?
Direct heat pipes are a poor idea - there's a reason the worlds FASTEST i7 using air cooling achieved this without them - and instead uses a cooler with a spreader plate. The heat from a CPU does NOT come evenly from the cpu cap - rather from hotspots caused by the placing of the cpu die(s). As a result the heat pipes on the edges are almost completely un-used and the efficiency of the cooler as a whole is reduced. (YES i know they still work well, but they would work BETTER if all of their heat pipes where conducting heat away from the cpu - and they don't) Someone had thermal imaging reviews to prove this (as it seemed ppl couldnt understand the concept) , but I cant find the review anymore - I was sure it was toms h/w ... Anyone know who it was?
+1 Agreed. The heatpipes need to be very close to the surface but still require a copper block (to provide thermal transfer and to provide some thermal capacity) on the IHS.
The company names the direct heat-pipe tech as DTH (Direct Touch Heatpipe), so I think there's no problem with Xigmatek's HDT. They are 8mm. BTW, official photos (with the specs) are located at CPUsers.gr source, post #5
"Its air-flow is care of a 120 mm LED-lit fan that rotates at speeds between 1000 and 2000 rpm" I don't see any fan in those pictures...am I missing something?
Yeah, but the heatpipes that do make contact with the hotspots work much more efficiently than the old design with a spreader. How else do you explain a Xigmatek HDT-S1283 keeping pace with a TRUE? In short, those heatpipes that do make contact with the hotspot work much more efficiently, to the point where they keep pace with all 6 pipes under the spreader of something like a TRUE, rendering the difference in heat spread on an HDT cooler meaningless. AKA: All that matters is the end result. The waste comes in the form of cost by having more heatpipes than needed. If these companies would make the heatpipes near gapless, I don't think any standard cooler would stand a chance.
According to Xigmatek the "secret" behind the HDT S1283's performance is the heatpipe diameter and not only the HDT. It means that more heat is able to be immediately transferred. A spreader slows down heat transfer guys, when you compare it to heatpipes. Heatpipes immediately transfer heat to the fins (in a rapid oscillation), whilst copper "slowly" transfers it. The faster the rate of transfer the better. I think Xigmatek's quality control has taken a dump when you look at their recent coolers, with old batches of HDT S1283 sometimes besting them. This is my theory, I reckon its because now they have a higher demand and the finishing process is done faster; with faster machinery to lap the cooler, you get more friction, thus a lot of heat. Too much heat will permanently increase the pressure of the vapor chamber (somehow... dunno), causing the heat transfer to be slightly less (seems more like "significantly less" to me recently). Just note its probably impossible for thicker heatpipes unless we have another material which provides the same heat transfer characteristics, but with more structural integrity, as anything wider will need a much thicker interior, or the pipe would collapse on itself.' Hopefully 3R's cooler will have more consistent quality, as its made by a completely different company. I've noticed that non-Xigmatek manufacturing offerings these days best their quality so the aforementioned theory may be right. This would be the boss of cooling. A copper block logically speaking transfers heat slower than heatpipes (they're heat superconductors), such a small block moreover lacks any "thermal capacity" and it is NOT supposed to store heat-that is the LAST thing that you want. Why don't you guys think through it before you believe every source of information? One classic case which displays what I just said is Scythe's coolers which are heavily limited by their exceedingly thick copper blocks which negate the "speed" advantage of their extreme heatpipe arrays (Orochi). Someone give them a wakeup call please? Don't take recent review results of Xigmatek coolers into account, because there seems to be a quality issue, if an old Xigmatek HDT S1283 outdoes half of the quad pipe coolers. Read what I said above
i think 4 heat pipe will be enough , if you see the the first and last heat pipe not complete touch the cpu
I have it here next to me and from what i know 3RSys has not agreed on any patent issues with Xigma. In any case i hope to have this ready within the week. PS : When the source is clearly Cooln.kr i see no point in mentioning a second source, the congrats are / should be awarded just to the original source.
Wow that's fast, we are waiting for the review! Btw, have you heard anything about pricing? PS : Eh? The CPUsers.gr source provides additional information, such as picture with specs, and additional photos. Seeing the point now?
