Gigabyte has enlarged its line of motherboards with a sleek model – the X299 Designare EX. The greenhorn is developed in ATX form-factor and boasts black-and-silver design. The reverse side of the PCB employs a single base plate. The heart of the item is Intel X299 chipset, compatible with HEDT CPUs (Intel Core X family) for Socket LGA2066.

 

Gigabyte X299 Designare EX is fitted with 8x DIMM slots for the installation of DDR4-4400 MHz RAM (up to 512 GB, if using buffered memory in 4-channel mode). The manufacturer has provided for 5x slots for the expansion cards (PCIe 3.0 x16); herewith, the amount of lanes and operational mode of sockets depend upon the chosen CPU. The model brags about an integrated Thunderbolt 3 controller.

 

Furthermore, storage subsystem is backed by 6x SATA III (6 Gb/sec) interfaces, 3x M.2 Socket 3 ports as well as 2x SATA III ports, realized thanks to ASMedia ASM1061 chip. A pair of LAN-controllers, regulated by Intel, …

Thermaltake has recently released the Versa H17 Chassis, shown at the CES 2018 event. The novelty is one of the most affordable Taiwan vendor’s offers, which can be used for powerful gaming systems and workstations assembling.

 

Apart from the basic Thermaltake Versa H17 (CA-1J1-00S1NN-00) version, the manufacturer also is ready to produce models with the acrylic window in the side panel, named Versa H17 Window (CA-1J1-00S1WN-00). The cases weigh 4.5 kg. The dimensions are 380 x 390 x 205 mm.

 

The chassis is mostly made of the 0.6 mm SPCC steel. The front and the upper panels possess netted inserts. The I/O panel includes jacks for a mic and headphones, alongside with the Reset and Power buttons, one USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports.

 

The framework inner space is divided into two sections. The upper part is able to hold the Micro-ATX/Mini-ITX motherboard, a pair of two-slot 350 mm graphics cards, two 2.5-inch …

VIA Technologies Inc., a global manufacturer of power-efficient processor platforms, has recently announced the release of its peculiar motherboard, codenamed VAB-800. The major peculiarity of these motherboards is that they will be delivered in two variants: with chips of VIA personal production, WonderMedia (800 MHz), and with Freescale ARM Cortex-A8 1 GHz chips. The volume capacities of DDR3 memory in either variant will equal to 1 GB. VAB-800 is developed in piro-ITX form-factor but is also compatible with blocks of ATX form-factor.



Motherboard VAB-800 accommodates flash-memory of eMMC type with the integrated SATA 3 Gbit/sec sockets. The total volume capacity of flash-memory equals to 64 GB. This model can boast a large number of internal sockets, including a couple of RS-232, two LVDS (to enable the connection with the up-to-date monitors), SATA, JTAG, SDIO, RTC, and a slot for the activation of the external power supply.


The manufacturer has taken care of the …