The German be quiet! vendor presents its exclusive flagship limited-edition Dark Base Pro 900 White Edition chassis in amounts of 2,000 devices. The novelty, performed in the dazzling-white colour, got a transparent glass side panel of the latest light-grey hint. Each case is unique, which can be proved by a serial number, carried by every product.



Dark Base Pro 900 White Edition is quite a big chassis (577 x 242 x 585 mm, 15 kg), so it can house a wide variety of motherboards, starting with compact Mini-ITX and ending with large E-ATX and XL-ATX. Inside there are ten mounting seats for 120/140 mm fans with dust filters, ensuring proper air circulation. Besides, three 140 mm SilentWings 3 PWM fans are pre-installed out of the box. The upper and the front parts of this chassis can hold 420 mm water cooling system heatsinks, and the lower segment can allocate room for a 280 mm chilling device.


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Asus has replenished its graphics card series based on Kepler architecture with a brand variation of one-chip GeForce GTX 680 adapter. Brand Asus GeForce GTX 680 card has been developed on an original in design circuit board and is notable by the doubled to 4GB GDDR5 memory capacity. Nevertheless, the most outstanding characteristic of a new product is the implementation of a two-slot cooling system, codenamed DirectCU II. Earlier Asus equipped its GeForce GTX 680 adapters with three-slot coolers.



The company decided to concentrate mainly on the introduction of an uncommon cooling system, leaving all frequency showings identical to the recommended by Nvidia index. Thus, graphics core operates at 1006 MHz frequency, while memory module works at 6008 MHz. Memory chips are soldered on both sides of the circuit board. The reverse side of PCB is covered by an aluminum plate that is in direct contact with GDDR5 chips.


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ASRock announces the launch of a new budget-priced motherboard B75M-DGS R2.0. The model does not differentiate itself by an attractive design or wide overclocking facilities, as far as its main predestination is a stable operation in large corporate networks. The board is known to support Intel Small Business Advantage (SBA) software applet that optimizes PC operation and increases its performance. Despite such promising commodities, its price doesn't go over $60 per unit.



ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0 is designed in micro-ATX form-factor; this limits the number of supported expansion slots and other interfaces. As seen from the codename, the motherboard is based on Intel B75 system logics and shows compatibility with Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium and Intel Core i3/i5/i7 processors (second and third generation) compatible with Socket LGA1155. Memory subsystem consists of two DIMM slots which support two-channel DDR3-2200 MHz modules, the overall capacity of which might achieve 16GB …