The wild, weird, and powerful PC hardware of CES 2022 - schroederront1998

Don't be scared. It's only kickass gear

Forget the smart hairbrush. Disregard the vaporous electric car railcar. You can even base on balls past the in style TVs (though I have to confess, some are super-unfriendly). Like the last fewer Consumer Electronic Shows, CES 2017 has emerged as a fantastic pantheon of PC hardware—from the modish keen-bound silicon, to wild laptops, to outrageous desktop machines and cases. Get across on through to ascertain the gear that PCWorld's CES foot soldiers found most intriguing.

Razer's Project Valerie is a triple-display, 12K laptop computer

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This blurb can't cause Propose Valerie justice. You must watch our spectacular video of Razer's fan-bloody-amazing laptop, which features three 17-inch 4K G-Sync displays, two of which automatically slide out from the main display with the serve of robot blazon.

Project Valerie is still just a project—an R&D epitome that whitethorn never ship. And maybe you wouldn't really privation it. With about 370 square inches of display pixels to power, imagine the machine's brief battery life. Besides consider the price, which would prospective hit at least $5,000. And what happens when you mechanically hold out those displays in a small, incommodious space? Do they just break off?

But, hey, whatever. Information technology's prototypes like Project Valerie that make CES exciting. This is why we come.

Project Ariana: a 4K Razer projector that extends from Monitor to walls

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Razer wasn't through later on wowing us with Imag Valerie. This is throw Ariana, a 4K projector that extends the image happening your showing to your entire wall, creating a spectacular immersive effect. You can take all about Project Ariana here, and pay close attention, because the projector could go retail by the end of 2017 if Razer is convinced consumers are ready to buy in.

Project Modena is the sum total of Digital Storm's hard-core knowledge

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Digital Storm has a rich account in building luscious, water-cooled boutique PCs, and in its not-all the same-for-retail Undertaking Modena prototype, information technology pulls outer every the stops. You can guess of it equally the living embodiment of all the company's Microcomputer noesis (assuming, of feed, you believe a Personal computer can be "alive"). The machine sports aggressive vents running on the front, top and back of the case, allowing for a range of cooling approaches. And therein photo you ass see the mobo-facing case panel, revealing inside ignition and water-cooling setup, all tastily executed. There's also a smaller case window on the other side for showing off your high-dollar SSD investment.

Project Modena wasn't the only Member Storm PC we looked at, so please hold back them all out in our Best of Digital Storm video.

Snowblind is a sheath that plays translucent videos on its side window

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This is another CES peculiarity that can't be adequately comprise illustrated aside flat images, so check out the video, please. iBuypower's Snowblind lawsuit option is a 19-inch transparent LCD display that can show moving images—TV—right the side of your Microcomputer. Resolution is 1280×1024, and the video display itself is protected by toned down glass. The image here doesn't do the hypnotic video effect judicature, but note of hand the CPU employment widget on the conservative of the display—that's live, real-time-updating content.

Snowblind is i of the coolest glasses we saw at CES 2017, and iBuypower says this incase option will cost $250.

Acer's Predator 21 X has a wild curved reveal

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If you wish to join Genus Acer's extreme point play laptop party, you'll need $9,000. Merely, whoa, look what you get inwardly the Vulture 21 X: Intel's Kaby Lake Core i7 7820HK; 64GB of 2.4GHz DDR4 RAM; not unity but ii GeForce GTX 1080s lengthwise in SLI; and up to four SSDs running in Foray into 0 (asset a unvoiced drive if you want one). There's too a automatonlike Cherry MX keyboard, Tobii eye-trailing, and tons of fans and heat pipes, because, Captain, she's running hot.

Simply, obviously, the big allure of the Predator 21 X—the feature that makes it a CES freak show—is the curved, 21-edge IPS exhibit, the first of its considerate in a laptop. It runs at 120Hz and supports Nvidia's G-Synchronise tech, and could make your gambling more immersive (or at least that's the Acer plot line). Please check out our video to see the entire 8.8 pounds of madness.

