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Computex 2004 Day 3
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Wednesday, June 16, 2004
DFI Reprise
I posted a few photos of the DFI booth on Day 1 and I plum forgot to post the rest.
The new Lanparty 915P-T shown here is one of their new designs using the i915 chipset with PCI Express. It is interesting to note that DFI has migrated to using 4 phase power supplies with low profile capacitors from Japan. I guess they are the only ones that don't explode.
The Infinity series is now using black PCBs instead of the sexy red and encompasses a few other versions of popular DFI designs instead of mirroring what is found in the Lanparty series.
These last two motherboards are an i875P and i865PE that come with the new Intel 775 processor socket, I imagine that once the processor is released these motherboards will become very popular with the upgrading crowd on a budget.
DFI was very proud of their new line of 5.1 channel headphones. Now before you go off thinking my math is wrong the headphones are USB and contain a digital auto controller that powers 6 speakers found in the headphones. The demonstration didn't go into the details of the headphone design they work on the principle of distance, sound phase, and timing to give the illusion of 5-channel sound while only covering 2 ears.
The last photos are of the cases on display, I have never liked pre-modded cases for this very reason. I mean I know people are all about the windows but why make them look so ugly.
