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Digital Storm on Monday announced a new gaming PC, the Black OPS Assassin. So what separates this one from all the rest? According to Digital Storm, the Black OPS Assassin is the "industry's most vastly superior vertically cooled" rig around.
"Assassin is the system that performance enthusiasts have been waiting for. The pairing of exceptional components, patented processes and bleeding-edge design enables components to be pushed far beyond what any other gaming PC on the market today can promise," remarked Rajeev Kuruppu, Digital Storm’s Director of Product Development. "The ability to effectively remove component damaging and performance inhibiting heat is phenomenal, but I’m astonished by how quietly we were able to accomplish this. The phrase whisper quiet is an understatement."
Cooling duties are handled by three 180mm fans at the bottom of the chassis to push cold air vertically through the system before exhausting hot air from the top, whereas most traditional setups push air from the front to the back (horizontally). Combined with liquid cooling, Digital Storm claims the Assassin opens the door to "outrageous overclocking potential."
Pricing starts at about $2,400 and includes an Intel Core i7 930 processor, 6GB of DDR3-1600 RAM, EVGA X58 motherboard, GeForce GTX 470 videocard, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
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omen3330
May 12, 2010 at 12:53am
Silverstone has a few cases with the motherboard rotated 90 degrees. They are great cases, I have the Raven and the air flow just makes sense. As for the vertical power supply, once it is in it just feels solid, plus you can strap it down.
nedwards
May 12, 2010 at 10:05am
Yeah, it looks like Digital Storm's just using a mostly-stock Silverstone Fortress FT02.
TWRICEROCKET
May 11, 2010 at 9:28pm
Great idea, Digital Storm. I like the vertical forced convection, it goes parallel with the normal heat flow now. But I wonder, have the components been moved around accordingly to account for the new flow direction?
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kiaghi7
May 11, 2010 at 7:33pm
Digital Storm isn't doing anything impressive, Silverstone is, or rather their case that Digital Storm is sticking their name on...
The case has been around plenty, there are even several iterations of it, it's specifically the Silverstone Fortress series of cases.
Anything Digital Storm has done here you can do yourself better and cheaper on your own... The least they could do is be open about the case being nothing to do with them and more a matter of taking off-the-shelf product and repackaging it as something else.
