Nowadays customers don’t find it difficult to acquire the motherboard which would absolutely correspond to their needs. This is primarily explained by the fact that each manufacturer tries to pack its production lineup with models of various calibers. Asus is one of the few companies that restlessly enlarge their motherboard inventory with variegated items, and Vanguard B85 (TUF series) is yet another item for saving users. The key to ‘affordability’ of Intel B85 chipset-based board lies mainly in the reduction of connectivity facilities, where the chipset supports not six but four SATA 6 Gb/sec + four USB 3.0 devices. However, the model is rich in other facilities that are vital for a contemporary multimedia PC.



Design and Layout


To begin with, Asus Vanguard B85 is designed in an uncommon uATX form-factor and supports Pentium/Xeon/Corei3/Corei5/Corei7 CPUs (Haswell gen.) for Socket LGA1150. The motherboard inventory involves 4 DIMM slots for the installation up to 32 …

Foreword

American company Corsair starts taking orders for a four-channel Vengeance memory set of SO-DIMM DDR4 standard. The given set is consisted of four modules in volume of 8 Gbytes, it is calculated for work in DDR4-4000 mode and according to the manufacturer's idea it will be in demand among owners of hi-end laptops, mini-PCs, and also compact HEDT-systems using boards like ASRock X299E-ITX/ac.

 

Corsair claims that its new memory Vengeance SODIMM DDR4 4,000 MHz 32 GB (4 × 8 GB) is "the fastest in the world". 
Being on the market since 1994, the company can really boast of high-qua

lity products.

 

Design

A customer will find a kit in the black and yellow card box.

The modules are black with the black stickers that tell the name of the company and of the series in white and yellow colors. Corsair didn’t forget to add its sign – a ship. In general it makes an impression of powerful, reliable and professional …

Last year the ASRock manufacturer added RX and GTX samples to the DeskMini PCs family. These small-size products are able to hold Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 1060 discrete video cards in the form of MXM modules.



The ASRock company decided to develop its DeskMini RX/GTX models further and constructed a similar mini PC, housing the GeForce GTX 1080 3D card.


Now the dimensions are not much larger and make 213 х 154.5 х 81.9 mm (corresponding to 2.7 l). The great news is that the specialty can be equipped with GeForce GTX 1060, GTX 1070 and even GTX 1080 graphics accelerators! Presumably, the CPUs list includes the 6th and 7th generations Intel processors up to Core i7 with the 65 W TDP.


ASRock mini PCs can obtain 32 GB of RAM. Two 2.5-inch and three M.2 drives (Optane storage devices among them) can be installed. Connectivity is provided by the Gigabit Ethernet, USB-C 3.1, three USB 3.1, two USB 2.0, two HDMI and two DisplayPort ports.