Introduction



If you are looking for a fashionable gaming case with a good technological potential, I am happy to introduce you to X2 i5. X2 is the gaming brand from Spire. It creates products mainly for gamers. But X2 i5 is developed not only for gaming purposes. First of all it is a good-looking compact chassis. It also has good GPU length support and very nice balance between air cooling, storage, and compatibility. Not to waste the time, let’s start our review with the first point, which is Packaging and Contents.


Packaging and Contents


You have already bought the device and ready to open the box. Your X2 i5 comes in an ordinary brown cardboard box, as it usually happens. There is a big X2 logo on both sides – front and back. On the sides you may find some information about the chassis. The company did their best to protect the device from dust, fingerprints and different kinds of damages. The i5 is held in place by two standard Styrofoam spacers, which keep …

Scythe has recently amazed the community by the introduction of absolutely transparent chassis. ACB-Type3 model preserves the cutout of the standard Mid-Tower chassis solutions, but is made of transparent acrylic plates. One more peculiarity of this model is the parallel to the base localization of motherboard. Besides, ACB-Type3 is compatible with motherboards of various form-factor, including mini-ITX, micro-ATX, and ATX.



The motherboard is accommodated on a special tray. Right under this tray the customers are able to find a set of bays designated for the installation of PSU, three 3.5-inch drives, a couple of 2.5-inch drives, and three 5.25-inch drives. The chassis is compatible with CPU coolers of up to 190 mm in height.


At the same time, this model goes without any fans or side panels; this attributes the model to Open-Air segment. The product can content itself with practically noiseless passive system.


Scythe ACB-Type3 is equipped with sufficient number of …

Yesterday evening Intel introduced its latest Gemini Lake processors, which may be reasonably called “chip systems”. These products with low power consumption are constructed for compact PCs, entry models, hybrid solutions and other devices, for which the TDP level is critical.

 

Gemini Lake CPUs, being successors of the Atom family, replaced the Apollo Lake generation. All in all, at the moment the new gen consists of six processors: a couple of Pentium Silver and four Celeron samples. In the meanwhile, three models are ascribed to the desktop segment (J index), and three – to the mobile sector (N index).

 

All CPUs mentioned have much in common, but for the number of cores with two models. All of them got a 2-channel memory controller with DDR4/LPDDR4 support. GPU UHD Graphics 600 has 12 actuating units, and UHD Graphics 605 – 18 analogous units.

 

The novelties are based on the 14 nanometer technology and possess the …