CONTRAST RATIO FOR displays is one of the most over hyped features these days. Most manufacturers use what is known as dynamic contrast ratio which is anything but an accurate figure of the actual contrast ratio of your display. However, AU Optronics was showing off some interesting high contrast displays at Display Taiwan earlier today that could be set to change the market.
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The first part of our tiny motherboards roundup had some unusual boards in it, but the second part won’t disappoint as it contains some gems of its own. With no further ado, let’s get on with it.
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THERMALTAKE HAD SEVERAL evolutionary cases, fans and docks at Computex, along with one really good new idea. If Thermaltake is a design trendsetter, and they usually are, look forward to cases with lots of HD docking bays. About time.
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WE FIGURED WE’D do a small roundup of some of the small form factor motherboards that we spotted at Computex to try and keep it all in one place so to say. We’ve got a few interesting boards to show, a few unusual boards and some we don’t quite get. This is the first of two where we take a closer look at some products from ASRock, DFI and Giada.
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IT’S TAKEN QUITE some time for Tegra powered devices to turn up in the market, although we spotted an unusual implementation by a company called Yuan High-Tech. The company in question mostly makes PC TV-tuners and surveillance solutions, but was displaying its A-Box mini at Computex which is pretty much a tiny Tegra powered computer.
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ENERMAX HAS TWO new lines on the market and a preview of an upcoming one. Enermax is now getting into server power supplies, and once again raising the bar on efficiency.
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IT LOOKS LIKE SemiAccurate’s sources were dead on last year when we said that DFI was leaving the consumer motherboard business. It is a sad thing to say, but at this year at Computex, the company had no consumer products to show off at all, only industrial PCs.
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PIXEL QI HAD some of their screens on display at Computex, and a chat with some of their engineers shed a lot of light on not just what they do but how. The screens may be made on the same tools as mainstream LCDs, but they are far from ordinary.
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ZOTAC QUICKLY GAINED a reputation for making unusual mini-ITX solutions and what was on show at this year’s Computex didn’t change that fact. What was shown behind closed doors is set to push things even further, at least as far as barebones are concerned.
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ONE PROBLEM WITH USB 3.0 is that, to date, there’s no common pin-header layout for internal USB 3.0 connectors, but it appears that ASRock and ECS have taken things into their own hands and have come up with a suitable solution. Interestingly the two companies appear to be using exactly the same type of connector, although we don’t know if the pin-out is the same.
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THE BEIGE BOX is anything but beige these days and recently there has been a huge trend to make all black cases, including the internals. However, it seems like a new trend is kicking off where case manufacturers are going for white rather than black. SilverStone’s new FT03 Fortress doesn’t go all white, but it’s definitely a case that’s flirting with the new trend.
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IT’S BEEN A LONG time coming, but Steve Jobs has announced the fourth generation iPhone at the WWDC 2010. Despite numerous leaks ahead of the launch, there seem to be very little that stopped Apple fans from cheering and clapping when the new handset was unveiled.
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ALTHOUGH WE EXPECTED to see a lot more SATA 6Gbps SSD drives at Computex, it seems like some manufacturers are holding off, waiting for new SSD controllers, before they launch their new products with SATA 6Gbps support. Nonetheless, AData was showing off a model based on the Marvell controller and it didn’t disappoint.
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YOU MIGHT REMEMBER the name Crestatech from last year’s IDF, they are making the first software defined radio. The big news from Computex is that they showed real silicon, real cards, and real software up and running on broadcast TV.
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WE MET UP with JMicron at Computex and although the company had a tiny booth at the show it was packed with people during our entire visit. JMicron is the first company to have a range of solutions for SDXC card readers, including support for USB 3.0. We ended up chatting with a very nice representative for the company who also spilled the beans on some upcoming products from JMicron.
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Although Intel has announced new high-end parts that are slated to launch later this year the i9-7900X is still Intel’s fastest desktop CPU to date.
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In this article we’ll look at the air cooled version of AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 64.
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Today we’ll be looking at AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 56 GPU.
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In this review we’ll be looking at AMD’s other Ryzen Threadripper chip the 1920X.
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