ASRock is thought to be an innovator in the development of hardware know-hows. The Computex 2016 came as no exclusion: the company introduced a lineup of overclocked mainboards which joined Hyper OC series. Initially, the lineup consisted of three models – H170 Pro4/Hyper, B150M Pro4/Hyper & H110M-DS/Hyper; further on, it will be replenished by three other models – Fatal1ty H170 Performance/Hyper, Fatal1ty B150 Gaming K4/Hyper & B150A-X1/Hyper.



As seen from the codenames, the motherboards are based on Intel B150, H170 and H110 chipsets which employ ASRock Hyper BCLK Engine controller; it overclocks Intel Skylake CPUs by means of BCLK alteration, without dislocating other components. The new-comers support the installation of superfast DDR4 RAM, graphics cards with PCI-e 3.0 x16 interfaces as well as voluminous drives (including Ultra M.2).


ASRock H170 Pro4/Hyper features the following specifications:

— chipset: Intel H170;

— memory: 4x DDR4;

— storage: …

Global laptop shipments have faced with glut stocks in March and a weakening global economy in May. That caused the situation of reaching a growth of supply in the second quarter of the year only for 5% compared with the previous, and it fell by 1.8% compared with this period year ago. Shipments totalled just over 50 million units, according to analysts.



Numbers of Acer and Lenovo laptop shipments were at the average level on the world market in comparison the first quarter of the year. Shipments of mobile PCs from HP, Dell and Toshiba have fallen to 4-7%. Most of all with the increase of supply by 36% managed its shipment the ASUS Company.


It is interesting that HP may soon lose its title of leader in the laptop market — China's Lenovo breathes down its neck, lagging behind only with 500,000 units. ASUS surpassed Dell, becoming the fourth largest producer of mobile PCs in the world with a share of 11.3%, and Apple and Samsung are in the seventh and eighth places …

Shortly before the formal Computex 2017 event opening, the Asus Company presented several specialties, including the super-slim Designo MZ27AQ monitor.



Designo MZ27AQ obtained a frameless 27-inch IPS-panel with the 2560 x 1440 pixels resolution, covering 100% of sRGB colour gamut. The novelty from Asus supports TÜV Rheinland-approved Flicker-free and Low Blue Light techs to provide secure viewing and eye-care.


However, the key feature of this display is its high-performance inbuilt audio subsystem, which is the result of Harman Kardon professionals’ hard work. Two broadband speakers of overall 12 W capacity are integrated directly into the monitor, and a 5 W subwoofer for 2.1-channel audio is performed as an external module. Among interface options offered one can find two HDMI and one DisplayPort connectors.


At present, it is known that Designo MZ27AQ has got a 2017 Computex d&i Award. There is no info about the price, though.