Lately the German Cougar vendor has released the Panzer Evo chassis, the outer appearance of which resembles the Panzer-G model. It has four panels out of tempered glass, too. However, the novelty belongs to the Full-Tower form factor.

 

The dimensions of Cougar Panzer Evo are 556(L) x 266(W) x 612(H) mm. Inside one may see mounting seats for eight expansion cards, four 2.5” and two 3.5” drives, an ATX compatible power supply unit and a CPU cooler 170 mm high. The length of graphics adapters may reach 390 mm. Cougar produced its product compatible with motherboards of up to the Extended ATX format.

 

Besides, Panzer Evo allows installing four liquid cooling system heatsinks: one 120 mm chilling device may be mounted at the rear, one 140/120 mm – at the bottom, one 360/280 mm – on the front and one 360/280 mm – in the upper part.

 

The supply set contains four …

The production of gaming-oriented chassis is evolving each year, despite the gradual escape from voluminous desktop platforms to more compact ones. Nowadays chassis targeting gamers present really high-end facilities and have catchy, aggressive design. AeroCool often gladdens this customer segment with high-quality and moderate in price products. Its recent development, chassis AeroCool Mechatron, is called to suffice the gamers' need for advanced options, reliability and convenience.



Design


Model AeroCool Mechatron belongs to PGS (Performance Gaming Series). It is developed in Middle-Tower form factor and boasts a futuristic design with sharp edges, ornamental ledges and underlined angles. The chassis is delivered in two color variations (black and white) and two framework variations (with side acrylic window or grid). The clipboard resembles the frontal part of the futuristic robot; it contains red LED line in the upper part, company's logo in the lower part, serial …

Almost a year has passed since the announcement of the AMD mid-price video card – Radeon RX 480 which is a bestseller on the market. It is not difficult to guess why: good performance for the cost, as well as decent energy efficiency, previously unavailable to users of the company's graphics solutions, have turned out to be good.


But the model has one flaw, or rather a feature – in pursuit of a high ratio of speed and power consumption, AMD developers have been so carried away by this goal that they have absolutely forgotten about the potential rival that has not been sitting idly by. The GeForce GTX 1060 family has been updated with several modifications: with three and six gigabytes of memory, with reference and increased memory frequency.


As a result, the emerging AMD has to compete for the leading places with two competitors. To this end, engineers have taken the energy efficiency issue to a secondary place and start to optimizing in the pursuit of speed.


Both …