The American Corsair Company is going to satisfy high-productive SSD zealots' needs by releasing new Neutron NX500 series products, already mentioned in the USA and Western European countries’ price lists.



Being performed in the PCI Express expansion card form factor, Corsair Neutron Series NX500 solid state drives are equipped with a fully-featured heatsink, a decorator cover and a rear backplate. These products of 400 and 800 GB capacity use a PCI Express 3.0 x4 (32 Gbps) interface and an NVMe protocol. The sequential data reading speed of both Neutron NX500 devices reaches 3 GB/s in ATTO Disk Benchmark and 2.4 GB/s in CrystalDiskMark, the consecutive writing velocity comes up to 2.4 GB/s in ATTO and 1.6 GB/s in CDM. 4 KB random IOPS rates are impressive –300,000 (reading) and 270,000 (writing).


Regarding the MLC NAND memory chips utilizing we may assume that Neutron NX500 SSDs are aimed not only at home PCs, but also at workstations, which are in operation 24/7. The …

Contemporary PC monitors are generally based on two types of panels with their variations: TN and IPS. The choice of panel depends on the product's class and destination. However, there are some monitors that employ rather rare arrays, like WVA, which appeared long time ago and now emerge in the market with a bit modified technologies. Acer G276HL is a representative of a small army of monitors based on WVA panel. WVA technology is not new but is called to fulfill all standard assignments to compete with more advanced options.



Specifications and Delivery


Acer G276HL features 27-inch display, 16:9 aspect ratio and 1920x1080 resolution. The monitor employs WVA panel type (6 ms response time) and is equipped with LED lighting. The claimed brightness equals to 300 cd/m2; this is an average index for a semiprofessional display. The number of displayed colors achieves 16.7 millions. It should be noted that the company does not provide much information about its new product, …

The Internet is filled with rumors about the upcoming release of a new graphics adapter from Nvidia manufacturers. According to the available information, Nvidia is going to update its recently introduced GeForce GT 640 with DDR3 memory type version and to implement advanced tools in their novice product. The implementation of GDDR5 memory will result in the perceptible increase of bandwidth, as well as, of clock speed.



The new graphics card is supposed to exceed its prototype and predecessor in overcklocking showings too. This improvement will be achieved due to the integration of power connector 6-pin PCIe. To contrast both models, the latest version with DDR3 memory employed PCIe expansion slots as power supply tool.


The newer version will be able to operate on 950/5000 MHz, while the older one used to show 797/1782 MHz. GeForce GT 640 (GDDR5) will be based on GK107 processor with 384 CUDA cores and 128-bit memory bus. It is supposed that the memory volume capacity is …