Computex 2006 – Part 2

Computex is full underway now, so there is a larger roundup today.

Hexus has a massive round-up of Day 0 and 1, so get your reading glasses on.

• New memory from OCZ, super fast and looking slick
• Do more with a Toshiba hard drive… in your phone!
• The Toshiba Portege R200… it’s a lightweight!
• K-PEX, Kingston’s portable media player
• Come and finger OCZ’s Biometric USB Stick
• Broadwater running packed with Kingston memory
• GeForce 7900 GT and GTX mini-roundup: eVGA and XFX
• Foxconn hold love-in with favourite platform bedfellows
• FSP Group join the kilowatt club
• Foxconn show off GeForce 7950 GX2 SLI
• ATI demo Havok FX physics acceleration on Radeon GPUs
• The iPod Nano-killer is here?
• Jet turbine drives airflow in XClio chassis
• Albatron’s passively-cooled card is just the ticket..
• A-DATA’s new gadgets. Fancy a solar-powered USB stick?

techPowerUp! has a few roundups of their own. They are visiting all the interesting booths and relaying the new products to you.

Zalman had an awesome HTPC on display. It comes with an integrated 7″ touchscreen TFT. The display has a native resolution of 1024×768 which makes everything crystal clear. A more affordable version of that case comes without LCD screen but is low-profile and takes up to six harddisks. The cooling products have been improved as well. Here we see coolers for AM2 and a new Fatal1ty VGA cooler.

Scythe, Thermalright, Topower, Zalman

E3 is not the only conference with booth babes! NGOHQ has a few pictures of some of the babes on the showfloor, and even insults Toms Hardware in the process.

The people are friendly, and Computex has finally started today. Just in time, as our patience has finally reached its limit. Many looked forward to it, and others worked really hard to make it happen. Computex is not just about hardware and technology, its also about meeting people, and if your lucky, attending parties. In our area, we know a lot of people, and have met friends from the internet that we have been working with for years.

AnandTech also has many interesting things to share with us. How do Core 2 X6800 benchmarks sound? For the first time we’ve seen from any Core 2 chip, it completely obliterates the FX-62 in gaming benchmarks. It’s not a small margin either. In some of the tests, improvements with the X6800 improved game performance from 25% – 50%! This is really a chip worthy of drooling over.

Did you know that DX10 GPU’s will require 300W? Neither did I. Either way, it didn’t stop companies from getting a head start on new power supplies, like this one from OCZ. It’s an internal PSU that sits in a drive bay, but is used only to provide power to your GPU/s.

Toms Hardware has a slew of coverage also, including first thoughts on Intels NAND technology. This tech has a simple immediate benefit for PC users… boot time cut in half! It should also improve everyday computing by a significant amount. I can’t wait to learn more on the tech. On the same page, they also delve into ATI’s physics, and also have a video interview with ATI themselves.

HardwareZone has a lot of coverage also, and great pictures to coincide. There are a many pictures of Core 2 motherboards, if you want to check out what you will be using in the near future. TheTechZone touches up on ATI’s physic technology, and has even included a video of it in action.

More computex coverage from around the web as the days pass..