COMPUTEX 2007: Cooler Master factory tour. Interested in chassis? Read this

[Navin]

Many HEXUS readers will be familiar with Cooler Master's range. Few, however, will be know much about the company or how it manages to create products that are so generally well received. Well, that's about to change! The company recently invited us - along with some of its customers - to tour its manufacturing facilities in China.

Discover more in this COMPUTEX 2007 Article.

[DR]

I gotta say - I've been to a lot of Fab's for chip manufacturing plants, SMT lines - but chassis manufacturing (y) very interesting!

[kalniel]

Very interesting - top report, thanks!

[dangel]

Excellent, many thanks - never seen that before

[BigFatCat]

It's interesting to see behind the doors of where your purchases are made. If anyone goes to Munich, book a free BMW plant tour, no samples to take away though.

[Funkstar]

Yeah interesting article.

However "Anodisation" doesn't appear to be a real word

[awm]

Anodizing would be much more appropriate.

[kalniel]

The process of anodising is anodisation

[Tarinder]

I personally changed it from anodization to anodisation.

Can't have the Yanks have it all their own way

[EllTheGamer]

I personally changed it from anodization to anodisation.

Can't have the Yanks have it all their own way

HELL yeh brutha

/end revolutionary outburst

That was a very good article, i think you deserve a pat on the back for that, mainly because of how you decided to choose my cpu cooler .

[PowerHungry]

As an owner of a Silver Stacker 830 and a Black Stacker 832 and someone who had worked in the metal working industry for 30 odd years, I was not surprised by CM's attention to detail and quality control.

But, there is always a but, I don't understand why case manufacturer's spend the money to manufacture and install obsolete ATX I/O face plates when today's motherboards all use specialty I/O face plates that ship with the motherboards.

Sometimes it's a pain to remove the stock I/O plate to only replace it with a proper one.

[EllTheGamer]

As an owner of a Silver Stacker 830 and a Black Stacker 832 and someone who had worked in the metal working industry for 30 odd years, I was not surprised by CM's attention to detail and quality control.

But, there is always a but, I don't understand why case manufacturer's spend the money to manufacture and install obsolete ATX I/O face plates when today's motherboards all use specialty I/O face plates that ship with the motherboards.

Sometimes it's a pain to remove the stock I/O plate to only replace it with a proper one.

You know you are right there, i find it a bit of a bitch too. Although i do find it quite curious what ports and configurations different case manufacturers assume should be part of a 'standard' panel.

[PowerHungry]

I don't think there can be a stock I/O plate, because even motherboards with the same chip set by the same manufacturer that offer different bells and whistles, have different I/O panels, thus we really don't need case companies putting obsolete parts in new cases!!

[Andrzej]

That is seriously impressive stuff !

[CrazyMonkey]

Nice, extremely interesting...

[zarraza]

thanks a lot