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This Saturday, we’re looking at motherboards, SSDs, coolers, monitors and other peripherals.

Motherboard, SSD, promotion

Our article is compiled from the current offers of the IT retailers sponsoring the column. The prices stated in the article are based on the lists of our wholesale (including VAT and retailer’s profit) and retail partners. The prices are updated the day before the publication of the article, but in the current market situation, the price of the products can change even after a day. The products in our presentation can be purchased – among others – in the retail stores listed on the websites of our wholesale partners or from our retail partners. In most cases, computer products are covered by a 2-year warranty, different warranty periods are stated separately.

We dive into our weekend material with an ATX-format, AMD Socket AM5 motherboard, which costs HUF 117,900 with a 3-year warranty and comes with an AMD X870 control bridge. For the 7000, 8000, and 9000 series AMD Ryzen processors MSI PRO X870-P WiFi Its 14+2+1-phase VRM has pleasant-sized aluminum fins, and four DIMM sockets can accommodate up to 256 GB of DDR5 memory, the effective clock of which – with overclocking – can climb up to 8200 MHz.

The board, which is compatible with CUDIMM RAMs that can dynamically change their operating frequency and voltage, has a metal-reinforced x16 PCI Express 5.0, a x16 x4 wired PCI Express 4.0, plus two x1 PCI Express 3.0 rails. expansion cards, while the external storage devices, in addition to the four SATA ports, have a PCI Express 5.0 M.2-2260/2280 covered with a rib, a PCI Express 4.0 bare M.2-2280/22110, and a PCI Express with half the bandwidth It can be inserted into a 4.0 M.2-2260/2280 slot.

MSI PRO X870-P WiFi
MSI PRO X870-P WiFi (+)

We can connect to the network with a 5 Gbps Ethernet powered by a Realtek 8126VB controller and a Wi-Fi 7/Bluetooth 5.4 module, while an eight-channel Realtek ALC897 chip is responsible for sound production. The fixed I/O shield, which facilitates installation, has a 2.1 HDMI output, three 3.5 mm audio jacks, two antenna connectors, the aforementioned Ethernet and a 40 Gbps USB4 Type-C, a 20 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Type-C, two 10 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, and one 5 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port are stationed next to the Flash BIOS/Clear CMOS button pair. One USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A and four USB 2.0 sockets can be connected to the front panel, and the system cooling fans can be connected to six rows of PWM pins.

If we were to increase our arsenal with a small-capacity 2.5-inch SATA SSD, we could take a closer look at Hikvision, which primarily travels in surveillance systems. Hiksemi Wave(S)-tthe 256 GB version with a 3-year warranty can be purchased for HUF 7,670.

Hiksemi Wave(S)
Hiksemi Wave(S) (+)

At its peak, the storage device, which consumes 1.4 watts and is delivered with 3D TLC NAND flash chips, can dictate a maximum speed of 530/400 MB/s in sequential read/write, and we can expect 45,000/75,000 IOPS from it in random disk operations. 80 TBW durable storage, supporting TRIM command and SMART monitoring Its 512GB sibling 12 590 forintba (530/450 MB/s, 63 000/69 000 IOPS, 170 TBW), 1 TB version (550/470 MB/s, 75,000/75,000 IOPS, 340 TBW) costs HUF 30,720.


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In the Foramax store until November 6 Star Wars Outlaws promotion is in effect: for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, 4070 Ti, 4080 and 4090 video cards purchased in the store, for desktop PCs featuring these, as well as for notebooks boasting such GPUs, the game is given as a gift in the form of a download code that can be redeemed until December 12.

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Source: prohardver.hu