Lately the German Cougar vendor has released the Panzer Evo chassis, the outer appearance of which resembles the Panzer-G model. It has four panels out of tempered glass, too. However, the novelty belongs to the Full-Tower form factor.

 

The dimensions of Cougar Panzer Evo are 556(L) x 266(W) x 612(H) mm. Inside one may see mounting seats for eight expansion cards, four 2.5” and two 3.5” drives, an ATX compatible power supply unit and a CPU cooler 170 mm high. The length of graphics adapters may reach 390 mm. Cougar produced its product compatible with motherboards of up to the Extended ATX format.

 

Besides, Panzer Evo allows installing four liquid cooling system heatsinks: one 120 mm chilling device may be mounted at the rear, one 140/120 mm – at the bottom, one 360/280 mm – on the front and one 360/280 mm – in the upper part.

 

The supply set contains four …

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The first decаde of thе 2000’s wаs the mоst prоspеrous аge of PC DIY and Ovеrclоcking. That was exаctly the time whеn CRYORIG was offіcially fоunded. CRYORIG teаm has wоrked both dirеctly and indirеctly with brаnds such as Thermalright, Prolimatech, Phanteks and some more. But the ambitіons and grеat potеntial mаde diffеrеncе and they dеcidеd to mаke a nаme fоr thеm.


CRYORIG is nоw succеssful mаinly becаuse of their sоlіd lіne-up of hіgh pеrfоrmаnce cооling products. Thеy hаve bееn rapіdly expаndіng into vаriоus markеts. Tоday we аre gоing to lооk clоsеr at CRYORIG A40. It usеs the sаme hybrіd dеsign аs the A40 Ultіmаtе and A80 оffеrіngs. Thе mаin dіffеrеnce cаn be fоund in the mоre affоrdаble nаture of thе A40. Not to waste the time, let’s start from the usual point of our rеviеws, whіch is Packaging and Contеnts.


Packaging and Contents


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MSI has updated its lineup of mini-PCs with a new model – the Cubi 2 – that supports Intel Kaby Lake processors. Hence, the greenhorn comes equipped with either Intel Core i3-7100U two-core CPU that runs at 2.4 GHz frequency, Intel Core i5-7200U that operates at 2.5-3.1 GHz frequency (base/dynamic), or Intel Core i7-7500U that runs at 2.7-3.5 GHz frequency (base/dynamic). The model houses an integrated Intel HD Graphics 620 GPU.



MSI Cubi 2 mini-PCs are available in two formats: ‘light’ (115.2x112.2x34.6 mm), targeting M.2 SATA drives; ‘standard’ (115.2x112.2x42.7 mm), targeting traditional 2.5-inch drives. Besides, the models come in two case colors: black & white.


Internal layout allows for the installation of DDR4-2133 MHz memory modules of up to 32 GB capacity. They support motherboards with Intel H110 chipset and a single expansion slot which is occupied by M.2 2230 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth adapter by default.


This mini-PC accommodates gigabit LAN port, …