Guests of the Tokyo Game Show 2017 event saw the presentation of a flagship MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X TRIO video card. At present it is about to be globally distributed together with the latest MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GAMING TRIO model.



Both specialties are performed with the same PC-board design, Military Class 4 hardware components of high quality and an effective 3-fan cooler, which is able to draw away up to 300 W of heat power. The cooling system consists of a 2-section aluminium heatsink and six nickel-plated copper heat pipes. Besides, these samples are supplied with the MSI Mystic Light LED-backlighting.


The basic difference between the two models lies in GPU clock rates and in 11 GB of the GDDR5X memory. One should note, that MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X TRIO features the 1,544/1,657 MHz (“Gaming”) or 1,569/1,683 MHz (“OC”) GPU clock rates, and the 11,016 MHz («Gaming») or 11,124 MHz (“OC”) video memory clock speeds. MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti …

At the Financial Analyst Day 2017 event, AMD has presented Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which is a video card from the Radeon PRO family.



The novelty is a professional solution, based on the Vega GPU with 64 computing units (4096 streaming processors). It offers 16 GB of HBM2 memory (High Bandwidth Cache). The memory bandwidth claimed is 480 GB/sec. Single precision compute performance (FP32) is 13 TFLOPS, and the half-precision compute performance (FP16) is 25 TFLOPS. Regarding this data, one can assume that GPU frequency comes up to 1,586 MHz.


According to AMD announce, Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a device, meant for such tasks as games and VR content development, visualisation and machine learning.


A good news is that the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics cards delivering starts in June this year. The price is unknown yet, however, we should remember, that we are talking about a professional device, which most likely will cost pretty much.

Chieftec Industrial Co. Ltd., a global supplier of PC chassis and versatile power supply units, has replenished its line of enclosures with a new series, codenamed Libra. Chieftec LF-01B is a worthy representative of this series, targeting primarily gamers and enthusiasts. The manufacturer equipped the product with branded fixture for voluminous graphics cards to imply its gaming predestination. Besides, this model features high-quality layout to provide for functionality and versatility.



General Peculiarities


Enclosure Chieftec LF-01B is developed in Midi-Tower form factor and goes with the bottom-like PSU localization. There are no color variations of the casing, as it is delivered in totally black coverage. This model is compatible with the motherboards of up to ATX standards and with rather long graphics cards (up to 428 mm in length). Chieftec LF-01B accommodates two HDD bays, one of which is located in the bottom part of the casing; it is intended at a single 2.5-inch …