Pricing should be no more than 30-35Euros in the EU. As for the rest....Your website lists the specs found at the official 3RSys website so that is your source although you did not specify it for some weird reason : http://www.3rsys.com/products/view.asp?navi=watercooler&idx_num=155 As for the problem with Xigmatek, 3RSys calls their system D.T.H ( Direct Touch Heatpipe ) so currently there is no issue with the H.D.T by Xigmatek ( Heatpipe Direct Touch ). And yes it is a word game but it works
Thanks for the price, imo it's very good and competitive. (if it's performance will be above average levels of course) Why are you so sure mate? I have already mentioned it at post #12.
I am sure because you did not mention their website under the photos you posted the second time over. Unless you changed it now, which i am to tired to go and look. Second Xigmatek is fighting companies that use H.D.T and just rename it but from what i know they have still to make any breakthroughs with the law.


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The Qualified Remodeler Master Design Awards competition was initiated 29 years ago to recognize remodelers, architects, builders, kitchen and bath specialists and other professionals for outstanding project design and construction.
- Projects considered for QR Master Design Awards in 2007 must have been completed by a professional contracting firm between January 1, 2006 and May 26, 2007.
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Hello Everyone :) These past couple days I have been thinking a lot about returning to FFXI, but here's the thing... I want to start from scratch and re-experience the game from the beginning! In saying this I am going to start a Linkshell, and look for like minded adventurers who want to start from the beginning and play through all the content together. My hope for this Linkshell would be to return to old school leveling parties, opposed to gusgen mine powerleveling, or abyssea powerleveling. I will be looking for a good group of people that enjoy grouping with others to pursue an overall goal of the Linkshell, rather then trying to just satisfy personal ones. If this idea picks up some steam, I will make a website for us and a poll as to what server we are going to roll on, as well as setting up a poll to determine what days/nights would be best for the Linkshell to progress through story content. Any questions, please reply to this forum topic! Nethien p.s Sorry if this post seems rushed or poorly constructed, I admit that I am an awful writer :-P |
Back in March I used a spare key from a steam sale to play for a month. Hit 70BLU in under a week(with subjobs nin, war, blm, whm, and thf leveled to 50). Couldn't even find anyone outside of page grinders to party. All missions pretty much involved having a Lv90 LS member help. Ended up stopping because of some stuff in FFXIV.
well it is my goal to bring back some of the oldschool feel of ffxi. I am hoping to create a community that will activly care about the other members, and love to mentor down and help other memebers do group content,even if they have done it 15 times over :-P
I'd definitely be interested if you get this going.
I went back a few months ago and the game was great but had the same problem, nobody my level to play with. I'd love to be able to group up with a bunch of equal-level people and do leveling the way it was meant to be. WHM or THF are my 2 favourite jobs to play. |
awesome guys :) it's starting to seem like there may actually be an interest in this! I will work on a website/forum for us later this evening and post the link in this thread so people can start signing up, and introducing themselves and what jobs they would like to bring to the table, as well as a more in depth look at what I hope for us as a Linkshell. I will also include a poll concerning what server people would like to roll on as well as what nights are best for people to get together for group nights. (everyday should be group days :-P but these are nights where we get together and focus on story/artifact/relic/dynamis ect...) Nethien |
Also a side note I will be making the linkshell in game this Thursday based on what we decide for our home server, and be distributing shells from Bastok!
As long as ya plan on ignoring Abyssea and not powerleveling through that, sign me up. I would be up for some RDM, MNK, or DRK action. Hell, i'll play anything. Edit: Thursday evenings would work great for me, getting excited now. |
I'm interested in this as well.
I'm getting pretty excited too. I've got the game redownloading as I type this.
