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in gigabyte sweet the emphasis is on different uses for fundable now we've been able to do storage for a while and you know you can talk about storage all day but now let's talk about something different so the z77 xup 5 th is the world's only dual thunderbolt motherboard has to Thunderbolt spill fundable ports built right into the back of it and what I'd like you guys to notice first about this demo system is the fact that there is no video card in it so we are outputting 2 for 1080p displays as a bit of a 4k simulation if you will over here on the left from the onboard graphics so this is native 4k content that you can see here and we're using a couple of adapters so we can take those mini Thunderbolts remember guys the Thunderbolt connector does carry a DisplayPort signal and we can split it out to multiple display ports in order to achieve this kind of a huge resolution so the reason for this solution with the Ergotron stand and 4 DisplayPort monitors is right now it's pretty hard to get your hands on a 4k display but it proves the point of what it is capable of doing in the near future now Thunderbolt again like I said not just about storage anymore check this out so this is the Blackmagic Design I believe it is the ultra Studio Express and this guy is a thunderbolt capture card so you're able to actually capture footage on your notebook or your desktop that's equipped with a thunderbolt port it is PC compatible not just Mac so it's not limited to just the Apple users anymore and this is something that Diesel's very excited about he's actually had this camera on pre-order for months now this is black magics new cinema camera it is a 2.5 k camera and again it does not use Thunderbolt but it does use DisplayPort out so that's one of the other reasons they've had it on demo here now diesel clarified a point for me and that is that it comes with thousand-dollar software just for scopes and it can actually output scope and waveform data so I was a little bit incorrect there this is a thunderbolt port you can see it's clearly labeled Thunderbolt and I got a little confused because I found out the port is for monitoring only however it does not just output display data which is what makes it not just display port it is capable of daisy chaining and it is outputting some additional data as well now with some of the improvements Intel's made in terms of thermals and power efficiency over the last few years we've seen a huge number of solutions that are allowing us to shrink performance computing down to smaller and smaller sizes this is a regular mini ITX board this is a z77 board with a PCIe 16x slot and it's now capable of running a very powerful gaming machine the only thing you can't do on a board this size it seems these days is run dual graphics however not content to leave it at that Intel has an gigabyte has implemented a new standard so this is a thin mini-itx they've got a couple of boards b75 as well as h77 so the b75 is obviously more business-oriented we're gonna focus on that one they're pretty much the same layout so it's just a chipset change and what this is is it is a well thinner version of Mini ITX so it's got the same mounting holes but you can see the i/o plate is much much flatter and there's a very good reason for that it is meant for all-in-one do-it-yourself so you can build your own all-in-one PC now gigabyte has a couple of unique implementations here so number one is we're using sodium's so that's part of the spec you can see there's built-in power so power comes in from the back from a from a power brick as opposed to using a normal power supply with a fan that we're used to seeing for a desktop PC they've also got mini PCIe for your wireless card as well as M SATA so you'll have the option of either using an SSD mount in the all-in-one enclosure or you can throw an M SATA SSD on there maybe use it for caching and you throw a hard drive in there's a PCIe 4x slot now I don't expect you to be able to use that with a card sticking out of it because I'm gonna show you guys what it looks like once it's in the a i/o but there are PCI Express extension cables so if someone implemented in a i/o where you could actually run a graphic card that would be pretty cool so I'm gonna turn this around you guys probably have no idea that this isn't a fully built computer already this well it is a fully built computer already was a custom fully built computer so there are several manufacturers launching these DIY capable all-in ones they come with a thermal solution they come with the power brick that you need because this is all standardized for this thin mini-itx configuration you can see there's a kingston and SATA card here there's a pci mini pci express wireless card got some memory going and one of the most notable things about this is the fact that eat no matter what the machine is doing these heat pipes stay quite cool we saw a demo before the video actually started where they were running some intensive programs and these are barely warm to the touch now like i said before you don't have to stick with them SATA they do also have as part of the standard the ability to mount drives in it so you can see you can throw a three and a