Gigabyte has won its unflinching reputation as the leading manufacturer of multifarious hardware components primarily thanks to catering for the needs of any customer, either it is a corporate client or an average home user. Today the company decided to cater for the needs of enthusiasts and overclockers, who long for extreme performance, extreme speeds, as well as for limitless facilities, by introducing two new high-end motherboards. Codenamed Z87X-OC and Z87X-OC Force, the boards are based on Intel Z87 Express chipset that supports the 4th generation Intel Haswell processors.




Motherboards Gigabyte Z87X-OC and Z87X-OC Force feature Ultra Durable 5 Plus design, an improved hardware base, and an optimized cooling system. Both models have got 12-phase power stabilization system and an updated UEFI DualBIOS technology. These boards employ Gold Plated Solid Power Connectors that imply an increased usage of gold in 8-contact socket for CPU power supply and in 24-contact …

The SilverStone RVZ01-E model has been further developed into the compact Raven RVZ03 (SST-RVZ03B) sample with the awesome appearance due to its full-colour backlighting.



The new chassis holds a mini-DTX or a mini-ITX system card, an ATX power supply unit and up to four 2.5-inch drives. At the same time, it offers enough space for 330 mm expansion cards (including those, taking two slots). The maximum allowable height of the CPU cooling device is equal to 83 mm, the power unit length – 150 mm. However, the manufacturer suggests using 140 mm (or shorter) power sources with modular wiring systems and flatform cables.


In this case, which can be oriented vertically or horizontally, two 120 mm fans with the 1,500 rpm rotary speed are already installed and the third one can be also mounted.


The I/O panel has a couple of USB 3.0 ports, as well as jacks for a mic and headphones. The case, costing 98 EUR, weighs 4.05 kg and possesses the 382 x 105 x 350 mm dimensions.

Promise Technology, a global provider of storage solutions, has renewed its Pegasus R6 external drive with Thunderbolt interface adding more volume. The changes were made in the capacity of the drive which was augmented to 18 TB, following the previous models with 12TB. Such augmentation became possible due to the support of 3TB drives. According to the Promise, the renewed device will be of benefit to those consumers who work with video editing and huge files.



Pegasus R6 is characterized by high performance that will be sufficient for the management of several streams of uncompressed video. Thus, this external drive is able to develop the speed of data transfer up to 900 Mb/sec. Such showings prove that Thunderbolt interface surpasses all other up-dated interfaces (USB 3.0, FireWire, etc.) in speed terms.


To continue, the launch of a model with 18 TB volume capacity resulted in the price cuts for the models with 12 TB capacities. Under the latest data voiced by the …