The German Sharkoon Company has announced the release of its new SilentStorm Icewind supply units family. This line includes three models with the 550, 650 and 750 W nominal power, featuring semi modular cables connection and 80 Plus Bronze energy performance certificates.



These supply boxes are able to put out 100% of their nominal-rated power at 12 V. SilentStorm Icewind products are secured from abnormal modes. The 135 mm fan, built on the ball bearing with automatic rotary speed control depending on the supply unit load, chills the devices.


Among other peculiarities of Sharkoon specialties, we should distinguish the nylon-weave cables cover and the availability of two colour variants (black and white).


SilentStorm Icewind supply units weigh 1.83 kg and have the following dimensions: 150х160х86 mm. The manufacturer protects its novelties with a three-year warranty. 550, 650 and 750 W samples got the €70, €75 and €80 recommended price marks.

Chieftec, a renowned manufacturer of power supply units, has recently introduced a series of new PSUs, codenamed BPS, which included five different models. The two models differ from other items in color, dimensions, applied fans, and belonging to the lower PSU segment. The other three products belong to the high-end segment and own outstanding characteristics. Chieftec BPS-650C2 belongs to the high-end echelon that is confirmed as by its internal integration, so by general specifications.



Integration


PSU Chieftec BPS-650C2 employs modular system of cable connection and is notable by 650W of output power. The external design of the model did not outlive any dramatic changes, except for the availability of large stickers on the PSU casing. Quite the contrary, the integration has been given a completely new touch. BPS-650C2 is based on a new advanced platform developed by CWT. The manufacturer employed DC-DC converters for +3.3VDC and+5VDC channels. Those converters are …

Today we’ll have a glance at one of the ASUS Prime series motherboards. The model having A- index has all the necessary basic features, when nothing has yet been simplified, the power subsystem seems to be good enough and there are no additional controllers of any sort.


Technical characteristics

We can see that the PCI, and SATA-E interfaces are already renounced, and the M.2 is increasing its presence. All the other main characteristics are listed below:


• Chipset – Intel Z270 • 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*/2666*/2800*/3000*/3200*/3300*/3333*/ 3400*/3466*/3600*/3733*/3866* (OC), a maximum of 64 GB • PCI-E Slots – 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 (x16 + x0, x8 + x8) 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 (x4)4 x PCI Express 3.0 x1 • M.2 – 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x4 (Key M, 2242/2260/2280/22110) 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x4 (Key M, 2242/2260/2280) • …