This is an official public statement from Lamptron regarding the unauthorized use of Lamptron intellectual property to reproduce substandard copies of Lamptron products. We appreciate the time invested by online media sources and consumers who have assisted in reporting on this matter. Here at Lamptron we strive for the best in product quality and customer service, and it is with this practice in mind that we are making this official statement regarding the unauthorized use of Lamptron property.

As of January 2012 we have been made aware of the presence of imitation products designed to mimic the look and function of official Lamptron brand products on the retail market. These reproductions have been made with unauthorized use of Lamptron production parts and designs, along with competing materials that may or may not be made of the same quality as used by official Lamptron production parts.

We cannot be responsible for any present risk to the consumer and the hazards these products pose as cannot be overestimated, as these products are not tested and approved by Lamptron certified technicians. Each patented Lamptron design meets or exceeds safety and environmental regulations of each individual country in which we do business.

Our commitment to customer safety is of the highest priority and as options are explored to address this issue, any new information that becomes available will be published via our webpage.

We would like to send a heartfelt thanks to our community of end-users for the feedback and assistance they have provided in this matter thus far and for that help provided we are offering to all major media outlets a chance to visit our production facilities first hand and speak one on one with the owner and staff at the corporate facility of Lamptron with your hotel and flight paid for by us.

In the computer industry we have seen many situations in regards to rival companies that produce similar products. However nothing has sparked such a heated debate as what is currently present within the website ‘overclock.net’ A thread with a the sum total of 23 pages (thus far) has exploded into the hearts and minds of modding enthusiasts.

On one side we have Lamptron; which as we all know is an established business and produced many interesting products and on the other ‘G-Vans’ a small company that appears to have a personal vendetta towards the former and by the eye of the customer appears to be stealing Lamptrons designs and customers. Frozen CPU and Performance-PCS, ‘ which are American based companies are also at the centre of this conflageration. Both of the aforementioned companies have been accused of ‘doctoring’ reviews and photographs, with the addition to mis-leading customers. Of this we are unable to comment on an objective basis, however what is concerning is that the companies products (Lamptron and G-vans) are of a similar design and nature. As far as the customer is concerned Lamptron appear to have the ‘edge’ as these products have been available to the public for many years, whilst G-Vans are a new company and appear to be involved (in respect to this site) in some rather ‘shady activitities’

On the main www.g-vans.com page there appears to be a logo from this website ‘Overclockers Tech’ leading the customer into thinking that we have reviewed their products. In fact quite the reverse is true.

Overclockers Tech would like to go on record that we have never reviewed any of G-Vans range of products and the use of our ‘Gold Award’ Logo on their site is both an infringement of copyright and is false advertising! As such a legal ‘Cease and Desist letter’ has been sent by our offices to their sales team in order to have our logo taken off the G-Vans site, as we feel that this is indeed mis-leading to the most important element of all ‘the customer’

When situations such as the above happen, there can only be one loser and that will be the previously mentioned customers. We wish for this situation to be resolved for the end-users sake forthwith and that OCT will not hesitate to take legal action against ‘g-vans’ if the said logo is not removed.

For the full story please visit:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1195612/official-statement-regarding-g-vans-knock-off-controllers-products/220

Everyone’s favouritie brand of fan Controller ‘Lamptron’ unveiled its latest product, the FC9. With this, Lamptron broke away from the rotary-knob styled speed control to a slider styled one. The FC9 lets you control up to four channels, each delivering up to a MASSIVE 50W of power! The unit draws power from a standard 4-pin Molex connector. It measures 148.5 x 42.5 x 75 mm. It comes in two brushed aluminum bezel color options of black and silver. The LEDs colours are user-changeable between white, blue, green, cyan, red, purple, and yellow. Our sources at Lamptron ‘hint’ that it will be released next week 11/7/2011

Specifications:

• Dimension: 148.5 x 42.5 x 75mm
• Power output: 50W per channel
• DC input: +12V (standard 4-pin connector)
• DC output: 0-12V DC
• Control channels: 4
• LED colour available: White, Blue, Green, Cyan, Red, Purple, Yellow
• Face plate color available: Black anodized / Silver aluminium

Here are a few shots for your viewing pleasure:

You can rest-assured that Overclockers Tech will be one of the first to review this product!

