Gigabyte expands its line of gaming products with a new ATX motherboard, entitled GA-Z170X Gaming 3. The key peculiarity ascribed to the model is the support for the latest Intel Skylake-S CPU (14 nm) with LGA 1151 socket. The new-comer takes Intel Z170 chipset as the basis and draws power via 24-pin ATX as well as 8-pin EPS power sockets. Besides, the board belongs to the mainstream customer segment, so its price won’t go higher than $188.



Gigabyte GA-Z170X Gaming 3 is furnished with 7-phase VRM, four slots for DDR4-3400 MHz RAM (two-channel) of up to 64 GB capacity, a pair of PCIe 3.0 x16 slots for the installation of graphics cards (support for CrossFireX and SLI configurations), a single PCIe 3.0 x4 slot, and three PCIe 3.0 x1 slots.


Storage subsystem might be organized due to six SATA III ports (bandwidth – 6 Gb/sec), three SATA Express ports (bandwidth – up to 16 Gb/sec), and a couple of M.2 slots with bandwidth index up to 32 Gb/sec.


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Cooler Master announces the release of a new entry-level chassis K380 (RC-K380-KWN1). This model will replenish the K Series of products and will feature mid-tower parameters (209x445x479 mm overall dimensions). K380 is basically intended at gamers, due to an eye-catching design: the chassis is housed in a solid casing made of steel and plastic with some aggressive inclusions and details. However, the major distinctive peculiarity ascribed to the newbie is its moderate price that will not exceed the border of $80. Affordability affirms Cooler Master's image of the company that skillfully combines high-quality with alluring prices.



The chassis is painted black from the inside and outside and accommodates a metallic grid on the frontal panel. Its side panel is notable by the availability of a large transparent window that showcases internal layout. In its turn, internal spacing is sufficient to locate motherboards of ATX and micro-ATX form-factor, graphics cards of 316 mm in …

Kingston Digital reported beginning of UV500 family SSDs deliveries. These devices possess a SATA interface and are compatible with desktop computers, workstations and laptops.

 

The storage units are available in 2.5-inch, M.2 2280 and mSATA form factors. In the first case the capacity claimed is 120, 240, 480, 960 GB and 1.92 TB. M.2 2280 SSDs are represented in 120, 240, 480 and 960 GB modifications. mSATA modules offer 120, 240 or 480 GB of volume for data storing.

 

Kingston drives rely on 3D TLC NAND flash memory chips and the Marvell 88SS1074 controller. The average error-free running time (MTBF) stated is 1 mln hours. The sequential write speed varies in the range of 320–500 MBps, which depends on the model. The sequential read velocity comes to 520 MBps with all samples. The IOPS rate reaches 79,000 at reading and 45,000 at writing processes, when dealing with 4 KB data chunks. The drives support AES-256 algorithmic …