Thermaltake has added to its Versa lineup of chassis a new-comer – the N25. The middle-tower case is targeting primarily extreme gamers who covet ultimate performance and one-off design. The case features 490x197x463 mm dimensions & weighs 4.6 kg. Its key attraction is the trimming of the front and top panels which resemble the armor of transformers. The other peculiarity is the side acrylic window. Upon the whole, all panels are painted black as outside, so inside.



Thermaltake Versa N25 is intended for standard ATX, mini-ITX and micro-ATX motherboards with 7 expansion slots. Storage subsystem offers four seats for 2.5-/3.5-inch drives (internal) as well as two external 5.25-inch drives & one external 3.5-inch unit. Drive mounting might be realized without any tools.


Base N25 comes with a single 120-mm rear exhaust fan that rotates at 1000 RPM. If necessary, users are free to install four other 120-mm fans on the front and top facets (dust filters are included). In …

Quite a loud name, isn’t it? Let’s have a look at the specifications to have the first impression.



Specifications

Socket — LGA 1151

Chipset — Intel Z370

Form Factor — “EATX” (10.7” x 12” actual size)

Voltage Regulator — 18 Phases

USB Ports — 10Gbps: (1) Type-C, (1) Type A, 5Gb/s: (6) Type A

Network Jacks — (3) Gigabit Ethernet (1x PCIe share), (2) Wi-Fi Antenna

Audio Jacks — (6) Analog, (1) Digital Out

Legacy Ports/Jacks — (1) PS/2

Other Ports/Jacks — CLR_CMOS, I/O-Panel Buttons

PCIe x16 (4) v3.0 ( x16/x0/x0/x4*, x8/x0/x8/x4*, x8/x4/x4/x4*), (*Excludes 3rd M.2, 3rd Ethernet, PCIe x1 slot)

PCIe x1 — (1) v3.0 (Shared with 4th PCIe x16 slot)

CrossFire/SLI — 4x / 2x

DIMM Slots — (4) DDR4

M.2 Slots — (3) PCIe 3.0 x4^ / SATA*, (1) M.2 Key-E (filled), (*Excludes ports 1, 3, 5, ^5-6 [M.2-3])

U.2 Ports — (1) PCIe 3.0 x4 (Consumes 2nd M.2)

SATA Ports — (6) 6Gb/s (SATA M.2s take pt 1, 3, 5, PCIe M.2-3 pts 5-6)
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Galax, the company created due to a merger of Galaxy and KFA2, entered the market with a couple of new graphics solutions: the GeForce GTX 970 HOF and the GeForce GTX980 HOF cards. Both greenhorns are intended for enthusiasts longing for the best overclocking potential. Thus, they offer dual BIOS support for safe modification of key parameters and a pair of advanced utilities: Hyper Boost and Voltage Tool.



Galax GeForce GTX 970 HOF and 980 HOF models are powered by Nvidia GM204 GPU (Maxwell generation) with a striking factory overclocking index. Therewith, GTX 970 HOF runs at 1216 MHz (nominal) and 1380 MHz (dynamic) frequencies instead of etalon 1051 MHz/1178 MHz ones. In its turn, GTX 980 HOF operates at 1304 MHz (nominal) and 1418 MHz (dynamic) frequencies instead of reference 1126 MHz/1216 MHz ones. Moreover, the manufacturer swears that this couple is able to overclock up to 1.5 GHz frequency on air cooling and up to 2.1 GHz frequency on liquid cooling.


The GeForce GTX …