A new gaming chassis has replenished the line of PC hardware developed by Chieftec. Codenamed Dragon DX-02B, the model is designed in midi-tower form-factor and can accommodate motherboards of ATX, micro-ATX and e-ATX standard. Internal layout is predestined for the installation of eight expansion slots, and six internal bays for drives which have an access from the frontal panel. Two of those bays support hot swapping option. Besides, the casing contains four bays for 5.25-inch drives.



Dragon DX-02B is able to house graphics cards of up to 34 cm in length. It should be mentioned that one of 5.25-inch bays might be employed for the integration of 3.5-inch drive (external panel or card reader).The model supports power supply units of ATX 2.3/PS II standard, the place for which is stipulated on the chassis' base. The interface panel is introduced by two USB 2.0 ports, one USB 3.0 port, a single eSATA port, and a couple of audio-out slots.


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The product range of ECS mother boards has been lately broadened by the H110H4-M19 sample, represented in the MicroATX form factor and, thus, meant for compact systems.



The novelty from ECS is manufactured on the base of the Intel H110 Express logic set and presupposes the 6th and 7th generation Intel Core LGA 1151 processors installation. H110H4-M19 has 2 slots for DDR4-2133 memory modules. The maximum random-access memory capacity supported equals to 32 GB. There is also one PCI Express х16 Gen 3.0 slot for a discrete graphics accelerator, four Serial ATA 3.0 ports for drives and an М.2 connector.


The slots plate bears PS/2 ports for a keyboard and a mouse, D-Sub and HDMI interfaces for displays connection, two USB 2.0 and two USB 3.0 ports, a jack for a network cable and a set of audio jacks. Besides, the board features the Realtek ALC662 multi-channel audio codec, as well as the Realtek 8111H Gigabit Ethernet network controller.


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In June, at Computex 2012 exhibition Chinese manufacturer of Colorful graphics cards announced its plans to release GeForce GTX 680 model with a passive cooling system. These «monsters», of course, require careful laboratory testing, so retail sales of iGame GTX 680 will not be performed at least until upcoming autumn.


Meanwhile, the upcoming release collects more and more of new details. According to the manufacture, graphic card is equipped with a reinforced VRM and dual memory — 4 GB of GDDR5. The power connectors PCI-E Power 8-pin made are located on the back of the PCB.



There are only three video outputs, as opposed to the reference, but all of full-size — DVI-I, HDMI and DisplayPort. The exact code name of the model looks like following «GK104HA-D32». Information on the frequencies is unknown so far. The presence of mini-PCIe slot for connecting the mains board PowerKit is generally an indirect sign of a factory overclock and overclocking orientation of …