Introduction


Overclocking is like sport. Throughout the world, enthusiasts experience the strength of the components and achieve the maximum possible results. When overclocking the processor and memory, much depends on the instances, but you can not drop the importance of the base - the motherboard. After all, it is the motherboard that offers all the functional that is necessary for conquering peaks in certain disciplines. And, of course, every manufacturer wants to see their products in the hands of professionals.

ASUS's ROG division this year presented a very interesting motherboard for the Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X processors (socket LGA 2066), which is designed specifically for extreme overclocking - and not only in terms of the number of BIOS settings and any switches on the board itself. Today we will talk in details about the board itself and point out those moments that you just might not notice at first glance.


Packaging


The design of the box has …

The stonewall in the tablet and mobile CPU segment is gradually mounting, with Intel and Nvidia increasing their influence and rivalry. Hence, Intel's developers claim that its latest tablet processor, two-core Atom Clover Trail, surpasses Nvidia's Tegra 3 in both performance and power consumption. To be precise, Clover Trail proves to be more efficient in a range of applications, but at the same time, it consumes power twice less than its counterpart. To exemplify such claims, Intel takes Imagination Technologies graphics that consumes less power than Tegra 3.



Numerous testing results conducted by Intel and some leading IT analysts demonstrate that Tegra 3 with four main cores and one additional core is slower that Clover Trail. Testing of performance and power consumption has been held on Microsoft Surface RT with Tegra 3 chip and Windows 8 tablet with Clover Trail chip. Nevertheless, Intel hasn't conducted any comparison in mobile OS from Google.


To continue, such …

Foreword

American company Corsair starts taking orders for a four-channel Vengeance memory set of SO-DIMM DDR4 standard. The given set is consisted of four modules in volume of 8 Gbytes, it is calculated for work in DDR4-4000 mode and according to the manufacturer's idea it will be in demand among owners of hi-end laptops, mini-PCs, and also compact HEDT-systems using boards like ASRock X299E-ITX/ac.

 

Corsair claims that its new memory Vengeance SODIMM DDR4 4,000 MHz 32 GB (4 × 8 GB) is "the fastest in the world". 
Being on the market since 1994, the company can really boast of high-qua

lity products.

 

Design

A customer will find a kit in the black and yellow card box.

The modules are black with the black stickers that tell the name of the company and of the series in white and yellow colors. Corsair didn’t forget to add its sign – a ship. In general it makes an impression of powerful, reliable and professional …