Inspired by Assassin’s Creed Origins, ASUSTeK Computer developers decided to bring pleasure to this game fans by releasing the ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti video card, as far as the design of the device reminds of the Ubisoft action. The novelty will be issued in an edition limited to 500 copies and will be supplied with a key for a standard Assassin’s Creed Origins version download through the Uplay service.



Though having the extraordinary cooling system and backplate covering exterior, the specialty is a complete copy of the familiar ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti OC. More specifically, the unique PC-board with the 10+2 phase power system and two 8-pin PCI-E Power plugs. The graphics processor factory operating clock reaches 1,569–1,683 MHz, and the 11 GB GDDR5X video memory features the 11 GHz effective clock.


The product from ASUS is chilled by the 2.5-slot cooler, which consists of a two-section aluminium heatsink, six heat pipes and three 90 mm fans. DL-DVI, …

AMD is a company known for the continual and elaborate work on the development and improvement of all product lines, as well as technological standards. Thus, the coming 2013 year is supposed to be portentous for the company in terms of the implementation of 28nm standards in their APU. AMD has recently voiced the plans for the change of the Trinity APU to a new model, codenamed Richland, and the transition to 28nm technological process.



The new APU, Richland, is presumably to be released in two versions: dual-core and quad-core. It will support a number of high-performance technologies, such as Blu-ray 3D, dual graphics, Open CL, AMD turbo core overclocking, and some others.


According to the preliminary information, Richland will employ FM2 socket (which Trinity employs) and Radeon 8000 series DirextX 11 GPU. This GPU will be furnished with 128 cores in dual-core model line, and with 384 cores in the high-end A10 APU. The same number of cores has been implemented in …

Despite the fact that Intel Z97 chipset appeared in the market long ago, mainboards on this platform have not lost their vitality till nowadays. The MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC is an acknowledgement of this. Being a representative of top-tier segment, this product is supposed to be an ideal match for gamers and enthusiast overclockers who look for stability and unbelievable facilities. Let’s see what kind of benefits this model can offer to the army of sophisticated users.



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The full-format ATX MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC motherboard is based on Intel Z97 chipset that supports Intel Core Haswell/Haswell Refresh CPUs with LGA1150 socket. Wisely-elaborated printed circuit board (PCB) accommodates four DIMM slots for DDR3 modules of 32 GB overall capacity (with XMP profiles). The integration of expansion and graphics cards becomes possible due to three PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots & the same amount of PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots. If equipped with two videocards, the board …