Asus boasts the inventory of up to twenty motherboards developed on Intel Z77 chipset. Full-, medium- and small-sized boards gladden the customers by an outstanding functional and optimal layout. Still, the company decided not to stop at what has been already accomplished and introduced a high-end motherboard codenamed Asus P8Z77-V Premium. The major peculiarities of this board are the integrated Thunderbolt bridge, reliable digital CPU power supply subsystem, and a lot more alluring facilities. The product is targeted at the high-end customer sector and Asus hopes to get considerable revenues from its sales.



General Peculiarities


First of all, it should be stated that P8Z77-V Premium design and color gamut continue all traditional standards of Asus motherboards. This model is developed in ATX form-factor and employs dull black textolite in combination with blue, white and black painted sockets. CPU socket is located in a common place; it supports all up-dated Intel CPUs …

The Asus Co. was the first to introduce its own Radeon RX Vega 64 video card versions, while other vendors have only announced the master versions release. Asus has already announced two Asus ROG Strix series products – ROG Strix RX Vega 64 OC and ROG Strix RX Vega 64, differing in operating frequencies.



The graphics card is performed on the individual Asus design PC-board with enhanced power subsystem, more than 10 phases and two 8-pin power connectors. One can also use benefits of the DVI-D video output. The clock rate and the memory frequency remain unveiled yet.


ROG Strix RX Vega 64 products, like other last year Asus GPUs, obtained high-end cooling systems, featuring at least six heat pipes going through two big aluminium heatsinks and three fans. There is a reinforcement plate on the back side of the PCB.


ROG Strix RX Vega 64 OC and ROG Strix RX Vega 64 are to hit the shelves in the first half of September. Asus also plans to release Radeon RX Vega novelties …

Noctua Company has presented new fans for industrial using – 120-mm models Noctua NF-F12 industrialPPC-24V-2000 Q100 IP67 PWM and Noctua NF-F12 industrial PPC-24V-3000 Q100 IP67 PWM, and also 140-мм NF-A14 industrial PPC-24V-2000 Q100 IP67 PWM and NF-A14 industrialPPC-24V-3000 Q100 IP67 PWM. From the names of the items you can already see that they got a list of safety facilities due to IP67 certificate, in particular – protection from dust and damp, that will allow using them in more severe conditions.



120-mm models go with 105 х 105 mm fixation and are based on original bearing SSO2.The main difference is the greatest speed of rotation corresponding 2000 and 3000 rpm that brought its changes also in other specifications. So NF-F12 industrialPPC-24V-2000 Q100 IP67 PWM model has a speed factor of 450 – 2000 rpm, the produced air stream measures up 121,8 m3, and static pressure is 3,94 mm H2O. In its turn Noctua NF-F12 industrialPPC-24V-3000 Q100 IP67 PWM can display the …