In Win D-Framing 2.0 EKWB: a touch indelicate?

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In Make headway makes impractical-hardcore cases for PC enthusiasts WHO just have to have something, well… showy. Concerned? Then you need to see our video recording of the D-Frame 2.0 EKWB, which adds particular mounting points for liquid-cooling wish EK's Irrigate Blocks. Please follow the video, and pay limited tending to the burbling reservoir at the front of the subject.

EVGA's Palmetto State-15 is a gambling laptop computer that makes sense

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You don't really need the 4K display in EVGA's SC-17 gaming laptop computer, so at this twelvemonth's CES, the company released the SC-15, a 15-inch predecessor that boasts a 1080p, 120Hz G-Sync panel. It looks gorgeous, and is ably high-powered by Nvidia's mobile GTX 1060 chip. Otherwise Si includes a Kaby Lake Nitty-gritty i7-7700HQ processor, up to 16GB of DDR4, and a 256GB SSD paired with a 1TB hard drive.

And course thither's an RGB backlit keyboard too. It's a gaming political machine.

EVGA does water-chilling too

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Remember when EVGA was just a videocard company? Fortunate, besides acquiring into cases, power supplies, mice, motherboards, and full-fledged PCs, the company is now marketing a trick water-cooling system that marries the easiness of closed-loop water-cooling with the customization of corneous-line piddle-cooling.

The EVGA Quick Release tank ecosystem starts with the main CPU cooler shown here, and so you customize to your heart and soul's happy with setup that suits your particular parts. From radiators to a GPU cooler to individual extension cables, they all use special quick-release fittings so you can construct your limit-up like building with an erector set.

AMD Vega: The next of gambling artwork?

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AMD's more than enthusiast-focused 14nm Radeon graphics architecture has been teased on the company's roadmap for a while, but AMD used this year's CES to firing more bailiwick details on these upcoming Vega GPUs.

If you desire to learn more about Vega's high-bandwidth lay away, programmable geometry pipeline, and "draw stream binning rasterizer" (yes, it's a thing), so come to the link above. For now, all you really need to care about is the new GPU's performance potential, you said it that may touch your gaming experience.

To wit: In December, we proverb an early Radeon Vega 10 card take on the 2016 version of Doom at 4K resolution and settings cranked to Extremist. AMD's frame up rates floated between 60 and 70fps, thus beating transcribed frame rates for Nvidia's GTX 1080 at the same settings.

Intrigued? Well, we may not see shipping Vega hardware until this summer. Placid, CES definitely whetted our Lope Felix de Vega Carpio appetite. If you're interested in even more nitty-gritty details, be sure to watch the 40 minute deep dive interview that our Gas-filled Nerd podcast crew conducted with Radeon SVP and chief architect Genus Raja Koduri at CES.

Intel Kaby Lake: Red-hot quadruplet-core CPUs gain 5GHz

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We first saw dual-core Kaby Lake notebook CPUs in Venerable, but forthwith it's time for quad-substance processors—seven chips for laptops and 16 for desktops. They're wholly part of Intel's CES Kaby Lake party, and while performance increases in some scenarios aren't incredible relative to previous-genesis silicon, the unweathered architecture is nevertheless provocative.

For starters, while cache size, the storage controller, and motherboard socket oasis't changed since previous-generation Skylake chips, the Kaby Lake desktop CPUs seem ripe for overclocking (contempt untimely reports). Both PCWorld and various OEMs have seen the quad-nucleus chip reach the vaunted 5GHz roadblock without any problems. The Kaby Lake Z270 chipset is also "Optane ready," suggesting motherboards bequeath support Intel's superfast computer storage of the same name.

Though we do have Optane caveats. Learn the next slide, delight.

Speaking of Optane…

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Intel's Optane memory promises one thousand-fold the switching speed of an SSD, and to get PC nerds flatbottomed more excited about the new arrange, Intel showed two images of its non-volatile retentiveness drives happening the eve of CES. We have no mind how very much the drives will cost, or when they'll exist available, but expect almost unusably small drive capacities of 16GB and 32GB. At these sizes, they have little application save up as fractious drive cache.

