Gigabyte Windforce Titan & Aivia Uranium Wireless Gaming Mouse - Computex 2013
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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the uh of the liquid cooling hybrid solution that's uh that you can hook up
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on these boards. This is the allnew Windforce cooler that
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takes advantage of a composite of a couple of different heatpipe
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technologies. So, it has like a textured inside as well as micro grooves that
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allow it to more easily take the cooled
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liquid and then move it back to the GPU where it needs to be heated up and then
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evaporated again. I mean, that's the basic principle of how heat pipes work.
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What this allows Gigabyte to do is between those high performance heat
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pipes. Check how thick those ones are. Between those high performance heat
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pipes and the overall mass of the cooler, they are able to build coolers
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for the GTX 770, 780, and Titan that are
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capable of dissipating 450 watts within
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what is still a two slot profile. Now,
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hold on a minute. Is that what what's going on here? Is that an aftermarket
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cooled Titan? 6 gig 6 gigs of memory
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aftermarket cooling. No one's allowed to do that. Gigabyte is going to be
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releasing this as a bundle. So, you'll
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actually get it with a stock Titan cooler on it, instructions, and a
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Windforce cooler so that you can swap out the cooler on your own, giving you
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the advantages that come with better GPU cooling, particularly with GPU Boost
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2.0. Now, GPU Boost 2.0 0 allows you to not only set up your overclocking
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profiles by power as well as by um clock
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speed and voltage, but also by temperature. So, when you have a lower
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temperature on your card, you are going to actually legitimately get better
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performance whether you're a hardcore overclocker or not, which hasn't been
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true necessarily with other graphics cards in the past. Now, they've got a
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practical demonstration of this, which I thought was pretty cool. The maximum
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temperature, well, recommended temperature from NVIDIA for a GK 1110 or
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GK 104 is around 95°. So, they've got a
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variety of different heat loads that you can apply to this elaborate setup here
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with the Windforce cooler on it. You can see our ambient temperature here, which
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is about 30 31°. You can see the heat
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load being applied to the Windforce cooler. And then you can see right here
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the temperature that it maintains the card at. So the TDPs of these cards are
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only actually 250 watts, but even applying in excess of 400 watts to this
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cooler, we are not breaking the highest we've seen it is around 80° and change a
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little above that. And that's in 31° ambience. Moving right along to gaming
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peripherals. This is where Diesel started geeking out. So this right here
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is the IVA uranium, which does a number of different things. So first of all
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here, actually, I'll get our lovely model to demo it in just a second. I'm going to steal it first. Sorry about
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that. On the bottom, check this out. I love this. My old MX700 had two AA
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batteries on the bottom. What's the advantage of AA? Well, number one, they're everywhere, so you never have to
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worry about not having a charge when something bad happens and your batteries
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die. Number two is they're high capacity. This thing runs for 50 hours
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continuously. So, if you actually manage to run out of battery life with this
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mouse in between charges, then you probably should go to sleep anyhow. But
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that's not it. So, it's wireless, but I would love for you to come in here.
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Sorry. And demo. What is special about this particular wireless implementation?
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So, how do you charge it? Okay, you charge it just with a simple micro USB.
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Cool thing about that is micro USB charges the mouse while you're using it.
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Or if you don't need to charge the mouse at the time you've got a micro USB handy
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on your desk, you can use it to charge your phone. Next up, okay, so the
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wireless implementation. In the past, wireless mice have had problems with um
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particular not necessarily with, you know, left click doesn't register or
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whatever else like that, but particularly with the execution of macros. So, instead of putting the macro
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memory onto the mouse, which by the way is also one fewer thing to power on the
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mouse, so that's where you get that extended battery life. Macro memory has
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now been integrated here. So, show me how you can switch between the variety
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of different profiles that can be stored on the base station. Another advantage
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of the base station, while you guys watch the interface here, is the fact
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that it sits very close to the mouse as opposed to being plugged into the front
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of your tower or into the back of your case, meaning it's less likely to have
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any interference. And because it's closer, you're going to have faster data
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transmission. It uses a 6500 DPI twin eye laser sensor, and you can set up, I
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believe it's up to five profiles. Is that correct? Yep. I'm getting the Okay.
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Now, we've got um the AIA Osmium
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keyboard. So, this has been updated. You've got five different profiles here.
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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
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dedicated scroll wheels for brightness, which has very fine granularity to the
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adjustments that you can make. You can click it and turn it off. So, it's actually it's actually just a mouse
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wheel. Very, very cool. As well as a volume wheel, media keys that are
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accessible with a function functionality, and check this out. We
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are not limited to just one key switch type anymore. These are Cherry MX
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Browns. If you guys have been watching Linus Tech Tips a long time, you'll know these are my personal favorite key
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switches. So, I am more than thrilled to see that being applied to Gigabytes
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keyboard lineup. Also, it has a nice wide wrist rest. And personally, I don't
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really like it, but my wife refuses to use anything but her Steel Series 7G
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because of the large angled wrist rest. So for people out there who want that,
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now you have another option that isn't Cherry MX Black with what is quite
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frankly a fairly dated feature set that doesn't include LED backlighting or any
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of those kinds of bells and whistles. Don't miss any of our Computex 2013
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