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CES 2017

Kaby Lake, Ryzen & Friends

GIGABYTE showed off the Mod2Win-winning
Project Triptych this year at CES.

GIGABYTE & AORUS
GIGABYTE announced a lot
of products at CES, including some
interesting cases and a gaming chair,
but the company’s biggest focus was
the expansion of its AORUS brand.
Previously known primarily for
notebooks, you’ll now see other
premium gaming hardware under the
017 promises to be an exciting with Ryzen processors and the AM4 AORUS brand, including motherboards
2 year in PC technology if this year’s chipset on the horizon. Power users and GPUs. The motherboards all
Consumer Electronics Show is any can also look forward to the continued feature RGB LEDs and a number of
indication. Many manufacturers we growth of VR, including new VR other gamer-centric features. We
visited were touting new motherboards, systems, better hardware support, and also saw a number of excellent mods
systems, and high-end laptops based more innovative applications. Big trends in the suite; one of our favorites was
on Intel’s new Kaby Lake chips and the from last year, such as RGB LEDs, 4K Project Triptych, which took first place
Z270 chipset. Best of all, it looks like displays, and gaming peripherals, are also in GIGABYTE’s 30th Anniversary
AMD is back in the enthusiast game on an upward trajectory. Mod2Win Challenge.

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