Computex 06 - Allan "Zardon" Campbell

Cyber Snipa

Cyber Snipa had a smaller booth displaying their impressive range of gaming accessories as well as a system running the latest incarnation of Unreal Tournament. Their products really do deserve further attention and we will be sampling several of their products on Driver Heaven very shortly. I was personally impressed with the tracking of the gaming mouse on the pad and managed to take down a bot player with one hand while taking a picture of the screen with the other. A total fluke, but it impressed some nearby Asian ladies so it was good enough for me.

Silverstone

I feel it is fair to say that Silverstone had one of the most impressive booths on display, not because of semi naked asian ladies adorning the tables or for wacky crowd interaction based "competitions" but just for the sheer quality of their chassis. They really do make some of the highest quality aluminium cases i have seen. We sat down with several of their representatives and they educated us on the fact that the higher end chassis they sell are hand made with various techniques being used to carefully round the edges to create a wonderful end product. Several sections of these cases are 8mm thick aluminium !

They had on display a dual xeon, SLI based system which was pumping out some serious frame rates on the demonstration software they were running. The image above right is a good indication of the quality of the aluminium edging they imploy in their manufacturing process.

Silverstone have also a range of chassis dedicated to cooling with obvious homage to "old style" technophile audio design. In the image above left you can see how the water cooling is running down a pipe system built into the outer chassis shell. Innovative.

Another radical design was the "all in one" media style pc with interactive screen fashioned into the chassis. The product was not entirely finished and we were told they were going to be redesigning the screen area to accommodate a rubber mounting as when the screen was pushed into the lowest position it was resting against the front of the case. Below you can see some more of the products they had on display.

Supermicro

Supermicro had a small booth with basically two walls of motherboards being the prime focus of attention. This particular motherboard above caught my attention as it is capable of handling 64 gigabytes of ram in 16 dimm slots ... Kiss goodbye to your bank account !

Tagan

We managed to have a long chat with Tagan, and they were keen to show us their new 1100w SLI approved Power supply, particularly geared for Quad SLI in a heavily overclocked system - yes, those of you will sharp eyesight have read that right, four 12v rails with 20a on each !

We will be following up on this article with more goodies from Computex later this week but for now its back to the AMD, ATI and VIA parties. Those crazy Asians..... (quicktime - right click, save as)

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