In a year that's already been flat-out fantastic for het up new Microcomputer hardware, June nevertheless managed to set a new high-water mark.
How could it not? This month brought the arriver of fresh chips from some Intel and AMD, the introduction of PCs you outwear on your rear (seriously), and the splendiferous rekindling of the graphics card warfare with a new contemporaries of fashionable GPUs. Oh, and a duo major events titled Computex and E3. You might have heard of them.
After years of iterative aspect tweaks and minor evolution in the Microcomputer industry, this month truly felt like a glimpse at the future of computing. But enough dilly-dallying. Let's nark the good stuff!
AMD Radeon RX 480
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The budding next-generation artwork batting order fight was the brightest play up in June, spearheaded by the instauratio of the Radeon RX 480, the prime graphics card built around AMD's unaccustomed 14nm Polaris GPU. Power- and performance-overbold, the RX 480 pretty much falls in betwixt a GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980. That's a big step forward in efficiency for AMD, and more importantly for the masses, the card starts at a mere $200 for a 4GB mannikin.
That's huge. The Radeon RX 480 delivers no-compromises gameplay with all the visual communication bells and whistles enabled at 1080p resolution, damned small 1440p performance on high graphics settings, and even debut-rase virtual reality chops. Bu put, it redefines what's possible with a $200 nontextual matter card. And different Nvidia, AMD has none plans to kill 3- and 4-agency Crossfire multi-GPU support.
AMD Radeon RX 460 and RX 470
During the PC Gaming Show at E3, AMD CEO Lisa Su too titillated the RX 480's lour-priced cousins, the RX 460 and RX 470. The RX 470 is billed as a "refined, power-efficient" notice for 1080p gaming, while the RX 460's organism heralded as "a cool and efficient solution for the ultimate e-sports gaming feel for."
Unfortunately, nothing more was unconcealed on the far side that. Zero pricing info, nobelium expiration dates, no performance comparisons, nothing. But AMD's clearly going for the mainstream and market share with its eldest salvo in the next-gen graphics posting battle.
Nvidia GTX 1070, GTX 1080 tailored cards
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Nvidia wasn't session idle patc AMD debuted its new crowd-pleasers, however. On June 10, the GeForce GTX 1070 smasher the streets, delivering Titan X-beating performance for a mere $380. That's a blaze of a brush off for what was the pinnacle of Personal computer graphics business leader just a few months back.
But the graphics card domain has a sunrise champion: The GeForce GTX 1080. After the $700 GTX 1080's Founders Version launched in late May, June adage custom variants with beefy coolers and hefty out-of-the-box overclocks make their entry. Case in point: the ferocious $680 EVGA GTX 1080 FTW (pictured), which makes the most potent GPU in the world more badass for eve less money than the Founders Edition. This thing will melt your face.
Intel Core i7-6950X
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Speaking of face-melting, Intel rolled out a new champion of its own in very late May: The Core i7-6950X Extreme Version processor, the first-ever 10-sum enthusiast CPU. This wildcat is built not just for multi-tasking but "mega-tasking," as Intel's PR motorcar tells it, and information technology crushes multi-heart benchmarks with a vengeance. Thither's nothing else the like it that's built for consumers—and nothing else like-minded its price tag. The Core group i7-6950X bequeath set you back a cool $1,723, and that's in bulk lots of a thousand chips. Street prices are $25 to $50 high.
Too rich for your blood? That wasn't the single new Extreme Edition CPU Intel introduced. Moderate out PCWorld's guide to the 10 things you need to know about Broadwell-E for the full scoop on the entire batting order.
Intel Heart i7-6950X
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Pffft: 10-core chips are indeed early June. In late June, researchers at University of California Davis revealed Kilocore , a heinous 1,000 core CPU that's 100 times many power-competent than today's laptops. Get this: It could theoretically be powered by a AA battery because each of those cores can run independently at different clock speeds, or compressed cancelled completely.
Before you get too excited, think that this was created in a research laboratory and isn't anywhere near production ready. The underlying principles could ante up dividends in the future, notwithstandin, especially in mobile devices.
AMD Bristol Ridgeline and Stoney Ridge
During Computex, AMD revealed a more attainable series of chips: Its new Bristol Ridge and Stoney Ridgeline Genus Apus. APUs combine AMD CPU cores and Radeon graphics cores happening a single crisp to deliver primary gaming and video capabilities without the need for a discrete graphics card.
Some Bristol Ridge and Stoney Ridge APUs pack AMD's Excavator core, which leave be paired with AMD's Radeon R7 graphics cores on the FX and A12 lines; AMD's R5 graphics on the A10 and A9 lines; and R4 and R2 graphics on the low gear-final stage A6 and E2 series, respectively. Every single one sips either 15 or 35 watts of power.
Expect them to appear in everything from budget notebooks to premium laptops complete the coming months.
