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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
By Silvia Quintanilla, president, Industry Gems Sales Intelligence
Being in the business-to-business (B2B) sales profession for nearly 20 years has given me certain insights and revelations. I have seen first-hand how certain sales organizations thrive, while others languish.
What makes the difference? Are there certain attributes that can make a B2B sales organization extraordinary? I believe there are. Here are my conclusions (which are based on my time as both a bag-carrying salesperson and a services provider):
Invest in Sales Intelligence
Unfortunately, I have seen companies go out and hire a bunch of salespeople and tell them "find your own leads, make the calls, and sell something—or else." My time in this profession has proved this practice is a recipe for disaster. When you don't invest in your sales team, don't expect them to stick around very long.
On the other hand, when you invest in sales intelligence tools, you are creating a more effective sales team. My definition for sales intelligence is anything that helps your salespeople "sell more intelligently."
Investing in sales intelligence has many obvious benefits. Primarily, the main outcomes over time are a shorter sales cycle, a larger pipeline, and larger deal sizes.
Examples of sales intelligence services include Hoovers (for the essential basics), Jigsaw (for direct numbers and e-mails), ZoomInfo (for background information on contacts), and Highbeam Research (for company articles). (In the interests of full disclosure, my company, Industry Gems Sales Intelligence, also provides this service.)
Hire a Direct Prospecting Team
This is a big one. My clients who employ a sales force ONLY to make outbound prospecting calls simply perform better. Sometimes, the prospecting team is an inside sales team. Other times, a company will hire out a firm to make the outbound calls.
Why does this practice increase sales? I believe it is because when salespeople are tasked with "doing it all," prospecting time suffers. In other words, when your salespeople have to prospect, train, perform customer service, and nurture prospects, prospecting time falls short.
Yes, sometimes it's a matter of "call reluctance." However, my experience has shown me that when there are many tasks fighting for your salesperson's time, prospecting time might not get the attention it needs.
Dedicating a team to focus 100 percent on tele-prospecting ensures it will get done. Your salespeople then can use their skills to follow up on qualified leads. I personally have seen that companies that employ this dual-selling strategy simply sell more.
Invest in Sales Training
This point is exemplified with a Zig Ziglar story. In one of his talks, a heckler yelled out that self-improvement didn't work!
When Zig asked why he thought that way, the heckler replied, "Because it wears off after a day." Zig, in turn, replied, "Well, so do showers, but that doesn't mean you should stop taking one every day!"
I wholeheartedly agree and am a big believer in consistent sales training. In fact, I can attribute nearly all of my current sales skills to my teachers. By learning from the experts, I have been able to sell more effectively time and again.
Whether you hire a sales coach for your team, or follow a methodology such as Miller Heiman, you are making an investment for your sales team to succeed.
Silvia Quintanilla is president and chief sales detective of Industry Gems, a custom sales intelligence company dedicated to helping salespeople win large deals with Fortune 1000 and Global 500 companies. Learn more at www.industrygems.com. If you sell solutions to the Fortune 1000, you can sign up for the Sales Gems Triggered Events newsletter at www.industrygems.com (subscription box on top left-hand corner). Every month the newsletter highlights the best "door opening" news that can help you get your foot in the door at a big account.


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October is Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
On Monday, Oct. 17, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors proclaimed October as Rett Syndrome Awareness Month in the county. Rett syndrome is a disease seen predominantly in females that is often misdiagnosed as autism or cerebral palsy.
Rett syndrome was not recognized in the American medical community until 1983. Many doctors still are unfamiliar with this disease which occurs in one out of every 10,000-15,000 girls. There are approximately 200,000 girls and women worldwide who have Rett syndrome.
Rett syndrome is a neurological disorder that occurs in a variety of racial and ethnic groups. A child with this disease usually demonstrates normal development until 6-18 months of life. A period of temporary stagnation or regression occurs next, after which the child may be unable to talk or use her hands. Other problems may develop including seizures, disorganized breathing patterns and loss of mobility.
The most debilitating aspect of the disorder is apraxia, which means that although the will to move is present, the child lacks the ability to control every body movement, including eye gaze and speech. This severely limits the girl's ability to communicate. Scoliosis, a curvature of the spine, is another prominent feature of Rett syndrome.
Rett syndrome is caused in most cases by a genetic mutation on the X chromosome that inhibits normal development of selected regions of the brain responsible for motor, autonomic, sensory and emotional functions. Doctors have discovered the specific gene that causes this disorder, and they hope additional research will yield the answer to how to prevent Rett syndrome from occurring.
There are many ways to help combat Rett syndrome: informing others about this little known disorder; talking with a doctor or others in the medical field who may not have heard of Rett syndrome; giving generously to help find a cure; or providing help to someone who is a caretaker, because a lifetime of caretaking can place a severe strain on a family.
For more information, contact the International Rett Syndrome Association at 1-800-818-RETT, TTY 711, or visit the IRSA Web site at www.rettsyndrome.org.

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A HUGE barn fire in North Petherton which blazed all night is being treated as suspected arson.
Two fire crews with the water carrier from Bridgwater and one team from Taunton were sent to the scene in Hulkshay Lane, North Petherton, at 6.43pm on Sunday, following a call to the control room.
On arrival crews found the barn, around 20 metres by 5 metres, full of hay, which was well alight. Another fire crew from Bridgwater, two from Taunton and the Incident Command Unit from Cheddar were sent to help.
Crews dampened down the flames all night, but at 7.42am the following morning around five tonnes of hay were still alight.
Crews are still carrying out controlled burning. About ten tonnes of hay have been destroyed.
A police spokesman told the Mercury on Monday: "At the moment we are treating the fire as suspected arson, but the fire team is still investigating, so it has not been confirmed as arson."
Farmer John Quick, whose family owns the land the barn is on, said: "There was a fire there around ten years ago and we believe that was arson. That time the flames reached above the barn.
"Hay burns slowly so it would have taken a long time to put out.
"It wouldn't surprise me to find this fire was started by someone too, even if it was an accident."
"We're not sure about the financial loss of this current incident yet."
Paul Roberts, who lives at Millbay, North Petherton, told the Mercury: "I live about 400metres away across a field and the smoke was blowing straight at us.
"We had to keep all doors and windows closed to keep the smell out of the house.
"This is the second time in about 11 years that this barn has been set on fire."
The Mayor of North Petherton, Cllr Alan Bradford, said: "The fire crew was still there the next morning.
"When it started the flames got very high and I think all the contents of the barn were destroyed."


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This will be easy when the discovery phase comes around for AT&T and Sprint. They say it was only used to improve service performance so when it comes time to prove that, they'll provide records that show what they collected and will be able to back up their claims and then they'll simply ask for a release from the lawsuit and they'll get out.
Apple is worried about this clearly because they have adamantly stated they stopped supporting it and are removing it in newer versions.
T-Mobile hasn't commented so who knows what dirty secrets they are hiding and Verizon has already said they never used it so that explains why they aren't named in the lawsuit.
I don't think we'll see Google since this was a phone manufacturer/carrier combination thing whereas Google only makes the OS but presumably wouldn't get involved with Carrier IQ since they have no reason to.
You are right and I too am curious why RIM and Nokia aren't named in this. Especially RIM since they have already admitted to using Carrier IQ's software.
If anyone read ATT's terms, this is kind of a useless argument. It is like visiting a website and being shocked to find out that the site is looking through logs and viewing IPs of users and how they interact with the site.3.6 AT&T collects information about the approximate location of your Device in relation to our cell towers and the Global Positioning System (GPS). We use that information, as well as other usage and performance information also obtained from our network and your Device, to provide you with wireless voice and data services, and to maintain and improve our network and the quality of your wireless experience. We may also use location information to create aggregate data from which your personally identifiable information has been removed or obscured. Such aggregate data may be used for a variety of purposes such as scientific and marketing research and services such as vehicle traffic volume monitoring. It is your responsibility to notify users on your account that we may collect and use location information from Devices.
