Motherboards based on Intel Z77 chip have been lately given much attention, to the detriment of products featuring AMD solutions. In fact, motherboards with AMD chips are in abundance in the market, providing a competitive conditions for the manufacturers and plentiful offers for potential consumers. Asus developed a lot of boards with Intel Z77 chip, but it also boasts the products, like Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0, based on AMD 990FX chip for AM3+ socket. This model is an apt sample of performance, resources and design.



Integration


Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 is developed in ATX form-factor and features 305x244 mm dimensions. The motherboard accommodates five sockets for the connection of fans and large heatsinks which manage heat quite efficiently; heatsinks located on the northbridge and CPU power converter are joined by a heat pipe. There is one peculiar feature pertained to the implemented heatsinks: each of them is notable by an individual fixture type. The reverse side of the …

Cooler Master announces an official release and starts a batch production of two new liquid cooling systems that join Seidon series. Codenamed Seidon 120XL and Seidon 240M, these two models will become a real smile of fortune for the devotees of up-dated technologies. Compact size and affordable price are the key advantages of Seidon representatives. Both liquid coolers demonstrate compatibility with such platforms, as Intel LGA 775, 1155, 1156, 1366, 2011, and AMD FM1, FM2, AM2, AM2+, AM3, AM3+.



According to Cooler Master, Seidon 120XL and Seidon 240M are quite independent systems which require minimal efforts while mounting or maintenance. They are a perfect choice for those people willing to provide enough room around CPU socket and simultaneously get the utmost cooling effect.


The first model, Seidon 120XL, is a refined version of Seidon 120M. It consists of a quite thick aluminum heatsink, copper micro channels, and a single 120 mm fan. In its turn, Seidon 240M …

Introduction


Recently the AMD company hasn’t produced anything of such a high level but cutting edge Radeon R9 Fury X accelerator card as it paid more attention to the middle and low-budget segment. But finally after a long announcing Radeon RX Vega 64 and Radeon RX Vega 56 were officially presented and are being intensively bought.So what are their main characteristics?



Basic Features


No doubt it is a great step forward if to compare with the previous «Polaris 10» and «Fiji» graphic cards. The high-bandwidth cache controller (HBCC) is a serious improvement for using with large asset sizes, but gamers will also appreciate it.Vega RX 56 and 64 have 8 GB of VRAM.Newcomers have the Vega 10 processor in their base. It is a silicon with 64 huge Compute Unit blocks, general potential of 4096 streaming processors and speed memory HBM of the second generation. Vega 10 Processor is grounded on the most progressive version of Graphics Core Next architecture, that of …