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Aerocool Ventures Into Gaming

Furniture Territory With AC120/220
Aerocool announced it is expanding its product focus
beyond cases, power supplies, and cooling products with the
launch of the AC120 and AC220, two new lines of gaming
chairs. The company says the sleek design of its new chair
lines was influenced by the racing stripe motif and carbon-
fiber look of modern racing cars. Each model is available
in six color combinations: black/white, black/blue, black/
red, black/green, black/orange, and full black. The chairs
Toshiba’s BG Class SSDs Include can support people up to 330 pounds, and the backs recline
World’s Smallest NVMe Drives to a horizontal position so you can lay completely flat for
napping. Aerocool hasn’t yet announced pricing for the two
Toshiba’s storage division has been showing off its new award- chair models, but the company says they both should be
winning BG Class SSD product lines. The BG Class products available at retailers sometime in March.
are ball-grid array drives with Toshiba’s BiCs FLASH memory
that uses three bits per cell (TLC, or Triple Level Cell). The
BG Class represents the world’s smallest SSDs operating with
the NVMe PCIe Gen3 x2 interface. The two models currently
available in the BG lineup include one in a removable M.2
2230 format and one using the 1620 form factor. Both models
are meant to be used in small and thin mobile devices and
have ultra-low power requirements. The drives have a Toshiba
controller and use HMB (Host Memory Buffer) technology
that boosts performance despite their small size. The drives will
be offered in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB capacities, and you
can expect more drives in other formats to follow. Toshiba says
its new BG Class products will give users a cost-effective way
to upgrade to SSDs with NVMe performance.

Thermaltake’s The Tower 900
Is A Huge Showcase For Components

The Tower 900 case from Thermaltake was designed in
collaboration with Watermod France, and it was built with
liquid cooling in mind. The case is huge; it measures 29.6 x
16.7 x 19 inches (HxWxD) and weighs 54 pounds. It can
hold radiators up to 560mm on both the left and right sides,
plus there’s plenty of room elsewhere for liquid-cooling fiends
to stuff additional rads. The case handles motherboards from
Mini-ATX to E-ATX, and it has room for graphics cards to
400mm; CPU coolers to 260mm; and PSUs to 220mm. You
can put four 140mm fans on the left and right sides, plus two
140mm fans on the top and rear. There are six 3.5/2.5-inch
drive bays with the HDD cage, one 5.25-inch bay, and two 2.5-
inch bays with the HDD tray. The chassis has eight expansion
slots, and it comes in white or black. The Tower 900 from
Thermaltake has an MSRP of $249.99.

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