The German be quiet! vendor has lately reported its Straight Power 11 series power supplies marketing launch. These products are already being delivered to retailers at the 105–209 EUR recommended price.

 

be quiet! novelties, available in 450–1000 W versions, are claimed to be highly effective and operate at a low noise level. They utilize modular cabling and comply with the 80 Plus Gold certificate (the performance factor at 230 V reaches 93 %).

 

The manufacturer indicates a completely refined PC-board as one of these power supplies’ strong points. Other Straight Power 11 specs include hyperthermal (105 °C) capacitors, produced in Japan, enhanced steadiness and voltage control, alongside with decreased fluctuation. The devices feature four 12 V lines of the total 37.5–83.3 A current load.

 

The 135 mm Silent Wings 3 fan with the automatic rotary speed control cools inner components. The system is …

The Swiftech Company releases innovative Apogee SKF Heirloom waterblocks, compatible with all modern central processors and aimed at users paying extra attention to PC’s components layout. The unit utilizes the latest cooling system, performed out of 125 micron thick fins.



There are five colour versions of this product available. Moreover, upon purchase one can select among six cover plates and two types (black and chrome-plated) of mounting brackets. Two lines of RGB LED lights are embedded into this waterblock, thus, making it fit any colour scheme.


The base of the Swiftech novelty is produced out of copper, and the upper part – out of anodized aluminium. In the middle, there is a transparent acrylic window.


Apogee SKF Heirloom waterblocks cost approximately $95. The supply set contains one element, framing the window, as well as one piece in the shape of the company’s logo. To make a waterblock unique the manufacturer is ready to engrave any text (not more …

An American website presented its version of the sequence of announcements of mainstream and mid-range graphics card Nvidia Kepler. It was reported earlier that the model GeForce GTX 660 will debut at retail simultaneously with the GTX 660 Ti (August 16), but as it turned out, this is not the case: despite the inclusion of systems into packages, this adapter will be available for purchase as a separate product only on the third week of September, ie from 17 to 23.



Preliminarily, GeForce GTX 660 is based on a 28-nm core Nvidia GK106-200-A2, which includes 960-1152 stream processors and 192-bit memory bus that connects the GPU with chips GDDR5 in the amount of 1.5-2 GB. The recommended price is expected to be around $ 230.


From 17 to 23 September also will be available in sale the GeForce GTX 650 Ti and GeForce GTX 650. The first is based on the graphics core GK106, but with 4-5 streaming multiprocessors SMX or 768-960 shader blocks. The total volume of GDDR5 chips will be 1 …