Up-to-date facilities provided by graphics cards manufacturers allow customers to create various graphic configurations, including the activation of several monitors within a single card. Indeed, contemporary technical approaches transform traditional video adapters into video gurus. The latest development of Sapphire, a flagship model Toxic HD 7970 GHz Edition, offers up to 6 GB of GDDR5 memory and promotes for the activation of six monitors in Eyefinity. Such options exceed those integrated into a reference model, AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, and are able to ensure a dramatic increase in performance.



Technical Peculiarities


Sapphire decided to base its flagship model on GPU AMD Tahiti with an integrated delimiter which lowers the clock frequency on the overshoot of thermal threshold. Its standard frequency equals to 1050 MHz, nominal frequency – 1100 MHz; sill, this GPU features Lethal Boost options that increase the frequencies up to 1200 MHz. This graphics card is …

The French ARCHOS Co. adds a new device to its product range. The point of the talk is a budget-friendly Vision 215 monoblock, which is quite an extraordinary device. 



At first glance the novelty resembles a standard stylish monitor with thin bezels. The thickness of the display is 6.85 mm only. The diagonal of its Full HD panel with the 1920 х 1080 resolution is 21.5”.


Owing to the platform applied, this All-in-One device costs not much – 300 euro. It is built on the Cherry Trail generation Intel Atom x5-Z8350 CPU. The processor features four cores, operating at 1.44–1.92 GHz frequencies. At the same time the PC is supplied with the 4 GB LPDDR3 RAM and the 32 GB eMMC ROM, which may be expanded by microSD cards. One may also install a 2.5-inch drive.


Vision 215 has a couple of 3 W speakers, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 wireless interface modules and a set of front-end solutions, consisting of …

Gigabyte has put on sale across a Japanese market its entry-level motherboard entitled GA-H61M-DS2 Rev.3. The board is developed in a micro-ATX form-factor and takes Intel H61 Express chipset as the basis. It is predestined for Socket LGA 1155 and all compatible with it CPU lines: Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium, Intel Core i3, i5, and i7. One of the most distinguishing features ascribed to this model is the employment of Ultra Durable 4 Classic components that protect all internal elements from such unfavorable impacts as humidity, voltage instability, high temperatures, and electrostatic discharge.



The other promising news is that Gigabyte offers two variations of GA-H61M-DS2 model with DVI/HDMI ports on the rear panel (GA-H61M-DS2 DVI and GA-H61M-DS2 HDMI correspondingly). The basic model does not have either of such interfaces but is still rich in various ports: a couple of PS/2, three standard audio slots, four USB 2.0 ports, one RJ-45, and a single D-Sub port.

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