Zalman is well-known for designing affordable PC components. Their budget-oriented nature implies stable but medium efficiency. Things are different with the company’s latest PSU, entitled ZM1200-EBT: it is in stark contrast to the other solutions, due to high wattage and decent performance. The model yields 1200 W power, whereas its efficiency level achieves 92%. Due to this, the unit was conferred 80Plus Gold certificate.



Gaming- & overclocking-targeting Zalman ZM1200-EBT employs a single +12V design. Its output capability is able to reach 100 A. This PSU supports Intel ATX 12V 2.3 and EPS 12V 2.92 standards. The hardware base incorporates Japanese capacitors with 105C temperature grade as well as high-quality DC-DC converters.


To continue, the greenhorn features modular cabling system. Upon the whole, the case accommodates 15 sockets for the connection of targeted wires: 8x 8-pin sockets for CPU & GPU, 2x 18-pin and 10-pin items for the motherboard, 5x 6-pin items …

VIA Technologies Inc., a global manufacturer of power-efficient processor platforms, has recently announced the release of its peculiar motherboard, codenamed VAB-800. The major peculiarity of these motherboards is that they will be delivered in two variants: with chips of VIA personal production, WonderMedia (800 MHz), and with Freescale ARM Cortex-A8 1 GHz chips. The volume capacities of DDR3 memory in either variant will equal to 1 GB. VAB-800 is developed in piro-ITX form-factor but is also compatible with blocks of ATX form-factor.



Motherboard VAB-800 accommodates flash-memory of eMMC type with the integrated SATA 3 Gbit/sec sockets. The total volume capacity of flash-memory equals to 64 GB. This model can boast a large number of internal sockets, including a couple of RS-232, two LVDS (to enable the connection with the up-to-date monitors), SATA, JTAG, SDIO, RTC, and a slot for the activation of the external power supply.


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Guests of the Tokyo Game Show 2017 event saw the presentation of a flagship MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X TRIO video card. At present it is about to be globally distributed together with the latest MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GAMING TRIO model.



Both specialties are performed with the same PC-board design, Military Class 4 hardware components of high quality and an effective 3-fan cooler, which is able to draw away up to 300 W of heat power. The cooling system consists of a 2-section aluminium heatsink and six nickel-plated copper heat pipes. Besides, these samples are supplied with the MSI Mystic Light LED-backlighting.


The basic difference between the two models lies in GPU clock rates and in 11 GB of the GDDR5X memory. One should note, that MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X TRIO features the 1,544/1,657 MHz (“Gaming”) or 1,569/1,683 MHz (“OC”) GPU clock rates, and the 11,016 MHz («Gaming») or 11,124 MHz (“OC”) video memory clock speeds. MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti …