Every bit a follow-up to final week'southward CES special characteristic and coverage, here are more than of the products nosotros observed and played with, along with photos taken during our journeying to the outcome. As y'all've surely noticed, mobile tech consumed the event with seemingly every major company unveiling smartphones, tablets or ultrabooks. However, we managed to lay easily on enough of awesome PC hardware from the likes of Samsung, Silverstone, MSI, Razer, Roccat, Toshiba, Gigabyte and more...

Razer

Meant to return desktop-replacements obsolete, Razer announced its new Blade gaming laptop dorsum in August. As well its trim profile and powerful innards, the organisation offers a unique interface reminiscent of Fine art Lebedev's Optimus keyboard. In place of a standard number pad, the Bract features 10 customizable keys and a glass LCD touchpad, the latter of which is besides bachelor on the Star Wars Old Republic edition keyboard.

Along with displaying in-game stats, yous tin can surf the net or watch YouTube on the touchpad while a game occupies your main screen. Too, the 10 keys are fully programmable and alter functions between contexts. Sadly, the palm rest by the touchpad was very (very) hot, and the mouse buttons were pocket-sized, spoiling the whole feel. While it'south thinner than most desktop replacements, the Bract is even so pretty hefty.

Developed by Sixense, Razer's new Hydra gaming controller uses magnetic tracking to determine the position of ii batons. The device boasts high precision controls with six degrees of freedom and a resolution of 1mm along the X, Y, and Z axes, also equally one degree in roll, pitch, and yaw. This is combined with a depression latency, 120Hz refresh rate.

Valve supported Sixense in creating DLC for several games including Portal 2, which we tried. Usually, it takes fourth dimension for your body to learn the minutia of using a new interface. Non then with the Hydra. Within seconds, I was naturally moving virtually with the left baton and looking around with the right one. And, with such a highly authentic device, I wasn't making unintentional gestures or having problem with inconsistencies. The controller has been available for about six months at present and is available for $110.

MSI

MSI is jumping on the Intel Thunderbolt bandwagon with a new product called GUS II. GUS II is an external graphics bill of fare enclosure designed to house a single card with a power draw no higher than 150 watts, ideally targeted at notebook gamers. The device operates over the Thunderbolt interface on i end with a PCIe X16 slot for cards within the enclosure. Hardware-wise, the GUS II is ready to go merely MSI admitted there were still some issues to work out on the software/driver side. MSI expects GUS II to retail between $100 and $150.

We looked at some interesting motherboards from MSI besides. The Big Bang XPower II, MSI'due south new flagship Extended ATX board, will be launching in a few weeks featuring four-manner AMD Crossfire and Nvidia SLI support, Intel's X79 chipset and supporting upwards to 128GB of arrangement retentivity. The board includes a 22 phase PWM design with hybrid digital power and currently holds the record for the fastest base clock at 168MHz. Enthusiasts can expect to pay just south of $500 for MSI's latest board in the near future.

Besides on display were a couple of Z77-based offerings, the GD65 and GD80. Both boards characteristic PCIe Gen 3 support, ClickBIOS Two, OC Genie II and THX TruStudio Pro. We liked that these boards don't feature whatever legacy PCI slots. Additionally, MSI had to remove the OC Genie button due to layout issues. Nosotros were told that the Z77 series volition characteristic less ability phases, resulting in 22 watts less than previous offerings.

NZXT

Subsequently seeing l% growth over the past year according to the visitor, NZXT has big plans for 2022, hoping to launch 25 new products. Redesigned cases, new chassis fans, Seasonic-manufactured ability supplies, laptop coolers and peripherals are all in the pipeline.

NZXT's full belfry Switch chassis was on display with MadCatz peripherals. The futuristic enclosure touts one-affect pop out fan filters, LED lighting on the rear I/O panel and plastic-covered LED decorations. Without major modification, the beefy tower can accommodate a 360mm long, 65mm deep radiator with a push-pull fan design. That's six fans on the top of the case with room for 6 more spread throughout.

Refreshed Phantom cases were besides on display with new color schemes suggested past fans on Reddit. You will soon find the Phantom in white/blue, black/white, and blackness/orange.

NZXT's berth was brimming with fan controllers and I/O panels. Two Sentry MIX fan controllers, already available at $29.99, kept the Switch cool. The Mnpctech Switch mod also had the Aperture G and Aperture Mesh I/O panels, which read anything under the lord's day -- except SDXC, they're working on that. The Apertures will hit shelves in about a month for $19.99 and $24.99, respectively.

