Asus adds two more RGB LED motherboards to its Aura series
Like
moths to a flame, motherboard manufacturers just can't seem to resist
the allure of adding configurable RGB LEDs to their latest and greatest
products. At CES, Asus has added two new boards to the list of products
featuring the company's Aura lighting system: the Asus 970 Pro
Gaming/Aura and the Asus B150I Pro Gaming/Wi-Fi/Aura.
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Dell flaunts its Ultrasharp 30 4K OLED monitor at CES
This
morning, Dell unveiled its UltraSharp 30 UP3017Q, a 30" monitor with an
OLED panel. Geared toward image and media professionals, this 10-bit
monitor can display 1.07 billion colors. It covers 100% of the AdobeRGB
color space and even 97.8% of the DCI-P3 color space used for digital
cinema projectors.
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Griffin revamps its peripherals and chargers with USB Type-C
Griffin
Technologies is updating a number of their peripherals, accessories,
and cables for USB 3.1 Type-C. The company is also rolling out its
"Guaranteed For Life" program, promising to repair or replace any
product it makes that becomes unusable. That coverage will begin with
its USB Type-C products.
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Intel adds Core M power to Compute Sticks
Intel's
Compute Sticks
were already pretty impressive little machines in their own right, but
the company's now kicking things up a notch. A new line of Compute
Sticks get Skylake Core M CPUs, adding some respectable oomph to their
performance. An updated Cherry Trail Atom Compute Stick is now available
at the base of the lineup, too.
The Core M Sticks come with 4GB
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Asus unleashes three Republic of Gamers peripherals
Asus
has revealed three peripherals in its Republic of Gamers line at CES.
The first is the ROG Claymore gaming keyboard. It features Cherry MX RGB
mechanical switches, n-key rollover, and macro programming. The
keyboard is backlit, and can be synced to ROG motherboards to give users
hotkey control over fan speeds, boot up, overclocking, and BIOS access.
The most notable feature, however, is the detachable "macro-infused"
numpad.
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Thermaltake goes enormous with its Core W100 case
Sometimes,
we look at a case and wonder what the designers were thinking. That's
definitely not the case with Thermaltake's Core W100. The company's
designers were clearly wondering "can we fit a kitchen sink and bathtub
in this, or perhaps even a whole house?" Check out the company's
presentation video:
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Asus' Chromebook C202 is designed for the classroom
Google
has hoped that Chromebooks would be popular in education, and that certainly has been
the case. Asus is continuing this trend of classroom Chromebooks with the C202, a laptop designed for tough use and easy repair.
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Kingston reveals a flurry of SSDs, flash drives, and media streamers
Kingston announced several new products today, two of them designed for enterprise applications. First up is the
KC400 solid-state drive,
the latest addition to the SSDNow family. Like all SSDs, the KC400 is
much faster than mechanical storage, but Kingston emphasizes reliability
more than raw speed for this drive. It features what the company calls
end-to-end path protection, and SmartRefresh technology purports to
limit read errors. Kingston also claims that the drive is able to
recover from unexpected loss of power.
The KC400 is run by a
Phison PS3110-S10 8-channel controller, and is available in 128GB,
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SanDisk refreshes its portable storage lineup at CES
SanDisk
is presenting a variety of storage products at CES this week. The first
is a new SSD in the company's portable series aimed at photographers
and videographers, called the Extreme 510 Portable SSD.
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Razer Blade Stealth can use an external graphics card for extra power
At
CES, Razer has unveiled an ultrabook-class laptop that can connect to
an external graphics card via Thunderbolt 3, using a nifty external
graphics enclosure called Core.
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Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller supports 3D NAND
Silicon Motion's flash controllers have been a popular choice for manufacturers of solid-state drives, like Crucial's budget
BX100.
Today, Silicon Motion announced a new SATA SSD controller—the
SM2246EN—that will support 3D NAND flash chips from multiple vendors.
Potentially,
this controller could enable cheaper and larger SSDs in the coming
year. The updated controller could also accelerate the transition to
larger drives. Silicon Motion indicates that the controller can support
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Oculus Rift gets a $600 price tag as preorders begin
The
day is finally here when one can pre-order Oculus' production Rift
hardware, and it'll run buyers $599.99. If that price tag doesn't deter
you,
the pre-order page is live now.
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AOC joins the CES monitor party with big FreeSync displays
The
CES monitor party is still under way, and AOC just showed up. The
Taiwanese manufacturer is showing off a couple of its fancy displays,
both in large sizes.
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Thermaltake presents a new DIY water cooling kit
Closed-loop
liquid cooling systems might be convenient, but some enthusiasts prefer
the customizability and performance of custom kits. Thermaltake's new
Pacific R360 D5 water cooling kit provides everything builders need to cool their CPUs in one box.
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PowerVR Series7XT Plus GPUs give mobile visual computing a boost
Imagination Technologies is announcing
two new high-end mobile graphics processing units
today in its PowerVR Series7XT portfolio. These designs—the GT7200 Plus
and the GT7400 Plus—add integer pipelines and OpenCL 2.0 support to the
GT7200 and GT7400 graphics processors. Those features purportedly make
the Plus GPUs especially well-suited to tasks like computer vision,
computational photography, and deep learning applications on mobile
devices.
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