Tiny PCs Get More Powerful than Ever & X99 Thunderbolt 2 - CES 2015
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·2015-05-07
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as well as hyperx now this might not really look like anything new this is a
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Gigabyte brics s so I think the S is for storage or something like that cuz it
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supports an MSA drive as well as a 2 and 1 half in hard drive or SSD but what's
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special here is what's going on under the hood this is one of the first
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systems available featuring an Intel Broadwell CPU so that is a 14 NM CPU
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giving us effectively well the word on the street is around a 20% Improvement
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in performance on both the CPU and the
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GPU so as much power and as impressive as it was that Gigabyte was able to
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stick into a little tiny box like this before it gets even better now we
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haven't seen updates yet to oh I can't grab that one because it's bolted to the
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table doesn't mean I won't try but we haven't seen updates to the bricks
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gaming yet but I wouldn't be surprised if we see that coming very very
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soon yeah I wasn't doing a very good impression of drinking from this thing I
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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
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got another demo here that might not be anything new in terms of Hardware this
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is the same bricks gaming that we actually reviewed a while back ago a
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while back ago with the GTX 760 and a
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fourth generation core series processor in it but the point they're trying to
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make here is that bricks isn't just necessarily about gaming and it's not
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just just necessarily about the absolute smallest you know most compact but maybe
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not most powerful PC it's about sometimes finding a balance between the
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two so there showing it off in use as more of a more of a workstation where
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some 3D modeling is being done and then translated to this 3D printer over here
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from Orion that was used to print out this cup which U and I believe it
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apparently took absolutely forever as well as some other cool knickknacks
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right here but while bricks is cool and you know you throw a little bit of
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memory throw a drive in there and you're like ready to rock with your full PC um
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some people demand a little bit more and Gigabyte is addressing those people who
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need a very powerful workstation with modern functionality that Mac users have
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been enjoying for quite some time but that for the PC guys has been a little
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bit harder to obtain so right here they have their G1 gaming x99 motherboard
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this is one of their highest end motherboards like ever and they've got
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it running with you know a standard you know G1 gaming gtx980 graphics card but
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wait what's this over here this is a Thunderbolt display that is actually
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running not only the display signal over a Thunderbolt cable but then it is
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actually Daisy chained to a handful of Thunderbolt enabled peripherals over
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here well how did they do that because Thunderbolt inherently doesn't carry a
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display signal you need DisplayPort built in well they've got a little
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dongle little PCI bracket thing that you're going to be able to use with
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Gigabyte motherboards that should be available sometime in the first quarter of 2015 that will enable you to take
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DisplayPort out of your graphics card into this adapter and then Thunderbolt
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out from your PC into up to six connected devices including a monitor
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all Daisy chained together so here they've got an LG
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3495 running as well as an ultra Studio
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4K from Blackmagic and a couple of the C external storage devices so uh speaking
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of external storage devices you'll need to externally store all the Gratitude
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you'll have for me telling you about Phantom glass wow worst segue ever so
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more about that and to get one for yourself today also in the video
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description is a link to hyperx's YouTube channel they're one of our other
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sponsors here at the show it's youtube.com/ hyperx they got a lot of
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great gaming content over there be sure to check that out and also make sure
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