Sure, it may be the purview of extreme PC modders and the kind of anal-retentive person that needs to know his RGB keyboard lights up to colour match his RAM, but we’re at Computex. This is where those people live. Newly released from Bastillix is DDR4 RAM with customisable LEDs. The LED lights are controlled …
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Star Trek fans, rejoice. Soon you could be spending your time inside your very own holodeck — as an animated torso. Taking a brief step away from GPU spec talk, Nvidia on Tuesday showed off a live demo of its new Project Holodeck VR tech at Computex in Taiwan, Taipei. It’s a virtual world, created through HTC’s Vive headset, that …
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AMD’s new 16-core Ryzen Threadripper CPU is all set to take on Intel’s 18-core Core i9 in high-end desktops. Making the announcements on Wednesday in Taipei at its Computex press event, the company said the new CPUs would be shipping in summer 2017. It’s not the first time AMD’s debuted multicore chips though — earlier models like the Ryzen 7 featured up …
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I’ve seen plenty of case mods in my career covering tech, but this spinning case is pretty much the best I’ve come across. Made by “Modder Crow” from Thailand, the Wheel of Star took first place at CoolerMaster’s Case Mod World Series 2017 and it’s hard not to see why. The inner components are hidden carefully behind the design, but …
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On the show floor of Computex 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan, I was distracted by flashing lights and magnets. I’m only human. The source of the luminous nerd catnip was the Allocacoc booth, a Netherlands-based design firm, showing off a wide range of… well, the best word for the varied products is a non-descript “stuff”. They were showing off stuff, ranging …
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Now playing: Watch this: Asus finds its Zen with the world’s thinnest convertible… 1:04 There wasn’t a new ZenFone to be seen at Computex and it feels deliberate. Instead of launching a new phone like last year at one of the biggest PC-focused events in the region, the Taiwanese manufacturer is going back to its roots with a launch of …
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In an arena where milliseconds matter, MSI is making a play for gamers at the bleeding edge of competition. The Taiwanese gaming company took to the stage at Computex 2017 in Taipei amid blaring techno music to announce new laptops encased in sports car-inspired chassis. That’s apt, because we’re not on a frontier where astronauts forge out into a cosmos, …
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According to Nvidia, the age of Moore’s Law is coming to an end. The solution? We don’t just need to get smaller, we need to get smarter. Nvidia took to the stage at Computex in Taipei today, talking up the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning, all powered by its GPU computing technology and what it’s calling the Isaac …
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Computex is kicking off once again in Taipei, Taiwan, and CNET is on the ground, braving the humidity, ready to bring you all the big news. Unlike CES in Las Vegas, which catches the whole tech industry in its massive net, or next month’s E3, which zeroes in on gaming for three days in LA, Computex is all about PCs …
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We first got a glimpse of the Nitro 5 at the Acer press conference last month, and Acer is leaning heavy on “modern titles at a mainstream price.” Designed in different configurations to hit a variety of needs for casual gamers, the Nitro 5 will start at $799 in July (converting to around AU$1,075 or £615). Working to give you …
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