Asus decided to distinguish itself against the rivals by introducing a motherboard, based on Intel H110 chipset, which boasts a range of integrated facilities. One of such boons is the support for M.2 Socket 3 interface with a bandwidth index of 10 Gb/sec. However, when it operates in SATA mode, one out of four SATA 6 Gb/sec ports is disabled. If PCI-e drive is installed, there will be no restrictions.



Mainboard Asus H110M-E/M.2 supports all modern CPUs from Intel with Socket LGA1151. The PCB accommodates a pair of DIMM slots for the installation of 32 GB DDR4-2133 MHz memory. This micro-ATX board is equipped with a 4-phase Digi+ VRM as well as 5X Protection II protection technology.


The model houses a pair of PCI-e 2.0 x1 expansion slots & a single PCI-e 3.0 x16 slot. Storage subsystem is introduced by one M.2 slot and 4x SATA III ports. Audio subsystem is built on 8-channel Realtek ALC887 controller, whereas network facilities are backed by Realtek RTL8111H controller. …

Introduction

 

In the continuous flow of gamer monitors’ announcements, the fact that they are a rather narrow segment of the market is practically lost - the ordinary buyer is more interested in universal models that are suitable for all tasks, and at the same time will not cost the amount exceeding the cost of the system unit. One of such "multimedia" monitors, as they are also called, is the ASUS Designo MZ27AQ, whose distinctive feature is an external subwoofer. And just have a look at its delicate forms – a real pleasure.

 

Designing solution

 

ASUS MZ27AQ belongs to the "designer" line of ASUS monitors, in which the appearance was always given special significance - it is not surprising therefore that it looks really good, although it is quite traditional for this line. Very slim body (about 7 mm in the main part and about 5 cm at the bottom block with electronics), frameless screen design (in the included view …

AMD is continuing its work on the new GPU generation codenamed ‘Sea Islands’. The new series is prognosticated to be released in the coming winter. All the products with this GPU will be branded Radeon 8000. AMD manufacturers claim that their new graphic processing units will be 40% more efficient due to the implemented advanced technologies. There is not so much news about the future GPU architecture, although cardinal changes are barely possible.



Sea Islands chips will be equipped with 5.1 billion transistors as compared with the current 4.3 billion items applied in the products. This augmentation will facilitate the increment of efficiency. The chips will be developed according to the already tried-and-proven 28 nm technological requirements. The increase of transistors is not as large due to the adherence to the ascribed norms. It should be underlined that the implementation of the old technologies does not imply the considerable warming up of the chips; the developments …