Author:

Gilgamesh

Golden Emporer International Limited-otherwise known as GEIL has a rather interesting stand and showing off some nice equipment at this years CEBIT-2011. Geil known for their high quality memory modules have branched out (as you already know) into manufacturing Power Supply Units (PSU) under another name called Thortech. Staffed by Danny, Hank and Ogden-GEIL look set to set things alight this year.

Let us have a look at their products on display shall we? Well first off a few shots of the booth used to showcase their products.

First Shot of the Booth

Thortech Section

Now this would an excellent view if it werent for the guy picking his nose on the right!

Onto the Products Themselves

EVO Two 2200MHZ for the P67 Range of Boards	EVO Two Close Up
GEIL Ultra PLus 2000mhz Ram	GEIL Ultra PLus Close Up

Now if we move into the Thortech Range of PSU’s

Thortech PLus 800 watts with Power Meter

Thortech Thunderbolt 1200 watt

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Now we can wish that GEIL would start to produce SSD drives, now given the quality of their other product lines.

Dimastech the company that symbolises the word quality are about to release a series of thumbscrews, aimed at the custom case market. For those whom are not familiar with Dimastech, they produce wonderful Bench-tables  for the avid enthusiast or those whom write for review sites. An overview of the Dimasech Hard 2.5 bench table can be found here.

http://www.overclockerstech.com/Dismastech-Hard-BenchTable

Overclockers tech were contacted by Andrea at the aforementioned company to inform us of their new custom case screws. These come in two differing sizes M3 and 6-32 Inch threads. The thumbscrews come in a range of colours from the regular black and silver to red green and blue. We at overclockers tech will assume that the 6/32 will be the most utilised as all cases for the enthusiasts use 6/32 inch threads.

Judging by the following photographs they look to be of a very good quality. Note these screws are anodised steel rather than of aluminium. The reason for this is that steel is much more robust and is a much better material and aluminium in this case (pardon the pun)

Dimastech Black Thumbscrews

Loose Thumbscrews

Dimastech Silver Thumbscrews

Loose Silver Thumbscrews

As has been previously mentioned, Dimastech also do other colours, for those ‘special customised cases’

Dimastech Red/Pink Thumbscrews

Lose Red/Pink Thumbscrews

Blue Dimastech Thumbscrews

Blue Loose Thumbscrews

Finally we have green

Dimastech Green Thumbscrews

Loose Green Thumbscrews

For those whom actually prefer aluminium over the zinc/steel they have that option as well.

For more information see http://www.dimastech.it

Today sees the release of two new reservoirs for the water cooling enthusiast market. Designed around the popular Liang D5 and D5 vario these products are set to provide maximum compatibility whilst being user friendly.

The reservoirs attach directly to the Liang pumps, thus eliminating the need to install tubing from the reservoir to the pump itself. This saves the consumer money, space and time.

The products are available in two flavours, bay and tank designs.

http://www.xspc.biz/d5bayres.php

http://www.xspc.biz/d5tankres.php

This reviewer would be very interested to see what XSPC comes up with next.

Author Gilgamesh

Introduction

We reviewed the Akasa’ Nero S CPU cooler only just last month dubbed their “premium cooler”. Now however Akasa have come to the market with a cooler capable of mounting two 120mm fans titled, the “Venom”, not to be confused with the Venomous X from Thermalright. Akasa state on the box “King of Cooling”. Now this isn’t to be taken offense but Akasa is more known for their low cost budget coolers delivering serious bang for buck for any consumer, CPU or GPU cooling. When a company takes a brave step to dub there cooler so, one can only be pessimistic. However, no doubt it will probably be the best cooler Akasa produce to date. With the tag line on the box, “unlock Venom GAME ON!”, we could be in for a real treat with a cooler offering a lot of cooling potential.

