Our sponsors Cooler Master, an industry leading chassis, thermal solution, peripheral, and accessory manufacturer today unveiled an industry first in CPU cooling, the TPC 812 CPU Cooler. With the TPC 812, air cooling performance potential reaches new heights thanks to its two vertical vapour chambers.

The first ever CPU heatsink to utilise vertical vapour chambers and combine it with a heat pipe array, TPC 812 is prepared to handle massive heat loads generated by overclocked multi core CPUs. A 100% polished pure copper base combined with improved solder reflux techniques further increase its thermal transfer capabilities. A special heatsink fin design coupled with an improved fan mounting system and air pressure optimised fin layout all lend themselves to a collective synergy that makes the TPC 812 best even some all-in-one (AIO) liquid cooling units. The bundled fans have been tweaked for ideal noise airflow and air pressure characteristics allowing the TPC 812 to be effective yet silent.

Pricing and Availability
Product Name: TPC 812
RRP: AU$84.90  NZ$94.90

For more information please visit www.coolermaster.com.

Team Exile5's Call of Duty 4 Division has won the Nvidia/Gigabyte Gear Up For Battle CoD LAN in Melbourne. It took a massive amount of work throughout the day - HUGE thanks to all the fans, players, organisers and sponsors for all their support and encouragement throughout the event.

More pics, videos, highlights and more to come once we have time to upload them all. What an epic weekend!

I wanted to say a big thanks to all of you, the players and members of the community, for the level of support and encouragement during the LAN. I can honestly say it was one of the proudest days of my life as an eSports manager - having so many people tell me they love the team I help look after and am lucky enough to work with.

From all of us here at Exile5, we thank you.

Our sponsors at Western Digital have just announced they've started shipping the WD Scorpio Blue 7mm hard drive, the latest addition to its mobile hard drive family and the 2.5-inch drive with the lowest power consumption on the market today. Specified to a best-in-class 400Gs shock tolerance, the new single-platter WD Scorpio Blue small form factor hard drives are available in 500GB and 320GB capacities and the drives’ compatibility with industry-standard 9.5mm slots make them ideal storage options for mainstream notebooks as well as slimmer notebook and Ultrabook™ devices that require a 7mm drive height.  

“Consumers want thin and light personal computers, but the limited storage capacity of SSD-based notebooks forces them to pick and choose what files to bring from their library,” said Matt Rutledge, vice president and general manager for WD client storage products. “With the release of the new WD Scorpio Blue 7 mm mobile hard drives, WD is able to offer capacity, reliability and data-protection features combined with excellent power management all in a slim form factor perfect for thin and light notebooks.”

Features of the new WD Scorpio Blue 7 mm hard drives include:
• Low power consumption - Advanced power management features and algorithms optimize the way the drive seeks data, which significantly improves power consumption.
• Shock Tolerance – WD’s ShockGuard™ technology, now increased to a best-in-market 400Gs shock specification, protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks.
• Cool and quiet - In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WD’s exclusive WhisperDrive™ technology enables quiet performance.
• Reliable – WD’s SecurePark™ parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down, and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non-operational shock tolerance.
• Compatibility Tested - WD performs tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in its FIT Lab™ and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give customers confidence that drives will work in specific systems.

Pricing and Availability
Product Name: WD Scorpio Blue
RRP for 500 GB (WD5000LPVT):  A$ 109.99, NZ$ 139.99
RRP for 320 GB (WD3200LPVT):  A$ 89.99, NZ$ 119.99
Warranty: 2 yrs