Do we already have an AT&T Rep commenting on this? lol Good lookin out for your company. It still doesn't prove that personal information is obscured or not used. Just like apple says it has the least invasive IQ of em all doesn't mean its true. Also curious to see how this all pans out.
I don't know about you, but I do ALL of my banking on my phones and tablets and I don't want anybody snooping, I don't care who it is, they have no right to monitor everything a person does on their phones.
From banking to sending intimate messages and photos to my wife, ITS PRIVATE !!
And i thought that by switching off all location etc. services i was more or less safe from data snooping. Most importantly, since i knew apple likes to snoop around, and i didn't like it very much, i got myself an android in a hope, that linux-based mobile will be safer in that particular matter. What a fking fool i was. Darth Wader's "noooo" shout was a whisper in comparison to my craziness that day.
I suddenly wished i had an iPhone... i don't give a fk about photos / music on my device.
I'm glad, I have 4 log files that CIQ has logged & probably sent (or waiting to be sent, don't know if there removed after sending)CoreTelephony
your phone number
your carrier
your country
active phone calls
(However, I only saw it noting that a phone call was active, not what number was dialed or it was received from. But, I am not going to claim it doesnt do that: its certainly possible, but didnt see it.)
your location (Only, however, if Location Services are enabled.)
(Possibly more I havent yet found.)
Not happy if they do log key presses, as like some one else said I do to use my idevices to do my banking & purchasing online.
CIQ can be turned off on the AT&T iPhone 4 with the ios4 or os5 operating system and I assume that the Verizon phone is the same. Settings>General>Diagnostics & Usage. I assume the Lawyers missed this bit of information.


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A DECISION by ANZ to break ranks with rivals by delaying its decision to set mortgage rates is proving a financial boon, with the bank so far this year clawing back more than $100 million from borrowers.
On Friday ANZ become the last of the big four banks to pass on part of the Reserve Bank's rate cut, reducing its standard variable rate by 0.20 percentage points to 6.4 per cent, from December 21.
This matches the rate cut by other big banks after the Reserve's efforts to spur on the economy through a cash rate cut.
At the start of the year, ANZ said it would delay the outcome of an interest rate review until the second Friday of each month. This, the bank said, was part of efforts to break the perceived link between mortgage rates and the official cash rate.
The move has helped ANZ net a greater amount through saved interest income than its rivals.
This year ANZ is estimated to have generated about $111 million in extra revenue by delaying the passing on of four rate cuts.
According to calculations by a JPMorgan analyst, Scott Manning, each of the big banks makes about ''$2 million each day that it does not pass on the rate cut''.
This month, ANZ was estimated to net about $25 million in interest income by passing on the cut 17 days after the Reserve's announcement.
The chief executive of ANZ Australia, Philip Chronican, said on Friday that high funding costs were behind the decision to hold back some of the 0.25 percentage point rate cut.
''We believe the decision to lower our variable mortgage rate by 0.20 per cent per annum is the right one for our customers providing a competitive mortgage rate while also recognising the significant uncertainty associated with the fiscal situation in the United States and the political situation in Europe.''
ANZ's next interest rate review is due on February 8.
Mr Manning estimated Westpac was set to generate $28 million in interest income in the 13 days it took to pass on the December rate cut. Commonwealth Bank generated $14 million and NAB $11 million.
ANZ has cut its standard variable rate by 1.40 percentage points since November 2011, and the Reserve has lowered the cash rate by 1.75 percentage points.
Commonwealth Bank, NAB, and Westpac announced a cut of 0.20 percentage points on December 5, one day after the Reserve decision to drop the cash rate 0.25 percentage points.


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Like poets writing sonnets or composers writing fugues, photographers Hanan Kazma Finge and Cyril Berthault-Jacquier have confined themselves - in this case, to a three by three grid. But within those confines they find visual power and great expressive freedom, as images multiply and speak back and forth to one another. So the two artists themselves did from the spring of 2012 when they began this project, to the fall of that year when they completed it. Months of visual and verbal dialogue via e-mail reflected years of friendship, and came to speak of their lives, their emotions and their artistic partnership - spanning the distance between Hanan in Lebanon and Cyril in Brussels.
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LCD – For the Novice and the Expertby Kristopher Kubicki on 9/4/2003 12:13 AM EST
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Anonymous User - Friday, October 17, 2003 - linkI'd just like to bump #60. He asks some great questions - anyone have any answers?
The 15" laptop 1600x1200 vs 19" desktop version has always bothered me. I wish I could buy my ThinkPad's display as a standalone device!
Anonymous User - Monday, September 15, 2003 - linkThank you Kristopher for your informative article.
I have been staring at a computer or TV monitor for over 25 years and between the CRT and aging, my eyes have been getting worst every year. I am interested in getting the best video quality monitor for under $1000 per monitor. After reading your article, I would assume that a CRT would be the best choice. However, I am in the market to purchase TWO monitors. This is so I can view two programs simultaneously or when a client comes over, rotate the second monitor for their viewing. I mostly stare at numbers, words and Internet images. Also, I prefer larger monitors (i.e. 19"+). Should I consider two CRTs, CRT as my primary and LCD as the secondary, or match monitors and save real estate with two LCDs? What models would you recommend?
Your suggestions are appreciated.
Michael Reply
Anonymous User - Saturday, September 13, 2003 - linkAlso, it seems that marketing is mostly centered on inches instead resolution. A bit too often this is also true for reviews which tend to place things like elegance of design, or number of USB ports or some such, above petty details like displayable desktop area.
Is this just some braindead carryover from CRTs, or does the average consumer really not care about the number of pixels he gets?
Anonymous User - Friday, September 12, 2003 - linkOne thing I'd like to know is why is that usual native resultion for 19" LCDs 1280x1024? Or more specifically, why do 17" and 19" LCDs generally have the same native resolution.
I would have thought that the logical progression would have been (based on the resultions usually used on equivalent sized CRTs):
15" 1024x768
17" 1280x1024
19" 1600x1200
But no, you generally have to go up to 21" LCD to get a 1600x1200 native resolution. And it can't be a technical problem, because we have 15" notebook LCDs with 1600x1200 (and higher) resolution.
So, does anyone know why the LCD industry made the bonehead decision to standardize on having 17" and 19" LCDs have the same native resolution?
PS. And don't bother pointing out that there are a few 1600x1200 19" LCDs. I'm aware of these exceptions. I just don't understand why this isn't the standard. Reply
rapsac - Thursday, September 11, 2003 - link#58
That is anybody's guess. No way to find out unless you buy one and open it up. Then use the panel# to get the specs at the panel manufacturer. (And wave your warranty goodbye like I did mine :( ) Reply
joramo - Tuesday, September 09, 2003 - linkAre this 16.7m color specifications true or is the same 18 bits AUO panel?
Technical specifications
Display size 17"
Display type Active color matrix TFT
Display area 338 x 270 mm
Brightness 260 cd/m²
Resolution 1280 x 1024 pixels
Colour 16.7m (8-bits per color)
Pixel pitch 0.264 (H) X 0.264 (W)
Contrast ratio 450:1
Response rates Total: 16ms
KristopherKubicki - Monday, September 08, 2003 - link#55: on the contrary, lg.philips actually informed us of the opposite. While technically the dithering does not impact the response time, electrical modulation does. This is a direct result of how many bits the signal is capable of.
Kristopher Reply
Anonymous User - Monday, September 08, 2003 - linkAre there any formal reviews on new substrates that offer 10-bit gamma correction? In particular, I am considering either the Sharp T1820 or the EIZO L695 (L685EX), and considering that their specs are fairly similar, I assume they are using the same substrate. Supposedly the 10-bit gamma correction is capable of displaying a 1024-step greyscale, which can help prevent banding in subtle gradiants.