Only, hey, we now throw pictures! Thanks, CES.

Ryzen rising

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Perhaps you haven't heard, merely AMD's new Ryzen CPU (originally code-named Zen) looks to be quite contending with Intel Si. The processor is set for a Q1 2017 establish, and AMD and its partners used CES as a luxurious coming-out party for Ryzen hardware—from AM4 motherboards to CPU coolers to fully fledged PCs (like-minded the Cybertron PC shown hither). The system manufacturersdefinitely err toward littler, enthusiast-focused vendors like Pedigree, CyberPower, Maingear, and iBuyPower. Just that's encouraging, as it suggests Ryzen will bring the metal on judgment day.

Intel shows off the 10nm Cannon Lake CPU

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OK, well possibly "shows off" is an optimistic way to describe Intel's presentment of its sometime-in-the-next 10nm process Mainframe. American Samoa you can see here, Intel's President Brian Krzanich simply used the big stage of CES to show the processor playing back a video. We didn't actually go steady the chip—let alone touch the laptop that presumptively controlled the chip.

But stock-still… it's got a 10nm process! Intel has been stuck on a 14nm process for a few CPU generations, and AMD will finally be joining the 14nm club when it goes retail with Ryzen this class. So, yeah, anticipate us nerds, but even a 10nm tease is something to be emotional almost.

AMD FreeSync 2 for HDR display awesomeness

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AMD used CES to reveal details on the in vogue iteration of its FreeSync artwork technology. Where now's FreeSync merely smooths out gameplay and eliminates stutter and vehement, FreeSync 2 is centred squarely on HDR displays—those High Dynamic Range monitors that make pendent content look lush with saturated colours, deep blacks, and disorienting contrast.

We give birth all the technical details on FreeSync 2 here, but just know that you'll need a display that meets FreeSync 2 certification (these monitors should hit retail in Q1 of this year). We also learned that any GPU that currently supports FreeSync can follow upgraded to FreeSync 2 via a driver update. Some FreeSync and FreeSync 2 will follow supported going forward, with FreeSync 2 monitors expected to be just a small percentage of the total number of FreeSync displays shipped.

Have you seen HDR calm? You'll want this support, whether you tilt an AMD or Nvidia nontextual matter card. CES was ground no for a bunch of HDR PC display launches, thusly please get adequate speed. This is important.

Nvidia G-Sync HDR displays derive on CES

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While we've one of these days to see any displays that guarantee support for FreeSync 2 (AMD's HDR tech), we did escort Nvidia's debut G-Synchronise HDR monitors—and they look into like the pinnacle of screen background displayage.

Keep your eyes peeled for the Acer Marauder XB272-HDR and Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ. They're both G-Sync HDR 10 panels that glisten at 1,000 nits of smartness, hit 144Hz, and deliver 384 backlight zones that give the sack be individually controlled to help lush colors and deep blacks coexist side-away-side (that's basically the HDR promise). As if those HDR features weren't enough, they also rock 4K resolutions and blazing-fast 144Hz refresh speeds. Zero word on pricing, just ask to earnings top of the inning dollar for what will certainly be the finest desktop displays you can buy.

Need an HDR display primer coat? Go Here. Deficiency to see that amazing Asus display in action? We made a video recording.

The Linksys WRT32X is a loyal gambling router

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Every modern Badger State-Fi router has some case of calibre-of-service (QoS) feature that assigns different priorities to different types of Internet traffic. But Linksys says the WRT32X—a 802.11n/802.11ac MU-MIMO router—is extremely optimized to recognize lag-sensitive traffic like games. The secret sauce is Rivet Networks' "Slayer Prioritization Engine."

Centre Networks told us the technology uses heuristic rule logic to mold which network traffic is gaming traffic, and then assigns that data the highest priority. As the company's marketing officeholder, Bob Grim, said, "A Microsoft Windows update packet boat shouldn't be treated as even as important American Samoa a gaming packet. We'll never queue up a gaming packet, e.g., because it's latency dependent."

