Chieftec power supplies are one of the most popular brands on the domestic market, and it's not surprising, since the manufacturer has been on it for about 20 years. During this time, the decisions of the German brand have acquired both an army of admirers and opponents. The first like these blocks for the optimal price/quality ratio, while others are not satisfied with their consumer properties. It’s primarily because of a higher noise level than some competitors or more expensive products have. But with a limited budget, Chieftec becomes one of the main candidates for purchase, especially when building powerful systems, where the difference between the costs of blocks produced by different manufacturers can reach 50-150 dollars or even more.


In this review, we will consider a 1000-watt Chieftec device belonging to the A-135 series, the hallmark of which is a 135-mm fan and a modular cable connection for the periphery. Also representatives of this line meet the requirements …

MSI announces one more representative of MSI Gaming series – a middle-end graphics solution, based on GeForce GTX 770 adapter. Codenamed N770 TF 4GD5/OC, the new-comer boasts an original design, the availability of factory overclocking, the implementation of a brand cooling system, called Twin Frozr IV, and high-quality Military Class IV components. This model is targeting those users who would like to equip their PC systems with up-dated, reliable and high-yield components.



MSI N770 TF 4GD5/OC takes GK104 chip as the basis of its operation. This chip is developed under 28 nm Kepler microarchitecture with 1536 CUDA cores. Clock frequencies in OC mode exceed those performed by the reference model and make up 1137 MHz in nominal mode, increasing to 1189 MHz on dynamic overclocking. GK104 is accompanied by 4 GB of GDDR5 memory with 256-bit interface; memory modules operate at 1752 MHz frequency in nominal mode and at 7010 MHz on overclocking.


This graphics card employs …

Introduction

  For the work of  Coffee Lake processors you need new motherboards. Despite the accelerated launch of chips with an increased number of cores, the motherboard manufacturers managed to prepare for the start of 8 Core processors sales, which is better than Intel. Today we have a review of the model MSI Z370 GAMING PRO CARBON AC.


 

MSI has already managed to release a lot of motherboards based on the Intel Z370. One of the first models is the given motherboard. In connection with the release of six-core processors, one of the main issues was the temperature regime of VRM and the willingness of cards to overclock. However, the key feature of this model is the extended work with backlighting. There is support not just for RGB LED tapes (four-contact areas for connection are used), but also for more intelligent ones with addressing (there are already three contacts for them). There are two nests for each type.

 

Main Points

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