PC market offers the whole range of customer-oriented products depending on the purpose of their utilization. Therefore, it's not a problem to find a high-end multi-functional PC for managing huge graphic applications and games; neither, it's a problem to search out a compact nettop to fulfill home-based tasks. Samsung Chromebox is a combination of compact design and rather progressive functional. However, despite such attractive specifications, the price for this product might satisfy the budget of any customer.



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Nettop Samsung Chromebox is a high-performance hardware platform supplemented by software with the open source code. The product uses Chrome OS based on Linux, and is destined at efficient work with web-applications. The most attractive feature of the Chromebox is its price. The average market cost equals to $329; such cost is able to exceed similar products from other manufacturers and draw the lion's share of potential customer groups.


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All devotees of full-scale systems might now revel in an opportunity to ‘locate’ ATX-motherboards into a small-sized elegant enclosure. SilverStone is glad to introduce a new HTPC case with horizontal orientation – the Grandia GD10. It is predestined not only for CEB and micro-ATX boards, but also for standard ATX models with the maximum of 8 expansion slots; that should become a major advantage of the new-comer.



SilverStone Grandia GD10 features 442x171x362 mm dimensions and draws attention by a stylish, compact design. The layout allows for creating diverse system configurations with multiple unique elements. Therein, the case accommodates a single slot for 5.25-inch drives that might be converted, if necessary, into a bay for a single 3.5-inch drive or two 2.5-inch drives. Additionally, there are two separate 3.5-inch bays and one 2.5-inch bay for hard drives.


Internal spacing is estimated for the graphics cards with the ultimate length of 309.88 mm and for the …

The MSI Arsenal Gaming lineup of mainboards has been recently replenished by a new model: the Z370M Mortar. The greenhorn is designed in micro-ATX form-factor, featuring 243x243 mm dimensions. The heart of the item is Intel Z370 chipset, aimed at Intel Coffee Lake family processors (LGA1151 socket). Thus, it’s an ideal choice for compact gaming systems.



The MSI Z370M Mortar employs a 6-phase VRM with Military Class 5 component base. Memory subsystem includes four DIMM slots with support for up to 64 GB of GDDR4-4000 MHz modules (dual-channel). The latter offer DDR4 Boost technology for trouble-free overclocking.


The connection of graphics cards as well as other expansion units might be realized via two PCIe 3.0 x 16 slots & a couple of PCIe 3.0 x1 slots. Storage is represented by four SATA III (6 Gb/sec) ports and a pair of M.3 Socket 3 ones.


To continue, MSI has incorporated into its Mortar motherboard an advanced 7.1-channel audio subsystem, based on Realtek …