Unfortunately, neither of these LCDs are widely available for me to perform my own eye-testing. Ideally if someone can offer advice on whether this is an overpriced two-step-conversion technology (as with using an analog cable on an LCD), or if this truly offers discernable benifits, that would be great!
The Sharp T1820:
The EIZO L695:
Also worth noting, EIZO CG18
Please email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Any information is appreciated! Reply
Anonymous User - Monday, September 08, 2003 - linkALL TN+film panels use dithering (or Frame Rate Control as they call it) to interpolate 24 bits colors with a 18 bits signal. These panels are either quoted as 262K colors (64³) or 16.2 millions colors (253³). This applies to ALL 15" monitors and almost ALL 17" monitors (including the Samsung model quoted as 16.7 millions in the article). However all 18" and higher monitors use panel driven with a 24 bits value.
BTW, dithering has absolutely no impact on response time. Reply
Anonymous User - Sunday, September 07, 2003 - linkInfo on the Samsung X line fo monitors, in case anyone is interested.
http://monitor.samsung.de/detail_tft_syncmaster.as... Reply
Anonymous User - Sunday, September 07, 2003 - linkhttp://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1730
Its ok from what I hear. Reply
Anonymous User - Saturday, September 06, 2003 - linkGreat article - typical AnandTech coverage/information! I have a question though - I would like to get a 17" LCD with DVI and S-Video inputs (for playing console games). The Samsung MP series has VGA and S-Video, but no DVI. Albatron has a one with some nice specs - the L17AT.
The only problem is that I have seen no reviews of them. I am a little leery of spending $500+ on a monitor sight unseen. Any suggestions? Reply
KristopherKubicki - Saturday, September 06, 2003 - link#49, Ill add that into Part II then.
#50, perhaps down the line I will try to do that. It would not really fit into part II right now.
Kristopher Reply
artifex - Saturday, September 06, 2003 - linkAlso, I'd really like to own an LCD because of the weight and size issues (I want larger than my current 16" viewable CRT, 17 or 19 maybe), but also because of the expected power savings. Would you consider adding a comparison of the power consumption in future roundups? Reply
artifex - Saturday, September 06, 2003 - linkI am disgusted to discover that many manufacturers using the 262000 color panels are lying and claiming 16.7 million. I challenge Anandtech to clearly identify these manufacturers in future product reviews, because if they can't tell the truth about this simple spec, how can we trust them on things like warranties? Reply
KristopherKubicki - Saturday, September 06, 2003 - link#47 - Yes, SamsungUSA anyway. Computex is around the corner, maybe we can find out something new there =) Reply
Anonymous User - Friday, September 05, 2003 - linkHi Kristopher, is Samsung still denying/not talking about their X line of 16ms panels? Reply
KristopherKubicki - Friday, September 05, 2003 - linkHi Dan,
The Apple 23" monitor is OK, but its more bark than bite (Apple does these amazing things with advertising). I would be very hesitant to judge a monitor by its contrast ratio.
In fact, one monitor we reviewed a few months ago, the Samsung 192T claimed a 500:1 contrast ratio when we recieved. Now, the specifications claim 750:1 even though nothing has changed on the monitor.
In any case, do remember that the Cinematic Displays are expensive as well. Samsung has done some very neat things in the 21 and 23" area, and in my opinion they are better than apples. To further sweeten the deal you wont need a seperate adaptor to convert the signal.
If you use graphics heavily (as in professionally) CRT is still your only option.
As for your question about DVI, there are actually about 3 versions of the technology. However, almost all hardware on the PC uses the DVI-I format. This format is backwards compatible with the other two, so you'll be just fine.
Kristopher Reply
Anonymous User - Friday, September 05, 2003 - linkHi my old 17" CRT is dying, and I'll need to replace it very soon. I have found that when working in PhotoShop, my old 17" monitor is just to small, and my eyes get quit sore. I think I would like to get and LCD of around 19". I am a PC user and am running Windows 98se.
In my research "the Monitor to which all others is compaired" is the Apple 23" Cinem HD Display Having a resolution of 1920 by 1200, 170 viewing angle, brightness of only 200 cd/m2, lowsey 350:1 contrast ratio, and a half decient pixel pitch of 0.258.
Here in Australia coumptor stores aren't at all helpful in showing you their monitors in real world sisutions. So I've only been able to read the technical specs found on the internet. It seems a number of monitors have hit the 700 to 1 mark, and Planar offer a 19" with a pixel pitch of 0.242mm at 1600 x 1200 while most offer a auful 0.290mm at 1280 x 1024.
Going on specifications alone, I think I would like a 19" LCD with 1600 x 1200 resolution, 300 CD/m2 brightness, 700 to 1 contrast ratio, 25ms or less response time, 170 degree horizonal and vertical viewing angle, 0.242 mm pixel pitch, and of course a DVI coennection. I am not a gamer.
Is this reasonable and practical, or is a CRT a better option, and if so which one would best suit the graphics environment?
I recently read something about there being two kinds of DVI, DVI and DVI-D, is this a concern?
Thank You for any help you can give me, my e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com
Sincerely, Dan Andrews Reply
Anonymous User - Friday, September 05, 2003 - linkWhat's the deal with all the misleading and irrelevant hypertext links in the article (e.g. "computer", "connection", "solution", etc?) Reply
KristopherKubicki - Friday, September 05, 2003 - link#42 - this will be addressed in Part II =)
Kristopher Reply
Anonymous User - Friday, September 05, 2003 - linkVery nice article. Easy to read, fun and very informative.
However, as someone here stated earlier, the reference to how some companies manage to get more than the 262000 colours with the 16ms AUO substrate is missing. It seems that they do this by alternating two colours, which would in effect mean the actual total rise and fall time for that one colour is more than 16 ms. But perhaps this is to be discussed in the follow-up to the article? I'm really interested in reading about the grey-grey times for the panels, so I'll be looking forward to part II. Reply
AbRASiON - Friday, September 05, 2003 - linkWouldn't touch one until it beats a CRT in every single way - period
For work yes, sure right now, one res all day, no games, no worries.
For home, multiple resolutions, more dos boxes - linux sessions (ok I don't have any but if I did) - games which I don't have a strong enough video card for native resolution etc etc.
also the stupid ghosting / shading effect of the high refresh (16ms is too high)
Until it beats a CRT in every single way - I'm not going over - EVEN IF CRT's end up costing more.
Plus CRT's are getting better, my 22" Philips (100hz 1600x1200) is only like 45cm deep - quite short really considering.
virtualgames0 - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkI think you missed a big issue with LCD image problems that I have commonly observed. Most LCDs are very dim, and almost all of them I've seen are nowhere close to comparable to a CRT, the only ones I've seen that were comparable was the NEC.
Another problem I have commonly observed is that the majority of LCDs have very visable "gate lines(as you called it in the artlce), so then you can see that every pixel is seperated, and it makes everything look pixelated, and it feels like you're trying to look through that mesh... Reply
spikemike - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkI'm not 100% sure but i believe a 1280x1024 LCD monitor is actually built in a 5:4 ratio. So the pixels are still square. Reply
n0d3 - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkWhat I missed, and I'm sure it will be coverd in an update, was something more about resolutions. Here's why.
Today, people seem to be using 'weird' or 'odd' resolutions a lot, basically because it seems better to have bigger numbers. For instance, 1280x960 is not acceptable (The drivers for my old Connect3d radeon 9000 did NOT support this resolution) however 1280x1024 is just fine. This strikes me as odd because monitors still use a 4:3 ratio. A lot of resolutions conform to this 'standard' 640x480 800x600 etc etc. But in the higher range they seem to 'cheat' a lot more. From what I can understand, this would cause a distorted display. This is very true for CRT's but LCD's seem to be heading that way asweel, wich is something I Don't get. I say this because it is always recommended to use an LCD at it's own resolution, wich is the amount of pixels on the substrate. I can hardly imagine that they would produce non 4:3 screens, allthough ofcourse it is possible.
