Rivalry in the CPU cooling market is rather tough nowadays. Each and every manufacturer tries to exceed its competitors by elaborating high-performance and durable coolers. Some companies pay attention primarily to efficiency, while the others try to draw potential audience by an unusual design. Xigmatek, a renowned manufacturer in this segment, has been introducing qualitative and original solutions for many years. Its Colosseum SM128164 is a vindication of the assumptions that unusual in design coolers can be efficient. Let’s have a look at it.



Design and Framework


The Xigmatek Colosseum SM128164 at the first sight looks as an ordinary cooler of a rectangular form with the height of 157 mm. It consists of a heatsink block, a fan, a mirror-like base, and five heat pipes. The central pipe is larger than the other four: its diameter equals to 8 mm, whereas the side pipes feature 6 mm diameter. Nonetheless, if turning the cooler sideways, it becomes vivid that the item is a …

Intel has just unveiled its new advanced working out: power-saving and high-efficient microarchitecture codenamed Silvermont. According to Intel, this architecture is primarily targeting devices with low power consumption and can embrace a vast production segment, starting from smartphones and finishing with datacenters. Silvermont is ready to demonstrate a threefold increase of performance and fivefold decrease of power consumption (with preservation of erstwhile efficiency), if compared with the current generation of Intel Atom cores.



Intel Silvermont has been elaborated in compliance with the norms of 22 nm technological process with the implementation of 3-D Tri-Gate transistors. The employment of new progressive techniques promotes for enhancing the operation speed and reducing energy demand of products which use Silvermont as the basis. Multi-core architecture with the support of up to eight cores ensures higher bandwidth, lower latency and more efficient operation on …

Introduction

Last year was pretty rich with the gamer’s monitors. On the CES 2018, conducted every year in Las Vegas, the MSI Company has announced two monitors with 27 inches curved displays which represent a new series Optix MPG — Optix MPG27C and Optix MPG27CQ. Let’s have a look at «fresh blood» in our today’s review.


Characteristics

Size/Curvaturem - 27"/1800R

Panel Type - VA

Resolution - FHD (1920x1080) (for MPG27C), WQHD (2560x1440) (for MPG27CQ)

Pixel Pitch - 0.3114(H) x 0.3114(V) (for MPG27C), 0.2331(H) x 0.2331(V) (for MPG27CQ)

Aspect Ratio - 16:9

Brightness (nits) - 250 (for MPG27C), 400 (for MPG27CQ)

Contrast Ratio/DCR - 3000:1/10000000:1 (for MPG27C), 3000:1/10000000:1 (for MPG27CQ)

Refresh Rate - 144 Hz

Response Time - 1ms (MPRT)

Video Interface - 1 x DisplayPort (1.2) - Up to 144 Hz

2 x HDMI (1.4) - Up to 120 Hz

USB Ports - 2 x USB 2.0 Type-A

1 x USB 2.0 Type-B (PC to Monitor)

Audio …