Transfer efficiency of the thermal energy flux from the CPU to the cooling liquid in the circuit depends on the water unit. The AlphaCool Company, being famous for its liquid-cooling system components, has presented a new water units series, called Eisblock XPX. They’ll take the place of the previous model, NexXxoS XP3. The series of Eisblock XPX water blocks will be released on the market featuring various colour schemes, including the mountings colour. The manufacturer has taken into account the latest trends.



In new models the heat-exchange zone microchannel structure is refined: the fin spacing is reduced to 0.2 mm, and the fins number has grown up to 81. Thus, the heat-exchange area has become larger. The brand Ramp technology is applied to the heat-exchanger, which guarantees the absence of the coolant flow vorticity and its steady passing through the microchannels zone. At the same time the hydraulic circuit has been optimized to diminish flow resistance. Eisblock XPX …

AOC enters the market with five advanced monitors. The business-oriented new-comers, all based on IPS panels, can boast the implementation of thin frames in the design. First things go first.



AOC I2490VXQ & I2490PXQU are marked by the integration of Full HD screen resolution (1920x1080). The models offer 4 ms response time, 1000:1 static contrast index and 250 cd/m2 maximal brightness level. One of their key peculiarities is an ultimate color rendering as well as the coverage of 100% sRGB & 90% NTSC. The I/O panels accommodate a pair of built-in 2W speakers, HDMI, DP and D-Sub video ports.


Yet, the second display brags about the incorporation of USB 3.0 ports and an ergonomic stand which supports various positions, including height, tilt, angle of slope adjustments. Pricing is set at 169 EUR/199 EUR respectively.


To continue, AOC I2790VQ (249 EUR), I2790PQU (279 EUR) & Q2790PQU (399 EUR) models are housed on 27-inch panels. The first two items support Full HD …

The MSI Company decided to open its new gaming desktops series with the Infinite A Model, which main highlight is a front panel. It possesses several facets, one of which resembles a PC-board layout with multi-coloured track lighting, customizable via the MSI Mystic Light software.



The side panel out of tempered glass reveals a vertically mounted graphics accelerator (presumably, a riser card is used). In MSI Infinite A the manufacturer utilized either Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 or GTX 1070 Gaming family video adaptors.


The 14 nm Intel Core i7-7700 processor operates with the micro-ATX Intel B250 logic set motherboard, supplied with four computing cores, functioning at 3.6 GHz clock speed. The system card has PCI-e slots, reinforced mount and CPU power system with durable components. The MSI novelty offers 4 DDR4 slots and allows installing up to 64 GB of RAM. The case can also hold two 3.5-inch and three 2.5-inch drives for data storage.


A Gigabit Ethernet Realtek …