Today we have a hands on with this unreleased product of Galaxy, the MagicBox. At first sight we thought it is only a ordinary panel with card reader and RPM control slap together. But after some demonstrations from Galaxy dev we find out it is quite useful.

With all the features you can see in front of the panel like card reader, RPM control, USB, eSATA expansion and CMOS clear button. Thanks to a single chip micyoco built in the panel (they call it MPU, MagicBox Processing Unit), with it linked to a Galgxy mobo, it turn out to be a standard mobo debug card, or CPU turbo and automatic fan control.

When the computer boots up, the MagicBox will automatically begin to debug, and shows any error as a debug code if it detected anything unusual. When computer passes POST screen, the two digit LED will show CPU temperature instead of debug code.

In some Galaxy mobo’s BIOS setting, there is a MagicBOX Turbo Mode for you to choose. The percentage here stands for how much you want to OC your CPU, you can choose from 0% to 15%.

If you set the Turbo Mode to 10%, then when you are using a 2.4G CPU, just press Turbo button, and the CPU clock will overclock to 2.64G, quite convenient.

Also the fan control is different from other panel. If you choose LV1, MPU will adjust RPM automatically according to the current temperature level. If you want to take over the control, just switch it to LV2,3 or 4. LV2 stands for low RPM ,LV3 is med RPM and LV4 is full RPM.

The MagicBox will hit the shelf in the near future, but the price is still unknown. Currently only three mobo can support MagicBox, they are Galaxy IG31, 750a SLI and GeForce 8300. So the choice is quite limited…