Gigabyte technology
Gigabyte technology
Gigabyte was of course showing off a fair amount of gear at their stand. Let me run you through the most noteworthy products. Above the new GeForce GTS 250, with the new heatpipe copper cooler. You'll see a lot of GTS 250 models with that cooler, which comes from Zalman.
By itself not really interesting anymore, the GeForce 9600 GT. However Gigabyte is introducing a new line of passively cooled products. It's labeled as Silent Cell Thermal Technology and with just a little airflow inside the chassis these things should cool better than a reference cooler. Quite interesting really, when dealt with properly... I am in favor of passive cooling.
VGA card wise there was nothing really new to show. There were a couple of surprises in the mainboard section though. Above, the EX58 Extreme motherboard. Core i7 high-end kit of course. That remains an impressive piece of hardware.