The ID-Cooling manufacturer keeps enriching its liquid cooling systems product range aimed at processing units. This time we are speaking about the closed-type ID-Cooling Auraflow 240 system, which stands out for its RGB LED-lighting, being able to synchronize colour and effects with the Asus Aura solution.



The water block is equipped with a C-shaped light diffuser. The heatsink fans are also illuminated; and the backlighting is powered through a stand-alone 12 V connector on the baseboard.


The 65x36 mm water block is backed by a copper cooler with scaled-down submerged ribs, which enlarges the overall heat transfer area. Ceramic bearings’ projected service life is up to 50,000 hours at the 2,100 rpm rotary velocity. Meanwhile, the noise level doesn’t exceed 25 dBA.


ID-Cooling Auraflow 240 features an aluminium heat dissipator, two 120 mm SF-12025 fans, 315 mm long sleeves, protected by the textile braiding. At the initial 7 V loading fans rotate at the 700–1,800 …

Like Intel, AMD Company is not protected to the release of a large number of faulty processors, which are eliminated at the stage of laboratory tests. Some have a non-working cache (or part thereof), other — x86-cores, and others — a graphics block, and a fourth — a weak memory controller. According to this, there are releases of less productive CPU, but working with a moderate price tag. About unlocking cores / cache in AMD processors users probably know firsthand.



As the saturation of the defective inventory APU Trinity platform FM2, AMD will decide on the mass production of new models of AMD Athlon II X4. They will be easily distinguished from its predecessors on the number of the form 7xx.


Integrated Graphics Radeon VLIW4, of course, will be disabled. Frequency will be slightly reduced for marketing purposes. Overclocker devotees will primarily be interested in quad-core Athlon II X4 750K of free factor. The operating frequency of the model — 3.4 GHz, cache …

The model range of computer cases from be quiet! will soon be replenished with the Dark Base 700 sample. The manufacturer has recently published a video announcement of this product on its official Twitter page, showing that it’s performed in the widespread Mid-Tower form factor and resembles other frameworks of the German vendor, particularly Dark Base Pro 900.



At present the company doesn’t reveal many technical points, however, video gives us enough information. Dark Base 700 can hold ATX motherboards, seven PCI Express expansion cards and one two-slot graphics accelerator, which is mounted vertically with the help of a riser. The covering in the lower part of the framework protects the ATX compatible power supply unit and, presumably, drives.


At the rear be quiet! Dark Base 700 has room for a 120 mm liquid cooling system heatsink with an appropriate fan. The front section of the chassis is expected to have a seat for one 240/280 mm radiator. Other peculiarities …