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Gigabyte ha annunciato Aorus ATC 700, un dissipatore single tower a doppia ventola alto circa 150 mm.

La configurazione è abbastanza classica con tre heatpipe a “U” da 10 mm in rame che partono dalla base e trasferiscono il calore ad alette in alluminio molto vicine fra loro. La parte superiore, inoltre, fa sfoggio di una copertura in plastica nera ABS in mezzo a cui c’è il logo Aorus debitamente retroilluminato.

Per garantire il necessario flusso d’aria, Gigabyte ha aggiunto un paio di ventole Double-Ball Bearing da 120 mm in configurazione push-pull. Entrambe usano un connettore a 4 pin e hanno un regime di rotazione compreso fra 500 e 1.700 RPM. Questo si traduce in un flusso d’aria variabile da un minimo di 14 a un massimo di 53 CFM mentre la rumorosità sale da 12 a 31 dB(A).

Trattandosi di un dissipatore di nuova fattura, supporta tutti i socket attuali come quelli AMD AM3(+), AM4, FM2(+) e quelli Intel LGA 775/1366/115x/2011(v3)/2066.

Al momento non conosciamo il prezzo né la disponibilità, ma è lecito attendersi una richiesta di circa 50 euro.

In order to improve Core i3 sales

According to a report that surfaced online, Intel is allegedly limiting or even killing the production of its Pentium G4560 dual-core LGA1151 CPU in order to improve its Core i3 sales.

Based on the latest Kaby Lake architecture, the Pentium G4560 is an impressive SKU. It packs two cores, has enabled Hyper-Threading, 3MB of L3 cache and 3.5GHz clock, all at US $ 64 price, so it does not come as a surprise that it has managed to take a piece of Intel’s Core i3 market.

Bear in mind that the cheapest Core i3 SKU, the Core i7-7100, is priced at US $ 117 and only comes with a 400MHz higher clock and somewhat lower TDP and a better IGP. Of course, Pentium also lacks some instruction set extensions, like AVX, AVX2, F16C and FMA3, which aren’t important in gaming performance but speed up mostly video editing and transcoding tasks.

Back in the day when Pentium lacked Hyper-Threading and had 2MB of L3 cache, it was mostly a budget- and office-oriented chip.

According to a report from the DigiWorthy.com site, Intel will scale down the production of the Pentium G4560 in order to both limit the availability and increase the retail/e-tail price, which should eventually push more buyers to the next best thing, the more expensive Core i3 SKUs.