FSP, a renowned developer and supplier of power supply units, introduces a new product that is widely recognized as ‘noiseless’ PSU. Codenamed FSP Aurum Xilenser 500 (AU-500FLD), it employs a passive cooling system instead of an air cooler, thus its dump operation is easily explainable. The unit also characterizes by a startling efficiency which provided for the acceptance of 80+ Gold certificate.



Aurum Xilenser 500 takes similar to Aurum Pro/CM models design with a totally black casing and a comb-like top grid enclosed in a golden stripe. The model is able to operate at the nominal 500W power and support the latest ATX12V/EPS12V standards. It should be noted that this unit utilizes a standard framework with all power connectors soldered on the printed circuit board. A set of connectors involves five SATA connectors, a single 4-contact FDD, four 4-contact Molex, and a pair of 6+2-contact PCI Express connectors. Naturally, it contains two main 24-contact and 4+4-contact …

At present not every gamer can enjoy benefits of Radeon RX Vega cards, as far as RX Vega 64 samples are sold at an overvalued price, and the only Gigabyte RX Vega 56 adapter announced is not even put for preordering.



In the meanwhile, AMD partners add to their webpages their latest models, able to act as Radeon RX Vega 56 competitors. Hightech Information System Ltd. Developers decided to take advantage of AMD groundwork and release a reference product under the HIS brand name. It’s code designator is HS-VEGR8GSNR.


HIS Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Black 8GB operates at the recommended 1,156–1,471/800(1600) MHz (core and mem clock). This model is chilled by a 2-slot AMD cooler and features 3,584 5th gen GCN stream processors, a 2,048-bit memory bus, 8 GB of the HBM2 buffer storage, alongside with two connectors for 8-pin PCI-E Power cables and HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4 (x3) ports.


The dimensions of the accelerator are 28.0 x 12.7 x 4.0 cm, and its recommended price is …

Hardware solutions from Fatal1ty series have been enjoying great popularity among gamers and overclockers since the first product came out. ASRock continues gladdening its fastidious devotees by introducing one more representative of Fatal1ty series – motherboard Fatal1ty Z87 Killer. It attracts potential customers by a powerful VRM system, prime-quality hardware base, and the implementation of KillerLane 2200 network chip that eliminates lags in online games.



ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer is designed in ATX form-factor and is based on Intel Z87 chipset, targeted Intel Haswell processors (Core i3/i5/i7, Celeron, Pentium) for Socket LGA1150 platform. Memory subsystem supports up to 32 GB of two-channel DDR3 memory chips that run at the maximal 3050 MHz frequency. Power subsystem is organized according to 8-phase scheme; it consists of special MOSFET-transistors that are characterized by a low TDP level.


To continue, this motherboard accommodates three high-speed PCIe 3.0 x16 …