MSI
MSI’s booth was busy as usual with lots of gaming laptops on display. This year they took a step further and introduced laptops designed for “content creators”. There were some mods on display but not many.
We saw some of their curved monitors at the booth, and on display were 3 curved gaming monitors linked up together. The Optix MAG27CQ offers 27-inch screen, 144Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, 1440p resolution and 178° wide viewing angle. It was quite an experience.
Next we have the world’s first ever “curved” chassis. Where do they get these ideas from? Anyway, it looks great for showcasing at exhibitions … but I’m not too sure about using it at home.
You can’t go anywhere without seeing X570 motherboards and here they had 3 on display. MPG X570 Gaming Pro Carbon wifi, X570 Gaming Edge wifi and X570 Gaming Plus. All come with PCIE 4.0 and integrated heatset/fan for the chipset.
We saw some models gaming on MSI’s laptop as well as testing out the “creator” laptops for streaming.
MSI have really taken off with their gaming laptops in recent years. Mention gaming laptops and the first brand that comes to mind is MSI. So this year of course, they came prepared with a top of gaming laptops on display, including their new range of “creator” laptops.
Apparently, this MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z is the world’s fastest RTX 2080 Ti … it comes with a super overclocked GPU running at 1770 MHz, advanced cooling solution, and an OLED dashboard.
Supermicro
Supermicro is renowned for making excellent server products and it’s they’re mainstay business, but in recent years they’ve gone in the consumer market with some of their gaming motherboards.
This facial recognition software by Cyberlink is called FaceMe uses their AI Facial Recognition Engine. The whole system is powered by a Supermicro motheboard showing off its workstation capabilities.
Notice all the Thermaltake products on these Supermicro systems … well, they informed me that they’ve recently teamed up with Thermaltake and over the next few months, they will be shipping complete workstations, high-end AI systems and gaming systems using Thermaltake chassis, watercooling solutions and power supplies … nice!
This is one of Supermicro’s flagship board for the high-end/workstation market. It’s the X11SPA-TF motherboard featuring the Intel C621 chipset with 7 x PCIE slots (4 x16 and 3 x8), and 12 DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 3TB 3DS ECC RDIMM, DDR4-2933MHz.
There were also other motherboards on display including their Z390 range of gaming/workstation boards and of course their other server boards from mini-ITX all the way to E-ATX.
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