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Untitled Document About XClio The overwhelming popularity of the personal computer originated with IBM's compatible design. Starting with the AT design then today's popular ATX designs, a new form factor evolves almost every other 10 years. Intel launched its new BTX form factors to the market in 2003, so we see the evolution from AT to ATX continue. With continued research and development companies keep providing new technology that enhances components used in computers and consumer electronics (i.e. CPU, Hard Drives, video card, etc). Intel and AMD continue to introduce new processors that exponentially increase computing capabilities. Manufacturers of hard drives are providing drives with larger capacity, increased cache speeds and even the revolutions per minute has increased to 15,000 for SATA drives. Both nVIDIA and ATI manufacturers of video cards have increased their graphic process performance while requiring faster and larger memory. But, with all of these electronic components performing more, a great amount of heat is generated. XCLIO's philosophy on designing cases is one of simplicity and practicality. XCLIO design group combines the expertise and ideas from designers locally and aboard. Our designs are verified against guidelines from the CE/FCC testing lab, temperature-testing lab, noisy testing lab, so we can achieve the following: Packaging The Xclio 1000 arrived at my door in an over-sized carton that I immediately noticed opened from the sides rather than the top or bottom of the carton as we are accustomed to seeing. This is usually a very good indicator that the contents weight is considerable, and low and behold we were not wrong on our assumption. If you haven't eaten your Wheaties for breakfast you might want to forego lifting this case and instead opt for rolling it from end to end. If I were to guess the weight of the Xclio 1000 I would say somewhere in the 40lbs and change. The only decorations you will find on the shipping carton are the few pictures of the model 1000. A Look at the Outside The first thing you will notice when you see the Clio 1000 up close is number of huge fans it has on it. Where most cases are content to use 120mm fans for their cases, Xclio has upped the ante by using 180mm fan throughout the case. This could lead to problems on down the road since finding replacement fans could be a real show stopper. It should be noted that Xclio does have 180mm multi-colored fans listed on their web site. Yes, I did say multi-colored since the Xclio used tri-colored fans throughout the case. Each of the fans has a built-in speed contoller and On/Off switch and the ability to choose the color you want. Looking at the front of the case you can see that there are a total of three 180mm fans located there, each of fans in fact is a door that can be swung open to allow you access to your optical drives or to allow you access so that you can add or remove hard drives for your system. The rear of the case has room for a total of two more 180 or 120mm fans, the power supply is located below the top fan area and this fan in particular might be the ticket to get the warm air of the case and thereby it should help lower the overall temperature of the case. Below the power supply opening you can see the other the other opening for a second fans, and below it are two rubber protected holes where the tubing can be ran in and out of the case in the event that you happen to want to run a water cooling system with you computer.
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