It is well known that part of hybrid processors AMD for platform Socket FM1 have a non-working graphics power, so for their release the market brands Athlon and Sempron are used. Last fall, it was reported about the upcoming appearance in the sale of dual-core chip Athlon II X2 221 and 198 Sempron X2, but information about its actual release appeared only now. This hitch is not surprising, given the fact that these processors are still used only on computers in the collection of HP brand for the Chinese market.



Sempron X2 198 (2.5GHz) was seen in the budget desktop HP Pavilion p6-1152cx, p6-1159cx, p6-1230cx and p6-1231cx. This CPU includes two core architectures AMD K10.5, 2x512 KB cache of second level and dual-channel DDR3-1600. The TDP level is 65W.


Athlon II X2 221 clock frequency is 2.8 GHz. Other characteristics of processor are the same as in the lower Sempron X2 198. Both models support 64-bit code, virtualization, AMD-V and instructions even SSE4a. Athlon II X2 …

The majority of liquid cooling systems are developed with the implementation of practically identical hardware base. Nonetheless, Cooler Master stepped forward with introducing a cooler that involves the components of a higher level and that can be supplemented by some other components (if necessary). Codenamed Cooler Master Eisberg 240L Prestige, this model is an efficient tool in the hands of true cooling connoisseurs. Still, in order to judge about its efficiency, it’s necessary to review it from different angles.



Specifications


Liquid cooler Eisberg 240L Prestige features the following specifications:


1. heatsink: dimensions – 276x125x30 mm, material – copper;

2. pump: dimensions – 65.7x66.66.9 mm, bearing type – CFF1, performance – 400 liters/hour, nominal voltage – 12 V, noise level – up to 25 dB, recorded power consumption – 6.2 W, MTBF – 50.000 hours;

3. waterblock: material/structure – copper/micro-channel JetStream structure, …

Introduction


The Plextor trademark has always been associated with solid solutions in the SSD industry. It has never been involved in a race of decreasing the price at any cost. That is why Plextor M3 and Plextor M5, even having not the lowest price, were one of the most respected among users and quite widespread models of storage drives.

Up to now, Plextor has noticeably lost its popularity, but in general it continues adhering to the old policy: the usage of expensive components and fixed hardware platform.

Plextor S3C was officially announced within the Computex 2017 tradeshow and at the same time it was deployed at retail.



Main Characteristics



Of course, it's impossible to refuse to participate in the race for price reduction completely. So the hardware platform developed by Silicon Motion on its SM2254G controller was taken (it should be mentioned that the first lots of the Plextor S3C were based on the SM2258G), to which TLC NAND was taken too.


The …