in Gigabyte Suite the emphasis is on different uses for Thunderbolt now we've
been able to do storage for a while and you know you can talk about storage all
day but now let's talk about something different so the z77x P5 th is the
world's only dual Thunderbolt motherboard has two Thunderbolts built
Thunderbolt ports built right into the back of it and what I'd like you guys to
notice first about this demo system is the fact that there is no video card in
it so we are outputting to four 1080p displays as a bit of a 4K simulation if
you will over here on the left from the
onboard Graphics so this is native 4K
content that you can see here and we're using a couple of adapters so we can
take those Min Thunderbolts remember guys the Thunderbolt connector does
carry a DisplayPort signal and we can split it out to multiple display ports
in order to achieve this kind of a huge resolution so the reason for this
solution with the ergotron stand and four DisplayPort monitors is right now
it's pretty hard to get your hands on a 4K display but it proves the point of
what it is capable of doing in the near future now Thunderbolt again like I said
not just about storage anymore check this out so this is the Blackmagic
design I believe it is the ultra Studio Express and this guy is a Thunderbolt
capture card so you're able to actually capture footage on your notebook or your
desktop that's equipped with a Thunderbolt Port it is PC compatible not
just Mac so it's not limited to just the Apple users anymore and this is
something that Diesel's very excited about he's actually had this camera on pre-order for months now this is black
Magic's new Cinema Camera it is a 2.5k
camera and again it does not use Thunderbolt but it does use DisplayPort
out so that's one of the other reasons they've had it on demo
here now diesel clarified a point for me and that is that it comes with thousand
software just for Scopes and it can actually output scope and waveform data
so I was a little bit incorrect there this is a Thunderbolt Port you can see
it's clearly labeled Thunderbolt and I got a little confused cuz I found out
the port is for monitoring only however it does not just output display data
which is what makes it not just DisplayPort it is capable of daisy chaining and
it is outputting some additional data as well now with some of the improvements
Intel's made in terms of thermals and power efficiency over the last few years
we've seen a huge number of solutions
that are allowing us to shrink performance Computing down to smaller
and smaller sizes this is a regular miniitx board this is a z77 board with a
PCI e6x slot and it's now capable of running a very powerful gaming machine
the only thing you can't do on a board this size it seems these days is run
dual Graphics however not content to leave it at that Intel has and Gigabyte
has implemented a new standard so this is a thin Mini ITX they've got a couple
of boards b75 as well as h77 so the b75
is obviously more business oriented we're going to focus on that one they're
pretty much the same layout so it's just a chipset change and what this is is it
is a well thinner version of mini ITX so
it's got the same mounting holes but you can see the io plate is much much
flatter and there's a very good reason for that it is meant for all-in-one
do-it-yourself so you can build your own all-in-one PC now Gigabyte has a couple
of unique implementations here so number one is we're using sodium so that's part
of the spec you can see there's built-in power so power comes in from the back
from a from a power brick as opposed to using a normal power supply with a fan
that we're used to seeing for a desktop PC they've also got mini PCIe for your
wireless card as well as m data so you'll have the option of either using
an SSD mount in the all-in-one enclosure or you can throw an MSA SSD on there
maybe use it for caching and you throw a hard drive in uh there's a PCI e4x slot
now I don't expect you to be able to use that with a card sticking out of it
because I'm going to show you guys what it looks like once it's in the AO but
there are PCI Express extension cables so if someone implemented an AIO where
you could actually run a graphics card that would be pretty cool so I'm going to turn this around you guys probably
had no idea that this isn't a fully built computer already this well it is a
fully built computer already was a custom fully built computer so there are
several manufacturers launching these DIY capable all-in ones they come with
the thermal solution they come with the power brick that you need because this
is all standardized for this thin Mini ITX uh configuration you can see there's
a Kingston MSA card here there's a PCI
mini PCI Express wireless card got some memory going and one of the most notable
things about this is the fact that no matter what the machine is doing these
heat pipes stay quite cool we saw a demo before the video actually started where
they were running some intensive programs and these are barely warm to
the touch now like I said before you don't have to stick with MSA they do
also have as part of the standard the ability to mount drives in it so you can
see you can throw a three and a half inch drive there and this particular
