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ECS Elitegroup at Computex 2018 is pretty much about Amazon’s smart voice assistant Alexa, but it’s also about Liva’s in-house ultra-compact PCs. At the Computex stand at ECS shown there are the first Liva systems with integrated touchscreen and integrated battery. The reason: They should be able to control Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa, even away from the Android smartphone or their own echo systems. Of course, all features that Alexa offers are supported. It is possible, among other things, playing music, controlling smart home devices and of course ordering at Amazon via voice control.

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ASRock was seen with five B450 boards at the Computex 2018. Some are ATX, while others are either Micro-ATX or Mini-ITX. ASRock has released at least one model for each format. In addition to three boards from the Pro series, two models of the Fatal1ty gaming series were shown as well. The B450M Pro 4 and the B450M-HDV are produced in Micro ATX format, with the Pro4 basically offering better features. The maximum RAM expansion amounts to 64 GB instead of “only” 32 GB. But even with the power supply of CPU and RAM Pro4 is the HDV slightly superior to the higher number of phases.

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The Shuttle SZ270R9 means a clear evolution in terms of the design that Shuttle was developing in its barebones. It is true that it does not renounce the high quality materials such as aluminum but as true as the previous statement is that Shuttle is one of the last manufacturers in which we would think that it is going to point to the fashion of LED RGB lighting. And that is called Marketing or, as some say, renew or die. There is a growing desire to give that touch of originality to the PC and, in a world where everything is invented, that touch of originality is obtained with designs, at least, carefree, cheerful and, why not, a little aggressive.

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We are in full week of Computex 2018 and we hoped that NVIDIA would reveal new data and dates on the launch of the new GTX 1180 and the rest of the models of the GTX 1100 series. However, the CEO of the company, Jenson Huang, has hinted that there is still – ample time – for us to see a new generation in the market.

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Today, we have come to know more about the specifications of the new models Ryzen 3 2300X and 2500X Ryzen 5, as well as energy – efficient models E. The names of these processor models are not a novelty for anyone, they have been appearing for some time on some pages of motherboard manufacturers, but today we fill in some gaps in their specification tables.

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Cryorig has announced its new H7 Ultra RGB heatsink and its new Crona 120 fan that will show us at the Computex 2018 in Taiwan. This presentation has been an overview for the media to know what to look for in their stand. The brands get to work to show us all their artillery for this new event and Cryorig has already presented several very striking components for next week.

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Intel could be on the verge of releasing an SSD with a storage capacity of up to 20 TB. The largest SSD in the chip giant’s portfolio offers significantly less capacity at 8TB, but with the help of the latest QLC NAND, this is soon to be a thing of the past. With the QLC-NAND, four bits are stored per memory cell, which simultaneously increases the storage density. This makes it possible to achieve a high capacity with a few chips.

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For the anniversary of the 8086 processor, Intel is planning a Core i7-8086K with 5 GHz. There have been several indications in the past. Intel celebrates the 40th anniversary of the 8086 on June 8th, so Computex is looking forward to seeing the Core i7-8086K next week.

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Samsung has introduced a new SO-DIMM, which has a capacity of 32 GB. According to Samsung, the memory is based on a 10 nm class process technology – the manufacturer does not elaborate on this. At 10-nm class is a process node with 10 to 19 nm. The previous chips each having 8 Gbit capacity Samsung made in 18 nm, the new 16-Gb chips will have experienced a small Shrink.

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