Gigabyte has pulled out the stops with its showcase of merchandise at Computex 2024 and we’ve bought palms on with the lot. Try our listing beneath of all of the merchandise we’ve previewed from one of many world’s main PC element producers.
A few of the highlights of Gigabyte‘s sales space embrace what we count on to be a number of the finest gaming screens you should buy, within the form of its Aorus OLED panels. You’ve additionally bought the newest Z800 and X800 motherboards for the new AMD and Intel CPUs, in addition to the corporate’s new AI TOP vary of parts that make it straightforward so that you can construct your individual dependable AI-training PC.
Aorus gaming screens
Gigabyte has seven new OLED gaming screens that it’s bringing to market this yr, within the form of the Aorus FO32U2P, the Aorus FO32U2, Aorus FO27Q3, Aorus FO27Q2, Aorus CO49DQ, MO34WQC, and MO34WQC2. All seven use the newest Samsung QD-OLED gaming panels, the the primary two being 32-inch fashions, the following two being 27-inch shows, then there’s a 49-incher and two 34-inch choices.
We had already had the prospect to check out the Aorus FO32U2P and MO34WQC at CES earlier this yr, so naturally we jumped on the likelihood to get our palms on the brand new 49-inch CO49DQ at Computex.
As we’ve usually discovered with these kinds of screens, you’ll be able to’t assist however be awed by the sheer dimension of this display mixed with its gorgeous picture high quality.
It might solely provide a 144Hz refresh charge, fairly than the 240Hz of some rivals, however our time testing with the panel confirmed as soon as once more that the ultrafast response time of OLED helps quite a bit to make up for any shortfall in refresh charge.
In the meantime, the stand has a V-shaped foot and gives peak modify, whereas the again has a easy matte black design. Not like some 49-inch OLED screens, this show retains it easy, which can also be why it’s priced at simply $899.
Xtreme Status motherboards and graphics playing cards
Xtreme Status is Gigabyte’s new extremely luxurious model of graphics playing cards and motherboards, which at the moment consists of the Z790 Aorus Xtreme X Ice motherboard and Aorus GeForce RTX 4080 Tremendous Xtreme Ice 16G graphics card.
As we reported after we first noticed the Xtreme Status motherboard leak and the Xtreme Status GPU launch, these components are festooned with all kinds of shiny bits and filled with high-end options. A few of the shininess comes from cast titanium, making a pearlescent, shimmering impact.
We had an in depth have a look at the Xtreme Status pair and located them to be simply as spectacular within the flesh as you’d hope, given their specs and worth. If you happen to’re in search of the final word incarnation of an RTX 4080 Tremendous or Z790 motherboard, they’re a stable gold wager (properly, gold-plated, partly).
Subsequent-gen motherboards
Gigabyte had a bunch of latest motherboards on show at Computex, together with its new AI TOP Threadripper board. Nonetheless, the stylistic spotlight – aside from the Xtreme Status board, in fact – was the world’s first white rear-cable motherboard.
The B650E AMD CPU motherboard is appropriately known as the Aorus Stealth Ice, with virtually your complete high floor of the board being lined in a white, pearlescent, and silvery shroud. It covers all of the spare PCIe slots, and all spherical the realm the place you’d usually anticipate finding all of the cable headers. What’s extra, as this board has bottom connectors, there aren’t any headers – they’re all on the again.
The board helps AMD’s present Ryzen 7000 and 8000 CPUs, together with processors from the upcoming Ryzen 9000 collection, and will probably be the right associate for a white PC construct.
One other spotlight is the Aorus Tachyon ICE, a brand new Intel motherboard that has a uncommon structure with the CPU socket turned 90 levels. Not solely that, however its DIMM slots run horizontally (with an ordinary case configuration) fairly than vertically.
What’s extra, there are simply two DIMM slots. The thought right here is that with DDR5 reminiscence having the ability to clock so excessive, and its capability already being very excessive, two slots are sufficient and, by lowering the variety of them, it’s simpler to optimize the board for peak overclocking. So, in the event you fancy making an attempt your hand at overclocking your new Intel CPU to a ridiculous degree, that is the board to get.
AI TOP
The ultimate overarching spotlight of Gigabyte’s choices is its new AI-optimized vary of PC parts. These have been designed to supply very high-end efficiency utilizing Threadripper CPUs and a number of graphics playing cards in a single PC. Nonetheless, as a substitute of utilizing conventional server-grade {hardware}, these parts are primarily based on extra reasonably priced shopper and workstation components however tweaked for further reliability.
There’s only one TRX50 motherboard on the second however there are three graphics playing cards, two M.2 SSDs, and a 1500W energy supplying the works. In actual fact, the RTX 4080 Tremendous graphics card it has designed for this vary is an absolute stunner. We want you possibly can purchase it as a standard consumer-grade card!
The online results of constructing a system out of those components ought to be AI-computing efficiency that far exceeds the built-in NPUs of upcoming CPUs, reminiscent of Intel Lunar Lake, and even that of typical single-graphics card PCs. Nonetheless, it’ll be rather more reasonably priced than devoted AI server package.
For extra of all the things we’ve seen at Computex 2024, take a look at our Computex story hub.
