There it is! Unless this picture is shared around before I can write the end of this post, here and our Facebook page are the first two places on the Internet where you can get an exclusive look at GIGABYTE’s new motherboard, the X99.
Be ready, X99 is coming soon!
Computerworld.com is reporting that for the first time since the disastrous flooding hit Thailand back in October, hard drive prices have showed signs of dropping. Even though average prices will still remain at relatively high prices compared to earlier this year, it does indicate that inventories in the PC retail channel have started to stabilize, meaning that the worst is behind us.
Image source: Dynamite Data.
While there was plenty of mass speculation and backed by conflicting reports in the last few weeks regarding this issue, it’s clear that the sudden price hike did nothing to help ship PCs globally, and certainly will have impacted the DIY market to some extent. However, it would seem that certain doomsday predictions were wide of the mark. And after all, from a purely DIY perspective, there’re plenty of reasons to upgrade to a new X79, Z68 or 900FX platform, regardless of how much a new hard drive costs. Indeed many DIY builders will simply migrate their existing data storage anyway, or will be more focused on adding a high-performance SSD to their existing array.
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It’s been weeks since Intel’s IDF event, and the coverage is all but over. Then today while chatting to a friends I came across this coverage on semiaccurate.com of two Thin Mini-ITX boards that are planned for availability in Q1, 2013 to regional system integrator partners through GIGABYTE’s normal channel distribution system:
Read the full article here.
There is not much info available about these boards yet, and I’m sure we’ll be posting updates as we know more about the final spec and availability dates. In the meantime, if you are interested in them be sure to ask your local GIGABYTE supplier for more details.