Some more info on this would be greatly appreciated since I could be wrong about this and tell people wrong things : )
P.S. and yes, I know that if your monitor is capable of going up really high in resolution the distortion on lower resolutions should be minimal, nevertheless, it is deffinatly there. Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkThanks for a very informative article.
I have a Samsung 172T and I have to say the image quality is outstanding. I don't play a lot of FPS games, but for varied use including games and video,using DVI, there are no significant motion blur problems. This monitor is head and shoulders above comparable units I've seen, at least for general use. The price of this unit has dropped significantly since I bought mine almost a year ago. (It may be discontinued).
Been an Anandtech reader since 1996. Keep up the great work! Reply
spikemike - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkI'm still not sure if you have it quite right, each subpixel can be independently controlled, you can get 16 shades of blue 16 shades of green and 16 shades of red, giving you 12bit color or 4096 total colors, the red blue and green do not depend on each other, red can be full on, blue can be "1/2" on and green can be off. The main problem was the lack of color, slow response times, and the fact that the information would "bleed" into the column, having one off pixel in a whole column of on pixels would decrease the over all brightness of that column Reply
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - link#33, I clarified the article a little to apply to both the EE folks and just the casual reader ;)
Kristopher Reply
spikemike - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkoops i meant posts 29 and 30 were mine Reply
spikemike - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkJust got the deal on passive displays from the LCD expert(my dad, he worked at RCA on LCDs just a couple years after they first invented it) and here is what he said
Passive displays do operate in either twisted or untwisted mode; data is supplied as on or off signal. However because the response time of STN is slow, they get gray scale by pulse width modulation techniques. Usually they get 16 shades of gray (4096 colors) with time modulation, and additonal gray levels by spatial modulation (using 2-4 pixels to achieve
1-2 bits additonal gray scale). Right now, the best STN color displays achieve 65K colors.
So basically if they need a gray scale they just turn it on and then turn it off before it gets all the way on. So technically the way it was written was correct. (by the way the last two posts were also mine)
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - link"Take a piece of lint free cloth and wrap it around your index finger. Push about 1/4 of an inch above the broken pixel with about as much force as would take to depress a doorbell. Pull your finger down past the pixel to about 1/4 of an inch below the broken pixel. Repeat in a left to right manner as well. If you've tried it about 10 times and are still without success, then you most likely are not going to be able to bring that pixel back to life (and you will probably have a light scuff mark on your anti-glare coating as well)."
>>>are you supposed to press the pixels while it's on? couldn't it cause the neighboring pixels to become stuck in the on position? Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkI have a Cornea Mp704B 17" LCD. It has the 20ms Hyundai Panel. It's very nice, colors look great, sharp text and images, and no trailing or ghosting at all. I did notice that the backlight isn't perfect (just slightly, and i mean slightly, brighter in middle and bottom of LCD than on the top) and I did have 1 dead pixel and 2 dead subpixels (they weren't stuck on red though). I haven't tried rubbing, it sounds a little fisky, but I may eventually. But yeah, the Hitachi panels are nice overall. Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - link#25 is right, passive displays are capable of color, every color cell phone today available in the US uses a passive STN display, as far as i know. It is still a much cheaper technology. As does gameboys and palm pilots. Thats why the color seems like pastels and not vivid colors. Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linki think 16 and 17 make a point, #16 almost all monitors use the 18bit color he is right about that. A 6 bit driver is much cheaper then an 8 bit driver. And maybe only a few very high end models use an 8 bit driver. #17 discusses the TV LCDs these in fact are the best LCDs you can buy, they have the widest viewing angles, best color, and the fastest response times, because all people do is watch video on them, Although they tend to be lower dpi so if you are thinking about getting one for a computer monitor be sure to sit far a way or you will be able to see the pixels. Some 60" LCDs shown at SID conferences are the best ever made. They look absolutely amazing.
A third note is that high res high color displays are a requirement for longhorn. Sharp announced they would be the first to offer longhorn compatible displays. They need high res(UXGA probably) and high color(10bit i believe). These products are still about 2 years off but if you look at displays in laptops they have no problem making high DPI displays, for some reason companies don't think people want a UXGA 17" panels.(they should look at forums like this). There is also a company working on ways to get higher res out of the same number of drivers and subpixels by arranging the pixels differently, (www.clarivoyante.com) this could lead to lower cost for the same resolution potentially allowing the better substrates to be used. There are substrates that use high response time, wide viewing angle technology, its just considerably more expensive. Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - link#14
No I, run my CRt at 85 hz .Well that's as far as my card will go .old card TNT2 Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkNo.I run it at 85 Hz.Well that's the maximum my card will go .OLd card TNT2.
Live - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkVery Good article! Anandtech is really getting back in good shape. I for one would like to read one about CRTs as well. While you're at it why not cover monitors in your price guides as well what's the use of all this computer power and fancy graphics cards without a good output of it all? Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkThe parts about passive and TFT technology is confusing and perhaps misleading. If you're talking about passive matrix STN or DSTN LCD displays, they were indeed able to turn a pixel partially on, or partially off. However, they're biggest downside was they were always fuzzy because manipulating one pixel, often caused the ones surrounding it to discolour, too. The biggest benefit from TFTs, I believe, was that each individual subpixel was uniquely addressable. Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linksamsung still not offering up their 'X' line of 16ms panels for review? Apparently they are available for sale in Europe... Reply
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - link#16 - very interesting. Thank you for this information as I will pass it on to others.
#19 - Sorry James (whips himself with a wet noddle.) Next time I do something like this I will spend a little more time talking about the BL.
#20 - Im a big Local H fan, but the subtitle actually is derived from an old excellent Stanely Kubrick movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/
#21 - We have had some troubles obtaining Hyundai and LG.Philips based monitors. Fujitsu and Samsung (and AUO I guess) kind of dominate the Us market. I will see if I cant get some more for our internation readers.
#22 - That would be the contrast ratio. However, as we have mentioned before, this measurement seems to vary so much from manufacturer to manufacturer, that it becomes almost useless.
Thanks for all the positive feedback!
Kristopher Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkA point that usually isn't addressed when talking about LCD displays (perhaps it's just me) is the intensity of the colors. I don't care how many variations of pastel an LCD is capable of, the colors just look washed out to me. Is there a measurement that quantifies this? Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkYeah, I was reading the article and immediately wondered why Hyundai is not cited as panel manufacturer.
I am the VERY HAPPY owner of an Hercules Prophetview 920DVI Black Edition, second generation (same panel as the Hyundai Q17, 20ms response time). I bought it because of an excellent THG review, based on other input as well, based on its great look, based on its price at that time and based on the panel replacement policy by Hercules that seems (not a single dead pixel, yet...) better than others.
Also, as can be seen in several reviews online and as I personally experienced at a LAN where a buddy brought his Hitachi CML174, the response time in games feels a little better on my 20ms than on his 16ms...
Just a single annoyance, maybe due to my R8500LE DVI output, is that, in Quake3, when there is a lot of 'shiny' light/reflection (as in the second solo level, the fire wall/column when getting inside, and having to choose left or right), there is a lot of tearing/banding, especially visible on these shiny/reflective surfaces...
Does not appear on the theoretically slower 172T on a R9700Pro..... Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkThis has nothing to do with actual LCD's but I loved the Local H reference in the article subtitle.
Matt Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkGlad to see the article Kristopher, but how could you have a whole article about LCD's without discussing the all important BACKLIGHT.
When you look at a modern active matrix LCD you're basically staring straight into a fluorescent bulb--the backlight. The appearance of the substrate can be significantly affected by the quality of the backlight, and when you're using the LCD to perform everyday work like word processing or working in a spreadsheet then 90 percent of the screen is pure white and all you're really seeing IS the backlight.
