The rising competition between the two giants in the manufacture of processing units, Intel and AMD, makes each of the two invent ever newer technologies and implement them in their products. The attempts to dominate in the market and win as many consumers usually develop into brand new approaches and brand new advanced facilities.



In this light, Intel is going to upgrade its Ivy Bridge processors to make them more power-efficient. But power-efficiency does not imply that processing units will show less performance; quite the contrary, the manufacturer is willing to combine an utmost performance with the maximal power efficiency level.


Currently, the most power-saving processors of Ivy Bridge generation can be found in mobile devices on Windows platform and in Apple MacBook Air devices. Their TDP level is recorded at 17W. As appears from the above mentioned, the TDP level in upgraded Ivy Bridge processors will be lower than 17W, though the developers do not voice the margin …

Examining the ASRock website one can detect the evidence of the fact, that the vendor is going to release motherboards based on flagship AMD and Intel platforms.



Let’s have a look at near specialties. Thus, ASRock, built on the X299 chipset, provides four mother cards, specifically X299 Fatal1ty Professional Gaming i9, X299 Fatal1ty Professional Gaming i7, X299 Gaming K6 and X299 Taichi. As we see, Intel really plans to use for the most high-end processors the «i9» brand name. Please note, that all aforementioned motherboards are included into the «Fatal1ty» line.


AMD platforms devotees can enjoy the only product, constructed on the X399 chipset – Fatal1ty X399 Professional Gaming. In fact, this solution is the first formal approval of AMD X399 existence, which has previously been a matter of gossips only. However, there is no detailed information about this AMD and Intel based card yet. We should note, though, that ASRock performs AMD chips based boards in the …

FSP began selling its CMT510 chassis, performed in the Mid Tower form factor. The novelty is designed for assembling gaming desktop systems with the austere, though, rather spectacular exterior.



CMT510 obtained three tempered glass panels (the front one and both side panels). It also got four fans with multicoloured LED-backlighting. Three 120 mm RGB coolers are installed in the front section, and one – at the rear. Several operating lighting modes are supported.


Dimensions (491 × 208 × 448 mm) let this PC case house a liquid cooling system, featuring the 360 mm heatsink. The CPU chilling device must be not higher than 165 mm. The specialty is compatible with motherboards of the ATX, Micro ATX or Mini-ITX form factors. One may mount seven expansion cards maximum. The length of discrete graphics accelerators should not overcome 400 mm. The latest framework by FSP is able to hold two 3.5” storage devices and a pair of 2.5” drives. The upper panel possesses audio jacks …