the uh of the liquid cooling hybrid solution that's uh that you can hook up
on these boards. This is the allnew Windforce cooler that
takes advantage of a composite of a couple of different heatpipe
technologies. So, it has like a textured inside as well as micro grooves that
allow it to more easily take the cooled
liquid and then move it back to the GPU where it needs to be heated up and then
evaporated again. I mean, that's the basic principle of how heat pipes work.
What this allows Gigabyte to do is between those high performance heat
pipes. Check how thick those ones are. Between those high performance heat
pipes and the overall mass of the cooler, they are able to build coolers
for the GTX 770, 780, and Titan that are
capable of dissipating 450 watts within
what is still a two slot profile. Now,
hold on a minute. Is that what what's going on here? Is that an aftermarket
cooled Titan? 6 gig 6 gigs of memory
aftermarket cooling. No one's allowed to do that. Gigabyte is going to be
releasing this as a bundle. So, you'll
actually get it with a stock Titan cooler on it, instructions, and a
Windforce cooler so that you can swap out the cooler on your own, giving you
the advantages that come with better GPU cooling, particularly with GPU Boost
2.0. Now, GPU Boost 2.0 0 allows you to not only set up your overclocking
profiles by power as well as by um clock
speed and voltage, but also by temperature. So, when you have a lower
temperature on your card, you are going to actually legitimately get better
performance whether you're a hardcore overclocker or not, which hasn't been
true necessarily with other graphics cards in the past. Now, they've got a
practical demonstration of this, which I thought was pretty cool. The maximum
temperature, well, recommended temperature from NVIDIA for a GK 1110 or
GK 104 is around 95°. So, they've got a
variety of different heat loads that you can apply to this elaborate setup here
with the Windforce cooler on it. You can see our ambient temperature here, which
is about 30 31°. You can see the heat
load being applied to the Windforce cooler. And then you can see right here
the temperature that it maintains the card at. So the TDPs of these cards are
only actually 250 watts, but even applying in excess of 400 watts to this
cooler, we are not breaking the highest we've seen it is around 80° and change a
little above that. And that's in 31° ambience. Moving right along to gaming
peripherals. This is where Diesel started geeking out. So this right here
is the IVA uranium, which does a number of different things. So first of all
here, actually, I'll get our lovely model to demo it in just a second. I'm going to steal it first. Sorry about
that. On the bottom, check this out. I love this. My old MX700 had two AA
batteries on the bottom. What's the advantage of AA? Well, number one, they're everywhere, so you never have to
worry about not having a charge when something bad happens and your batteries
die. Number two is they're high capacity. This thing runs for 50 hours
continuously. So, if you actually manage to run out of battery life with this
mouse in between charges, then you probably should go to sleep anyhow. But
that's not it. So, it's wireless, but I would love for you to come in here.
Sorry. And demo. What is special about this particular wireless implementation?
So, how do you charge it? Okay, you charge it just with a simple micro USB.
Cool thing about that is micro USB charges the mouse while you're using it.
Or if you don't need to charge the mouse at the time you've got a micro USB handy
on your desk, you can use it to charge your phone. Next up, okay, so the
wireless implementation. In the past, wireless mice have had problems with um
particular not necessarily with, you know, left click doesn't register or
whatever else like that, but particularly with the execution of macros. So, instead of putting the macro
memory onto the mouse, which by the way is also one fewer thing to power on the
mouse, so that's where you get that extended battery life. Macro memory has
now been integrated here. So, show me how you can switch between the variety
of different profiles that can be stored on the base station. Another advantage
of the base station, while you guys watch the interface here, is the fact
that it sits very close to the mouse as opposed to being plugged into the front
of your tower or into the back of your case, meaning it's less likely to have
any interference. And because it's closer, you're going to have faster data
transmission. It uses a 6500 DPI twin eye laser sensor, and you can set up, I
believe it's up to five profiles. Is that correct? Yep. I'm getting the Okay.
Now, we've got um the AIA Osmium
keyboard. So, this has been updated. You've got five different profiles here.
And what's cool is you've got a multiolor light here, so you can tell which profile you're in. You've also got
dedicated scroll wheels for brightness, which has very fine granularity to the
adjustments that you can make. You can click it and turn it off. So, it's actually it's actually just a mouse
wheel. Very, very cool. As well as a volume wheel, media keys that are
accessible with a function functionality, and check this out. We
are not limited to just one key switch type anymore. These are Cherry MX
Browns. If you guys have been watching Linus Tech Tips a long time, you'll know these are my personal favorite key
switches. So, I am more than thrilled to see that being applied to Gigabytes
keyboard lineup. Also, it has a nice wide wrist rest. And personally, I don't
really like it, but my wife refuses to use anything but her Steel Series 7G
because of the large angled wrist rest. So for people out there who want that,
now you have another option that isn't Cherry MX Black with what is quite
frankly a fairly dated feature set that doesn't include LED backlighting or any
of those kinds of bells and whistles. Don't miss any of our Computex 2013
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