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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western Digital we're here in gigabytes showcase where there happens to be an overclocking event going on over there but the thing that I'm actually interested in is right here now guys this is as prototype as prototype can be it doesn't even have a name they're just calling it bricks gaming and expander card and this is clearly not a card it also has like mini SAS HD cables connecting one of their bricks Pro little tiny pcs to this massive external box so this is just like Frankenstein together it's totally like it it probably won't even use these cables it might even use Thunderbolt or USB 3 or something like that but what this is you guys is an external box that allows you to expand the graphics capability of whatever machine you happen to connect it to now they're planning to hopefully bring something more finished to Computex but right now there's a bunch of different ideas so number one is this mini SAS connectivity that has this PC which is otherwise running an AMD Radeon 85 50g it has it running a gtx titan alright so imma let that sink in for a moment gtx titan now obviously you need the special connector right now they're also looking at other solutions like this is a regular desktop and they're thinking maybe you could add like a PCI Express 16x card that goes out to a box that maybe supports more than one GPU like right now these ones if you have a have a look at the end here have a single GTX Titan graphics card in them and that is it but the power supply in here is actually 600 Watts in this prototype so it could potentially support two cards in SLI or we could be looking at expansion for other things maybe high end video capture cards or whatever else the case may be and it can cut could get to the point okay guys where you have your Ultrabook you carry that around with you you sit down at home you've got a core i7 inside it or whatever really decent CPU you plug it into your Brix whatever they call this thing and all of a sudden you have a fully fledged gaming rig running off of your notebook now probably a good third of gigabytes presence here is all about their bricks lineup so they have regular bricks they have bricks Pro and they have something that caught my fancy which is bricks max this is an AZ solution slash server slash I don't even know what you want to call it but it has a core i5 4250 you inside and check this out you guys for two and a half inch hard drives in something that is small enough that I can hold it up with a couple of fingers so you've got Gigabit LAN you've also got USB 3.0 HDMI out it's a fully functioning system that also happens to be able to support four by one terabyte hard drives you can see there are individual hard drive activity LEDs on the front of the unit and I think it is pretty freakin cool looking it actually doesn't even run that hot they had it powered up just a moment ago now the regular bricks are sort of your your small compact machines and then bricks Pro actually comes in a variety of different configurations including ones with Intel processors AMD processors GeForce dedicated graphics Radeon dedicated graphics and of course one of the stars of the show which is the iris pro model that they've got running both battlefield 4 and 4k video playback here at the show just with onboard graphics now of course gigabytes not all about systems and notebooks yes we do have an exciting new motherboard to show you guys here this is the GAC 87 X duty 7 th and the th is of course for threesome because this one will get you laid so fast that you won't know actually that's not what it's for its for thunderbolt now gigabyte has already had thunderbolt motherboards in the past including ones with dual thunderbolt ports just like this one has but what they've never shown us before is dual thunderbolt 2 so each of these Thunderbolt ports is capable of 20 gigabit per second just like the new Mac Pro except unlike the new Mac Pro you can throw a bunch of PCI Express cards in for expansion you've got high end onboard audio you've got built-in liquid cooling as well Zehra cooling so it's gonna be well cooled regardless it's got all the v checkpoints you could possibly want as well as onboard buttons for overclocking and all of those things that PC enthusiasts love now this one right here I actually don't know what that is in between those two PCI Express slots and they won't tell me but I'm sure given that they won't tell me that that's very very exciting closing out the gigabyte Suite we have the not gigabyte no this is a new brand a premium brand and Oris brand this is the x7 notebook which is an extremely slim core i7 quad core notebook with a glass trackpad fully backlit keyboard programmable macro keys on the side it also has dual geforce gtx 760 5 ms 1080p non TN panel and most importantly it doesn't run too hot and it doesn't run too heavy or too thick this is an extremely slim extremely cool gaming notebook we actually have a full unboxing and overview of it also available on the channel so definitely check that out but one thing we weren't able to do during that video was show that it can actually game at 4k so they've got a couple demos here one with it running at 4k one with it outputting over its two HDMI ports and it's single DisplayPort port to three monitors running Nvidia surround yes friends off a notebook it's running Batman Arkham origins at 3 by 1080p at normal details and the minimum fps and the benchmark built into the game was 44 frames per second guys don't miss any of our CES 2014 coverage remember we are powered here at the show by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service in addition to a Western Digital and courser memory thanks so much to all those folks for letting us be here