The choice of NAS for home use is frequently accompanied by the dilemma: the necessity to acquire a high-end device with multifunctional facilities at reasonable price. As usual, quality and good performance cost pretty penny, especially when it comes about innovative technologies; however, there are some NAS designers which provide their products at moderate cost but do not save on quality. Thus, QNAP company has released its new NAS solution TS-219P II designated as for home so for small business use. This model isn’t notable for outstanding design or ergonomics but offers efficient solution of any dedicated home assignments due to wide functional capabilities and good performance.



Integration


1. External design. QNAP TS-219P II goes in standard design with typical casing peculiarities. All internal components are fixed on a solid metallic framework, while the external casing is made of dull plastic. The faceplate is equipped with a plastic wafer which contains five …

The Advoli Co. has presented an extraordinary video card, called TA6 Graphics Card. Its peculiarity is in the fact, that it has no video connectors, while being intended for purposes other than mining. The product got six Ethernet ports and the HDBaseT support instead. The manufacturer claims the novelty to be the world first graphics accelerator with the PCIe x16 interface and the HDBaseT certification.

 

The HDBaseT technology lets transfer (up to 100 m) audio, video and control signals, power (up to 100 W) via the simple Cat5/6 cable. It also ensures linking to the network.

 

TA6 Graphics Card is based on the Embedded Radeon E9550 accelerator, aimed at embedded systems and utilizing Polaris 10 GPU with 2,304 streaming processors. Thus, it’s an analogue of the Radeon RX 480 3D card. One should note, that TA6 Graphics Card uses an ordinary version of Embedded Radeon E9550, performed as an MXM card, which means in future it can be replaced by some novelty.
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The previous generation of LGA1151 motherboards from ASUS numbered several «gaming» models, which stood out among others with the designation Pro Gaming. Now, with the advent of new chipsets from Intel, the company's specialists decided to allocate such products to a separate segment, assigning them the name ROG Strix.


The main bias of these models is not based on overclocking capabilities, but on the hard- and software component related to the increased requirements of users to create the necessary atmosphere when working with a PC. So, on the background of conventional boards, the difference will be in the audio and network nodes. The brand RGB-backlighting AURA is realized here to the full extent as well.


Main Characteristics

Chipset: Intel H270

Processor socket: Socket 1151

Processors: Core i7, Core i5, Core i3, Pentium, Celeron (Skylake-S, Kaby Lake-S)

Memory: 4 DIMM DDR4 SDRAM 2133/2400, a maximum of 64 GB

PCI-E slots: 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16

1 x …