Originally posted by cyberchip Heh, I also got my download going in case this gets off the ground. |
excellent everyone :) my download is pretty much done at the typing of this! For those who have abyssea powerleveling concerns, I want to make it known to everyone, I want to bring back oldschool xp parties!! Meaning lvl 1-10/11 will be the only solo levels, then we move to the dunes and so on. At 18-20 we group up and hunt down our own subjob items, no high level killing stuff for us, we travel together to Jeuno for the first time for our chocobo's (well if we so choose :-P) right now in my head I see it as the first couple months grouping, and leveling mains/subs and fighting some low lvl nm's for gear, and doing quests/story missions. I hope to do this progression based, so we will focus on our nation missions til rank 10, then move on to zilart, and so on. For those worried about abyssea, abyssea is an end game eventuality, but I don't want to use it as a powerlevel area. I want to do what it was ment for, killing the zone nm's, taking out the Caturae, and then ultimatly downing Shinryu, that is it! p.s website will be up later this evening/early tomorrow!! Nethien |
ok here is the website, please forgive me as it is just a shell of what it will be. http://returnersffxi.enjin.com/home I will be putting more time into the site throughout tomorrow, and up to the actual creation of the LS this Thursday. In the meantime, all those interested in this endevor, feel free to sign up, and fill out an application (It's open admit, just using it to tally how many people are interested on the site) and feel free to introduce yourselves on the forums, as well as what job you most prefer playing. |
I'm all signed up! I hope we get some good interest.
awesome! Looking at the response I have gotten in this forum already I feel this will be a success :) Like I stated, I will be handing out pearls on Thursday afternoon Eastern time, and hope to take our first group of adventurers to the dunes for the first LS XP party. |
i want in on this, check out the website you setup now, i recently just got a brand new computer and this is one of the games i always wanted to play being a huge FF fan but never could play, just bought the game about a week ago and looking to get into it the right way and play fully
This interests me also - however I am waiting for ARR but would love to experience FFXI all over again. But I am GMT timezone and I find it difficult getting on at same time as other players etc. Just wondering if this would be worth my time or not? You guys got a time slot you are thinking of playing mainly? Jento |
im rdy to start now lol
Good luck avoiding abyssea I really hope you can do. Also even if you can avoid it good luck avoiding fields of valor. Though nowhere near as fast as lvling in aby it is still a lot faster than leveling the traditional way. Oh and even the traditional way isn't traditional because everything is double xp now. The good news is you won't have any issues competing for camps. The whole idea sounds good but I have met a few LSs that have tried to do the same and it's hard to keep people away from aby or FoV once they've tried it. It is just too fun and too fast and allows you to do so much more than just xp all the time. But just curious what server are you guys on? I wouldn't mind joining an old school xp party now and then just for fun. You're not opposed to level sync are you? Cause if you go that far it's gonna be near impossible to lvl. |
Hello everyone :) Good to see this forum is still gathering attention! Few things, for the person that mentioned something about gmt times, I usually play online games with a friend in that time zone (5 hours ahead of me) and never really had too much of an issue. I would like to imagine that if we continue growing and fill in multiple time slots there will be people on all the time for people to group with. As for abyssea and FoV I know those will always be tempting for leveling groups. I will not tell people they can't do it, but I would like to give oldschool playing a try, and give it an honest go. FoV I don't mind running, if we are in a 6 man group doing it right, not 18 man alliances in gusgen killing page 1 over and over from 12-30. p.s pearls will be handed out in bastok tomorrow around 2 pm est. I will be making a post here, and on our forums about it. Nethien |


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In addition to its core newspaper portfolio, McClatchy's has stakes in a number of premium digital assets, including 15% of CareerBuilder, the largest online job site in the US; 25.6% of Classified Ventures, a newspaper industry partnership that offers two of the nation's premier classified websites: the auto website Cars.com and the rental site Apartments.com; and 33.3% of HomeFinder, which operates the real estate website HomeFinder.com.
To address the structural shift to digital media, the company's newspapers provide editorial content on a wide variety of platforms and formats from its daily newspaper to leading local websites; on social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter; on smartphones and on e-readers; on blogs and in niche publications and websites; in e-mail newsletters and RSS feeds. In addition, its websites offer leading digital classified products such as CareerBuilder.com, Cars.com and Apartments.com and retail and national advertising on Find n Save portals. The company also operates dealsaver, its proprietary daily deals service, in all of its markets.
Financial Performance
In fiscal 2012 McClatchy's revenues decreased slightly to about $1.23 billion compared to the roughly $1.27 billion it reported for fiscal 2011. The decline, part of a multi-year trend, was due to advertising revenues dropping and circulation revenues dipping because of the industry shift to digital advertising. The company gets about 75% of its revenues from advertising.
