Computex 2012 - Page 2

Not much to say yet, event technically kicks off today. Had a few meetings and press conferences yesterday. ASUS announcing an AIO that's also a tablet, or ASUS announcing an ultrabook that's also a tablet was good. Some impressive stuff by Acer.

For OC, Gigabyte have something different. They've partnered with a new vendor for power delivery. Redesign of FETs and chokes, means about 30C cooler VRMs at full load in an airflow free system (think all-in-one water coolers). So if the VRM temp is the limit under OC, it looks like an interesting way to go. Though this solution isn't cheap, I predict a 6x cost increase for power delivery. These boards will be called the UP series (UP4, UP5, UP7) instead of UD.



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A look at Gigabyte's FM2 board: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5903/gigabyte-meets-trinity-a-computex-look-at-fm2-and-a85
Dual Thunderbolt on GB: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5904/gigabyte-dual-thunderbolt-on-z77
Gigabyte X79 Refresh, using the C606 server chipset and 14 SATA ports: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5905/gigabyte-and-the-x79-refresh

Some more meetings today, but nothing as heavy going as later in the week. Even still, I got in last night at midnight, and had to crash in order to prepare for today. Computex gets real busy real quick. Still love doing it though
Edited by borandi - 6/4/12 at 5:49pm

ASUS' 40 phase 'design' is only a concept. A mock-up, not coming to retail. The engineers did it as an exercise to see what would happen. Like what happens when car designers come up with concepts which don't work, are just empty shells. Everyone seems to get it in the car industry, so I'm glad we're starting to get something similar in the motherboard industry.

Redwoodz - You are confusing several things here. There have been C606/Xeon capable boards out a while with overclocking options. BUT the Xeons (the 8-core) themselves are locked, so it doesn't matter if you use an overclocking board or not, the Processor won't physically change the multiplier up. It's an issue I'm having with some future reviews planned, because Intel won't announce when or if unlocked Xeons will be released.

Regarding 'the only other board is the EVGA SR-X' - you're forgetting the ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS, the Gigabyte GA-7PESH1, the Gigabyte GA-7PESH2.. etc

In other news, I'm back. Busiest day I had was when I had 14 meetings on Thursday. Every day at the show, I didn't even have time to eat lunch, and on Tuesday I was so tired I decided to sleep rather than eat dinner. Taipei is great - no fear of crime or anything. If you get wet, then you're dry in 10 minutes or step into any air conditioned building.

Impressive things in the show for me were the 4K screen on show by Viewsonic - good stuff if you can afford $30k. The FM2/Trinity processors will be out soon, so I had to keep an eye out for them. The Bitfenix Prodigy case is amazing if you haven't seen it. Lian-Li had a train on show which doubles up as a mini-ITX case.

I'll be posting on Anandtech soon a 'Computex in Pictures' article. Keep your eyes posted There were a few of my fellow reporters going after booth babes. I'll link in their pictures in a bit