TUL Corporation, in the framework of its PowerColor brand, introduces a new graphics card with quite an original way of air cooling organization. The new-coming adapter, codenamed PowerColor Radeon HD 7850 Fling Force, employs 'two-storied' cooler of an unusual structure. Along with an aluminum heatsink, copper heat pipes, and a voluminous fan, the manufacturer implemented non-monolithic fan ribs. Their tips are fixed to the main part in a way to change their location relative to the plain of rotation.



On conditions of low rotational speed, tips of the ribs are located at approximately 80 degrees angle relative to the graphics card. On conditions of heightened speed, the ribs become more linear; this way, the impeller diameter enlarges from 92 mm to 95 mm. Such structural approach to the fan framework develops into an improved performance and air cooling effect.


The model is based on Pitcairn chip, developed on Graphics Core Next architecture under 28 nm technological …

The Samsung vendor has reported start-up of the high-volume production of the world most capacious SAS SSD – namely Samsung PM1643. Its volume comes to 30.72 TB, which is twice bigger than the figure, assigned to the previous leader in the field (15.36 TB), introduced in March 2016.

 

To reach such capacity the manufacturer utilized 64-layer 3-bit V-NAND chipsets of 512 Gb, packed into 1 TB stacks, consisting of 16 pieces. There are 32 stacks inside Samsung PM1643. Total capacity allows storing 5,700 movies, each taking the volume of 5 GB.

 

The novelty features the enhanced performance rate due to the usage of the 12 Gbps SAS interface and 40 GB DDR4 memory as cash. Thus, sequential read and write speeds reach 2,100 and 1,700 MBps, which is 3–4 times higher, than in the case of standard 2.5-inch SATA SSDs. Random read and write velocities stay at the level of 400,000 and 50,000 IOPS in respect.

 
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Zotac, a renowned innovator in PC hardware development, has introduced a pocket-sized nettop, entitled Zbox PA330. The new-comer is designed in Pico-PC form-factor, featuring 116.8x66x45.7 mm dimensions. According to Zotac, this mini-PC is able to satisfy the basic needs of people on the move and of those who long for a space-saving environment.



The heart of Zotac Zbox PA330 is AMD A4 Micro-6400T APU with an integrated AMD Radeon R3 graphics core. The APU is attended by 2 GB of DDRL-1333 MHz memory and an inbuilt eMMC drive of 32 GB capacity. Network facilities are represented by a native wireless Wi-Fi 802.11ac adapter as well as by Bluetooth 4.0 adapter. There is also a full-sized RJ-45 socket for the organization of a wired network with 1 Gb/sec bandwidth.


To continue, connection with the monitors and other visuals becomes possible due to one HDMI port and one mini-DisplayPort socket. A pair of USB 2.0 ports might be employed for the connection of peripherals, whereas a …