Enermax launches a couple of platinum power supply units, earlier unveiled at the CeBIT 2016. The Platimax D.F. model is available in two versions – 500 W & 600 W – which boast 80Plus Platinum certificate thanks to 93% efficiency index. They are able to operate within 100-240 V voltage range at 10 A input. Featuring 150x160x86 mm dimensions, both PSUs can fit in any PC case.



Enermax Platimax D.F. units are furnished with a single +12V rail, estimated for 492/600 W power. At the same time the output power of +3.3 V & +5 V rails makes up 103 W. The hardware base includes high-quality Japanese capacitors as well as low-voltage DC-DC converters.


Cooling is secured by a single 139-mm fan based on Twister Bearing; it is thought to operate up to 160 thousand hours. The fan supports Dust Free Rotation technology that enables reverse rotation during the first 10 seconds.


The units employ SLEEMAX modular cabling. Each cable is coated in cloth to ensure the best management. …

Radeon RX 550 graphics cards were to hit store shelves yesterday. The suggested price of the product is 80 USD, however, there is no reference sample. With this background, AMD partners may set prices of their own free choice.



The Sapphire Company introduced two RX 550 models under the Pulse Radeon RX 550 2GD5 and Pulse Radeon RX 550 4GD5 code names. It’s not hard to figure out, that the only difference between them lies in the memory volume.


The GPU boost clock of these video cards equals to 1,206 MHz, and the memory operates at the 7,000 MHz frequency. Owing to the low TDP level (50 W, as reported by AMD), the adapter doesn’t require a superpowerful cooling system. That’s why Sapphire models are rather compact – 158 mm long only!


Chilling is provided by a cooler with a small heatsink and one fan. The HDMI, DVI and DisplayPort interfaces are located on the rear panel.

Graphics cards, based on NVIDIA GP107 chipsets, are in great demand due to their reasonable “price-efficiency” correlation. With this in mind ASUS developed a couple of video adapters, namely the Dual GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC 4GB V2 (DUAL-GTX1050TI-O4G-V2) and Dual GeForce GTX 1050 OC 2GB V2 (DUAL-GTX1050-O2G-V2) models. The “Dual” term refers to the number of fans in the cooling system, not to the quantity of GPUs, as one might think.



The preinstalled cooler takes two expansion slots and includes a fancy aluminium radiator, a pair of 80 mm fans and a decorator cover. There is no backplate and no 6-pin PCI-E Power connector.


The Dual GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC 4GB V2 card operates 768 streaming processors, 48 TMU, 32 ROP, as well as a 128-bit memory bus, compatible with the 4 GB GDDR5 buffer store. The specialty’s core frequency is boosted from 1,290–1,392 MHz to 1,341–1,455 MHz, and VRAM chips reach effective 7 GHz clocks, which is a recommended value. The Dual …