About Akasa

Akasa design and manufacture a comprehensive range of high quality technology products including coolers, heatsinks and fans. They work closely with Intel and AMD to ensure the products match the complex demands of CPU and form-factor technology. So when new, advanced technology arrives, Akasa have the products and expertise to make it work for you.

Specifications

Heatsink Material: Aluminum fins, Copper heatpipes

Weight: 805g

Cooler Dimensions: 120x96x160mm

Socket: Intel LGA775/1156/1366, AMD AM2/AM3

Fan Speed: 600-1900RPM (PWM Controlled)

Noise Level: 6.9-28.9dB(A)

Today we are proud to announce a world exclusive! Gilgamesh at overclockerstech was lucky enough to be amongst one of the few people in an exclusive club, testing a new water block by XSPC. This site is not allowed to publish detailed photos as of yet, but we have been authorised to publish the following image.

The new XSPC block

We are not allowed to post intimate details of the various features of this block, however we can confirm that FINALLY we have a block that KILLS the Heatkiller 3.0 (copper version)

Before posting the following results one must notice that the mounting mechanism creates a much closer contact between the CPU and the water block, judging by its mounting mechanism.

The initial testing results are between one and two degrees BETTER performance than the Watercool Heatkiller!

This preview shall be appended with the full results shortly! However one must note that the testing has been carried out on a PROTOTYPE waterblock!

Author gilgamesh

We all remember the good old days; arguing who has the best cooler – you either were a TRUE or IFX-14 lover!  This reviewer however was a TRUE fan; simply down to how easy the heatsink was to fit on the board, as compared to the huge IFX-14. However; both did have with their own issues. The IFX-14′s downfall was largely due to a poor base. Today we see an eagerly awaited upgrade of the IFX-14 in the form of the ‘Arrow’, but not from Thermalright – instead, a sister company called Cogage.

About Cogage

Thermalright Inc. saw an issue with their high-end cooler – cost!  To remedy this, they created a daughter company called Cogage. Aimed at the more mainstream market, it was founded in order to make higher-end product more readily available due to its lower prices.

Specifications

The specifications from Cogage’s website:

We recall from last year a question that many pondered – just how far can air cooling go? Air cooling can only go so far and it won’t be long until we hit the limit. We’ve already seen some companies take to water cooling solutions with all-in-one kits – some more successful than others. It won’t be long until some of the bigger names start to find new ways to adapt air cooling for the masses and take it to a new level. There are already rumours of vapour chambers and TEC’s in the future. However, one such company that we are reviewing today has taken a step ahead of the big rivals and taken air cooling to a whole new level – liquid metal.

About

Many people will be unfamiliar with Danamics and wouldn’t have known they produce CPU coolers. Founded on the principle of providing manufacturers of electronic hot spots the very best in cooling, Danamics started in 2005. Since then, Danamics has worked on developing, manufacturing and commercializing their core technology, which centres around the principle of using liquid metal as a heat remover. Danamics were keen to improve on their earlier cooler; the LM10. Much hyped and talked about, it proved to be only average and couldn’t keep up with the very best standard air coolers, let alone justify such a high price tag! They redesigned the whole cooler from the ground up but have kept the same Sodium Potassium Alloy used for cooling.

Liquid Metal you say?

Sodium Potassium Alloy (aka NaK) is a top substance for heat transfer. However, reading through the nice detailed warning booklet, it is highly reactive to air and water. Something that puts many people off due to the fact that if the substance were to leak, well, watch out for an explosion! This NaK is pumped around the cooler’s nickel plated heatpipes via the electromagnetic pump which is silent and features no moving parts. This pump is a REV.2 (PowerBooster 2) over the previous LMX Pump, which Danamics has told me is smaller, cheaper and more effective. Note – this does get very hot so be careful! Moving parts are totally eliminated as the magnetic force is created within the particles of the liquid metal causing it to flow.

See the image below for the step-by-step of how this electromagnetic flow works:

Step-by-step