model right here and I would expect most of them now that uh Windows 8 is past is
well not past but is the present and the future is multi touch ready so you can
actually here if we go and fire up Ms paint which should be around here
somewhere oh that's notepad that's okay
we can find paint we're good at this we've done this before and swiping and
paint okay I'm going to need my my lovely assistant to come in here and
sort of use her five fingers so that we can show that it is accepting 10 inputs
all at the same time and of course there's some
evolution to the desktop boards now because Intel or AMD are not launching
any new chipsets or any new CPUs here at CES we don't have a whole refresh or
anything like that but Gigabyte is introducing the HD Series so these are
z77 boards that are aimed at the value segment and what's different about these
compared to other boards is the fact that they're coming in at very aggressive price points and they do
feature DisplayPort hence the HD designation so you don't have some of
the bells and whistles like you know 16 phase power or your four-way SLI
capability or any of that stuff but if you're looking to build a basic machine
it's still got USB 3 it's a actually Four ports of USB 3 that's part of the
z77 spec it's still Crossfire ready it does support dual graphics and you've
got DisplayPort out on board so it means you can take advantage of the
features of z77 without sort of going
over the top in terms of the price and in terms of the expense of manufacturing
so obviously if you're going to bring a motherboard to Market at a lower price
it has to Cost Less to manufacturer so that is why they've gone for something
like the Slimmer motherboard design so you can see you can save a little bit on
the PCB right here but it still does require a standard ATX case to install
we've seen this many times in the past on value oriented boards don't miss any
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tips North American customers might not be as familiar with them as some other
territories but Gigabyte also has a variety of Notebook tablet and
all-in-one Solutions on display here at the show so we have a Windows 8 tablet
with a celon processor that actually has a dock that allows you to add an optical
drive as well as additional expansion they have a convertible Ultra Book so
this guy rotates around and becomes a tablet should you see fit they've also
got this is a fairly unique solution so this is a magnetic dock as well as a
stand that pops out of the back of this particular tablet to make it more like
uh you know more competitive with something like Microsoft Surface they've
also got a couple more displays on here so this this is just another Ultra Book
and sort of a more performance oriented looking gaming machine here in in a
matte black finish this has a GTX 660m
so it's going to be quite powerful and actually not as thin as some of the
other notebooks that we've seen with maybe a GTX 670 or 680 so that's a
compromise that you have to decide if you're willing to make now behind me
over here we've got their new lineup of all-in ones so these are fully compliant
with the Windows 8 experience and what you might notice about these ones is the
fact that there is absolutely no Gigabyte branding on them whatsoever so
these are intended for the white box Market which refers to sort of a
distributor or a system integrator or a retailer who wants to develop their own
all-in-one and do their own branding behind it so gigabytes basically
providing the motherboard the chassis itself and the screen itself and there's
no there isn't going to be a Gigabyte name on it so what you might want to
make a habit of doing is well not too much okay not make a habit of but check
these out sort of look at the industrial design of them and if you see something
that looks like these particular models here you'll know who actually built it
which I mean might give you more confidence in the case of you're going okay look well this is a fairly
inexpensive AO do I trust this thing or not who made this at least you'll know
that it was actually manufactured by Gigabyte with their expertise so don't
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Linus Tech tips quite honestly we missed this one our first time around because
it looked like a normal 24in all-in-one
it sort of from the front there's like you know a webcam and a bezel and sort
of nothing that seems out of the ordinary but then when you get around to
the back you find a 2 and 1/2 in expansion Drive slot so that means you
can quickly and easily expand the storage of the device and uh Diesel and
I are going to switch places over here I'd like him to come check out this side
of the unit where the real magic happens so it's actually not that thick but
check that out at the bottom you can install a full-sized graphics card in
this all-in-one PC the uh the example that they've had running so internally
they've had running as high as a GTX
680 off of this machine so you actually
have the capability now of taking the all-in-one form factor I'll be it a
little bit thicker and having what would essentially be a full-size gaming
desktop performance out of it