Computex 2005 is upon us

Die Computex, die weltweit zweitgrößte Computermesse, findet dieses Jahr zum 25. Mal statt. Vom 31. Mai bis zum 4. Juni sind die Türen und Tore des Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC) in Taipei für die rund 27.500 Messebesucher geöffnet. Auf knapp 59.000 m² werden etwa 1.300 Aussteller in rund 2.800 Ständen ihre neuesten Errungenschaften präsentieren.

Besonders interessant werden dieses Jahr unter anderem nVidias G70 und ATIs CrossFire werden. Des weiteren werden AMD und Intel ihre Dual-Core-CPUs präsentieren und auch von namhaften Speicherherstellern und Abit kann man sich einige Neuheiten erwarten. Wie auch schon letztes Jahr werden auch heuer wieder WLAN-Produkte ein sehr heißes Thema sein, ebenso wie Digital Home Entertainment und DVD-bezogene Produkte.

AnandTechs Pre-Show Coverage

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Only a handful of NVIDIA’s closest partners have been given G70 designs to show off at Computex, the rest are told to wait until further notice.

We also heard about a new ATI card, but not the R520 we’ve all been waiting for, rather a replacement for the X300 - the Radeon X550. Like the X300, the X550 is a 4-pipe GPU but now running at 400MHz. The GPU is also paired with a 128-bit 200MHz DDR memory bus, but little is known beyond those specs.

So far the R520 is no where to be found at the show; it’s looking like the rumors of a late release of R520 may be true. ATI’s focus at Computex 2005 seems to be their multi-GPU chipset that is due to be launched at the official opening of the show.

[...]In an effort to differentiate themselves from other motherboard manufacturers, Gigabyte has introduced a number of interesting add-ons for their motherboards, the most interesting of which is their $50 RAMDISK PCI card.

The card is a regular 32-bit PCI card that features four standard DIMM slots on board. The card also features a custom Gigabyte FPGA that is programmed to act as a SATA to DDR translator, which convinces the SATA controller you connect the card to that the memory you have on that card is no different than a regular SATA HDD. As long as you have memory on the card, the card will be available at POST as an actual SATA drive, with no additional drivers necessary.

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