The Spire X2 Products company adds a novelty, called Pirate 8031, to its PC cases product range. This Mid-Tower model, performed in black (mostly out of 0.6 mm SECC steel), is aimed at construction of gaming systems, based on ATX or Micro ATX mother boards.



Pirate 8031 weighs around 5.4 kg and possesses such dimensions: 450 × 200 × 490 mm. The front tempered glass panel hides three 120 mm fans with red LED-backlighting behind it. A big side window lets clearly see all inner components.


Inside of this computer case there’s enough room for seven expansion cards. Discrete graphics accelerators of up to 390 mm length can be installed. The chassis can also hold two 3.5-inch storage devices and two 2.5-inch drives. Apart from fans provided customers may mount three 120 mm coolers in the upper part and one 120 mm cooler at the rear. The ultimate CPU cooler’s height reaches 180 mm.


Connectivity options include jacks for headphones and a mic, one USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 …

Last week the HIS company was the first to introduce a one-slot AMD Radeon RX460 series graphics card, motivating other manufacturers to design parallel solutions. Thus, XFX announced the release of a pair of such video accelerators – XFX RX 460 2 GB Core Edition OC and XFX RX 460 4 GB Core Edition OC – which differ only in the VRAM capacity (2 and 4 GB respectively).



Both novelties are based on the AMD Polaris 11 graphics processor and support 896 streaming processors, 56 TMU as well as 16 ROP. The base GPU clock matches the benchmark of 1,090 MHz, and the dynamic frequency has increased from 1,200 to 1,220 MHz. The effective video RAM rate equals 7,000 MHz.


A compact cooler is designed to chill down internal components. Its construction contains a moderate-size heat sink and an axial flow fan. The front-end interface features the following ports: DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort.


The price of XFX RX 460 2 GB Core Edition OC and XFX RX 460 4 GB Core Edition OC models has …

The launch of 3D media players with two operational systems triggered a real sensation among all potential customer groups. Those media players offered high-performance and cost-effective solutions for home use which could not but rejoice enthusiasts and gamers. Developers from 3Q company introduce their new media player F370HW called to satisfy the needs of the most fastidious users. The player took some characteristics integrated in other products, although it’s able to offer a dozen of fresh solutions.



Design and Framework


Media player F370HW casing is made of aluminum, except of the clipboard which is made of opaque plastic. LED-display, localized under the board glass, maps the current operational mode and the icons of all connected devices. The lower part of the clipboard is equipped with a single power button with blue highlight. The rear board is the place for multiple slots and sockets: one can find SD/SDHC memory card slot, four USB 2.0 sockets for the …