In that situation the experience using the LCD is highly dependent on characteristics of the backlight--such as the flicker rate of the fluorescent backlight or any anomalies in the backlight's spectrum of colors.
It's true that these factors are usually glossed over by mainstream PC magazines I was expecting Anandtech to cover these issues.
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkWhen I got my monitor. I though it had few dead pixels but in reality it was a little specks of something on the screen, In which case whipping it fixed the "dead pixels". Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkI have been looking at getting an LCD for a little while now and found this artical to be very interesting. One thing I would like to comment on is you talk about large screen LCD monitors and how there is a lack of a choice. This is true but one thing I have been looking at is getting a Samsung LCD HDTV Monitor. These have a 16ms response time and reach the larger sizes and have PC hook ups in DVI and a regular 15 pin connector. Of course all of this is assuming that price is no option, as these screens are expensive. Samsung already has a 32inch screen that looks great, model LTN325W, and is gonna be putting out a 26 inch mondel, LTN265W in near future. I wonder how these screens would stack against the LCD monitors you discussed. Reply
rapsac - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkOne important conclusion is missing in the article:
On page 10 in the list of brands with the same panel you can see that the # of colors change from manufacturer to manufacturer. Fact is that this specific panel only uses 18bit color info, resulting in 262200 colors. All companies that state more colors LIE.
The controllers they use for these panels use some form of interpolation to fake more colors, but this will never result in as good a picture as with 24 bit panels.
Also, the interpolation is based on FRC (frame rate control); hereby the pixels get different color info each refresh. This results in visible noise (look at any Acer/BenQ from closeby, chances are you'll see it straight away) and it will also completly ruin the response times as more than 1 refresh is neccesary to give the pixel its color.
I have had a lengthy discussion with BenQ about this. The only result is that they promised to state the #colors of models with interpolation to 16M instead of 16.7M, at least this gives the end user a means to detect a 262k panel with interpolation.
Anyway, I've been screwed by BenQ with a 15" FP567 and whenever I see a LCD review I try to warn ppl. Acer and Benq (and lots of other brands) use these 262k panels in almost all their cheap models, so watch out and demand that you can return it if the specs are completly false. Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkIts a shame that this article did not point out the Hyundai panels. I have an L70S with a 16ms response time, and the picture quality is very good, and I can't perceive any "ghosting." The big downside to this monitor is the lack of DVI. Has anyone else had good experiences with the Hyundai panels?
PrinceGaz - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkExcellent article.
@#13: "A good article.I my self use CML174.
Made a lot of difference to my eyes compared to CRT."
Were you by any chance running your CRT at the default refresh-rate of 60hz? Thats the usual reason people claim they cause eye-strain (often because they don't know how to change it). For the price of a new LCD display, you could get a larger high-quality CRT monitor capable of running at 85hz or higher (ideally 100hz) and you'd be amazed how much better it is than any LCD. On the other hand you could just increase the refresh-rate on the old one and save some cash.
Myself I use the 22" CRT Mitsubishi DiamondPro 2070SB with a 20" visible display at 1600x1200 @ 100hz and the picture is fantastic. Theres no LCD available which could come close to it especially for gaming. Unless you need to take it to a LAN party :) Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkA good article.I my self use CML174.
Made a lot of difference to my eyes compared to CRT. Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkOutstanding reading, thanks. Reply
mechBgon - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkNice work, Kristopher. : ) Reply
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - link#5 fixed it - sorry.
#7 fixed that one too. Yeah rubbing pixels really doesnt do much good. I think NewEgg is going to be pissed when they find out I messed up their monitor pretty good.
#6 Say it aint so!! We want to be the only ones ;)
Shalmanese - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkFinally! It took long enough for you to get this out :). Great article, finally an article about LCD's which isn't full of opinion and hearsay. Reply
dvinnen - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkok, maybie you did mean that. Hard to tell, you say you scuffed the monitor, then go on to tell other people how to do it...
I problay just need some sleep... Reply
dvinnen - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkRubbing the pixils does more good then harm then?
<<<Personally, it seems that rubbing the pixels does more good than harm so continue at your own risk.>>>
Might want to fix that one Reply
dvinnen - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkgood to hear it. Seems like alot of the hardware sites are getting there act together. Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkOn page 6, where you talk about the cables in the picture (the sentence right below the picture), shouldn't the good cable be the *upper* one or am I missing something? Reply
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkYeah, new editors and kind of a revamped AT staff. We went through a lull period after we lost Matthew, but now we have some really good writers and a lot of great content to write about.
Just wait till Computex and COMDEX - 3 and 4 reviews per day sounds about right.
Kristopher Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkAaaahhhhh! Dr. Strangelove I presume. Reply
dvinnen - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkwhat's up with all the posts...
it's really freakin me out...
I'm used to the twice a month ones...
Well, the bright side is this is suppose to be a boring strtch to Athlon 64 and Prescott release, wonder how many we'll get then. Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, September 04, 2003 - linkYup. I gave up on waiting for a quality LCD for gaming. Bought a NEC FP912 to last me the next couple of years.
Maybe LCDs + gaming will be an uncompromised reality then. Reply


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COLUMBIA COUNTY, Fla. - A Columbia County man was arrested Tuesday after threatening to run deputies over, according to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies were called to the Players Club on U.S. 90 West at about 7 p.m. to assist an investigator with the Florida Department of Children and Families. The DCF investigator had a court order to take custody of a boy.
Deputies learned that the child, mother and father were sitting in a vehicle in the parking lot. Deputies assisted the DCF investigator in explaining the court order.
The suspect, 34-year-old Shiloh Champion, was holding the boy and handed him over to the mother instead of the DCF investigator, deputies said. They asked Champion for his identification as he sat in the driver's seat of the car. Champion told deputies that he did not have any ID with him and provided them a name that was known to be false, deputies said.
Deputies asked Champion to get out of the car. They said he initially opened the driver's door and appeared as though he was going to get out. Instead, Champion slammed the driver's door shut and placed the car in reverse, deputies said.
A deputy Paul Hebb tried to stop Champion from leaving the scene, but Champion accelerated in reverse and struck the DCF investigator's vehicle, deputies said. The collision caused the DCF investigator to be struck by her vehicle, causing minor injury.
Champion ignored deputies' orders to stop, turned the wheels of the vehicle toward them and tried to place the vehicle in a forward gear, deputies said. While Champion struggled to place the vehicle in gear, a deputy stunned him with an electronic control device.
Deputies were able to get Champion out of the car, but he continued to resist arrest and struggled with themon the ground, deputies said. They were finally able to gain control of him.
Champion was booked into the Columbia County Detention Facility on multiple charges, including two warrants from Alabama.
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Mayor-President Kip Holden offered new details Thursday about his firing of Baton Rouge Police Chief Dewayne White, including a claim that White rewrote department policy to benefit an officer he has been accused of favoring.
Holden released a 12-page letter that portrays White as an insubordinate department head who bucked protocol and played by his own rules. The letter repeats claims Holden aired before White's termination hearing last week, but also includes new allegations and names witnesses who could be called to testify at the ousted chief's civil service appeal hearing.
White's attorney, Jill Craft, said Thursday that the final termination letter represents "an act of desperation" on the part of city-parish officials. She also noted that city-parish officials had failed to provide White notice of all of the allegations earlier on in his termination proceedings.
Holden has previously criticized White's hiring of Officer Brad Bickham, a canine handler assigned to the Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination patrol unit, claiming Bickham was not required to undergo the same evaluations as other hires.
Holden has said Bickham, the father of White's wife's godson, was allowed to work overtime and extra-duty assignments immediately after he was hired instead of having to wait, as required by departmental policy.
In a final termination letter released Thursday in response to a request under the state's Public Records Law, Holden alleged that White also inflated Bickham's pay and unilaterally altered a departmental policy regarding the payment of off-duty officers who testify outside East Baton Rouge Parish.
