SilverStone has entered the market with a pair of small-sized liquid coolers which replenished the lines of Tundra family. The TD02-Slim and TD03-Slim are targeting mini-ITX chassis, showing compatibility with the majority of modern platforms: AMD FM1, FM2, AM2/AM2+, AM3/AM3+, Intel LGA775, 115x, 2011, 2011-3, 1366. The new-comers will be available since late September at the price tag of about $73 & $96 (depending on the model).



SilverStone TD02-Slim features a sleek aluminum heatsink with 278x227x124 mm dimensions and a pair of fans, mounted side by side. At the same time, SilverStone TD03-Slim houses less voluminous heatsink (159x22x124 mm) and the fans are mounted on the different sides of the radiator.


The hardware also includes a large copper base for a more efficient heat dissipation, a pair of rubber hoses (310 mm in length) as well as a waterblock (39.2 mm in height) with an integrated pump. In addition, there is blue activity LED.


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Recently the picture of another Intel Z370 chipset based novelty, namely the Gigabyte Z370XP SLI motherboard, has appeared on the Internet.



This mother card is produced for the 8th gen Core Coffee Lake desktop CPUs by Intel. The specialty belongs to Gigabyte’s super-endurable middle-class line and is the descendant of well-known Z270XP SLI. The new product has inherited the back panel interfaces and PCI Express slots configuration and presumably the audio subsystem as well. Despite having much in common with the previous model, it is cheaper and features its own peculiarities. For example, the p-c board, the I/O cover and radiators are performed with white colour.


Gigabyte Z370XP-SLI got four slots for the DDR4 RAM, three PCI Express 3.0 x16, three PCI-E 3.0 x1, and two M.2 connectors. There are six SATA 6 Gbps ports for drives linking. The processor socket power supply subsystem offers 7 or 8 phases. Back panel interfaces include USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A and Type-C ports.

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In the light of a violent proliferation of M.2 standard in mobile and desktop PCs, a number of manufacturers shifted their production into this segment. Transcend is one of the first companies to introduce its own M.2 rendition, teasing new MTS lineup that involves three different series: MTS400, MTS600, and MTS800. They feature M.2 2242, M.2 2260 and M.2 2280 form-factors correspondingly, that is to say they have different PCB length: 42, 60 and 80 mm respectively.



All three M.2 drives series are designed on MLC NAND flash memory chips. They accommodate DDR3 cache with SATA III 6 Gb/sec interface. The first, MTS400 series, embraces four models of 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB capacity, whereas MTS 600 and MTS800 count five models: plus 512 GB model in addition to the junior four.


As for speed characteristics, Transcend MTS400 is able to demonstrate up to 560 MB/sec Read speed on sequential operations and up to 160 MB/sec Write speed on analogous conditions. Its …