Chassis of full-tower form factor have always been considered an appropriate base for the integration of super computers. Such chassis usually have enough spacing for the installation of solid cooling systems, graphics cards, as well as several hard drives. However, full-tower means voluminous, and not everyone is ready to 'add' this chassis to the surrounding design. Thus, there appeared a perfect substitute for full-tower devices: midi-tower chassis. Despite the existing outlooks concerning midi-tower capacity, the market is replenishing with products that are called to comply with contemporary design and performance requirements. CoolerMaster HAF XM belongs to the range of midi-tower chassis which show unmatched efficiency and are ergonomic in design simultaneously.



Design and Layout


Chassis CoolerMaster HAF XM is differentiated by a singular charisma in design and comparatively compact dimensions. The chassis is designed in a restrained manner, but with an obvious …

Kingston, an outstanding developer of various data storage solutions, has recently introduced a new series of solid-state drives intended for enterprise use. Entitled SSDNow E50, the products feature a standard 2.5-inch design and are available in three capacities: 100 GB, 240 GB and 480 GB correspondingly. The new-comer employs SATA III 6 Gb/sec interface and MLC NAND synchronous flash-memory.



Kingston SSDNow E50 takes LSI SandForce-SF2581 controller as the basis. It ensures rather high performance showings. With the purpose to guarantee a stable operation of the drives, to minimize data transfer errors and reduce the cell wear, the manufacturer furnished the models with DuraClass, DuraWrite, S.M.A.R.T., and RAISE technologies. As a result, Mean Time between Failures is estimated as 1.000.000 hours.


In regard to speed characteristics, each model demonstrates the following showings:

— SSDNow E50 100 GB: the max. sequential Read speed – 550 MB/sec, the max. sequential …

Several resources have published new details about Gigabyte video cards, which are about to come out.



Thus, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Aorus Xtreme card will be based on the GP102 graphics engine, operating at 1,632/1,746 MHz frequencies, which means, its factory overclocking will overcome 10%. In its turn, memory frequency will increase by 4% (up to 1,431 MHz), and the effective frequency will be 11,448 MHz.


The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Aorus product, possessing the 1,594/1,708 MHz GPU operation rate and the standard 1,376 MHz (11 GHz) memory rate, will also represent the series we are speaking about. At the same time, it will get another backplate with a more compact copper insert.


The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming OC graphics accelerator outwardly resembles G1 Gaming samples, though, it has a white WindForce 3X cooling system cover. The graphics processing unit of this model will be factory overclocked to 1,544/1,657 MHz.


Finally, we must note, that Gigabyte is going to …