half inch drive there and this particular model right here and i would expect most of them now that Windows 8 is passed bays it will not pass but is the present and the future is multi-touch ready so you can actually hear if we go and fire up mspaint which should be around here somewhere oh that's no pad that's okay we can find paint we're good at this we've done this before and swiping and paint okay am I gonna need my lovely assistant to come in here and sort of use her five fingers so that we can show that it is accepting ten inputs all at the same time and of course there's some evolutions to the desktop boards now because Intel is or AMD are not launching any new chipsets or any new CPUs here at CES we don't have a whole refresh or anything like that but gigabyte is introducing the HD series so these are z77 boards that are aimed at the value segment and what's different about these compared to other boards is the fact that they're coming in at very aggressive price points and they do feature DisplayPort hence the HD designation so you don't have some of the bells and whistles like you know sixteen phase power or a four-way SLI capability or any of that stuff but if you're looking to build a basic machine it's still got USB 3 it's actually four ports of USB 3 that's part of the z77 spec it's still crossfire ready it does support dual graphics and you've got DisplayPort out onboard so it means you can take advantage of the features of z77 without sort of going over the top in terms of the price and in terms of the expense of manufacturing so obviously if you're gonna bring a motherboard to market at a lower price it has to cost less to manufacture so that is why they've gone for something like the slimmer motherboard design so you can see you can save a little bit on the PCB right here but it still does require a standard ATX case to install we've seen this many times in the past on value oriented boards don't miss any of our CES 2013 coverage by making sure that you're subscribed to Linus tech tips North American customers might not be as familiar with them as some other territories but gigabyte also has a variety of notebook tablet and all-in-one solutions on display here at the show so we have a Windows 8 tablet with a Celeron processor that actually has a dock that allows you to add an optical drive as well as additional expansion they have a convertible ultra book so this guy rotates around and becomes a tablet should you see fit they've also got this is a fairly unique solution so this is a magnetic dock as well as a stand that pops out of the back of this particular tablet to make it more like you know more competitive with something like Microsoft Surface they've also got a couple more displays on here so this is just another ultra book and sort of a more performance oriented looking gaming machine here and in a matte black finish this has a gtx 660 m so it's gonna be quite powerful and actually not as thin as some of the other notebooks that we've seen with maybe a GTX 670 or 680 so that's a compromise that you have to decide if you're willing to make now behind me over here we've got their new lineup of all-in-one so these are fully compliant with the windows 8 experience and what you might notice about these ones is the fact that there is absolutely no gigabyte branding on them whatsoever so these are intended for the white box market which refers to sort of a distributor or a system integrator or a retailer who wants to develop their own all-in-one and do their own branding behind it so gigabytes basically providing the motherboard the chassis itself and the screen itself and there's no there isn't gonna be a gigabyte name on it so what you might want to make a habit of doing is well okay but don't make a habit of but check these out sort of look at the industrial design of them and if you see something that looks like these particular models here you'll know who actually built it which I mean might give you more confidence in the case of you're going locating luck well this is a fairly inexpensive AI oh do I trust this thing or not who made this at least you'll know that it was actually manufactured by gigabyte with their expertise so don't miss any of our CES 2013 coverage by making sure that you're subscribed to Linus tech tips quite honestly we missed this one our first time around because it looked like a normal 24 inch all-in-one it sort of from the front there's like you know webcam and a bezel and sort of nothing that seems out of the ordinary but then when you get around to the back you find a two and a half inch expansion drive slot so that means you can quickly and easily expand the storage of the device and diesel and I are gonna switch places over here I'd like him to come check out this side of the unit where the real magic happens so it's actually not that thick but check that out at the bottom you can install a full sized graphics card in this all-in-one PC via the example that they've had running so internally they've had running as high as a GTX 680 off of this machine so you actually have the capability now of taking the all-in-one form factor I'll be it a little bit thicker and having what would essentially be a full size gaming desktop performance out of it you