Yeah, it seems like a bit of a weird product for us to carry, but besides being a neat toy (spent the last 5 minutes going around the office walking up to people and telling them their temperature), it can be a useful tool as well.

The advertised accuracy is about +-2C and it reads from -55 to 220 degress Celsius. Here’s a couple shots of me using it to measure the temperature off the back of my HD 2900XT (running Folding@Home) and the exhaust temperature from my power supply.

At $45 the price is right. You never need to burn yourself finding out if a chip is running hot again!

Viper John has a new product out that could very well revolutionize the way we plumb our PC water cooling. It’s called a Viper Tight Bend. It sounds kinda dirty, and when I explain what it is, it may seem a little pointless, but let me tell you that it’s NOT.

A VTB is basically a chunk of tubing that is pre-bent to a 1.25″ bend radius in a “U” shape. What does this mean? It means that you can make turns that were previously impossible without kinking your tubing or using coils. It also means that if you are making that tight turn to something sensitive like a chipset block, you don’t have to worry about the coils and tubing putting pressure on the barbs and/or block which can cause leaks or damage to the fragile chips underneath.

This picture demonstrates how effectively a VTB thrashes the regular bend radius of Tygon R-3603.