Computex 2010 Show Coverage - Part 1
We trawled the halls of Nangang and in this segment, we bring you highlights from AMD, Albatron, AOpen, Biostar, Genius, Mio, PowerColor, SanDisk, Sapphire, Thermalright and Triplex.
AMD's Booth
AMD took the chance to push forth their "Vision" initiative, a system of categorizing systems according to needs and purpose instead of raw specifications.
This MSI AIO system, for example, is ideal for web browsing, E-mail, photo vieiwing, watching HD videos, music and light content creation. As you can see, Vision makes do without raw system specifications.
While the MSI AIO is a basic system, these here are categorized under the Vision Black label, which means they are equipped with Black Edition processors. These are high-end machines for gamers and enthusiasts.
AMD also showcased a wide range of Series 8 motherboards by their partners.
ATI's Evergreen family of graphics cards were on show too.
A card that caught our eye was this customized Radeon HD 5970 by Sapphire, which features a triple fan cooler from Artic Cooling.
Here's an Eyefinity triple monitor setup.
This is an external graphics processor - XGP. With it, even a little Acer Ferrari One netbook is capable of driving up to three monitors simultaneously.
Albatron's Booth
Albatron's booth was a healthy mixture of multi-touch displays, motherboards, graphics cards and memory.
Albatron's speciality is displays, and this is a 42-inch multi-touch display, which can be use for home or commercial purposes.
This is a smaller 21.5-inch multi-touch display.
Albatron does graphics cards too, but they are mostly reference design ones. Both ATI and NVIDIA are represented.
Albatron offers loads of memory too, in both DDR2 and DDR3 formats and in a variety of speeds.
AOpen's Booth
AOpen's booth had some interesting SFF systems and a no-glasses 3D display.
This GP7A SFF system supports Intel's Penryn Core 2 Duo processor and comes with integrated GeForce 9300 graphics.
The funky-looking G3 is a micro-ATX gaming chassis.
This is a 42-inch "auto 3D display", which means no glasses are needed to enjoy 3D effects. The experience was odd and somewhat disorientating.
Biostar's Booth
Biostar showed off their latest motherboards and graphics cards.
Biostar's latest range of AMD Series 8 motherboards were on display.
Biostar's extensive range of Intel motherboards were on show too, ranging from the old G31 to the newer X58 chipset.
A card that caught our eye was this TH67XE, which is based on the new H67 chipset designed specially for the yet to be released Sandy Bridge processors. Naturally, the new boards also support USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps.
This board is based on the H67 chipset, also designed for the new Sandy Bridge processors, and comes in a micro-ATX form factor.
Biostar's lineup of ATI graphics solutions were also proudly on display.
Not to be left out are their NVIDIA-based graphics cards.
There was also an overclocking demonstration using liquid nitrogen.
Genius' Booth
Genius had a wide range of products on show, ranging from gaming peripherals to keyboards and even writing tablets.
Genius showed off a wide range of keyboards.
Popular for their inexpensive mouse, there was also a huge selection of computer mice.
There was also a wide range of gaming peripherals, from speaker systems to joysticks and even driving wheels.
Genius also has writing tablets at the show.
This is the MousePen M508. It has measure 5 by 8 inches and features a high 4000 DPI resolution and 1024 levels of sensitivity.
This is the MousePen M508W. It differs by offering 2.4GHz wireless connectivity.
Mio's Booth
Mio had some new navigational devices to show us.
The S600 series is a 5-inch PND that offers navigation, real-time weather and traffic information and features a quick capture button that quickly records places.
The Moov V780 is almost a full-fledged tablet PC. Besides navigation, it even plays HD videos (up to 720p), and has WiFi, WiMax and 3G connectivity. That aside, even has a built-in Flash-capable browser, web mail support for Microsoft Exchange and also Gmail.
PowerColor's Booth
PowerColor had some really interesting graphics cards to show us, so read on.
In the works is the Radeon HD 5770 Evo, a card that will feature a Hydra chip that will allow it to be used in multi-GPU configurations with any graphics card - even NVIDIA ones!
Another interesting card we saw was the Radeon HD 5770 Sniper. A graphics card that combines a network card into one.
Yet another interesting card is this super compact Radeon HD 5570 Slim, ideal for HTPC systems.
PowerColor is also working on something they call Vortex, which is essentially a cooler with a height-adjustable fan.
Also seen was PowerColor's current lineup of customized graphics cards.
SanDisk's Booth
SanDisk's booth was all about storage, storage and more storage.
At the show, SanDisk announced the launch of their new P4 SSD and here is an Acer notebook that uses said SDD drive.
SanDisk's microSATA SSD drives are incredibly tiny.
This is SanDisk's lineup of SSD drives.
Sapphire's Booth
We paid a visit to Sapphire to see what new ATI cards they have up their sleeves.
Naturally, Sapphire had to show off their entire range of ATI graphics cards.
The triple fan Sapphire HD 5970 Toxic Edition caught our eye. It comes with a massive 4GB framebuffer and it factory-overclocked at 900MHz at the core and 4800MHz DDR at the memory.
Sapphire also showed off Eyefinity in 3D. To achieve this, we were told that the system was running using special iZ3D drivers.
Thermalright's Booth
Thermalright had a lot of radically-design heatsinks and cooling solutions on display.
This insane looking setup actually consists of a GeForce GTX 480 graphics card. How effective is it? Look at the results below.
Running the super intensive FurMark benchmark, the GTX 480 card recorded a maximum operating temperature of only 62 degrees Celsius! A reference design card would manage around 90 degrees Celsius, so this is a tremendous improvement.
Having you seen a CPU cooler that is as strange looking as this?
Yet another one of Thermalright's wacky cooling setups.
Triplex's Booth
Triplex's booth had some interesting ATI graphics cards.
One of the interesting cards on show was this single slot Radeon HD 5830. Ideal for cramped casings.
This is a single slot Radeon HD 5770. We really dig the off-white colored cooler.
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