This year’s Computex was all about DDR4 and PCI-E SSD’s, and of course MSI showed us their first DDR4 motherboard, a prototype of an upcoming X99 MSI motherboard. The motherboard has 8 DDR4 slots, 12 USB 3.0 ports and M2 & S-ATA Express connectivity. However, MSI didn’t settled with this so they also showed something never seen before, and that is an USB 3.1 motherboard. […]
By now you all know GIGABYTE’s Black Edition motherboard line, the products by which GIGABYTE wants to show their commitment into bringing really ultra durable products to the market. All Black Edition motherboards are tested for 168 hours in GIGABYTE’s facility in Nanping, to assure everything runs as smoothly as possible. Today I had the opportunity to visit the factory again (I will tell you […]
We all know GIGABYTE’s Windforce 450W cooling system and we knew for a while now that they are working on a 600W version. Well, today we had the chance to see what these guys are up to – nothing less then their own version of Nvidia’s Titan Black, called GV-NTITANBLKGHZ-6GB-B, or as they say in english GIGABYTE Titan Black GHZ Edition. And if that is […]
Be it CeBIT or Computex ADATA always has a nice colorful stand with lots of new products. This year the strategy was the same, so ADATA was the first company to show us DDR4 memory on a working platform. Of course, at this points the timings are nothing to get excited about (DDR4 2750 14-14-14-36) but this was the case with any new memory standard […]
I think that Devil’s Canyon is not coming as a surprise for anybody, after all we were all waiting for the K models of the Haswell refresh series. Of course, Intel had a nice demo system at their stand, showing a Core i7 4790K running stable at 4.8GHz watercooled. To sum it up, Intel Core i7 4790K, code name Devil’s Canyon, is a Haswell core […]
Computex is starting tomorrow, but that does not mean that the goodies didn’t start to show up yet. As the dragon boat festival takes place today in Taiwan, and GIGABYTE’s press conference is ready to take off at the Brown Sugar club, we took a sneak peak at GIGABYTE’s latest motherboard. And guess what – it is built for overclockers, and not just any overclockers […]
Computex Computex is the largest ICT trade show in Asia and the second largest in the world. The 34th edition takes place from June 3rd to June 7th, and more than 130000 visitors from all over the world are expected to attend this year’s Computex. Names like Intel, AMD, Nvidia, GIGABYTE, ADATA or MediaTek are on the exhibitor list, together with 1700 companies which will […]
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 …the 4K display was showing the same message for 20 min now… activate the Hydra Weapon System. The red line of characters was repeating itself over and over again while I was assembling the weapon. It was just a few minutes after I have entered the correct code to unlock the metal case I have received from the agency when the […]
Smartphones vs digital cameras The smartphone business went through a booming growth in the last years, and the market share companies like Samsung and Apple have is living proof for that. Of course, none of this would have been possible without the technological progress behind the cool, hip day to day accessories. These days the smartphone has a wider spread then the old feature […]
Tobias Brinkmann OCZ used to be a company tailored for the enthusiasts needs. Times have changed, and so did the main focus for the company, and in the last months of 2013 an even greater change occured, when Toshiba took over the OCZ storage assets. We had a little chat about this with Tobias Brinkmann, Vice President Global Marketing, OCZ Storage Solutions, to find out […]