According to the letter, Bickham put in a request for overtime pay to the Police Department's business manager in October 2011 after testifying in 21st Judicial District Court. The testimony stemmed from Bickham's prior employment with the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office, Holden said in the letter.
The business manager, Sue Trammell, told Bickham the department's policy did not provide for officers to be paid for testimony not relating to their employment as Baton Rouge police officers, the letter states. Having been promised payment by White, Bickham left the accounting office and returned with a note from the chief approving the payment, the letter states.
About an hour after Trammell wrote a letter to White reminding him of the department's policy, White showed up in the business manager's office with a letter citing a separate policy that grants the chief final authority, the letter states.
"Therefore until the appropriate guiding principle is changed, please let this correspondence serve to supplant current policy regarding payment of off-duty officers attending court in jurisdictions outside East Baton Rouge Parish," White wrote, according to the termination letter. "It shall be the policy of this department that officers shall honor all subpoenas, for duties they performed as a law enforcement officer, which has (sic) been issued by a court of competent jurisdiction outside the parish of East Baton Rouge. In such cases, the officer shall receive just compensation paid by the department, pursuant to policy, union contract, or by order of the chief of police."
Craft, White's attorney, said the issues Holden is raising now are two years old.
"The law says you can't discipline somebody for stuff that's that old," she said.
Craft maintains Bickham did not benefit from any favorable treatment, and was hired and paid, along with other officers, commensurate with his experience as a law enforcement officer.
"What you quickly realize is this (letter) is nothing more than some sort of 'We need to cover our behind,' " Craft said. "So they're reaching back to things that occurred in 2011 that everybody knew about in 2011 to say 'Well, this is why we're firing him in 2013.' "
White has appealed his firing to the local Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board, claiming his dismissal is null and void because city-parish officials violated provisions of the police officer's bill of rights in his termination. The five-member board could re-instate White with a majority vote.
The board's chairman, Sgt. Bryan Taylor, said Thursday night that White's hearing likely will be held in April or May.
Craft said she feels even more confident about White's chances of prevailing on appeal after seeing Holden's final letter.
"I know the law," she said. "I know what is required, and this is nothing but a bunch of window dressing and trying to fix a problem after they've already created it."
In the termination letter, Holden also accuses White of failing to return a city-parish issued cellphone and denying ever having been in possession of it. Craft called that accusation "crazy," adding White only had the phone for a short period of time and has otherwise used his own cellphone.
"They can't say that he has the phone because he doesn't," she said.
Records released by Holden's office Thursday show White signed a Baton Rouge Police Department Wireless Device Use Policy on May 9, 2012, for a smartphone with a phone number with the last four digits of 7-6-8-2. The rest of the phone number was blacked out.
Craft said that isn't White's cellphone number and never has been.
The termination letter also accused White of failing to attend a meeting about the proposed consolidation of the Police Department and the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office, as directed by Holden's chief administrative officer, William Daniel.
The termination letter also says White prepared the Police Department's budget for 2013 "not in accordance with protocol" and missed the deadline for completing it.
Holden alleges in the letter that White lied at his termination hearing last week when he claimed Cpl. Chris Stewart, president of the local police union, had been a direct hire who was hired without going before a review board. The mayor said Stewart, in fact, appeared before a review board and that White's comments "constituted dishonest conduct and conduct of a wantonly offensive nature toward a municipal officer."
Holden also claimed White handled a number of recent transfers, including Stewart's, "inappropriately." The mayor mentioned a group of officers transferred about a year ago to be fingerprint technicians who have appealed their transfers to the civil service board.
Holden said in the letter that White has been inconsistent and demonstrated favoritism in disciplining officers.
Holden cited an incident in which he said White "knowingly ignored" the actions of a captain who had lied under oath during a civil service appeal. The letter cites state law that "requires that a person who gives false testimony to the Civil Service Board be subject to penal discipline."
Holden added, "Moreover this type of favoritism is damaging to morale and violative of established departmental policy."
According to Holden, White also sought to subvert the city's crime camera system. At his termination hearing, White had denied Holden's claim he removed cameras from key locations, noting the program was supervised by the mayor's chief administrative officer.
White criticized the program, however, saying, "the costs associated with the purchase and maintenance of the crime cameras, I don't believe, justify the end."
Holden wrote that White refused to provide resources, equipment and personnel to the camera program requested by Sgt. Robert Gann, the officer assigned to oversee the cameras. White's actions regarding the crime cameras demonstrated an "unwillingness to provide the program with the resources necessary to ensure its success and to assist in the fight against crime in certain areas," Holden wrote.
The letter also contains several passages about a controversy over the overtime pay officers received during Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan's visit to Baton Rouge last fall.
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Antec ISK 110 VESA Case Review: Just About As Small As It Getsby Dustin Sklavos on 8/31/2012 12:01 AM EST
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- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
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bobbozzo - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkOn page 1, "drive moderate-to-low voltage hardware" should probably be changed to "drive moderate-to-low wattage hardware". Reply
bobbozzo - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkMy (fanless) firewall is an Atom motherboard running in a Morex T3310 case, which appears to be about the same size.
It comes with a 60 or 80-watt external power brick and 80-watt internal DC-DC power supply.
It only holds one 2.5" drive.
It does not VESA mount.
From your description of the Antec, the Morex may be easier to assemble, and may be a little better looking.
The grill mesh is very fine on the Morex, so it's possible airflow would be worse. Reply
Belard - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkThe photos show a VESA mount and a dual drive cage.
But the heat is enough of a problem with just a single drive.
It would be better to make it slightly bigger to have proper cooling. Reply
bobbozzo - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI was talking about my Morex case. Reply
londiste - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linki could get a fairly busy itx motherboard (based on the pictures, at least as busy as yours) into the case without taking out the power circuitry board.
however, when trying to hide as much cables as possible away from the perforated side, and trying not to cover the ventilation slits in the side at the same time, i did have some trouble getting the side panel back on.
i have to say that the power brick gets uncomfortably warm after heavy load already with my puny g620. i used to run the same system with a 80w picopsu and 60w brick which stayed considerably cooler... Reply
nethermancer - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI have one of these attached to the back of a 22" monitor and I cannot see the enclosure during normal use. This makes it like an All-in-one PC and my daughter really likes the small footprint in her room. I used an AMD A6-3500 triple core CPU and it really flies with an SSD and 4GB RAM. Could have done with a beefier PSU and allowed me to use a decent quad core CPU though. Antec managed a tiny 350W PSU on their minuet 350 case so why not here? Reply
Lonyo - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkWell I would expect they should be able to get a 150w PSU in there, but then what exactly are you going to do with a 150w system in such a small case? It would probably burn up.
Plus 90w is probably actually enough for a quad core CPU, as long as you aren't running it with any other hardware (which you can't). Reply
MrMilli - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkWhy does something like this need to be this expensive? There's barely any use of material, especially compared to full size towers. Reply
SodaAnt - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkIt includes VESA mounting hardware and a power supply. Reply
MrMilli - Saturday, September 01, 2012 - linkVESA mounting kit: $5
Delta PSU: $15
So that doesn't explain the cost.
You can buy decent mini towers including PSU for less than $50. Why does this need to be $80? Reply
sligett - Monday, September 03, 2012 - linkWell, there's an optimal size for anything. It costs more to make it larger, and it costs more to make it smaller. It also costs more to make something with non-standard parts. Sure, an ATX power supply is cheaper - they make them by the bazillions. And finally, if you *need* an enclosure this size, then you will pay to get it.
