Review of the motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3. Junior representative of the “gaming” series for Intel Kaby Lake-S processors

The model under consideration will be the first Gigabyte product in our laboratory since the announcement of the 200th series of chipsets. It has basic capabilities, of the additional controllers there is only ASM2142, which brings two latest-generation USB sockets to the rear panel, which means that today it will be possible to fully concentrate …

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Overclocking and comparison of processors. Part I: AMD Solutions – Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5, Ryzen 3, and FX-6100

For almost a year, processors of the Zen microarchitecture have been on the market, on which AMD has high hopes. Five years of development should have finally brought the company out of the position in which it found itself after the release of Intel’s Core family solutions. A timid attempt to rectify the situation back …

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MSI B360M Mortar Titanium motherboard review. Image product of the low-end category

With this material, we open a series of reviews of devices designed for desoldering inexpensive hubs designed for Intel Coffee Lake-S processors. A non-trivial model will act as the first participant. A special silvery shade of textolite clearly distinguishes it from a number of competitors, a kind of fashion step. There should not be any …

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Review of the power supply Enermax Revolution DUO 700 W

Enermax power supplies are not frequent guests on the pages of our site, so the new device that got to the test aroused a certain interest in us – after all, more than five years have passed since the last meeting with them. The Taiwanese company, along with Sea Sonic, has always been distinguished by …

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Review and testing of the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR III G531GW laptop based on the Intel Core i7-9750H processor and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card

The demands on a gaming laptop are always high. A potential buyer wants to get not only a productive configuration, but also a high-quality screen, nice design and high practicality. The new ASUS ROG Strix SCAR III series combines all of this to bring you new gaming experiences with great graphics on a fast, high …

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ASRock Z490 PG Velocita motherboard review and testing. Experimenting with overclocking the Core i7-10700K

ASRock’s team of specialists never ceases to go for bold experiments, regularly equipping products with features that are not found in competitors. Rocket Lake-S processors are still in development, and here they have already provided a specialized M.2 port for the needs of high-speed SSDs with PCI Express 4.0 interface. It won’t work with current …

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ASRock X570S PG Riptide motherboard review and testing. History back

More than a year had passed since the introduction of products based on the AMD B550, and the market was in desperate need of updating the assortment. However, the company did not come up with anything new for the AM4 socket, and nevertheless, all manufacturers have already presented updated products based on the old-new X570 …

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ASUS ROG Strix B560-A Gaming WiFi motherboard review and testing. Introducing the Intel B560 Chipset with the Core i7-10700K Processor

Together with the release of Rocket Lake-S processors to the market, developers from Intel proposed new chipsets of the “500th” series. Now boards based on the older Z590 solution are equipped with two CPU power sockets and an unprecedented power subsystem, since the appetites of computing units grow quite noticeably after forcing high power limits, …

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Razer Kraken Essential gaming headset review

Razer is famous for its gaming accessories, most notably the Kraken series of gaming headsets. At one time, not every player could afford the popular line, so in 2016 Razer released the Razer Kraken Essential budget headset, a simplified version of the famous Kraken Pro. Ever since then, every gamer has been able to buy …

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Enermax ETS-N31-02 CPU cooler review

Although Enermax’s product range focuses on expensive liquid cooling systems and not the most affordable air coolers, they also have one quite budget model called ETS-N31-02. At least now the market value of this product in all popular stores has decreased by almost half, which makes it very interesting for potential buyers. And for our …

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