The Micro-Star International vendor has announced the forthcoming market entry of its 27-inch Optix MAG27CQ gaming monitor, which is to become a real flagship in the Taiwan manufacturer’s product range.

 

The device is built on the curved VA panel, featuring the 2,560 x 1,440 pixels resolution and ensuring the 110 % coverage of the sRGB colour gamut. Among its peculiarities one may distinguish the high refresh rate and the AMD FreeSync technology support.

 

The MSI Optix MAG27CQ display has the 1,800 mm curvature radius, 250 cd/m² brightness and 3000:1 static contrast ratio. The ultimate refresh rate is 144 Hz, and the response time declared equals 1 ms. The novelty possesses standard (for VA panels) viewing angles, which are 178° in horizontal and vertical directions. An image source can be linked via HDMI, DisplayPort and DVI ports.

 

This latest gaming solution has already started to hit European Dot Coms’ …

Sharkoon has rejoiced its budget-oriented admirers with a new series of PC cases, entitled VG4-S. The greenhorns are distinguished by a decent functionality combined with an alluring price. Featuring 445x200x430 mm dimensions, the case is ready to offer enough space for a set of up-to-date internal components and welcomes the connection of various external devices. Moreover, the model is housed in a black chassis, while perforated areas are illuminated by red/green/blue backlight.



Sharkoon VG4-S supports the installation of ATX, micro-ATX and mini-ITX motherboards, offering seven expansion slots, three 5.25-inch drive bays, three 3.5-inch drive bays, and four 2.5-inch drive bays. Internal space is sufficient for the mounting of 160 mm high CPU coolers, 250 mm long power supply units, and 385 mm long graphics cards.


External I/O panel boasts the availability of 4x USB 2.0 ports and a pair of 3.5 mm audio sockets. Cooling is ensured by a preinstalled frontal fan (120 mm) …

In the year of 2015 the Intel Company announced a mini PC with a completely new layout, named Intel Compute Stick. According to its dimensions it resembles a mobile 3G adapter or a slightly enlarged typical flash drive, though its functionality lets us consider this sample to be a fully-featured PC, which only needs to be connected to the monitor or TV-set through the HDMI interface.



At first the Intel Company and its partners released their versions with Intel Bay Trail CPUs, being later exchanged by the Intel Cherry Trail series solutions. In 2016 even more powerful models with Intel Core m3 and Intel Core m5 (Intel Skylake) CPUs appeared. One can expect, that in the second quarter of 2017 the Intel Compute Stick manufacturers will use the Intel Apollo Lake series chips.


At least two new Intel Compute Stick versions are to be released. The first model will feature 2 GB of RAM, 32 GB of ROM eMMC memory and the pre-set 64-bit Windows 10 Home OS. The second version will …