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ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Chicks

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 11, 2009 · 4426 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

As every selfrespecting media that has visited CeBIT, we tried to photograph as many chicks we could possible see. Unnfortunately for us we missed the best tiem for that - the weekend but we still have some very cool babes to show you. Chicks photos HERE Even more chicks :D HERE

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Intel Extreme Masters

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 11, 2009 · 1852 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

One of the most interesting halls in this years's CeBIT was Game Hall 22 - Intel Extreme Masters. It was dedicated extremely into gaming and offered a lot ot entertainment. Read more about it HERE

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Nanya and Elixir

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 11, 2009 · 1837 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Maybe for the most of you Nanya and Elixir are an unknown brands, despite they are leader in memory manufacturing. Nanya are making retail products with the name Elixir and they are also taking part in the OEM market with the brand Nanya. Read more HERE

CeBIT 2009 3-8 March, Hannover (Germany), Expo Chicks

Events · Author Stuyo · March 11, 2009 · 9630 reads · ★★★★★ (6 votes)

Of course, as should do any self respecting media visiting CeBIT, we tried to catch as many chicks as possible. This year the crisis took away most of the pleasure of the expo, marketing budget cuts obviously result in less eye candy. Anyway, we shot whatever we could. :)

CeBIT 2009 3-8 March, Hanover (Germany), Weird Stuff

Events · Author Stuyo · March 11, 2009 · 8279 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Time to show you the weird and not so weird things we encountered roaming through Germany. For me the strangest thing I was one I encountered while trying to achieve a side goal wile at CeBIT. Upon leaving for Germany a friend of mine told me to try at least 8 types of German beer. Well, I managed to try whole 23, the…

CeBIT 2009 3-8 March, Hanover, Intel Extreme Masters

Events · Author Stuyo · March 10, 2009 · 7065 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

One of the interesting halls this year at CeBIT was game hall 22 – Intel Extreme Masters. It was exclusively game oriented and indeed provided lots of fun activities. Here wat expected us in front of the hall. And here is about everything we saw inside: First thing we noticed right away was the few Formula 1 cars and…

Review on In Win NA - External HDD Enclosure @ ModReactor

Reviews · Author krisko92 · March 9, 2009 · 1945 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Modern times impose modern ways. Cutting edge technology ensures we have bigger and bigger date storage capabilities whispering ever so gently - "worry not about the megabytes". Well, you know what? They're right. That's why external hard drive enclosure cases are something common nowadays. So today we choose to…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Arctic Cooling

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 9, 2009 · 1848 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Arctic Cooling is a Swiss company which is very known on the market with its silent and overclocking friendly products. The company makes all sorts of air coolings - fro processors, video cards, memories, also makes PSus, fans, laptop coolers, PC cases and etc. The booth of Arctic Cooling was one of the most prepared…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - ASUS - Demo Cases

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 9, 2009 · 1857 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Besides all the hardware that was shown on ASUS's booth, from ASUS offered us their new models of PC cases in which to put our hardware in. You can read more in the link below. HERE

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - ASUS - coolers, laptops and others

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 9, 2009 · 1962 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

ASUS also unveiled a lot of CPU coolers. Many of them were named on different knights and they were all with very interesting design. Of course, there we also many laptops shown and a lot of accessories. Some of them were very expenssive and unnecessary, but the Eee Stick was very interesting. Read more HERE

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - ASUS - motherboards, video cards

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 9, 2009 · 1911 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

On ASUS booth there were many of the company's new products, thats why we'll look at them in parts. First will look at the motherboards. There were many of ASUS's models unveiled there, but one particular model grabed our attention: Marine Cool. It includes many innovations like reserved memory, metal palte behind the…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Skull Candy

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 9, 2009 · 2781 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

It is very possible some of you might heard of the brand famous with its headphones - Skull Candy, which is making it's way on the Bulgarian market. Skull Candy make products which are especially for the young people who practice extreme sports. In both of their booths there were big screen TVs, which played the…

In Win NA External HDD Enclosure Review

Storage · Author Говедо · March 9, 2009 · 10436 reads · ★★★★☆ (3 votes)

Modern times impose modern ways. Cutting edge technology ensures we have bigger and bigger date storage capabilities whispering ever so gently - "worry not about the megabytes". Well, you know what? They're right. That's why external hard drive enclosure cases are something common nowadays. So today we choose to…

CeBIT 2009 3-8 March, Hannover (Germany), day 3

Events · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · March 9, 2009 · 14893 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

Time to show you what we've seen in day 3 of our stay in Hanover at the 2009 CeBIT expo. Arctic Cooling (Part 1: CPU & VGA coolers) Arctic Cooling is Switzerland company well known to overclockers and silence lovers including here in Bulgaria. The company makes variety of air coolers - for processors, video cards and…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Patriot

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 6, 2009 · 3344 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Patriot is a U.S. based company manufacturing high quality memory modules for 23 years. Patriot are famous with their products for enthusiasts and with the high quality of the components used in the modules. Before Patriot's product reach customers, they have to pass a series of tests, which proves the quality of the…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Nova Gaming

