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as well as hyperx now this might not really look like anything new this is a
Gigabyte brics s so I think the S is for storage or something like that cuz it
supports an MSA drive as well as a 2 and 1 half in hard drive or SSD but what's
special here is what's going on under the hood this is one of the first
systems available featuring an Intel Broadwell CPU so that is a 14 NM CPU
giving us effectively well the word on the street is around a 20% Improvement
in performance on both the CPU and the
GPU so as much power and as impressive as it was that Gigabyte was able to
stick into a little tiny box like this before it gets even better now we
haven't seen updates yet to oh I can't grab that one because it's bolted to the
table doesn't mean I won't try but we haven't seen updates to the bricks
gaming yet but I wouldn't be surprised if we see that coming very very
soon yeah I wasn't doing a very good impression of drinking from this thing I
I don't know who's touched I don't actually want to put it against my mouth but along the lines of bricks they've
got another demo here that might not be anything new in terms of Hardware this
is the same bricks gaming that we actually reviewed a while back ago a
while back ago with the GTX 760 and a
fourth generation core series processor in it but the point they're trying to
make here is that bricks isn't just necessarily about gaming and it's not
just just necessarily about the absolute smallest you know most compact but maybe
not most powerful PC it's about sometimes finding a balance between the
two so there showing it off in use as more of a more of a workstation where
some 3D modeling is being done and then translated to this 3D printer over here
from Orion that was used to print out this cup which U and I believe it
apparently took absolutely forever as well as some other cool knickknacks
right here but while bricks is cool and you know you throw a little bit of
memory throw a drive in there and you're like ready to rock with your full PC um
some people demand a little bit more and Gigabyte is addressing those people who
need a very powerful workstation with modern functionality that Mac users have
been enjoying for quite some time but that for the PC guys has been a little
bit harder to obtain so right here they have their G1 gaming x99 motherboard
this is one of their highest end motherboards like ever and they've got
it running with you know a standard you know G1 gaming gtx980 graphics card but
wait what's this over here this is a Thunderbolt display that is actually
running not only the display signal over a Thunderbolt cable but then it is
actually Daisy chained to a handful of Thunderbolt enabled peripherals over
here well how did they do that because Thunderbolt inherently doesn't carry a
display signal you need DisplayPort built in well they've got a little
dongle little PCI bracket thing that you're going to be able to use with
Gigabyte motherboards that should be available sometime in the first quarter of 2015 that will enable you to take
DisplayPort out of your graphics card into this adapter and then Thunderbolt
out from your PC into up to six connected devices including a monitor
all Daisy chained together so here they've got an LG
3495 running as well as an ultra Studio
4K from Blackmagic and a couple of the C external storage devices so uh speaking
of external storage devices you'll need to externally store all the Gratitude
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