Introduction


ASRock Inc was founded in 2002 and became popular due to producing motherboards. ASRock wanted to create its own brand. The logo of the company is 3C: creativity, consideration, cost-effectiveness. Also the products of the given company are featured by being environmentally-friendly.

Time flows and now ASRock is among the largest motherboard producers in the world having its offices in Europe, the USA and Asia. The company is known as reliable and proficient and has got the respect both from non — professional and professional users.

In this review we are going to talk about its ASRock X370 Killer SLI/ac motherboard.



Main Characteristics

Supports AMD Socket AM4 A-Series APUs (Bristol Ridge) and Ryzen Series CPUs (Summit Ridge)

Supports DDR4 2933+(OC)

2 PCIe 3.0 x16, 4 PCIe 2.0 x1, 1 M.2 (Key E)

NVIDIA Quad SLI, AMD Quad CrossFireX

Graphics Output: HDMI

7.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec), Nichicon Fine Gold Series Audio Caps

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At the Develop3D Live conference, the Lenovo Co. presented its new ThinkStation P320 workstation. The specialty can be performed in a standard tower case, as well as in the SFF form factor framework. It is meant for professional needs or VR content creation.



Lenovo ThinkStation P320 can be equipped with a 4-core Intel Core i7 or Xeon E3-1200 v6 CPU, 64 GB of DDR4-2400 (ECC) RAM, a couple of Nvidia Quadro P1000 graphics cards for the SFF chassis or one Quadro P4000 for a tower case.


The 4 TB 3.5-inch hard drive, the 2 TB 2.5-inch SSD and a 1 TB М.2 SSD are used for data storage. Discs can be combined into RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 arrays. The gigabit Ethernet and the Intel Wi-Fi 802.11ac wireless adapters represent networking capability. Peripheral devices can be connected with the help of six USB 3.0, two USB 2.0 ports, a card reader, eSATA and Firewire interfaces. The workstations are also supplied with an optical DVD-RW drive.


There is no information about the retail …

Biostar starts the sale campaign of its new motherboard model codenamed Hi-Fi A75S3, which belongs to PURO Hi-Fi flagship line. It is developed in micro-ATX form-factor and is based on AMD A75 system logics. The board supports all contemporary AMD CPUs that are compatible with FM2 socket, including the series A10, A8, A6, E2, A4, and Athlon II X4 (all with TDP level not more than 100W). The new model is targeted to operate under Windows OS (versions XP, 7, Vista and 8).



Motherboard Hi-Fi A75S3 houses two DIMM slots for a two-channel DDR3 memory that is estimated to work at 800MHz, 1066MHz, 1333MHz, 1600MHz, and 1866 MHz frequency. The overall volume of the integrated memory might achieve 32GB. The model employs GPU of Direct X11 class that secures efficient performance in the majority of updated 3D games and applications. Still, the manufacturer reserves the right to enhance the performance of graphics subsystem thanks to the implementation of a single PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot …