The past several days were marked by the official presentation of a new motherboard from Asus company. The new product, codenamed ROG Maximus V Extreme, is based on Intel Z77 chip and supports Intel Core processors of the second and third generations. The major distinctive feature of the motherboard is the availability of the integrated Thunderbolt interface and a range of exclusive overclocking and monitoring attachments. ROG Maximus V Extreme is furnished with five PCI Express 3.0 slots and is able to support such graphics technologies as AMD CrossFire, LucidLogix Virtu MVP, and Nvidia SLI.



Asus designers have taken care about the multitask capabilities of their motherboards, so equipped their products with the controller of Thunderbolt interface. Its bandwidth capacity approximates 10 Gb/sec. This interface is predestinated to attach monitors and peripheral equipment to a single Thunderbolt port at full speed. The nominal delivery set embraces a supplementary OC Key device …

The Cooler Master company released a processor cooler, called MasterAir MA410P.

 

The specialty can be utilized with a wide range of CPUs, among which one may distinguish the Intel LGA 2066/2011-v3/2011/1151/1150/1155/1156/1366 and AMD AM4/AM3+/AM3/AM2+/AM2/FM2+/FM2/FM1 models.

 

The cooler design includes four heat pipes with the direct contact to the processor cover. Their diameter equals 6 mm. Besides, the cooler construction features an aluminium heatsink and a 120 mm fan, which is regulated by the PWM function. The rotary velocity of the fan is between 650 and 2000 rpm. The noise level does not overcome 30 dBA. The average time to failure stated is 160,000 hours.

 

The MasterAir MA410P fan is supplied with backlighting, supporting 16.7 million of colour shades. At the same time, ASUS AURA Sync, GIGABYTE RGB Fusion and MSI Mystic Light Sync systems may be applied.

 

Possessing the 84 × 129 × 158.5 mm dimensions …

Intel has just unveiled its current year release plans and made a specific focus on Intel Core i7-4000 processor series. According to Intel, the new line of products, known also as Intel Ivy Bridge-E, is going to hit the market in Q3’13. Their launch will replace the Sandy-Bridge-E series – Intel Core i7-3000. The new-comers will support Socket LGA2011 CPU sockets, as well as Intel X79 chipset. This is called to dramatically facilitate the updating process of the current systems.



The first three models to appear in the market will be Intel Core i7-4960X, Intel Core i7-4930K, and Intel Core i7-4820K. They will all be delivered with an unlocked multiplier. The first two models are known to have six physical and twelve virtual processor cores.


The nominal frequency of Intel Core i7-4960X equals to 3.6 GHz and the dynamic frequency might achieve 4.0 GHz index. This processor will be equipped with 15 MB of cache-memory. Its cost will fluctuate within the measures of $1000. …