Last week the HIS company was the first to introduce a one-slot AMD Radeon RX460 series graphics card, motivating other manufacturers to design parallel solutions. Thus, XFX announced the release of a pair of such video accelerators – XFX RX 460 2 GB Core Edition OC and XFX RX 460 4 GB Core Edition OC – which differ only in the VRAM capacity (2 and 4 GB respectively).



Both novelties are based on the AMD Polaris 11 graphics processor and support 896 streaming processors, 56 TMU as well as 16 ROP. The base GPU clock matches the benchmark of 1,090 MHz, and the dynamic frequency has increased from 1,200 to 1,220 MHz. The effective video RAM rate equals 7,000 MHz.


A compact cooler is designed to chill down internal components. Its construction contains a moderate-size heat sink and an axial flow fan. The front-end interface features the following ports: DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort.


The price of XFX RX 460 2 GB Core Edition OC and XFX RX 460 4 GB Core Edition OC models has …

Within the framework of Computex 2014 both Kingston and Adata are going to introduce their fresh SSD series of M.2 form-factor. In keeping with the manufacturers’ words, the products – SM2280S2 and SR1020NP — are differentiated by some spectacular performance. At present the companies provide only basic info about the drives, leaving their fans in suspense.



Kingston SM2280S3 is based on Phison PS3108 that supports SATA 6 Gb/sec interface only. It ensures 540 MB/sec and 514 MB/sec speed on sequential Read/Write operations. For sure, it’s not the performance innovative M.2 drives should demonstrate (about 10 Gb/sec), although the model considerably surpasses traditional HDDs in this respect.


This SSD series is represented by three models of 120 GB, 240 GB and 480 GB capacity. All of them employ DDR3 cache-memory with the minimal 256 MB capacity. Besides, the difference in efficiency between other M.2 offers Kingston promises to compensate by a more affordable price.
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Introduction  
 


In this review we will speak about Crucial MX300 SSD in its biggest version: 2 TB, that will surely provide much space for everything you need- from games to applications. In general the MX300 Series is available in capacities of 275 GB, 525 GB, 750 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB. 

 

 

Main Specifications
 

Brand - Crucial

Model - CT2050MX300SSD1

Controller - Marvell 88SS1074 BSW2

Flash Type - Micron, 16 nm TLC

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Endurance - 400 TB total bytes written

Form Factor - SATA 2.5"

Thickness - 7 mm (Ultrabook compatible)

Capacity - 2050 GB (1905 GB usable)

254 GB additional overprovisioning

Interface - SATA 6 Gbps (compatible w/ 1.5 & 3 Gbps)

Firmware - M0C

TRIM supported - Yes

NCQ supported - Yes

Warranty - 3 years


Packaging


Crucial MX300 comes in a compact package with a distinctive design. General characteristics data are given.

 

A thickening frame …