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Monday, June 11, 2007
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Scythe is perhaps best known for its CPU coolers but the firm also has a bunch of other products including power supplies, keyboards, HDD enclosures, fans and fan controllers. In this review I'm taking a look at the Scythe Kama Meter, which is a multi-functional 5.25" controller. The device allows you to control the speed of four fans but it also has 4 temperature sensors and even a volume control button.
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Friday, May 11, 2007
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Scythe have been making some of the best coolers around for a couple of years now and they have always been rather large and excessive; but very effective. Today I have with me something that is again, rather excessive and with some of the strangest box art I have ever seen; the Scythe Andy Samurai Master.
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Friday, May 4, 2007
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The Scythe KamaMeter is a multi-functional 5.25inch device which acts as a fan controller, temperature monitor and master volume for your soundcard. It comes with different colored face plates as well as a wide array of LCD backlights to make sure it integrates will with your case.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
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So you go out and get a floppy drive and maybe even just install it for OS installations then put it away. But what if you could get some added functionality from your device? Would that make a difference? After all, floppy drives are pretty handy for BIOS flashes and hardware firmware updates too. Enter Scythe, a company that has been around since late 2002 and are well known for their cooling products. Its aim is to give the DIY crowd something workable at a reasonable price. One of Scythe's latest projects was to create a device that works with a lot of different media types but also includes the functionality of a floppy drive. Basically the YD-8V08 is a 3.5-inch device that combines a card reader (18 formats according to the marketing media) and a floppy drive. Does it all work together? Read on to see for yourself.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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This one is no doubt going to be interesting as not only is the Ninja Rev.B built specifically for low airflow, low noise usage, but Scythe claim it is such an efficient heatsink -what with its 12 heatpipes and huge surface area- that you can fling the fan across the room and go "passive".
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Monday, April 2, 2007
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The Scythe Andy Samurai Master CPU Heatsink arrived Technic3D. The Scythe Infiniti or Mine to Big for your Case? See you in the following Review a small Version from Scythe against others CPU Cooling.
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
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Today we will be reviewing a low profile budget cooler produced by Scythe USA. It is the Samurai Z Revision B model, which has not gotten as much coverage as the larger models produced by Scythe. Nonetheless, this is still a fantastic heatsink, combining small size, small price, and big performance. I used Arctic Silver 5 for my thermal paste, and tested the unit against the stock AMD retail unit. The CPU the tests were conducted on was a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ at 2.2ghz.
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Monday, February 5, 2007
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The cooler that is getting the facelift today is the Katana. This line of coolers has seen three previous models prior to this new one. There was the original Katana, and then with the introduction of the Intel socket T, the Katana 775 was released. And finally for the performance enthusiast the Katana CU was announced. Today, we have the Katana 2 which boasts a whole new life as well as some other additions. How will the new Katana stack up with some of the newest coolers we have tested lately? Lets have a look.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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Although the performance of different water cooling systems undoubtedly holds its place on various benchmark and result charts, as well as create a parallel opportunity for relatively more silent cooling, there are many computer users who still prefer air cooling. In the high end air cooling segment, implementations of huge fans and heatsinks with multiple heatpipes have become increasingly popular. The reason and logic behind this trend and the ability for air cooling to keep itself from becoming obsolete technology is quite simple: Air cooling methods require little technical experience to install, and takes no more than a can of compressed air for management. After all, it's about using the computer, not about creating a schedule for when to do what, right? Now about using the computer -- the experience of performance and knowing your processor is properly cooled is equally as important. Let's see what the high end air cooling product, the Scythe Infinity, has to deliver today.
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Friday, January 12, 2007
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Overclocking has been a large focus for PC enthusiasts for a long time. After all, what's better than obtaining free speed and squeezing the most juice out of your processor? Even if you are not into overclocking, another stream that has entered the ideals of building a computer can be referred as the focus on silent computing. To achieve this goal, the process requires elimination of computer parts that generates noise -- and cooling the component that's being overclocked -- namely, the CPU. How important is this? To be honest, I wasn't much into overclocking until I bought a Core 2 Duo where 50% overclocks can be achieved stably by majority of consumers without exotic equipment such as liquid nitrogen. However, despite the level of success in today's overclocking, the stock CPU cooler provided by Intel (Or AMD, for that matter) is by no means quiet nor is it optimized for overclocking. We haven't looked at any heatsink/fans for quite a while, and now we are back today taking a close look at Scythe's new Andy Samurai Master heatsink/fan. How well will this unit perform?
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
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The Andy Samurai Master has an unusual name and a new shape uncommon to fans of Scythe. Honestly, I have no idea where they got the name for. The only thing I will say is this cooler is a combination of West meets East. I guess the Andy is the "West" and the Samurai is the "East". That's all I can gather from it. The shape is a two tier design linked by six nickel covered copper heat pipes. The size and design of it looks to be able to perform really well. It also shares some features of another Scythe cooler, the Infinity. Does it cool as well as the Infinity? Let us run it through some tests and find out.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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The original Scythe Silent Box has been discontinued, in its place this superior, lower cost Quiet Drive will take over the task of keeping your hard drives quiet and cool. Can this compact box reduce high pitched noises or will it melt your HDD platters? Find out in this review.
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Monday, December 4, 2006
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The Scythe Karma Meter is a drive bay device to monitor the temperature inside your case with 4 separate diodes, control the fan speed of up to four fans and set the master volume of the PC. The Kama Meter shines with perfect build quality as well as 8 different back light modes. We take a close look to see if its features are useful and temperatures are accurate.
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Thursday, November 30, 2006
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The Scythe Kama-Thermo is a very simple, blue backlit temperature LCD display with a connected diode. The cheap price tag makes it very appealing to most case modders. It is quite small, but has large enough digits and a very good contrast so that the temperatures can be read from further away. The Kama-Thermo combines simplicity and functionality to form a great little device.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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The Scythe Infinity is a huge high-performance CPU cooler using five heatpipes. The cooler comes with Scythe's ingenious mounting system which makes installation a breeze. Scythe has included mounting kits for the Sockets 939, AM2, 478 and 775. This means that this cooler is a future proof investment for users who are considering a Conroe S775 upgrade in the near future.
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