Smaller in stature than some of its rivals, McClatchy is also one of the few big newspaper companies that have not diversified wholesale into other forms of media. Both Gannett and Tribune, for example, own several television stations, while Advance Publications and Graham Holdings have diversified into magazines and education publishing, respectively. Reliant on newspaper advertising and subscriptions for the bulk of its sales, McClatchy offers a portrait of the industry's downward spiral caused by readers migrating away from print publications for their news.
The company has tried to manage that decline primarily through cost cuts to make up for lost revenue, and a large part of that effort has included layoffs that reduced McClatchy's workforce. At the same time that it is working to reduce expenses, McClatchy is focused on paying down its mountain of debt accumulated as a result of acquisitions. The company refinanced part of that debt early in 2010 through a debt tender.
While downsizing and refinancing have helped keep creditors at bay, McClatchy is still working to boost revenue by transforming itself into a mixed-media news business. It continues to invest in Internet publishing operations to reach readers online and build new followings for its mastheads.
The McClatchy family, led by Kevin McClatchy with an 18% share, controls the company.
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- For the vehicle company of a similar name, see Maibatsu Corporation
GANG Zaibatsu Corporation | |
The Zaibatsu Corporation logo.
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Games: | Grand Theft Auto 2 |
Locations: | Downtown, Industrial and Residential Districts of Anywhere City |
Leaders: | Trey Welsh, Red Valdez and Uno Carb |
Type: | Organized Crime Syndicate |
Enemies: | Rednecks, Yakuza, Scientists, Russian Mafia, Hare Krishna, Loonies and Yutes |
Affiliations: | Claude Speed |
Colors: | Black and Gold |
Vehicles: | Z-Type |
Businesses: | Pharmaceuticals |
Fronts: | Zaibatsu Pharmaceuticals, The Village, Chemist, House of Guns, Zaibatsu Power Core |
Members: | Trey Welsh(deceased) Red Valdez(deceased) Uno Carb(deceased) Flambo Cortez(deceased) Sacchmo(deceased) Doctor Cubana(formerly/deceased) Shady(formerly/deceased) |
The Zaibatsu Corporation is an organized crime syndicate in Grand Theft Auto 2.
They hide behind the guise of a pharmaceutical company, and their website describes them as "the world's last major privately owned corporation". They appear frequently throughout the entire game, as their presence can be seen and felt in all three districts of Anywhere City. They became embroiled into a violent struggle over control of business interests and gang territories with all other gangs in Anywhere City during the period of which Grand Theft Auto 2 is set in.
The following gangs that contests the control by the Zaibatsu Corporation are: Yakuza, the Rednecks, the Scientists, the Loonies, the Hare Krishna, and the Russian Mafia. They were presumed to be the most powerful criminal organization of all in Anywhere City during the time of Grand Theft Auto 2. The top-ranking leaders of the Zaibatsu Corporation frequently refer to Claude Speed by the nickname they gave him, "Gecko". In the film/movie rendition of Grand Theft Auto 2, Claude is shot dead by a Zaibatsu assassin sent to avenge for his theft of Zaibatsu merchandise.
Products of Zaibatsu
- Zoom Zoom - Energy stimulant.
- Silky Milky - Breast implants that "feel and taste like the real thing".
- Doesn't Need Anything (DNA) - Baby food.
- Hush - Self-reliant sedative.
- Equanox - Alertness pills (advertised in GTA III).
From their in-game car crushing / manufacturing plant:
- Medicine.
- Body armour.
- Weapons.
- Zaibatsu owns the electrical power stations in Anywhere City.
- "Zaibatsu" is a Japanese business term, referring to business conglomerates in the Japanese Empire, that have major influence over the country's economy.
- Once the player reaches the Industrial District, the tutorial NPC erroneously mentions them as the "Zaibatatsu".
- Despite having appeared in only one game, the Zaibatsu are very popular among fans of the early GTA games, and tributes to them have been made in form of mods and fan art. Rockstar Games even added a Z-Type in GTA V to pay tribute to them.