Zalman has long been deprived of a full-tower flagship PC chassis, after it discontinued the line of GS1200. The anticipation of a new etalon was accompanied by an overall market uncertainty as for the future of desktop platforms. Luckily, laptops and tablets couldn’t fully satisfy the customers’ growing needs, so Zalman decided to fire off with a new top-tier case, entitled H1. Stylish and magnetic from outside, this model has a lot of interesting options in the bins. Let’s have a look at them.



Key Features


Zalman H1 is a full-tower case, featuring 561x238x570 mm dimensions. The chassis is made of steel, aluminum and a high-quality plastic, with exterior and interior totally painted black. Internal layout allows for the installation of motherboards with elongated PCBs, including E-ATX and XL-ATX models. The model houses three external bays for 5.25-inch drives, seven internal bays for 2.5-/3.5-inch drives as well as nine expansion slots.


The case boasts some …

In late September — early October, Intel plans to update the lineup of Core i7 processors on the cores generation Ivy Bridge (22 nm). It is expected that within a few months users will witness the announcement of the CPU for laptops Core i7-3740QM, 3840QM and 3940XM, which will replace released in April 3720QM, 3820QM and 3920XM, respectively.



According to the information from web resources, the trio will receive an increase of 100 MHz from the predecessors, retaining the previous TDP and probably the recommended price. A common feature of the new processors is four x86-cores that handle data in 8 threads (Hyper-Threading).


Core i7-3940XM operates at a nominal frequency of 3 GHz, equipped with 8 MB cache of the third level, two-channel controllers DDR3-1333/1600, graphics subsystem Intel HD 4000. There is support for dynamic overclocking Turbo Boost, Virtualization VT-x and VT-d, new commands AES and instructions AVX. TDP 3940XM is 55 watts.


Core i7-3840QM has almost …

The DeepCool Co. has officially introduced its New Ark 90 chassis for powerful desktop systems, which was demonstrated during Computex 2017.

 

The novelty is initially supplied with the Captain series liquid cooling system, possessing a 280 mm heatsink and two 140 mm fans, featuring the RGB backlighting. The specially designed external transparent tube on the front panel allows monitoring cooling liquid flow speed.

 

The synchronized multipoint illumination system ensures simultaneous color deviation in various parts of the PC. One of the side panels, alongside with sections in the front and upper parts are produced out of tempered glass.

 

The case is compatible with the E-ATX/ATX/M-ATX/Mini-ITX mother boards. Deepcool New Ark 90 can house eight 310 mm expansion cards, an ATX compatible power supply unit, a CPU cooler of the 186 mm height, three 3.5” and six 2.5” drives. Besides, there’s a possibility of a two-slot …