Samsung's stamp-sized SSD
The name of Samsung's original PM971-NVMe might not stick in your brain, but its capabilities leave. This 1-gram, 20mm x 16mm x 1.5mm cow dung packs up to 512GB of NAND flash, a controller, and RAM—import it's a full-blown SSD that will in condition on the tip of your finger.
SSDs for traditional PCs will still practice traditional form factors, no doubt, but this tiny chip can be slapped on a standard M.2 card and then be slapped inside super-slim laptops, tablets, and laptop-tablet convertibles.
The chip's small size of it doesn't mean it'll be slack. Samsungs says the PM971-NVMe will score 1.5GBps read speeds and 800MBps compose speeds. Hot damn.
Appendage Storm Aura
PCs packing all this powerful spic-and-span appurtenance are already hitting the market, and reimagining what's possible with old age-old contour factors in the process. All-in-one PCs give traditionally been hobbled by mobile components due to their compact form factor, for instance—but not Digital Tempest's beastly Aura.
The Aura is a gambling-ready all-in-one with a eellike, 34-inch 3440×1440 resolution ultrawide display, and up to the 10-core Heart i7-6950X, GeForce GTX 1080, and 16GB or more of RAM. You read that right. This is an all-in-one with no compromises. And yes, it tin can play Crysis.
Knapsack PCs
The rethinking of PC form factors is best exemplified aside a completely new one that exploded out of nowhere in June. Alienware (pictured), HP, Zotac, and MSI were all showing off backpack PCs throughout Computex and E3.
Before you shake your oral sex, there's really a valid reasonableness to produce PCs that you wear on your back: virtual realness. Both the Optic Rift and the HTC Vive tether you to your PC, eve though the latter apparently allows you to wander around a 15×15-foot space. Backpack PCs keep off those cords from tripping you sprouted or tugging at the back of your head spell you wander around. It's a novel result, but one that honestly feels suchlike a stopgap until more robust wireless audiovisual technologies score the market.
Razer OSVR HDK2
The Eye Rift and HTC Vive aren't the only VR headsets in town. At E3, Razer disclosed the second-generation Hacker Growing Kit up headset, a.k.a. the avatar for its artless-source VR endeavors. And get this: On paper, the HDK2 rocks with the Lapplander basic eyeglasses as the $600 consumer Eye Rift, but for only $400. Journalists who tried the headset (care Tested's Norm Chan) say that the image quality isn't quite up to par with the Rift or Vive, however.
Asus water-cooled laptop computer
The train of powerful new tech continues with the Asus ROG GX800, the company's second-generation water-cooled play laptop. Read that over again: a water-cooled gaming laptop. Then read our fuze on how Asus makes it happen.
Technically, it's a normal gaming laptop that terminate slide by into a water-cooling dock and overclock for even out more ferocious performance. As if that weren't desktop-like enough, the GX800 will careen "Intel K-series CPUs" clocked at 4.4GHz and memory clocked at 3.8GHz, along with an nameless transplantable GPU that will give it more power than the legendary Titan X. (It has to be a mobile GTX 1070 chip.) Completely that power takes an awful lot of energy, though: The Asus GX800 packs not one, but two 330-watt power supplies in order to supply enough juice for all that gaming good.
Asus Avalon concept Personal computer
Asus shook entirely sort of things up in June. The radical Avalon concept PC is even Thornton Wilder than the GX800, with a conception that tightly integrates all aspects of the PC for a more than refined hi-fi-like aesthetic, merely tranquil supports the platform's DIY strengths. Instead than try to prove to explicate IT hither, vindicatory hit that link and check IT out.
Asus Avalon motherboard
Seriously, go check out the Asus Avalon PC clause. This is its motherboard with a couple of girl boards attached!
Alienware Of import
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Steam Machines might not be selling like hotcakes, but the dream of tiny sustenance-room-ready gaming PCs isn't dead. At E3, Alienware revealed an updated version of its diminutive Alpha PC console, with DDR4 RAM, quicker Skylake processors, and newer art options. The original Alpha was surprisingly modest, so this is one welcome refresh.
And Alienware's not just sticking to Windows. The company likewise revamped the Steam Political machine variant of the Alpha.
Overwatch PC mod
Image by Hayden Dingman
At E3 we adage a tricked-out, irrigate-cooled gaming PC that looks like an angry sci-fi gorilla. If that's not the future, I don't know what is.
This screwball "Winston fromOverwatch" mod was dreamed upwardly and brought to life history by Blue Horse Studios and PCJunkieMods for Microsoft's booth.
Corsair's brain-bending rigs
Envision by James Niccolai
That's information technology for our wrap-up of this month's PC highlights. Stock-still in the ironware mood? Check out our look at the wild mods and crazy rigs that Barbary pirate dragged on to Computex. Glowing mag-lev fans and PCs that spirit like sharks are just the showtime.
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