That's life. Reply
plext0r - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI've been using the M350 case from mini-itx.com with my Zotac IONITX (Atom + Nvidia) motherboards and it's a great little case (MythTV). It includes the VESA mounting holes on the back (no bracket needed). I ended up sandwiching a Scythe 100mm x 12mm fan into the case since 40mm fans are too loud and I couldn't run fan less. Reply
Geraldo8022 - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI too think that is a nice little case (M350) with one exception; the power button is over the ATX connector. Makes for a barely doable installation. I use Sapphire E350 (Zacate). I have an SSd and a 500G 2.5 inch HD. I use the integrated graphics and it works for me. I also would like to see Express Mini PCI utilized more. I use a PICO and prefer it to what Antec has implemented. I plan on moving mine into some kind of flat bottomed duffel bag and start taking it into cafes rather than my laptop. This ITX system is mounted on the back of a 24in Asus IPS monitor. Involves a powerstrip and, of course, has no battery. I think someone is missing an opportunity by not making a specialized bag for something like this. I see these people with their little tablets and I will sit here with my 24 incher. Course I will just pack it from car so weight is not that big of a deal. We'll see. Reply
TrackSmart - Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - linkThat last part, about taking your 24" monitor + attached case out-and-about, is hilarious. Kind of like going back to the early suitcase-style computers where the top lid was a keyboard.
Personally, I'd take one of the many cheap, lightweight, E350 powered laptops over your suitcase style E350 system, but I'd be amused if you actually did this. Reply
Seraphimcaduto - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI have this case as well, mine has a llano A8-3820, 8gb of ddr3 ram, a crucial m4 64GB and a 250GB WD HDD. I have to say that I love this case for its portability and power, but I had to mount an internal (low profile) 100mm processor fan to cool it better; the cooling was adequate before, but i was pushing the onboard graphics more than most (sane) people would. After using this case for several months, I can say a slightly larger power supply (even 120w) would be appreciated. Currently you are limited on your processor/main board selection and the extra 30w would greatly expand what you could use. Reply
Seraphimcaduto - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkForgot to say that I needed an extension cable for the 4-pin power connector as well and I used the asrock A75-itx. Only some of the asus mini-itx motherboards seem to have the 4-pin power socket close enough... Reply
coder543 - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkisn't the A8-3820 a mobile APU? how did you manage that? Reply
Seraphimcaduto - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkhttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion#section_...
Actually the A8-3820 is a revision of the A8-3800 CPU. Both processors are 65W desktop socket FM1 but are next to impossible to find, as mentioned in the review here of the Pudget AMD system with the same case. Both have the 6550D graphics, which means my little guy quite the portable LAN box. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkLooking at the way wires end up jammed into every open space above the board it seems a pity none of the even smaller board sizes have gained any traction outside of with VIA. Using a slightly smaller board would allow for routing all of the thinner wires behind the board and then just having them pop up around the edges; leaving only the fat power cables clogging things up on top. The case doesn't have support for even a half height expansion card, which eliminates the main restriction against going smaller. Reply
Belard - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkThey could have made it slightly bigger... making better airlflow perhaps as well as more room to hide some wiring. Since it has a power adapter, they could have made all the wires BLACK, including the USB to help make them disappear... actually, the inside should be painted black as well.
This also shows how well the Apple MacMini is well designed, eh? Reply
SodaAnt - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkWell, the mac min has a different set of design criteria. Apple doesn't have to fit a specific form factor, so they can mount pretty much everything on the board itself and do away with most of the cables. When you realize that you can get the same power as the $600 mac mini in a laptop $200 cheaper, you also realize how much more expensive it is.If antec were designing something like the mac mini, they could mount all the power hardware on the board, have a direct connection for the power, hdd, and fan. Further, the mac mini doesn't support two hard drives like this case does. Reply
sligett - Monday, September 03, 2012 - linkApple will sell you a Mac Mini with two drives:
750GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm + 256GB Solid State Drive Reply
deruberhanyok - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linka mini ITX motherboard with a pair of mini PCI Express slots. One for wifi and one for an SSD.
You'd have less cabling and the SSD would get cooling from airflow off the CPU heatsink.
Unfortunately, it seems mini ITX boards with mini PCI Express slots usually only have one. Still, better to put the SSD there and use a USB wifi dongle, I'd think. Reply
drfish - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI'm hoping to put an AMD A300 APU in one of these things. We don't need much power for the Solidworks models we produce but we do need the BS certified drivers so I'm hoping this will make a solid tiny workstation, err, a tiny Solidworkstation I guess. Reply
Termie - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkThanks for covering this hot new area of case design. I think ITX is really the way a lot of people will be going.
While this case is smaller than I'd consider reasonable or necessary, it's definitely interesting to read about.
I'd be very curious, however, what your opinion would be of two cases I recently considered for an ITX build:
(1) The Antec ISK 310-150, the big brother to the ISK 110 (which has that extra PSU headroom you're wishing for).
(2) The Bit Finex In Win BP655, which is just slightly larger than the ISK 310, and which I ultimately chose for a recent ITX build.
The Antec is slightly smaller (in one dimension only - height (in the long direction), and also has venting for a PCIe video card. The Bit Finex is much cheaper, has more PSU headroom, takes a 3.5" drive and a full-size optical drive, and has just a bit more room to work in.
Again, thanks for covering this area of case design! Reply
Termie - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkSorry, I mean In Win BP 655, not Bit Finex. Reply
Zap - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI'm using the ISK 300-150 (different face than the ISK 310-150, all black with flip-down)
In Win traditionally has somewhat mediocre PSUs. At least Antec's is somewhat known, as a review site used a load tester on it (hardwaresecrets?) and found it does put out what it claims without issues, other than lower efficiency than what is now considered normal. Only redeeming part of In Win's case is that it uses a standard TFX PSU, unlike Antec's proprietary PSU. Seasonic makes 80Plus Gold PSUs in the TFX size up to 350W. Good luck fitting 350W worth of parts into such a small case!
I believe Antec uses slightly thicker steel than In Win for the case panels. Reply
AssBall - Friday, August 31, 2012 - link"...while it relies solely on the heatsink/fan combo to actively cool the system, it also relies solely on the heatsink/fan combo to actively cool the system."
What? Reply
Termie - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI think that was an attempt at humor.
One fan means it runs hot, one fan means it runs quiet... Reply
Lonyo - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkDo you have any alternative PSUs to hand? Might be interesting to see if something like a PicoPSU would make the entire job any easier than dealing with the built in one (as odd as that sounds).
The main issue would be the fact there is only one SATA connector on that specific model, but you could get an adapter (although it would take up a little extra space), or re-wire a SATA connector instead of second PATA. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI'm a bit surprised they didn't go with something more like a pico-psu in general. Just using 12V in instead of 19V would allow for a significantly smaller board since you'd only need to make small amounts of 3.3/5V internally and not large amounts of 12V as well. Dropping the additional conversion should also boost total system efficiency and lower wall power as a result. Reply
Lonyo - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkYeah, the power circuitry based on the pics looks like a lot more than I would expect to be necessary given the size of a PicoPSU (I'm using on on an ITX system with G620T and HD6450, as well as 3x3.5" HDDs with no problems).
If it's an ITX system with just 2.5" drives, there should be no issues with a low power PicoPSU instead of whatever they went with. Reply
Alex_N - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI built three identical systems using this case, used i7 3770S (65W quad core) for the CPU and Intel's reference mini-ITX ivy bridge motherboard. I use them for a small CPU-heavy compute cluster.
-assembly was pretty easy. I was able to fit the motherboard in without removing the PSU.
-very low power (I can run them all off one power strip)
-very low noise... can't hear them running over the AC and my desktop, even with my head next to the case and at full load (obviously depends on your CPU fan, I'm using the stock cooler fan)
-very space efficient (the other mini-ITX cases are 3X as large)
-CPU runs cool at load
-PSU runs very hot at load. Could be partially due to the tough cable management.