Samsung

Samsung hit the prove floor with a host of new products, including a hybrid tablet-phone, sleek ultrabooks and a sexy all-in-one. Our first impression of the Galaxy Notation hybrid telephone/tablet: information technology'southward suffering from an identity crisis. Its massive five.three-inch screen is clumsy in the hand, awkward against your ear and yet it doesn't offering enough of a real manor boost over handsets like the Galaxy Nexus to justify those drawbacks.

Nosotros too got a adventure to check out the redesigned 13" and 15" Series nine ultraportables. In a word, they're beautiful. Samsung is putting a huge emphasis on its 400-nit, 1600x900 displays which look awesome, especially framed past the elegant case design. The Serial 9 was much sturdier than some of the other thin-and-light machines nosotros handled on the showfloor, with nigh no flex in the chassis.

We also took a minute to adore Samsung'south start venture into the world of all-in-ones. The Series nine AIO desktop carries a quad-core Core i7, 8GB of RAM, Radeon Hard disk 6730M graphics with 1GB of video memory, a Telly tuner, a Blu-ray drive and an HDMI input in case you want to hook up your game panel. The system also packs a bright 400-nit, 27-inch 1080p display that supports 3D visuals and features 2d-3D conversion.

Emperor

Emperor was on site with its signature scorpion-shaped chairs, including the MWElab Emperor 1510 chair, which offers Bose environment sound and three 24-inch brandish mounts for $6,200 -- a fee that ought to include a waiter who supplies drinks for chair's integrated loving cup holder.

Crucial

8GB modules are the trend at Crucial, which has refreshed its Sport, Tactical and Elite retention lines. The kickoff is priced at $90 per 8GB module with standard timings and nifty new heatspreaders for the superficial mainstream crowd. The Tactical sticks are $110 per 8GB, with CAS8 timings and an XMP profile. Finally, the Elite series are $130 per 8GB, run at 1866MHz/CAS9 and feature a built-in temperature monitor.

Crucial is too developing some new SSD offerings, such as its 2.v-inch Adrenaline hybrid cache drive, which brings affordable SSD-like speeds to your existing HDD past methods similar to Intel's Smart Response Technology. The company says it's also considering an ExpressCard version for laptop users. Finally, Crucial plants to adopt a 7mm z-depth standard for its M4 drives over the side by side year to fit ultrabooks.

SilverStone

We stumbled upon what was perhaps the virtually interesting chassis we saw at the prove at SilverStone's booth. Their new Mini-ITX FT03-Mini is nearly identical externally to the original FT03 except that it supports a smaller form factor and the optical drive is mounted vertically which looks a bit odd on the silverish version. The SilverStone rep described it as the SG05 turned vertically which we tin can totally relate to.

Much like the original, the system can be taken apart in a matter of seconds past removing the top panel first then popping off the forepart and back covers and finally the remaining side (ane side isn't removable). Users tin can install a graphics card upwards to ix.v-inches in length and there'due south a single 140mm Penetrator intake fan on the lesser of the chassis that's responsible for cooling the entire system.

A SFX ability supply (not included) is required due to the small form factor. SilverStone has a new 80 Plus Gilded 450 watt PSU in the works, although it isn't expected until the second one-half of 2022. The PSU features shorter cables and a smallish (past today's standards) 80mm fan. If you lot can't expect until summertime, SilverStone's current SFX solution is available now, although simply with an lxxx Plus Statuary certification. Look for the FT03-Mini to launch in March at $130.

The PS07 is SilverStone'south answer to the Antec P180. The example includes ii 120mm intake fans behind a swing-out front bezel that admittedly felt a bit cheap due to its plastic structure. Bated from this, however, nosotros liked everything about the PS07. Included in the flooring of the chassis is an adaptable CPU cooler support subclass designed to remove some of the stress that a heavy cooler tin put on your motherboard. Other quality features include a subconscious department to route unused cables from a non-modular power supply and accommodations for up to 5 3.5-inch hard drives. The PS07 is available right at present for $79.

SilverStone's flagship 1350 watt Zeus power supply includes an eighty Plus Silverish certification is built with server guys in listen. The unit includes a switch that allows the user to select either a unmarried runway configuration or a split 6 rails blueprint. Either way, in that location's 105A available on the +12V line and the PSU features a full modular design. Users can additionally fine-melody voltages by inserting a minor screwdriver into i of 3 holes on the back of the unit and twisting appropriately. SilverStone plans to launch the Zeus 1350 in a few months for around $400.

Sony

Sony didn't accept much for united states to tinker with. Its prototype ultrabook and hybrid tablets were locked in a glass display and neither was functional. However, we did bank check out the Intelligent Peak LED Goggle box engineering, which is already available on XBR televisions. With full array backlighting, these TVs can tune the lighting of individual pixels, dimming black ones and shining through the vivid ones for an impressive image.

