Gigabyte External Graphics Card, Dual Thunderbolt 2 Motherboard & MORE! - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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Digital we're here in gigabytes showcase where there happens to be an
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overclocking event going on over there but the thing that I'm actually
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interested in is right here now guys this is as prototype as prototype can be
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it doesn't even have a name they're just calling it bricks gaming and expander
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card and this is clearly not a card it also has like mini SAS HD cables
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connecting one of their bricks Pro uh little tiny PCS to this massive external
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box so this is just like frankensteined together it's totally like it it
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probably won't even use these cables it might even use Thunderbolt or USB 3 or
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something like that but what this is you guys is an external box that allows you
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to expand the graphics capability of
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whatever machine you happen to connect it to now they're planning to hopefully
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bring something thing more finished to computex but right now there's a bunch
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of different ideas so number one is this mini SAS connectivity that has this PC
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which is otherwise running an AMD Radeon
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8550g it has it running a GTX Titan all
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right so I'm going to let that sink in for a moment GTX Titan now obviously you
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need the special connector right now they're also looking at other Solutions
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like this is a regular desktop and they're thinking maybe you could add
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like a PCI Express 16x card that goes out to
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a box that maybe supports more than one GPU like right now these ones if you
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have a have a look at the end here have a single GTX Titan graphics card in them
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and that is it but the power supply in here is actually 600 watts in this
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prototype so it could potentially support two cards in SLI or we could be
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looking at expansion for other things maybe high-end video capture cards or
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whatever else the case may be and it could could get to the point okay guys
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where you have your Ultrabook you carry that around with you sit down at home
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you got a core i7 inside it or whatever really decent CPU you plug it into your
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bricks whatever they call this thing and all of a sudden you have a fully fledged
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gaming rig running off of your notebook now probably a good third of
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gigabytes presence here is all about their bricks lineup so they have regular
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bricks they have bricks Pro and they have something that caught my fancy
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which is bricks Max this is a NZ
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solution SL server slash I don't even
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know what you want to call it but it has a Core5 4250 U inside and check this out
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you guys four 2 and 1/2 in hard drives
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in something that is small enough that I can hold it up with a couple of fingers
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so you've got gigabit Lan you've also got USB 3.0 HDMI out it's a fully
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functioning system that also happens to be able to support 4X 1 terabyte hard
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drives you can see there are individual hard drive activity LEDs on the front of
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the unit and I think it is pretty freaking cool looking it actually
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doesn't even run that hot they had it powered up just a moment ago now the
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regular bricks are sort of your your small compact machines and then bricks
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Pro actually comes in a variety of different configurations including ones
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with Intel processors AMD processors
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GeForce dedicated graphics radon dedicated graphics and of course one of
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the stars of the show which is the Iris pro model that they've got running both
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Battlefield 4 and 4K video playback here
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at the show just with onboard Graphics now of course Gigabyte's not all about
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systems and notebooks yes we do have an exciting new motherboard to show you
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guys here this is the G z87x ud7 th and
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the th is of course for threesome because this one will get you laid so
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fast that you no actually that's not what it's for it's for thunder bolt now
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Gigabyte has already had Thunderbolt motherboards in the past including ones
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with dual Thunderbolt ports just like this one has but what they've never
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shown us before is dual Thunderbolt 2 so
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each of these Thunderbolt ports is capable of 20 gbit per second just like
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the new Mac Pro except unlike the new Mac Pro you can throw a bunch of PCI
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Express cards in for expansion you've got highend onboard audio you've got
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built-in liquid cooling as well as air cooling so it's going to be well cooled
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regardless it's got all the V checkpoints you could possibly want as
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well as onboard buttons for overclocking and all those things that PC enthusiasts
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love now this one right here I actually don't know what that is in between those
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two PCI Express slots and they won't tell me but I'm sure given that they
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won't tell me that that's very very exciting closing out the Gigabyte Suite
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we have the not Gigabyte no this is a new brand a premium brand an orus brand
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this is the X7 notebook which is an extremely slim core i7 quad core not
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notebook with a glass trackpad fully backlit keyboard programmable macro keys
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on the side it also has dual GeForce GTX 765m 1080p non-tn panel and most
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importantly it doesn't run too hot and it doesn't run too heavy or too thick
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this is an extremely slim extremely cool
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gaming notebook we actually have a full unboxing an overview of it also
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available on the channel so you should definitely check that out but one thing
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we weren't able to do during that video was show that it can actually game at 4K
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so they've got a couple demos here one with it running at 4K one with it
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outputting over its two HDMI ports and its single DisplayPort port to three
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monitors running NVIDIA surround yes friends off a notebook it's running
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Batman Arkham Origins at 3x 1080p at
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normal details and the minimum FPS in The Benchmark built into the game was 44
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frames per second guys don't miss any of our CES 2014 coverage remember we are
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