Raijintek has released a new version of Mini-ITX chassis, called Metis Plus. There are several colour solutions of this specialty: red, black, silver, white, blue, green and gold. The motherboard plate, dust filter and other parts are black.



The framework is manufactured out of 1.5 mm anodized aluminum, 0.5 mm SPCC steel and acryl (the side panel window).


According to the specification, this chassis can hold four 2.5-inch and one 3.5-inch drives or two 2.5-inch and two 3.5-inch SSD/HDD and a 120 mm liquid-cooling system heatsink, which can be mounted only at bundled 120 mm backlit fan disassembly. The max size of the motherboard to be installed is 170 × 170 mm (Mini-ITX), of the graphics card – 170 × 160 × 40 mm, of the CPU cooler – 160 mm. The interface panel on the top has two USB 3.0 connectors, as well as headphone and microphone jacks. To minimize hardware overheating developers designed this cube-type model with a grid-covered vent on the top.


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The first decаde of thе 2000’s wаs the mоst prоspеrous аge of PC DIY and Ovеrclоcking. That was exаctly the time whеn CRYORIG was offіcially fоunded. CRYORIG teаm has wоrked both dirеctly and indirеctly with brаnds such as Thermalright, Prolimatech, Phanteks and some more. But the ambitіons and grеat potеntial mаde diffеrеncе and they dеcidеd to mаke a nаme fоr thеm.


CRYORIG is nоw succеssful mаinly becаuse of their sоlіd lіne-up of hіgh pеrfоrmаnce cооling products. Thеy hаve bееn rapіdly expаndіng into vаriоus markеts. Tоday we аre gоing to lооk clоsеr at CRYORIG A40. It usеs the sаme hybrіd dеsign аs the A40 Ultіmаtе and A80 оffеrіngs. Thе mаin dіffеrеnce cаn be fоund in the mоre affоrdаble nаture of thе A40. Not to waste the time, let’s start from the usual point of our rеviеws, whіch is Packaging and Contеnts.


Packaging and Contents


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PowerColor has recently launched the most powerful in AMD’s Radeon series graphics card, entitled Radeon R9 295X2. The key peculiarity of the model is the availability of two GPUs, which are accompanied by a hybrid cooling system. Such remarkable specifications make the card an ideal solution for advanced gamers and overclocking enthusiasts.



PowerColor Radeon R9 295X2 employs PCI-e 3.0 x16 interface and incorporates a pair of AMD Hawaii XT GPUs (28 nm, GCN 2.0). Each processor features 2816 CUDA cores, 64 ROPs, and 176 TMUs. They operate at the maximal 1018 MHz clock frequency. Each GPU ‘cooperates’ with 4 GB GDDR5 memory (8 GB in total) with 512-bit rails. Its nominal clock frequency makes up 1250 MHz, whereas efficient frequency might reach up 5000 MHz.


This remarkable graphics card is furnished with a hybrid cooler. Both GPUs are taken care by a liquid-cooling solution of enclosed type, power circuits are taken care by air cooling. The latter consists of a fan …