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 6, 2009 · 1902 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Nova Gaming are turned out to be on the market for mouse pads for over 10 years. Despite we've never heard for them, we've seen some very interesting and innovative products on their booth. You can read more HERE

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Jetway

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 6, 2009 · 1981 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Right next to DFI was the booth of Jetway. They are well known on the Bulgarian market with their budget motherboards. A part of their mainstream motherboards, there are some very interesting ITX and Pico-ITX models. Read more HERE

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - DFI

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 6, 2009 · 1824 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Directly from the Press Center, we continue with our tour and we start with the well known manufacturer DFI. Many of you might know that DFI have products for the ordinary users and also some enterprise solutions which are very expensive and aren't interesting for us. The DFi booth shows only their DFI LanParty…

CeBIT 2009 3-8 March, Hannover (Germany), day 2

Events · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · March 6, 2009 · 7457 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

And so we continue with our story about Modreactor's team at CeBIT 2009 in Hanover (Dermany), with the second day of it. The day we started with DFI LanParty . As you might know, DFI make products ranging from basic user ones to grand enterprise solutions, which however are indeed costly and therefore of no interest…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Cougar

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 5, 2009 · 1914 reads · ★★★★☆ (7 votes)

Cougar is a power supply manufacturer we have spoted from a long time, but we didn't manage to have contact with them. They offer power supplies in the range of 300-1200W, modular and not modular. Most of them have gold, silver or bronze certificate for efficiency over 80% which means they are hard stuff. Read more…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Mushkin

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 5, 2009 · 1987 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

The booth of Mushkin was one of the most interesting, because Mushkin had unnveiled all their product series - EM, HP, XP DDR2 && DDR3 Series, RedLine memories, power supplies and many new things. Thi is the firs time we have seen SSDs with the brand Mushkin and the new Mushkin Radioactive as well as Mushkin X2-Gold…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Akasa

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 5, 2009 · 1768 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

The booth of Akasa was one of the biggest our team has visited. From just computer accessories and fans, Akasa is now making high-end PC cooling solutions, computer cases, water coolings, external HDD cases, power supplies and much much more. Read more about Akasa HERE

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Lian Li, Lancool

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 5, 2009 · 1673 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

The ModReactor team is now looking at the booth of Lian-Li and Lancool. As you may expect from Lian-Li, the design and quality of their products is excellent. They are showing their typical products like MidTower, BigTower and HTPC cases and some very non-standard models especially for the enthusiasts. There are…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Thermaltake

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 4, 2009 · 1960 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

In recent time we see Thermaltake - a world wide leader in cooling solution, to unveil more and more products dedicated to the hardware and modding enthusiasts - new gaming chassis, powerful PSU's, water cooling and something you may find interesting - Phase Change Cooling Systems. Every new year we see new products…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Cooler Master

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 4, 2009 · 2062 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

The ModReactor team is in CeBIT, Hannover and right now is looking at the booth of Cooler Master. As we all know, CM splited into three different companies: Storm, Choixx and Cooler Master itself. Storm is a brand focused on gaming products, especially gaming chassis with unique design. THe other brand Choiix is…

5 Full Systems on 1 x Real Power M1000W and Housed in a ATCS 840 from Cooler Master

Press Releases · Author krisko92 · March 4, 2009 · 2316 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Engineers from Cooler Master put themselves to the test by building a 5-in-1 system that has never been done before. Today, CM are proud to announce that with a single Real Power M1000W they are able to power up 5 full mini-itx systems in a closed ATCS 840 chassis. A full tour and demonstration will be available in CM…

Cooler Master Appoints New Brand “CHOIIX”,

Press Releases · Author krisko92 · March 4, 2009 · 248 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Having a solid foothold in the computer thermal sector for over 15 years, Cooler Master, a highly acclaimed solution provider, in 2008 set up a new subsidiary for laptop peripherals under the new name “Choiix” for the global notebook consumer market. Digital life has been more personalized and casual with the launch…

Cooler Master Prepares Comprehensive Line-up at CeBIT 2009

Press Releases · Author krisko92 · March 4, 2009 · 4278 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

CeBIT 2009 marks yet another milestone for Cooler Master, as it is the first time Cooler Master unveils CM Storm - a pro gaming line and Choiix - a PC accessory line together at the world’s largest computer exhibition. CM Storm targets all the unsatisfied needs of gamers by collaborating directly with the world’s best…

CeBIT 2009 3-8 March, Hannover (Germany), day 1

Events · Author Stuyo · March 4, 2009 · 7362 reads · ★★★★★ (6 votes)

Come one, come all an hear the story of the Modreactor team, and their amazing journalistic journey through the world's biggest IT expo – CeBit in Hanover. Today's tale will be about their first day the beautiful city in lower Saxony. Aye! It was the first day of CeBit 2009 and we managed to walk through a small part…