ASUS ROG Maximus IX Formula occupies the top lines in the based on the newest chipsets motherboards’ family. The main specialties of this model are: a special supply chain radiator with integrated water-block, ROG Armor cover, the preset wireless network adapter. The engineers also paid more attention to the setting up and monitoring of the LSS.


Features:

• Chipset: Intel Z270 • Processor socket: Socket 1151 • Processors: Core i7, Core i5, Core i3, Pentium, Celeron (Skylake-S, Kaby Lake-S) • RAM: 4 DIMM DDR4 SDRAM 2133/2400/2666 * / 2800 * / 3000 * / 3200 * / 3300 * / 3333 * / 3400 * / 3466 * / 3600 * / 3733 * / 3866 * / 4000 * / 4133 * (OC) a maximum of 64 GB • PCI-E Slots: 2 x PCI Express 3.0x16 (x16 + x0, x8 + x8) 1xPCI Express 3.0 x16 (x4)3xPCI Express 3.0 x1 • M.2: 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x4 (Key M, 2242/2260/2280/22110) 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x4 (Key M, 2242/2260/2280) • Integrated graphics core (processor): Intel HD 510/530/610/630

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Radiator Deepcool with a frightening name is big and heavy, takes three adjacent PCI-E slots, and is expensive, but the efficiency is worth of consideration. About a year ago, the company Deepcool Industries Co., Ltd. released a cooler for graphics cards with high-sounding name Dracula.



The model has proved very successful, it stood out with very high level of efficiency and, most importantly, it is compatible with many video cards. But during time after release of «Dracula» AMD and NVIDIA have released new video cards, with some of which the cooler is not compatible. In particular, the lower the location of the GPU chip Tahiti requires revision of the cooler and Deepcool was not losing time, releasing a second version of Dracula.


The cooler is packed in a small cardboard box in black with a minimum of information on all sides. In this way Deepcool tried to emphasize cooler belonging to the dark forces and involvement in all the famous vampire of the Romanian …

Welcome the series of stylish compact mini PCs by MSI, named Cubi N 8 GL. As we may see from the name of this line, novelties hold Intel Gemini Lake processing units inside. To be exact, we are talking about Intel Celeron J4005 (2/2 x 2.0–2.7 GHz) and Intel Pentium Silver J5005 (4/4 х 1.5–2.8 GHz) with Intel UHD Graphics 600 (12 x 250–700 MHz) and Intel UHD Graphics 605 (18 х 250–800 MHz) embedded graphics adapters.

 

The RAM subsystem is represented by one SO-DIMM slot supporting maximum 8 GB of DDR4-2400, which means there’s no way to establish a dual-channel mode. The disk subsystem may include either a regular 2.5-inch HDD/SSD or a space effective M.2 2280 solid-state drive, possessing SATA 6 Gb/s or PCIe 2.0 х2.


Network options are ensured by the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 9461 (802.11ac Wi-Fi (433 Mbps) and Bluetooth 5.0) module and a gigabit Realtek …