While planning to build a productive system in a compact framework, one should look closely at the new GIGABYTE Z370N WIFI motherboard. This card is of Mini-ITX size and has the following dimensions: 170 x 170 mm. The novelty is based on the Intel Z370 chipset for the 8th generation (Socket LGA1151) Intel Core processors.



Owners of this card will benefit from two DIMM slots supporting the DDR4-4400 mem, a pair of M.2 Socket 3 interfaces, four SATA 6 gb/s ports for drives arranging, and one full-rate PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot for a graphics accelerator connection. Besides, they will get a 7.1-channel Realtek ALC1220 audio codec, a couple of gigabit Intel LAN controllers and a module of 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 4.2. wireless interfaces. Among external connectivity options we may distinguish two HDMI, one DisplayPort, six USB 3.1 Gen 1, one USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C and two RJ45 ports. Three audio jacks are also present.


The product’s advantages include the Smart Fan 5 …

Raijintek, a newly-established hardware developer, puts on sale three CPU coolers, targeted primarily at budget-oriented customers. Along with bright codenames, — Erebos, Themis and Aidos — the triple received a bright design: a silver-like heatsink block, a white fan and a raspberry-red fan frame. Each model is able to efficiently cope with the cooling down of all systems with medium loading.



The first model, Raijintek Erebos, consists of a voluminous perforated heatsink block with thirty-four plates. The plates are pierced by six heatpipes (6 mm each) and are accompanied by a 140 mm fan (Aeolus). To say more, this cooler is appropriate for a passive cooling process, due to a large heatsink with perfect heat dissipation facilities. The model comes to the market at the price of € 34,90.


The next model, Raijintek Themis, also features a voluminous heatsink section. In combination with four U-shape copper heatpipes, this heatsink is able to provide for an effective …

The two novelties by Galaxy Microsystems – GeForce GTX 1080 EXOC Sniper White and GTX 1070 EXOC Sniper White – are highlighted not only due to their white colouring, but also due to their non-reference cooler and PC-board design, to the factory overclocking and to the LED-backlighting of fans and the aluminium back plate.



These specialties are equipped with a two-slot cooler possessing several copper nickel-plated heat pipes. There are two memory chip life wires and an 8-pin and a 6-pin PCI-E Power connectors.

The main cooling system contains an aluminium heat dissipator for VRM transistors and a pair of 100 mm fans.


Based on the GP104-400 chip, the top-of-the-line model operates 2,560 streaming processors, 160 TMUs, 64 rendering blocks and 256-bit line, which works together with the 8 GB GDDR5X RAM. The KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 EXOC Sniper White frequency formula looks like 1,657–1,797/1,250(10,000) MHz for the core and memory respectively.


The graphics cards …