Evga, a company primarily known for high-end graphics solutions, decided to expand its production line by entering cooling market. Herein, it elaborated a first-rate CPU cooler, entitled ACX (codename: 100-FS-C201-KR). The new-comer features 164x134.5x91.5 mm dimensions and weighs 1065 g. Luckily, it can be already found in free sale for a price of $50.



The ACX is a tower-like air cooler that is able to efficiently remove heat from all processors that are compatible with the following sockets: Intel LGA 2011/1156/1155/1366/1150/775 and AMD FM1/FM2/AM3/AM3+/AM2/AM2+.


Evga ACX consists of an aluminum heatsink, five copper heatpipes that support Direct Touch technology, and one PWM fan of 120 mm dimensional type. The heatsink is composed of multiple thin plates, which differentiate themselves by an unusual framework. Such framework enables the emergence of two airflows around the heatpipes. According to Evga, this promotes for a better heat removal process.


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Several resources have published new details about Gigabyte video cards, which are about to come out.



Thus, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Aorus Xtreme card will be based on the GP102 graphics engine, operating at 1,632/1,746 MHz frequencies, which means, its factory overclocking will overcome 10%. In its turn, memory frequency will increase by 4% (up to 1,431 MHz), and the effective frequency will be 11,448 MHz.


The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Aorus product, possessing the 1,594/1,708 MHz GPU operation rate and the standard 1,376 MHz (11 GHz) memory rate, will also represent the series we are speaking about. At the same time, it will get another backplate with a more compact copper insert.


The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming OC graphics accelerator outwardly resembles G1 Gaming samples, though, it has a white WindForce 3X cooling system cover. The graphics processing unit of this model will be factory overclocked to 1,544/1,657 MHz.


Finally, we must note, that Gigabyte is going to …

Solid State Drives Crucial v4, informal shipments of which began in May, the day before were added to the price lists of dozens online stores across Europe, as well as clearly stated on the website crucial.com. This series is designed as a compromise between high performance devices Crucial m4 and slow by today's range hard drives.



Developer (Micron) is positioning 2.5-inch drives v4 as an inexpensive solution for computer systems of class mainstream and PCs, collected before 2011, when it received widespread Interface SATA 6 Gb / s. New items have the connector SATA 3 Gb / s and are characterized by maximum read / write speeds in the range 230/190 MB / s. The claimed amount of IO operations per second (IOPS, 4 KB blocks) is small — 10,000 for reading and writing at up to 4000. Retain the support TRIM operation, operating systems Windows, Linux and Mac.


Technical details are set out by the manufacturer rather sparingly, and yet such information as the controller model and …