The past several days were marked by the official presentation of a new motherboard from Asus company. The new product, codenamed ROG Maximus V Extreme, is based on Intel Z77 chip and supports Intel Core processors of the second and third generations. The major distinctive feature of the motherboard is the availability of the integrated Thunderbolt interface and a range of exclusive overclocking and monitoring attachments. ROG Maximus V Extreme is furnished with five PCI Express 3.0 slots and is able to support such graphics technologies as AMD CrossFire, LucidLogix Virtu MVP, and Nvidia SLI.



Asus designers have taken care about the multitask capabilities of their motherboards, so equipped their products with the controller of Thunderbolt interface. Its bandwidth capacity approximates 10 Gb/sec. This interface is predestinated to attach monitors and peripheral equipment to a single Thunderbolt port at full speed. The nominal delivery set embraces a supplementary OC Key device …

A few months after the last release of water-cooling systems, Zalman introduces a new series of products with a title attribute LQ3xx. The series consists of three models, LQ320, LQ315 and LQ310, which differentiate themselves primarily by dimensions. The senior cooler (LQ320) features 32 mm water block and 52 mm heatsink, the medium LQ315 cooler features 38 mm heatsink and analogous in dimensions water block; the junior cooler (LQ310) is the tiniest one and features 28 mm heatsink and water block. Zalman LQ315 greatly resembles its predecessor, CNPS20LQ, in design, however, is ready to offer some improved options, if compared with the previous cooler generations.



Design and Framework


Like any other water-cooling system, Zalman LQ315 consists of a water block combined with a pump and joined with a heatsink by means of flexible tubes. The water block is notable by the availability of 'Z' logo on its surface that is lighted blue during operation. Its round base, made of …

The majority of contemporary drivers can’t imagine their routine movement without GPS-navigators. Those devices enable not only the trailing of the most suitable route, but also the estimation of the drive time with consideration of various conditions. GPS-navigator developers try to amaze the potential customers by ever advanced models with multifarious functions. Treelogic TL-7008BGF AV Glonass is considered to be more than a usual navigator. This is rather a multifunctional device with high-end processor and diverse multimedia options. Developers of this model tried to include all options necessary as for long-distance drives so for routine urban traffic.


First of all, Treelogic TL-7008BGF AV Glonass has an integrated Bluetooth module; it enables the connection of the navigator with the cellular phone. In its turn, such type of connection sets the platform for the possibility to use the navigator as the data set for Internet connection. Such connectivity allows automatic …