GIGABYTE B150N Phoenix Pictured
The first pictures of Gigabyte’s upcoming B150N Phoenix M-ITX board have appeared, courtesy of EXPreview.com. The board is for socket 1151 processors. Positioned between its mainline 100-series N products, such as the H170N-WiFi and its more premium Z170-based ones; this distinctive board features an orange+black color scheme which I think is awesome! Its PCB appears to be a slight change on that of the H170N-WiFi. The B150N features 5-phase VRM for the CPU, two DDR4 DIMM slots, and a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot. An mPCIe 3.0 x1 slot is wired to the PCH, driving the board’s included WLAN+Bluetooth card. Connectivity includes USB …
Weekly Community Update – 24 October 2015
This week in the Small Form Factor Network community forum; Z170 The discussion continues on Z170 motherboards, instigated by the Intel Z170 Motherboards Launch article. Most of the comments have been discussing features (mostly missing features!) Join the discussion here. Kimera Industries Project Nova: 17 liters of 5-slot mATX goodness One of the most looked forward to (is that even grammatically correct?) chassis in the SFF world is the Kimera Industries Project Nova. While the teaser pics are maddening, it’s great to see the community take part in the beta stages of a new product. Check the progress here. Project REAL CUBE …
Shuttle Announces SH170V XPS Slim
Shuttle has announced the SH170V compact desktop. The new 3-litre Mini-PC barebone goes by the name of XPC slim XH170V and is based on Intel’s H170 chipset. “3-litre PCs have for a long time represented a really serious alternative to conventional PCs,” says Tom Seiffert, Head of Marketing & PR at Shuttle Computer Handels GmbH. “Increasingly, they are matching larger PCs in terms of processor, memory and drive support, and in many scenarios the improved integrated graphics function makes dedicated graphics cards obsolete.” Measuring 240(L) x 200(W) x 72(H) mm, the XH170V can be operated in various positions, either …
MSI Announces Gaming 27 AIO
MSI today launched the Gaming All-in-One PC: MSI Gaming 27. Equipped with powerful hardware, MSI claims that this system is capable of running the newest PC games in high resolution with ultra settings. By using the HDMI input, the display can also be used to connect your favorite game console. The display also features with MSI Anti-flicker, which prevents screen flickering and blue light emission through stabilized power, thereby reducing eyestrain and fatigue. The MSI Gaming 27 boasts the 6th Gen Intel Core i7-6700 quad-core processor with Hyper-Threading. It supports up to 64 GB dual-channel DDR4 memory and the system is equipped with …
Intel Greenlow Platform Launched
Intel has officially launched the Greenlow platform – Xeon E3-1200 v5 series processors and the C230 series chipset. The new Xeon E3 v5 CPUs are powered by the Intel Skylake microarchitecture, and feature improved per-clock performance, higher clock rates, support for DDR4 memory and more powerful P530 graphics on selected lines. [mks_separator style=”blank” height=”1″] The E3-1200 v5 series consists of 11 models, including 5 standard-power (80 Watt) models without integrated GPU, 3 models with IGP and 3 low power processors. All microprocessors have 4 cores, 8 MB of L3 cache, and support AES, AVX2 and TSX instructions. The CPUs also support Turbo Boost …
Gigabyte Launches New Server M-ITX Board
GIGABYTE Technology, today launched its new lineup of motherboards based on the new Intel® C230 series chipset family. Supporting the new Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 V5 product family (former codename Greenlow), this new lineup includes at launch two workstation motherboards and two server motherboards. [mks_separator style=”blank” height=”2″] From Gigabyte: The New Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 V5 Product Family Formerly known as Greenlow, this new generation of single socket server and workstation processors is based on the 14nm process technology and designed with the new Skylake microarchitecture. [mks_separator style=”blank” height=”2″] Among the main features of this new product family is the adoption of the DDR4 memory technology within the Xeon E3 line …
Windows 10 Build 10565 Adds More Cortana
Cortana gets new features in Windows 10 Build 10565, currently seeded to Windows Insider testers, including a load of new features and enhancements—one of which is a way to make it easier to message your friends. WInBeta has found the new build will give Cortana the ability to send text messages via SMS. You can send texts either by speaking them to Cortana on your PC or by typing them, and it seems easy enough to do. This feature has been available on Windows Phone 8.1 for some time now (and from experience with my Lumia 830, it works quite well). Cortana’s new SMS capabilities join a …
Intel Introduces a Non-Barebones NUC
Currently the NUC is the ‘default’ (to the regular consumer) mini-PC on the market, the Intel Next Unit of Computing has added yet another family member to it’s lineup. Yet this one is different – it isn’t a barebones unit like it’s brethren. Featuring the Intel Pentium N3700, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, and 32GB of storage, and Windows 10 preinstalled, the NUC5PGYH is ready to go, out of the box. The soldered down (not upgradeable) Pentium CPU is the N3700, a Braswell based quad-core running at 1.6GHz, with burst up to 2.4GHz. This processor has a TDP of 6 watts, …