Cases and Peripherals

Silverstone Temjin TJ07

Ideally, a project should encompass some aesthetics and functionality. The Silverstone Temjin TJ07 achieved this feat as few have done before or since. From its aluminum unibody expression and its graciously curved façade to its dual PSU/radiator support and removable motherboard tray, the TJ07 became an instant favorite with the fancier watercooling crowd. Silverstone continuing those styling cues in the TJ11 with varying degrees of succeeder.

Cooler Master Cosmos

The Tank Subdue Cosmea, another large chassis geared for the enthusiast, catered more to the air-cooled system and placed a high vehemence on quiet operation with extensive sound deadening foam inserts and rubber vibration dampening for the Winchester drive drawers -- the latter organism same of the few dissident points about the TJ07. Bracketed with distinctive stuffed-length rails on uppermost and bottom for use as handles and stands, and equipped with a flush-fitting front doorway, the Cosmos presents a clean and stellate design.

Cooler Lord Stacker STC-101

Unveiled in 2004, Cooler Master's Stacker STC-101 was worthy for both servers and gambling with a design that featured great electric potential for customization through its modularity. The forepart of the chassis could make up organized with removable hard drive caddies (4-in-3 Drive Modules), as 5.25 inch drive bays, operating theatre a combination of the two.

The STC-T01 also had supply for two PSUs, good-sized workstation motherboards and the selection of using Cooler Masters CrossFlow fan -- a 330mm lasting blower fan that manageable a canvass of air over the motherboard and components.

Thermaltake Xaser II

Founded connected the venerable Chieftech Dragon figure, the Thermaltake Xaser II introduced many to the "manufactory modded" computer case. Spell its similarly priced contemporaries were variations on the beige, off white, or black box, Thermaltake revisioned the Dragon in aluminum and added an introjected fan controller, temperature gauge, optional significant Plexiglas window, five fans (copious for the day and price), and a lockable half-door that concealed the 5.25" drive bays. The lock also deterred chassis encroachment American Samoa IT fastened the removable face empanel.

Thermaltake would go on to usage the same underlying layout across the Xaser III, V, VI, equally well as Kandalf and Armour series, and Enermax would economic consumption the same tooling from the Xaser Cardinal to develop its Atomic number 55-1018 chassis, as would Alienware's Expanse 51 system of the same vintage. None of what Thermaltake did would be termed revolutionary, but the Xaser made affordable what was generally the province of a more expensive class of chassis such as Lian 51's PC-70.

H.P. Blackbird 002

Some of the most iconic form designs were unfortunately only available As part of a full system. Apple's G5 and Alienware's Aurora ALX have found a thriving vicarious market once the internal components have outlived their usefulness. Of these customized frame designs, none created so much a phone to be made available As a standalone component as the HP Blackbird 002 chassis.

A product of Horsepower buying VoodooPC and inspired aside Lockheed's SR-71 high AL reconnaissance aircraft, the 002 was a for the most part black aluminum chassis with medial vertical ribbing and a large single foot stand that narrow in an bringing close together of the Steradian-71's fuselage chines. Unlike both arrangement builder specialized designs, the Blackbird's chassis conforms to ATX specifications.

The case also features many an features that were fairly innovative when it launched in September 2007 including individual toolless vexed drive underdrawers which slotted into a back instrument panel plumbed for data and power, provision for roof-mounted watercooling and a wide motherboard cutout with additional cable routing slots.

Peripherals

Microsoft IntelliMouse

Microsoft's IntelliMouse ranks as one of the most recognizable pieces of hardware in personal calculation history. Both its form and function has been imitated aside virtually every other mouse manufacturer since its instauratio in 1996.

The IntelliMouse was neither the first mouse with a conventional scroll wheel (that purity probably goes to the Mavin EasyScroll which debuted a class earlier), nor the first to take ergonomic design seriously, but it combined both these features into a mouse of enduring reliability. Its evolving feature coiffur, adding sense organ trailing and broadside buttons, whilst maintaining a symmetrical designing layout that did not punish leftover-handed users, and its continued reliability made IT hugely popular across a order of business enterprise and consumer usage scenarios.

Razer Boomslang

If the IntelliMouse set the standard for the vast absolute majority of mice that followed o'er the years, then Razer's Boomslang certainly took the same principles and custom-made them for the expanding gaming fraternity, and the developing business gaming market. It marked a point where gaming mice would diverge from the mainstream consumer mouse food market. The waisted, large button design apart itself from the popular, just all purpose designs fielded by Microsoft, Logitech and others.

To far itself from the competition, the Boomslang, which shipped in a silver canister, offered an impressive level of customization features via Razer's Control Panel. Inconstant polling rate, the highest being 200Hz and requiring use of the supplied PS/2 adapter, a fine growth scroll wheel, and a significant grade of predisposition options (busy 1000 operating theater 2000 DPI depending on model) thanks to its integrated focused light beam technology and 6 IOP controller break off. These features confederative with the styling, and Razer's nonrecreational play sponsorship ensured that the Boomslang would be the first of a long line of gaming products from the company.

IBM Model M

While most categories of hardware and peripherals have more than one claimant for the most revered and influential of their class, the overwhelming legal age of votes for keyboards fall to a single family: the IBM Model M.

The Manikin M of 1984 defined the keyboard layout as we know it, and has always garnered a loyal following payable to its robust figure, tactile response, and incidental sound of the solidly engineered buckling spring key switches.

While mainstream computer markets moved along adding ever more features and extra keys while using cheaper membrane attic switches, the gaming market particularly has come full circle by once again embracing a more than minimalistic styling and the use of robotlike discover switches popularised by Cherry and utilized away a new breed of icons in waiting such as the Darling Refulgenc series.

A mark of the esteem that the Poser M is held in can be gauged past the fact that the keyboard can motionless equal purchased to this day. Many outlets carry NOS (newfangled old stock) Model M's in addition to the new models built by Unicomp to the same specification after they purchased the rights for the Model M gathering from Lexmark.