Trade Shows
As Intel looks to streamline its business operations and get back to profitability in the face of weak revenues and other business struggles, nothing is off the table as the company looks to cut costs into 2025 – not even Intel’s trade shows. In an unexpected announcement this afternoon, Intel has begun informing attendees of its fall Innovation 2024 trade show that the event has been postponed. Previously scheduled for September of this year, Innovation is now slated to take place at some point in 2025. Innovation is Intel’s regular technical showcase for developers, customers, and the public, and is the successor to the company’s legendary IDF show. In recent years the show has been used to deliver status updates on Intel’s fabs, introduce new...
An EpicGear Turnkey PC Gaming Café: Beam Me Up Scotty
One of the phrases I no longer hear in this industry is ‘Cyber Café’. A remnant of the past, at least here in the west, a gaming or cyber...
12 by Ian Cutress on 6/25/2018
AIC Shows Dual NF1 to U.2 SSD Adapter
After the official announcement last week of Samsung’s new 8TB NF1 drive, I went back through my Computex photo kit to dig out a couple of images I snapped...
3 by Ian Cutress on 6/25/2018
New Realtek PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe Controllers: RTS5762 & RTS5763DL up to 3.5 GB/s
The market of SSDs is expanding rather rapidly, which encourages new companies to enter the scene. Realtek introduced its first SSD controller two years ago targeting primarily entry-level PCIe...
12 by Anton Shilov on 6/25/2018
AIC’s Grays Peak Server with Intel ‘EDSFF’ Ruler SSDs
In the consumer space, we get SATA drives, mSATA drives, M.2 drives, and for the high end, U.2 drives. By contrast, the enterprise space is expanding: U.2 is a...
7 by Ian Cutress on 6/25/2018
Cooler Master Readies New Thermal Compound with 11 W/mK Conductivity
Cooler Master is prepping to release its new thermal compound that will have the highest conductivity among all thermal pastes/greases ever released by the company. The new paste is...
21 by Anton Shilov on 6/25/2018
MSI Optix MAG491C Hands-On: A 49-Inch 32:9 LCD with FreeSync
Earlier this month MSI demonstrated its ultrawide curved 49-inch gaming display at Computex. The unit uses a mass-produced panel and already has a model number, so its launch is...
17 by Anton Shilov on 6/22/2018
Colorful to Branch Out to Memory Modules
One of the surprises that this year’s Computex brought was renewed interest of various hardware suppliers towards memory modules. We saw GIGABYTE and Antec launching their Aorus and Antec...
5 by Anton Shilov on 6/22/2018
SilverStone Preps IP68 Water- and Dust- Proof Enclosure for 2.5-Inch Drives
Rugged as well as water/dust-proof hardware usually comes in specially designed factory-sealed enclosures and is sold at a premium. SilverStone believes that if an enclosure is made right, it...
4 by Anton Shilov on 6/21/2018
MSI’s Four-Way M.2 PCIe Card: It Looks Like a GPU
Having seen both ASUS and ASRock’s PCIe cards that support four M.2 NVMe drives each at a x4 connection at CES, and then GIGABYTE’s prototype card at Computex, there...
47 by Ian Cutress on 6/21/2018
The InWin Ego Fan: The Ultimate RGB LED Fan
If you are not completely frustrated by RGB LED components by now, this might put you over the top. The Ego fan from InWin is designed to be the...
14 by Ian Cutress on 6/20/2018
ASRock Rack Goes AMD: EPYCD8 Workstation Motherboard
One of the lesser known companies to play in the server space is ASRock Rack, a subsidiary of the consumer focused ASRock. Much like other smaller server platform providers...
12 by Ian Cutress on 6/20/2018
My Face on a CPU Cooler: Two Minutes with ASUS’ Ryujin CLC
One of the first events of the Computex week was ASUS’ Republic of Gamers press conference. In typical ASUS fashion, a glut of about 11 press releases landed in...
21 by Ian Cutress on 6/20/2018
Kingston Has HyperX 256 GB microSDXC Card for Gamers
In the recent years Kingston has repositioned its HyperX brand from performance enthusiasts to gamers, thus expanding the range from high-performance memory modules to a wide range of components...
4 by Anton Shilov on 6/20/2018
ECS with Intel Compute Card: What Happened to Intel’s Compute Card?
One of the more interesting and innovative platforms that Intel has introduced over the past few years was the Compute Card: a small credit-card like platform that contained a...
26 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2018
The InWin Crown Fan: Why Bother with Closer Fan Blades When the Whole Fan Moves
In recent weeks and months, a lot of noise has been made about Noctua’s new fan design that uses precise tooling to create fan blades that are much closer...
36 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2018
A Rose By Any Other PR Name: Lian Li’s Strimer, or is it Streamer?
Part of our early Computex coverage involved Lian Li’s new RGB product, the Strimer, which integrates RGB strips along a 24-pin ATX cable. The idea here was that out...
9 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2018
GIGABYTE B450 Aorus Pro Wi-Fi: A Second Gen Mid-Range Motherboard
With the launch of the second generation of Ryzen, AMD also launched the X470 chipset which enabled the next generation of Precision Boost, a new adaptive storage technology called...
14 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2018
InWin 307: How About 144 RGB LEDs on a Front Panel
Having addressable RGB LEDs in a PC is one thing, and having OLED panels on various components is another. There is a fine line between the two, especially when...
14 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2018
Realtek Demonstrates a USB 3.1 G2 Type-C Dock Platform: An All-in-One Solution
Realtek demonstrated a prototype of a USB 3.1 Gen 2 docking station that relies entirely on its own chips and features regular connectors, including USB Type-A, DisplayPort, HDMI, D-Sub...
23 by Anton Shilov on 6/18/2018
InWin 915: Premium Chassis Updates from CES Prototype
Back at CES, InWin showcased their newest 915 chassis aimed at the enthusiast market. At the time the design was still rough, however the final unit implementation was on...
8 by Ian Cutress on 6/18/2018
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