Gadgetory

so being that commie text is one of the biggest electronics shows for the industry of the year maybe next to CES I wanted to talk about some of the trends that we saw being set at computex 4 2016 and these are all they're fairly global but we'll be talking about video cards motherboards VR and cases for this trend setting discussion before getting to that all this coverage for today is brought to you by roseville and their new cullinan case so first of all global trends for the year RGB LEDs are everywhere they're getting a little bit ridiculous I don't know how much they increase cost of some of these components but we saw RGB LEDs and motherboards in cases in RAM and fans in the video cards and peripherals and everything else that we looked at so RGB LEDs are all over the place I guess that's a good thing if you like LED is otherwise you can get five color leds because that seems to be the alternative the cheaper variant is where even an EVGA is a HP bridge for instance or in in some of the fans out there the cheaper alternative seems to be single color leds or five color leds that just all tonight and don't have full RGB 18 million color range so that's what we got for the main global trend now next of course we'll talk about some of the way the video cards in the cases that bleed out from this so the cases all have LED backlights they all have some form of LED strips inside for the most part until you get into the sub one fifty dollar range and then there's the five color LED versions so they're only a few cases we saw this year without any LEDs at all it seems to be pretty uncommon at this point other than LEDs the cases do all still have PSU shrouds at the low end and that's basically every case from 60 and up up to 150 or so paris flight routes still very big this year five color leds as i said and then tempered glass has become huge so rose wells got in their cases in when Leon Lee and Lee only especially actually has a lot of tempered glass silver stones looking into it so thats everywhere now its that thick paneling that basically it's just a large sheet of actual glow rather than acrylic or clear plastic or plexiglass so tempered glass is becoming large vga trends so again RGB LEDs once you get past the LEDs it seems that one of the big trends it's way more vrm phases than actually necessary and this is especially true because we were only looking at the nvidia cards because i am the only just announced the card and therefore had no aib models present so speaking to nvidia there were way more vrm phases than necessary a lot of the cards are 14 plus three phase and getting attacked by some kind of local bug and they a lot of them were also monstrous terzo attack has a card that's I don't know why it's as big as it is but it is and it's probably getting them attention so that's huge gigabyte has a giant card the extreme gaming card and there was the I mean that's really that's the main trend for the video cards was LEDs more vrm phases unnecessary and being large so now moving on to motherboards same thing RGB LEDs everywhere if not RGB then single color the armor has gotten big so ACS kind of started this trend with their sabertooth series on their tough line of motherboards that has continued and now propagated into all the brands including stuff from ms i and ii bjs not been doing it for a bit gigabytes doing it so even if they don't call it armor it's basically just shielding everywhere it doesn't necessarily have a functional purpose but it does it does just look kind of different i guess that's the main reason that's there and wrap things up so everyone's got VR they're all dumping tons of money into it there's going to be a ton of failures in VR because that's the nature of any emergent industry and literally every company that's involved in graphics in motherboards a lot of them are dumping money into VR in the very least they're all getting these VR premium badges and certifications that may mean nothing in some instances so that seems to be a bit more overhyped than maybe it should be because at the very least it's just throwing VR onto a product name for the sake of saying it's a VR so I don't know that I like that trend but that is one that's here be our backpacks are here asus and msi have to be our backpacks intel did a mock-up previously so those seem to be on the way and then stupid vr demos with stupid VR peripherals her also here so we saw a lot of things like rowing machines with the VR headsets attached and a fishing pole the hand onto the cabling that was a bit interesting we've seen wingsuit contraptions there was one demo on the show floor where a dude was just kind of in a harness like you might see for climbing or BASE jumping or something hanging from a harness looking down at the show floor had the mask on his head and the demo was just I think skydiving or something like that so I I guess it's kind of an exploration of what VR can do that's something that less than 1% of 1% of users will ever have in their home maybe it's a location-based entertainment thing that arcades or maybe just to do demos that are more than the usual you know square room demos that we've seen everywhere so that's another thing is just unnecessary peripherals thrown in with VR especially the rowing machine which is massive and takes up a lot of room so that's the trends for copy text 2016 some neat stuff some kind of pointless stuff tons of lights though that seems to be this team here for the year all the architectures are shipping at this point including broadwell polaris and pascal and Vagos around the corner so that's a pretty big year overall but definitely some silly things as with every trade show that you were watching patreon link to post your video I'll see you all next time