About a month ago SilverStone announced the release of a new PC chassis codenamed Redline RL04. Today we can already find this product from a Taiwanese manufacturer in a retail trade at $52. The case has been designed in mid-tower form-factor and housed in a steel black casing with some plastic inclusions. Its overall dimensions equal to 523x220x480 mm.



The case is estimated for the installation of mini-ITX, ATX and micro-ATX motherboards, along with CPU coolers of up to 169 mm in height, power supply unit of ATX standard, and graphics cards up to 292 mm in length. The implemented PSU is located under the motherboard. The internal layout readily accommodates seven expansion cards, four drives of 5.25-inch format, and five HDD/SSD drives of 2.5/3.5-inch format. Moreover, SilverStone offers special attachments for screwless fixture of hard drives.


One of the advantageous facilities provided by the manufacturer is the availability of dedicated holes in the motherboard tray; …

Asus has replenished its graphics card series based on Kepler architecture with a brand variation of one-chip GeForce GTX 680 adapter. Brand Asus GeForce GTX 680 card has been developed on an original in design circuit board and is notable by the doubled to 4GB GDDR5 memory capacity. Nevertheless, the most outstanding characteristic of a new product is the implementation of a two-slot cooling system, codenamed DirectCU II. Earlier Asus equipped its GeForce GTX 680 adapters with three-slot coolers.



The company decided to concentrate mainly on the introduction of an uncommon cooling system, leaving all frequency showings identical to the recommended by Nvidia index. Thus, graphics core operates at 1006 MHz frequency, while memory module works at 6008 MHz. Memory chips are soldered on both sides of the circuit board. The reverse side of PCB is covered by an aluminum plate that is in direct contact with GDDR5 chips.


Some IT professionals dare assuming that the rejection of …

The ASUSTeK Computer vendor has lately introduced the 24.5-inch gaming monitor under the VG258Q code name. The product features rather thin bezels, the peculiar stand and the presence of stereospeakers (2 × 2 W).

 

ASUS VG258Q obtained the anti-reflection coated TN matrix and 1 ms (GtG) response time at the Extreme Low Motion Blur mode activation. Gamers will be glad to hear the device supports 144 Hz refresh rate and syncs with the vertical frequency, ensured by the PC graphics adapter (Adaptive-Sync).

 

The monitor by ASUS is able to render 16.7M shades, while covering 72 % of the NTSC colour gamut. Viewing angles are 170° horizontally and 160° vertically. The maximum brightness level claimed is 400 cd/m², and the static contrast is 1000:1.

 

GamePlus functions include 4 types of gun sights, the timer clock, the frame rate indicator (fps) and a scale. GameVisual pre-installations are also present, as …