ASRock is thought to be an innovator in the development of hardware know-hows. The Computex 2016 came as no exclusion: the company introduced a lineup of overclocked mainboards which joined Hyper OC series. Initially, the lineup consisted of three models – H170 Pro4/Hyper, B150M Pro4/Hyper & H110M-DS/Hyper; further on, it will be replenished by three other models – Fatal1ty H170 Performance/Hyper, Fatal1ty B150 Gaming K4/Hyper & B150A-X1/Hyper.



As seen from the codenames, the motherboards are based on Intel B150, H170 and H110 chipsets which employ ASRock Hyper BCLK Engine controller; it overclocks Intel Skylake CPUs by means of BCLK alteration, without dislocating other components. The new-comers support the installation of superfast DDR4 RAM, graphics cards with PCI-e 3.0 x16 interfaces as well as voluminous drives (including Ultra M.2).


ASRock H170 Pro4/Hyper features the following specifications:

— chipset: Intel H170;

— memory: 4x DDR4;

— storage: …

In Q2 next year Philips is going to launch retailing of its new product, demonstrated at the IFA 2017 exhibition. It’s a huge 49-inch 492P8 monitor, based on the curved VA (Vertical Alignment) matrix with the 32:9 aspect ratio, which can provide tough competition to the analogous C49HG90 sample from Samsung, however, the price is lower and equals 899 EUR/1,077 USD.



Philips 492P8 got the 3840 x 1080 resolution, 1,800 mm curve radius, 600 cd/m² and the 5000:1 static contrast. Viewing angles are 178° horizontally and vertically. There is no info about the response time and the refresh time yet. In the meantime, the manufacturer claims, this display can be utilized in multi monitors configuration, when displays are located next to each other or one above the other.


The image source is linked via D-Sub, DisplayPort and two HDMI interfaces. On the back side one may see a couple of Mini-Jacks for headphones and a mic, a USB Type-C connector, two USB 3.0 Type-A ports, and a …

Ardent gamers may start waiting for compact nettops from Shuttle, providing perfect gaming experience. We are speaking about the Gaming Nano X1 line of PCs, performed in the small form factor and possessing such dimensions: 142 × 142 × 86 mm.



Customers will be offered two different versions – one with the four-core Intel Core i5-7300HQ (2.5–3.5 GHz) processor and another with the Core i7-7700HQ (2.8–3.8 GHz) CPU. The DDR4 RAM capacity is 8 or 16 GB respectively.


The graphics subsystem includes the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 discrete accelerator, equipped with 3 (6) GB of memory. Storage can be ensured by the 1 TB 2.5-inch hard drive and the М.2 solid-state module (up to 256 GB). The novelty is operated by Windows 10 Home.


The DisplayPort, as well as three HDMI interfaces allow to hook up monitors. This powerful device is compatible with a VR-headset. Among other connectivity options one can find Wi-Fi 802.11ас and Bluetooth wireless adapters, the Ethernet …