The EVGA vendor presented its novelty – the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrid graphics card with the brand iCX technology applied. Nine additional thermosensors near main warming components on the PC-board are responsible for the hybrid cooling system operation. The air cooler cares for the power supply, and the water cooling system chills the video memory and GPU.



The enclosed water cooling system is delivered assembled and filled. The unit features a copper-based waterblock, pipes in braided cable and a heatsink with a 120 mm fan. The power supply has eight phases for the GPU and two phases for the video memory. There is also a backup BIOS chip, and EVGA PXOC software allows monitoring thermal sensors values.


EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrid is equipped with the 11 GB GDDR5X memory, operating at 11,016 MHz. The GPU base clock equals to 1,569 MHz, and boosted – to 1,683 MHz. Customers can utilize three DisplayPort 1.4 video outputs, an HDMI 2.0b and a Dual-Link DVI …

At present many companies produce VR-compatible portable PCs performed in the shape of a backpack. Most of them are designed for gaming purposes; however, HP developers believe these systems can be also useful in professional spheres.



At the SIGGRAPH 2017 conference, HP presented its wearable HP Z VR Backpack workstation, resembling a backpack. The manufacturer claims it to be the most effective among similar devices due to the 4-core Intel Core i7-7820HQ mobile CPU, operating at the 2.9–3.9 GHz frequency, and the high-end mobile NVIDIA Quadro P5200 video card, based on the Pascal GP104 graphics processor with 2,048 CUDAs and the 16 GB GDDR5 memory. Storage capability is ensured by the 32 GB DDR4-2400 RAM and up to 1 TB SSD.


A couple of hot swap 55 watt-hour batteries enables HP Z VR Backpack wireless productivity. This HP specialty can operate as a desktop system while connected to a special docking station.


The novelty values at $3,299, weighs 4.65 kg and has the …

Recently, the main chipmakers offer three types of system logic for their platforms, which include top-end solutions for production systems designed also for extreme overclocking, average ones for most gaming systems and budget options for office PCs or undemanding users. At AMD, the chipsets X370, B350 and A320 now meet these criteria.


Soldering mid-level hub does not affect the capabilities of the board overclocking. Much greater restrictions are imposed by the schemes of power regulators and the chosen way of their implementation, and only then one may complain about the possibilities available in the UEFI environment. So, let’s get acquainted with the senior board represented by the ASRock company, in the structure of which B350 is included (there are five of them at the time of this review witing). Nominally, it belongs to the gaming series, which means that the user has the right to expect special bonuses.


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Chipset: AMD B350

Processor socket: AMD …