Nowadays customers don’t find it difficult to acquire the motherboard which would absolutely correspond to their needs. This is primarily explained by the fact that each manufacturer tries to pack its production lineup with models of various calibers. Asus is one of the few companies that restlessly enlarge their motherboard inventory with variegated items, and Vanguard B85 (TUF series) is yet another item for saving users. The key to ‘affordability’ of Intel B85 chipset-based board lies mainly in the reduction of connectivity facilities, where the chipset supports not six but four SATA 6 Gb/sec + four USB 3.0 devices. However, the model is rich in other facilities that are vital for a contemporary multimedia PC.



Design and Layout


To begin with, Asus Vanguard B85 is designed in an uncommon uATX form-factor and supports Pentium/Xeon/Corei3/Corei5/Corei7 CPUs (Haswell gen.) for Socket LGA1150. The motherboard inventory involves 4 DIMM slots for the installation up to 32 …

Data interface Thunderbolt from Intel company entered the market in February 2011 in the Apple MacBook Pro laptop. By combining in the one interface PCI Express and DisplayPort, it now offers data rates up to 10 Gbit / s. On the more common personal computers the interface began to be applied recently, as part of the laptop and PC top price category.



Intel plans to introduce a new controller interface Redwood Ridge Thunderbolt for use in personal computers in the second quarter of next year. It is likely that the new controllers will form the platform of the Shark Bay for next generation processors under the name of Haswell.


Controllers Redwood Ridge will support completely the same data rate 10 Gb / s, interface DisplayPort v1.1 and function DisplayPort v1.2 Redriver. At present, even the cheapest chips Thunderbolt, 2-channel Cactus Ridge, cost motherboard manufacturers at about $ 20, and many consumers expect that emergence of new generations of controllers will reduce …

Noctua Company has presented new fans for industrial using – 120-mm models Noctua NF-F12 industrialPPC-24V-2000 Q100 IP67 PWM and Noctua NF-F12 industrial PPC-24V-3000 Q100 IP67 PWM, and also 140-мм NF-A14 industrial PPC-24V-2000 Q100 IP67 PWM and NF-A14 industrialPPC-24V-3000 Q100 IP67 PWM. From the names of the items you can already see that they got a list of safety facilities due to IP67 certificate, in particular – protection from dust and damp, that will allow using them in more severe conditions.



120-mm models go with 105 х 105 mm fixation and are based on original bearing SSO2.The main difference is the greatest speed of rotation corresponding 2000 and 3000 rpm that brought its changes also in other specifications. So NF-F12 industrialPPC-24V-2000 Q100 IP67 PWM model has a speed factor of 450 – 2000 rpm, the produced air stream measures up 121,8 m3, and static pressure is 3,94 mm H2O. In its turn Noctua NF-F12 industrialPPC-24V-3000 Q100 IP67 PWM can display the …