EKWB
Cooling

CES 2022: EKWB Presents the Next Generation of Liquid Cooling

At the Venetian Tower in Las Vegas, EKWB showcased its latest water cooling components and won a couple of awards for its efforts. Both the EK-Quantum Velocity2 CPU water block and the ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme Glacial motherboard featuring an EKWB monoblock received the CES 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree. Other products highlighted at the event included the never-seen-before EK Vector2 GPU water blocks, Reflection2 distribution plates, and EK Quantum surface radiators. EKWB’s Pro series was also on display, engineered for NVIDIA’s A6000 and A100 GPUs. For more details, continue reading EKWB’s press release below.

BIOSTAR
Motherboards

CES 2022: Biostar Reveals B660 Series motherboards and RX 6500 XT GPU

Biostar unveiled its latest mid-grade products for CES 2022. The B660GTA, the B660GTQ, and the B660GTN are all members of Biostar’s Racing line of motherboards. The trio covers ATX, m-ATX, and m-ITX form factors and provides plenty of features without costing an arm and a leg. Continuing that theme, the RX 6500 XT is a dual-slot, dual-fan 1080p capable GPU featuring 4 GB of VRAM. The RX 6500 XT isn’t going to set any records, but it should most definitely fit in your budget with pricing expected in the $250 range (availability and market notwithstanding).

CES 2022: PHANTEKS
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CES 2022: Phanteks Reveals Cases, Power Supplies, and More

Phanteks revealed several new cases, power supplies, fans, and more at this year’s CES event. Headlining Phantek’s coverage is the Evolv Shift XT mini-ITX chassis and Revolt SFX power supply. These small form factor components provide a powerful platform for the smallest builds. Also announced today are the White Edition Evolv X and Eclipse P600S cases, SK PWM D-RGB series fans, and AMP series power supplies. Phanteks was kind enough to include pricing and expected availability for all of its new products. Below is Phanteks product coverage.

ASRock Z690 Taichi Razer Edition
Motherboards

CES 2022: ASRock Reveals Z690 Taichi Razer Edition Motherboard

Today, ASRock revealed the Z690 Taichi Razer Edition motherboard. Built around the LGA1700 socket the Taichi Razer is ready for Intel’s 12th generation Alder Lake CPUs. This powerhouse motherboard features a 20 phase SPS Dr.MOS power design and reinforced DDR5 DIMM slots capable of RAM overclocks of up to 6400MHz. Stunning lighting effects are possible due to the integrated Razer Chroma RGB and controlled via Razer’s easy-to-use Synapse software. Pricing and availability have not been released yet, so stay tuned for future notifications. Below is ASRock’s official press release.

CES 2022: ASUS Product Launch
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CES 2022: ASUS Hosts Second Live Stream

ASUS hosted another live stream today for CES 2022. This one focused on its ProArt and ZenScreen series portable displays, ZenWifi networking devices, and a pair of mini PCs. The ASUS ROG live stream from yesterday was primarily gamer-oriented, today’s was targeted at the business and content creation sectors. In total Asus announced 10 new products for 2022. Dates and prices are not included in the press release, so stay tuned to the front page news section as we will report back once these are officially announced. Below are the featured products from ASUS’s second live stream.

i300
News

CES 2022: Corsair unveils New Corsair ONE i300 Compact Desktop

For CES 2022, Corsair didn’t have a lot going on as far as new items are concerned. While we normally see a variety of things from companies such as Corsair, the only announcement for this year’s CES is the lastest Corsair ONE i300 compact desktop. The new systems are powerhouses using the latest 12th Gen Intel Core processors started with the flagship Core i9-12900K. Inside it’s  stacked with Corsair components including Vengeance brand DDR5 memory and an RTX 3080 Ti. Please read the press release below for details!

AMD logo
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CES 2022: AMD Unveils New Desktop and Mobile CPUs, Graphics, and more.

At AMD’s virtual press conference at CES 2022 Tuesday, the company unveiled new Ryzen processors for the desktop and mobile segments as well as Radeon graphics devices for desktops and laptops, all of which we’re supposed to see this year. This includes the Ryzen 6000 series mobile processors, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors, and several new SKUs in the Radeon RX 6000 series lineup.

CES 2022: ACER Product Launch
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CES 2022: ACER Announces Gaming PCs, Laptops, A-I-O PCs, and Monitors

Today, Acer announced several new products for CES 2022. This is in addition to yesterday’s announcement which we covered here. Included in this most recent press release are multiple pre-built gaming computers, All-in-One PCs,  laptops, and monitors. Acer is certainly bringing a lot to the computing community this year. Here is a list of Acer’s most recently announced products at CES 2022 along with pricing and availability.

Razer Blade Laptops
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CES 2022: Razer Announces Three Blade Gaming Laptops

Razer announced three Blade series laptops at today’s Las Vegas CES 2022 event. Ringing in the new year, Razer introduces the Blade 14, 15, and 17 laptops. The Blade 14 is powered by AMD’s next-generation Ryzen 9 6900HX processor while the Blade 15 and 17 receive Intel’s 12th Generation Core i9-12900H CPU. Other available options include cutting-edge DDR5 memory (up to 64GB), PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs (up to 4TB), extremely powerful discrete graphics (up to RTX 3080ti), and a 17.3″ QHD IPS-grade display capable of 2560 x 1440 native resolution at 240 Hz. Here is more from Razer’s announcement.