The German be quiet! vendor presents its exclusive flagship limited-edition Dark Base Pro 900 White Edition chassis in amounts of 2,000 devices. The novelty, performed in the dazzling-white colour, got a transparent glass side panel of the latest light-grey hint. Each case is unique, which can be proved by a serial number, carried by every product.



Dark Base Pro 900 White Edition is quite a big chassis (577 x 242 x 585 mm, 15 kg), so it can house a wide variety of motherboards, starting with compact Mini-ITX and ending with large E-ATX and XL-ATX. Inside there are ten mounting seats for 120/140 mm fans with dust filters, ensuring proper air circulation. Besides, three 140 mm SilentWings 3 PWM fans are pre-installed out of the box. The upper and the front parts of this chassis can hold 420 mm water cooling system heatsinks, and the lower segment can allocate room for a 280 mm chilling device.


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Without extra publicity Sapphire Technology has added a new variant of Radeon RX 550 Pulse video card to the list of up-to-date products. The specialty is remarkable due to its great number of streaming processors.



As distinct from regular Radeon RX 550 models, built on the AMD Polaris 12 (Lexa Pro) chip, the Sapphire novelty utilizes the GPU Polaris 21 (Baffin XT) crippled version, known by virtue of Radeon RX 560 accelerators. Thus, the latest Radeon RX 550 Pulse features 640 SP instead of 512 as in case with typical samples. The ultimate GPU clock reaches 1,071 MHz.

 

The storage subsystem may be represented by 2 GB or 4 GB of GDDR5 memory with the 128-bit bus and the 6 GHz effective frequency. The graphics adapter is chilled by a relatively small cooler, supplied with an aluminum heatsink and the 90 mm fan. Image output is conducted via the DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0 and DVI-D ports.

 

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Deepcool Industries comes out with the second revision of Assassin CPU cooler. The GamerStorm Assassin II is a dual-fan solution intended for hard-core users with thirst for utmost performance and noiseless operation. The model is compatible with most of AMD and Intel platforms, including AM2/AM2+/AM3/AM3+/FM1/FM2/FM2+ & LGA 775/1150/1155/1156/1366/2011/2011-v3.



Featuring 167x158x143 mm dimensions, the new-comer complies with all up-to-date requirements for high-end PC builds. Its framework comprises two aluminum heatsink blocks, consisting of 48 fins which are connected by means of eight nickel-plated heatpipes (6 mm each).


This cooler comes with two integrated fans, both based on fluid-dynamic bearing. The first 140 mm model is able to rotate at 300-1200 RPM with the maximal produced airflow of 70.08 CFM; it noise level fluctuates between 17.8-27.3 dB range. The second 120 mm fan might accelerate up to 1400 RPM, producing 68.06 CFM airflow and 27.3 dB noise.