Course, it doesn't wounded that the WRT32X looks all gamered-out. Equal router companies want in on CES' PC enthusiast action.

Lenovo's launches Legion, its gaming laptop stigmatise

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Yes, Lenovo—the enterprise laptop company—makes opportune gaming machines, and today it's putt these laptops under their personal unparalleled brand name, Legion. Here we see the RGB backlighting underneath the Legion Y720's keyboard.

The Y720 includes a Kaby Lake Core i7 and 16GB of DDR4 store, and john be outfitted with a 512GB SSD and 6GB Nvidia GTX 1060, fashioning the machine capable of powering a VR headset. There's also a 4K screen option, and even the baseline display is IPS, addressing a complaint we had with Lenovo's Y50 gaming machine from 2015.

HP upgrades its Stock creativity PC for a VR and AR world

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Hardcore PC hardware isn't roughly play, so HP old CES 2017 to reveal its upgraded Sprout Pro workstation. And thanks to the Windows 10 Creators Update, HP's Germinate platform should embody more congenial to 3D content creation than ever before.

The political machine uses a Awash-HD DLP projector and what HP calls a Touch Mat to speedily turn any small object—corresponding the skull model shown here—into a 3D wireframe. The benefits for VR and AR content creation should be obvious.

The upgraded Burgeon forth Pro sports a 2.9GHz Kaby Lake Core i7-7700T and Nvidia's GeForce GTX 960M with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. The chief display is 23.8 inches with a 1920×1080 resolution and 10-point touch. Curious in making a HoloLens app? Well, the Sprout In favor of should ship in March. Pricing is terra incognita, but the original Burgeon forth costs $1,600.

Kingston's 2TB DataTraveler needs no explanation

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Two terabytes. Instantaneously force. That you terminate chime in your pocket.

Alright, you'll need a really large pocket, because As Kingston's paradigm illustrates, the drive itself dwarves its USB 3.1 connector. But, c'Mon. Bragging rights!

We have no idea how such the DataTraveler Ultimate Generation Terabyte will cost, but we do know that it leave come in 1TB and 2TB configurations, and that Kingston's current 1TB DataTraveler HyperX Predator costs $2,730.

So, what? The new 2TB version leave cost twice that?

Phanteks' Enthoo Elite case is so big, we couldn't able it in the frame

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With enough interior elbow room for non one merely two PC builds, the $900 Enthoo Elect is a case of absurd proportions. At 30 inches tall, and two feet wide, the enclosure give the sack accommodate extraordinary E-ATX system plus a mini-ITX system. The case is rife with interesting details design to make system building easier, then please check out our video. Corresponding the simulacrum shown here, you'll see we struggled to meet the Enthoo Elite into a single video recording frame.

ThermalTake's Core P1 TG wants on your wall

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Wherefore would you privation to mount a PC on your wall up? We can't order you. But ThermalTake thinks there's a wall PC market, and thus we have the Kernel P1 TG, an open-air case that supports Mini ITX motherboards, and give the axe be mounted on your wall. A flexible PCIe riser cable lets you mount your video circuit card perpendicular to the motherboard, and a piece of tempered glass prevents flying objects from disturbing your water supply-cooling setup.

Is it art? Information technology's bettor than a Thomas Kinkade house painting, that's for sure enough.

HWbot's extreme overclocking take exception

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Think those new Kaby Lake desktop CPUs resist overclocking? No. Think again. Industry sources tell us the chip is happy to reach 5GHz with water-cooling, and at the warmup for HWbot's extreme overclocking event, we saw 7GHz. WTF? Yes.

Granted, the overclocking superstars at this CES upshot were victimization liquid N to cool down the silicon and ratchet up the clocks. Simply unmatchable still has to marvel at conscionable how far these PCs can constitute pushed. Feel out our amazing video here, and be sure to read abreast all our CES 2017 reporting here.

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