ECS Liva Mini PC and Alexa headset launched at Computex 2018

ECS Liva Mini PC

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 B450M Pro 4, B450M-HDV, B450 Gaming K4 released at Computex 2018

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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Shuttle XPC SZ270R9 Review: a barebone mini PC for gaming

Shuttle XPC SZ270R9

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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AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and AMD Ryzen 3 2300X specifications now available

AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and AMD Ryzen 3 2300X specifications

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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