During the last Computex event, the Galax vendor exhibited its external graphics card version. As distinguished from most other manufacturers, showing dock stations for GPUs, Galax displayed the ready-assembled device, which is so small that you can take it to be a mini PC.



The product is called Galax SNPR External Graphics Card Enclosure. It has already been equipped with the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics accelerator, which is more likely than not built on a special printed circuit board with the express aim of being utilized in such a dock unit.


To minimize the ready-made solution dimensions to the greatest possible extent Galaxy elected not to install an internal power supply. The product is powered by a 45 W outer unit. On the back side of SNPR External Graphics Card Enclosure one can notice DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort connectors, alongside with Thunderbolt 3, enabling users to link this device to a computer. On the front panel there’s a power button, which indicates when …

The GIGABYTE Co. presents the latest version of the GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming 8G graphics accelerator, which got the GV-N1070G1 GAMING-8GD rev2 reference designation.



The novelty is based on the 16 nm NVIDIA GP104 chipset with the Pascal architecture. This GIGABYTE product features 1,920 streaming processors, 120 texture units and 64 ROPs. The chipset supports 8 GB of the GDDR5 memory with the 256-bit bus and the 8,008 MHz frequency. Two operation modes are available, they are Gaming Mode and OC Mode. In the first case the base clock is 1,594 MHz, and the boost clock equals 1,784 MHz. In the OC Mode these values correspond to 1,620 MHz and 1,822 MHz.


The accelerator card is supplied with the RGB Fusion backlighting, offering various effects and the possibility to choose among 16.8 mln of shades. There is a backplate at the rear. The video card is chilled by the highly productive WindForce 3X cooling system with heat pipes and three fans, which break off work at little …

Each new year brings new ideas for the developers of PC hardware. Since motherboards are indisputably the main component in the PC integration, their design and facilities are given the most attention. Hence, each manufacturer tries to implement some unprecedented technologies to attract potential audience by an improved performance and possibilities. Intel Thunderbolt technology is a hit of 2012; that is why, motherboard designers turned their looks into this direction. Gigabyte was among the first companies to integrate Thunderbolt interface into its products: model Z77MX-D3H TH is a bright evidence of it.



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Motherboard Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H TH resembles the modification of its predecessor Z77MX-D3H, except for the availability of Thunderbolt interface and design of PCB. The renunciation of the third PCIe x16 slot allowed the manufacturer to free four lines of PCIe bus and employ Thunderbolt technology for their activation. As a result, a new product has got a …