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Baby Blue

A small footprint and a super-low noise profile mean

you can put this rig anywhere—it’s got the power to

handle any task, even gaming

Whether you put this rig in your living room and

connect it to your big-screen TV or regularly tote it

between LAN parties and your home offi ce, Baby

Blue has you covered. Its Pentium M 770 proces-

sor runs at a whopping 2.13GHz, but sips so little

power that it barely needs an active cooling solu-

tion. The eVGA GeForce 7800 GT board delivers

awesome gaming performance, but also runs at

easily managed temps.

There’s nothing making a peep here. Even the

storage—a Kick Ass award-winning Western

Digital Caviar SE16 drive with 400GB of space—

runs at barely a whisper. Indeed, when we fi rst

powered up the Baby B, we weren’t even sure if it

was on—it’s that quiet!

CPU Intel Pentium M 770 Future Network USA

MOTHERBOARD Aopen i915GMm-HFS Aopen

MEMORY 2GB Crucial PC3200 Crucial

VIDEOCARD eVGA e-GeForce 7800 GT EVGA

HARD DRIVE Western Digital Caviar Western Digital

SE16 400GB

OPTICAL DRIVE Samsung TS-8552U Samsung

CASE Silverstone SG01 Silverstone

PAINT JOB Baby Blue Smooth Creations

POWER SUPPLY Antec NeoPower 480 Antec

LCD MONITOR Sceptre X9 Newegg.com and

Sceptre

SPEAKERS Logitech Z-5500 Logitech

MOUSE Logitech G7 Logitech

OPERATING Windows XP Pro Microsoft

SYSTEM

SPECS

PART DONOR

SLI is nice, but sometimes you want something a

little quieter. If you love the power, but don’t love

the noise, eVGA’s GeForce 7800 GT is just the

ticket. This card delivers all-out performance but

runs cool enough that you can spin down the fan.

We chose Antec’s NeoPower

480 for Baby Blue’s power

supply. Its modular design, tidy

braided cables, and quiet op-

eration make this PSU perfectly

suited for our powerful but

silent system.

Behind this cooling shroud

rests the 400GB Western Digital

Caviar SE16. Its fairly stan-

dard specs—16MB cache and

7,200rpm spindle speed—dis-

guise a performance monster.

This drive beats the 10,000rpm

Raptor in some benchmarks,

while running virtually silent.

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