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Digital we're here in gigabytes showcase where there happens to be an
overclocking event going on over there but the thing that I'm actually
interested in is right here now guys this is as prototype as prototype can be
it doesn't even have a name they're just calling it bricks gaming and expander
card and this is clearly not a card it also has like mini SAS HD cables
connecting one of their bricks Pro uh little tiny PCS to this massive external
box so this is just like frankensteined together it's totally like it it
probably won't even use these cables it might even use Thunderbolt or USB 3 or
something like that but what this is you guys is an external box that allows you
to expand the graphics capability of
whatever machine you happen to connect it to now they're planning to hopefully
bring something thing more finished to computex but right now there's a bunch
of different ideas so number one is this mini SAS connectivity that has this PC
which is otherwise running an AMD Radeon
8550g it has it running a GTX Titan all
right so I'm going to let that sink in for a moment GTX Titan now obviously you
need the special connector right now they're also looking at other Solutions
like this is a regular desktop and they're thinking maybe you could add
like a PCI Express 16x card that goes out to
a box that maybe supports more than one GPU like right now these ones if you
have a have a look at the end here have a single GTX Titan graphics card in them
and that is it but the power supply in here is actually 600 watts in this
prototype so it could potentially support two cards in SLI or we could be
looking at expansion for other things maybe high-end video capture cards or
whatever else the case may be and it could could get to the point okay guys
where you have your Ultrabook you carry that around with you sit down at home
you got a core i7 inside it or whatever really decent CPU you plug it into your
bricks whatever they call this thing and all of a sudden you have a fully fledged
gaming rig running off of your notebook now probably a good third of
gigabytes presence here is all about their bricks lineup so they have regular
bricks they have bricks Pro and they have something that caught my fancy
which is bricks Max this is a NZ
solution SL server slash I don't even
know what you want to call it but it has a Core5 4250 U inside and check this out
you guys four 2 and 1/2 in hard drives
in something that is small enough that I can hold it up with a couple of fingers
so you've got gigabit Lan you've also got USB 3.0 HDMI out it's a fully
functioning system that also happens to be able to support 4X 1 terabyte hard
drives you can see there are individual hard drive activity LEDs on the front of
the unit and I think it is pretty freaking cool looking it actually
doesn't even run that hot they had it powered up just a moment ago now the
regular bricks are sort of your your small compact machines and then bricks
Pro actually comes in a variety of different configurations including ones
with Intel processors AMD processors
GeForce dedicated graphics radon dedicated graphics and of course one of
the stars of the show which is the Iris pro model that they've got running both
Battlefield 4 and 4K video playback here
at the show just with onboard Graphics now of course Gigabyte's not all about
systems and notebooks yes we do have an exciting new motherboard to show you
guys here this is the G z87x ud7 th and
the th is of course for threesome because this one will get you laid so
fast that you no actually that's not what it's for it's for thunder bolt now
Gigabyte has already had Thunderbolt motherboards in the past including ones
with dual Thunderbolt ports just like this one has but what they've never
shown us before is dual Thunderbolt 2 so
each of these Thunderbolt ports is capable of 20 gbit per second just like
the new Mac Pro except unlike the new Mac Pro you can throw a bunch of PCI
Express cards in for expansion you've got highend onboard audio you've got
built-in liquid cooling as well as air cooling so it's going to be well cooled
regardless it's got all the V checkpoints you could possibly want as
well as onboard buttons for overclocking and all those things that PC enthusiasts
love now this one right here I actually don't know what that is in between those
two PCI Express slots and they won't tell me but I'm sure given that they
won't tell me that that's very very exciting closing out the Gigabyte Suite
we have the not Gigabyte no this is a new brand a premium brand an orus brand
this is the X7 notebook which is an extremely slim core i7 quad core not
notebook with a glass trackpad fully backlit keyboard programmable macro keys
on the side it also has dual GeForce GTX 765m 1080p non-tn panel and most
importantly it doesn't run too hot and it doesn't run too heavy or too thick
this is an extremely slim extremely cool
gaming notebook we actually have a full unboxing an overview of it also
available on the channel so you should definitely check that out but one thing
we weren't able to do during that video was show that it can actually game at 4K
so they've got a couple demos here one with it running at 4K one with it
outputting over its two HDMI ports and its single DisplayPort port to three
monitors running NVIDIA surround yes friends off a notebook it's running
Batman Arkham Origins at 3x 1080p at
normal details and the minimum FPS in The Benchmark built into the game was 44
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