-one of the PSUs was dead out of the three. Replaced it with a PicoPSU, which was much smaller (and maybe runs cooler, too, but haven't checked closely)
It's been about 4-5 months and I'm very happy with them. Quiet compute cluster, low cost, low noise, low power consumption, fast boot times (SSD + new style BIOS - UEFI?). I'd consider building these for friends/relatives who need a non-gaming PC, as well. Reply
fic2 - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI am curious as to what PicoPSU you replaced the PSU with. Reply
EnzoFX - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI love these things, but I don't understand why they can't do proper length cables, or include cables that would just fit well, as opposed to something at standard length. Furthermore, why cant' they make some custom connectors or adapters. It must be possible, for them to create maybe even a new standard to keep cables to a minimum size and length in these type of cases. The power is only going to so few devices that it should warrant custom cables perhaps? The ease of assembling and better airflow would be worth the marginal extra cost, surely? Reply
jhoff80 - Friday, August 31, 2012 - link...but with most new mITX boards having a mSATA slot, I'd absolutely love to see a case with 0 drive bays but that still has two PCI expansion slots (preferably with a riser) to support a dedicated GPU. Reply
Wardrop - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkJust a shame that Antec cases are always so ugly... or maybe out of date is a better description. Would have looked awesome back around the turn of the century, but otherwise, I think Lian Li are the only one's making attractive cases of this size (or a little larger). Reply
Scannall - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkI agree, it really does look bad. I used a Wesna case for my HTPC.
Looks far better. Reply
Wardrop - Saturday, September 01, 2012 - linkThat Wesna case is pretty nice. Thanks for the link. Reply
Anosh - Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - linkExpect it gets to warm Reply
Anosh - Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - link*except Reply
MadAd - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkWhen do you think we might get a SFF forum to chat about all this?
Laptops are so not SFF material and they drive out SFF chat. Reply
MadAd - Saturday, September 01, 2012 - linkWould the SSD have been a bit happier had it been mounted the other side and not directly under the CPU plate? Reply
mariush - Saturday, September 01, 2012 - linkWhere are the close up pictures of the power supply, both the external one and the internal board?
Where are the close up pictures of the case, without anything shoved into it?
Oh there's two galleries...why the hell two separate galleries?
Why so much suck usability wise?
If I'm opening a gallery in a new tab, I get no link to go back to the article and I can't tell if there are other galleries. Luckily this is a fresh article so I clicked "Galleries" I saw the other gallery but if this was an older gallery I would have no way to tell if there are other galleries.
The external power supply one is made by Delta so that somewhat guarantees it's a quality one but the internal board is also important to see for some people.
I can barely see from the picture it's a 19v adapter - what's the point of large pictures if you don't get more information from it than what you can see in a thumbnail?
Why no close-up pictures of the actual pcb - that's the real power supply (well, dc-dc converter) !.. Why no test of what they say, is it really 92% efficiency? I doubt it, 92% efficiency is probably just for the external adapter.
Very long USB and sound cables... I can't figure out why they have to be so long in such case. Reply
mariush - Saturday, September 01, 2012 - linkI apologize. There IS a link back to article in the galleries, called "Back to post" ... but it's positioned in such a way that I confused it to a "Previous picture" , "Next picture" type of link. Reply
twinclouds - Saturday, September 01, 2012 - linkI have been using the case of Shuttle X27 for some time. I took out the original board and added a more powerful ITX board. The size of the case is 2.9"x7.2"x10.5". It is actually smaller than the Antec case mentioned here in volume. It is narrower and longer and looks better for me when in horizontal position. In addition it has the space for a slimline CD/DVD drive. The only inconvenience is that it does not have a flash card reader. I wish someone can build such a case for retail. Reply
herrdoktor330 - Sunday, September 02, 2012 - linkHere's a thought: packing a bigger AMD APU (think the upcoming Trinity A10-5800K) into this size case and doing a modest overclock to the APU's GPU. You could do some modest gaming @ 720p on a rig like that in a profile smaller than the Xbox 360. The only bottleneck is the external power supply. So I started looking at the manufacturer's website of the power brick and model number (delta electronics - adp-90CB(?)-AB). I couldn't seem to find anything on the delta electronics website matching the CB part of the model number. That designation doesn't seem to match any of the laptop or mini-pc brick model numbers. So here's my questions:
1) Is there any information on the output connections on the adp-90CB(?)-AB vs the ADP-150BB B. I'm still googling up information on the topics of outputs, allowable voltages, and such to answer my own question. But maybe someone here knows the answer?
2) Assuming you could jimmy up a compatible brick, could the internal PCB handling power in the ISK-110 be able to handle the extra 60w and 2.6 times the amps a bigger brick would offer?
for reference:
http://www.delta.com.tw/product/ps/adapter/adapter... Reply
mariush - Sunday, September 02, 2012 - linkThe delta brick is a 19v 4.77a or something, for a total of 90 watts. You can see the rating (barely) in one picture.
The case has internal dc-dc converters that generate the 3.3v , 5v and 12v out from that 19v with about 90% efficiency, so the system sees about 85 watts in total on those 12v, 3.3v and 5v outputs.
I already complained about no close-up pictures of that dc-dc converter inside the case, and this is one of the reasons: I can't see what ICs are used, how the voltages are generated.
The most used voltage will be 12v so the internal board probably is configured for 12v @ 8A max (12v x 8a = 96 watts), 3.3v @ 4 A, 5v @ 4A or something like that.... but all added up can't exceed 90w, the external brick's rating.
You may be able to replace the brick with one rated for more current as long as it's still 19v (for example use a 120w brick with 19v output) but in the end it depends on the circuit on the board inside the case if the chips can output more current on 12v.
They may be unable to output more than 6-8A or they may be locked to a maximum value to keep the board cool. But if you're lucky, they may be able to output 10-12a reliably on 12v alone, possibly with a heatsink applied on them.
There's no overload test on the power supply, no information in this review. Which sucks. Reply
herrdoktor330 - Sunday, September 02, 2012 - linkThanks for the feedback. Good thought on the locked amp values too. I didn't think about that.
Again, I'm still doing my own research into the matter. But you're right... it'd be cool if the Anantech crew looked into mods like that. But maybe there's some other group that may try this.
I guess if one was inclined, this thing COULD take an A10-5700 when they get released without any power brick mods. But still, it'd be nice if you could work with this form factor but have a little more power at your disposal. Reply
Manyak - Thursday, September 06, 2012 - linkI just got done building 12 systems for an office using this case. They're using i3-2100's, ASUS P8H77-I motherboards, 2x4GB DDR3-1600, and Crucial M4 SSD's.
1: It is possible to install motherboards without removing the PSU. You have to put the right side of the motherboard in first (the part closest to the front of the case), and kind of squeeze it in under the front panel USB block as much as possible. Then lower the back end down into the case. If the I/O plate has tabs sticking out into the case it'll make it hard, but you can just bend it outwards a bit with your finger while pushing the motherboard down. It's tricky, but it works.
2: You installed the SSD in the slot that sits directly behind the CPU, and there's no insulation between it and the motherboard. If you install it in the other slot I think it should run a little cooler.
Also, you should take a look at the Morex M350 case. In theory it's a similar design to this one - completely minimalistic, with nothing but mesh - but it's even smaller. Yet it manages to give you a much neater build, and HDD airflow is a lot better. Reply
CaptainDoug - Thursday, September 13, 2012 - linkSurely there's a place for 2 or 4 gb of ram... Reply
irqsRfun - Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - linkhttp://www.mini-box.com/M350-universal-mini-itx-en...
This might be a better fit for some applications, since it does not require the purchase of a power supply. Reply
powerarmour - Thursday, November 22, 2012 - linkJust built one of these myself :-
Intel Core -3-3225 (w/HD 4000)
8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1866
ASRock H77M-ITX motherboard
Found it very easy to install tbh, didn't have to take the power board out either, just slide the motherboard in back to front (angle towards front of case, lower, then slide up to the backplate)
No problems with cabling either, just look at the pic :) Reply


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