Toshiba

Toshiba had another waterproof tablet on brandish, similar to the Fujitsu Arrows that nosotros saw at CES Unveiled. Like the Arrows, Toshiba's H2O-proof tablet is safe up to a meter under water for one-half an hour. Unique from Fujitsu'south slate, Toshiba demonstrated a proof-of-concept wireless power technology. With an antenna roughly the size of the tablet itself, Toshiba powered the device through near two inches of glass and water.

We also had a adventure to look at the Toshiba Portégé Z835 equally well as the company's xiv-inch ultrabook design. Both were extremely lightweight, with bonny brushed aluminum exteriors. Unfortunately, their looks are deceiving. This slim course factor comes with a huge amount of flex on the screen and keyboard, giving the whole chassis a very cheap experience. We promise this trouble is addressed every bit manufacturers refine their designs.

Roccat

Roccat, one of several companies included in our 12 mouse round-upwards in 2022, kicked things off by showing us their Kone+. The follow-up to the original Kone includes a 6000 DPI sensor and up to xx grams of adjustable weights. There's a 1000Hz polling rate, Teflon coated pads and support for upward to 500 macro actions.

Unique features of the Kone+ include the EasyShift+ push button that allows you to assign two functions to each button, like using the Shift fundamental on a keyboard. This results in a full of 22 programmable mouse functions. Hardcore gamers will capeesh the vocalism histrion prompts that tin can exist fix as timers for things similar wellness and ammo respawns.

Roccat showed us the Isku gaming keyboard to compliment the Kone+. The Isku checks in at $89.99 and includes a big wrist rest and cable routing channels into the underside of the board, although personally I've never institute a apply for these. The individual keys have a expert tactical feel when pressed despite not being mechanical. Features unique to the Isku include 3 customizable keys merely beneath the keyboard that are intended to be used with your thumb. Macros can be recorded on-the-fly while in a game with a voice role player prompting the player when a macro is being recorded.

The Kave 5.1 Headset will retail at $190 featuring four 40mm drivers congenital into the headset. The Kave has vibration feedback capabilities, a mic muted LED indicator and a 10-step headband adjustment strap. The headset felt comfortable while wearing with a strong a sturdy feel in the hand. Ane matter nosotros noted was that the ear muffs didn't lay flat against your chest when the headset was pulled off the head and worn around the neck. An in-line control box provides adjustment of each audio aqueduct as well as a mute button and volume punch.

Roccat said that products should beginning popping upward soon on Amazon, Newegg, TigerDirect and Best Purchase with the full line-up online by February. Sites like ncix.com that are already selling products in North America are non authorized and are getting their supplies from grey market Asian channels. Regardless, Roccat is yet supporting these consumers should they need technical support.

Gigabyte

Gigabyte displayed a plethora of graphics cards and motherboards, including a few motherboard engineering samples for Intel's side by side-generation platform due out in a few months. Samples spanned all budgets, including the GA-B75M-D3H, GA-Z77X-UD3H, GA-Z77X-UD5H, G1.Sniper three, and G1.Sniper M3. Also shown were a few of the already-released X79-based "Ultra Durable" boards: the GA-X79-UD3 and GA-X79-UD5.

Gigabyte as well introduced a new Radeon HD 7970 graphics carte du jour that comes manufacturing plant overclocked at 1GHz and connects via PCIe three.0. It'southward chilled using Gigabyte's Windforce cooling system which supposedly triples airflow and lowers the menu's temperature upwardly to 33% over the stock configuration. This is accomplished by tweaking the cooling associates to reduce turbulence between the fans. The bill of fare is currently bachelor for around $600.

OCZ

The highlight of our time with OCZ was their next-generation Everest ii NAND flash controller platform. Prepare for release next June, the SATA 6Gb/s interface boasts preliminary numbers of 550MB/s read and 500MB/s write with up to xc,000 4K random write IOPS.

OCZ demoed the Everest 2 for us using IOmeter, CrystalDiskMark and As SSD. In each case, the drive outperformed the products it was going upwards against, such as Patriot'south Pyro and Corsair'due south Strength 3. Products based on this controller will support capacities up to 2TB in a two.5-inch form factor, although we will have to wait until June 2022 to get our easily on one.

OCZ had multiple other products on hand similar the Z-Drive R5 and the "Lightfoot" portable SSD with Thunderbolt Technology that resembles the Enyo USB three.0 portable SSD released a few years ago, only the majority of other offerings were enterprise solutions that were outside the scope of what we typically cover.

As for power supplies, the Fatal1ty 1000 watt unit was the only new model on display. After abandoning their DRAM line a year agone and obviously slowing back on power supply production, information technology's articulate that OCZ has their sights focused solely on making solid country drives in 2022.