Computex Blog: Day 3 - Autopilot
Posted By: Redmax
Considering that all of my official meetings had concluded I decided that I would just enjoy some of the various shows and see what was cool, and what sucked. I have to admit the EVGA show at the GSkill booth was by far one of the most interesting to watch. Today as part of a motherboard giveaway they issued a challenge to "finish the game". There was a 980X running at 6Ghz and to win all the person had to do was keep the processor cool (and warm) enough to finish a 3DMark 2006 run. After 7 or so failures you could see that they started to help the contestants and avoid the dreaded "Don't get crash"
The first stop was with Cooler Master, I needed to do a follow-up meeting on Day 3 to go over some site stuff and get a good look at the latest line of products, most of which were not on display in the main booth.
Here we have a new gaming mouse, slightly lower specs and lower price.
You don't see me talking much about Elitegroup (if at all) but I decided to stop by and see what they had on display. By the looks of it they are doing pretty well at getting some gaming style motherboards to the market and with the latest specs like USB3 and SATA6. The P55 board shown here comes with gold plated contacts in the PCIe and memory slots.
Thermalright is one of my favorite companies to visit since they tend to show some pretty amazing stuff each year. The system shown below was a demonstration on how well they can keep a GTX 480 cool with a minimum of noise. The card in this system had been running full load from show start to show end and never got above 66c.
Finally the booth babe shot of the day.
Here we have 3 of the lovely ADATA girls posing for a photo.
Throughout the day the ADATA girls do a live show that highlights some of the ADATA products and sales partner countries. With some luck they will start selling more items in the US.
Final day at Computex is next, stay tuned.
