Aorus Infinity with 3D Printed Metal Heatsinks at Computex 2026

For the first time in my entire Computex experience I can say, without a doubt, that I am proud of Gigabyte.  It really has nothing to do with the product they were showing or even the people I meet, it was the venue.  For the first time in the other 20 years I have been attending Computex, Gigabyte has a consumer retail booth on the show floor!

Mind you, there have always been booths on the Computex floor but these were for the peasants so they could get photos and know that Gigabyte was there to save them from buying an inferior product.  The real booth was always off-site, in the early years the display was in Taipei 101 and most recently in a ballroom down the street from Nangang.  Either way, the offsite location was a nighmare for someone looking to maximize their Computex experience having to dedicate up to two hours just to get to the location and back.

For Computex 2026, Gigabyte actually had two booths on the show floor.  The first was dedicated to the enterprise side of the business and their efforts to build high performance servers and module for AI factories across the world.  The second is the consumer retail booth and had a TON of things on display.

The highlight was the 40^th anniversary limited edition halo motherboard the Aorus Infinity Next.  This one off design motherboard features components normally sourced for space and enterprise grade servers including the Quad OptiMOS power architecture delivering an effective 64 power phases to the CPU.  The X870E Aorus Infinity Next also features an entire ecosystem of industry-first 3D metal-printed cooling components that not only look amazing but actually increase cooling performance.

For those not made of unobtainium levels of disposable cash there is a consumer grade version available, though it just doesn’t hit the same.

Other motherboards on display include everything that is currently available and skewed towards the AMD side of the house in both full ATX and Mini ITX form factors.

The illusive Tachyon also makes an appearance and I am convinced that this might be the only sample in existence.

The Computex 2026 theme of “infinity” had been extended to other product lines including the Wood series allowing users to accent their systems with real wood parts giving many of us an excuse to finally build in the Fractal Design North chassis that seems to have started this continuing revolution.

AI was one of the hot topics during the entire show and Gigabyte had two AI related products on display including an example of how the WRX90 AI Top motherboard can support up to nine graphics cards despite there only being the standard seven expansion slots onboard.

AI Agents were also a concern and with the AI Top Atom you can now create low cost desktop clusters and use their included software to manage and monitor the work.

People ask me if there are any NDA items on display during Computex and generally speaking, the answer is yes and no.  For the most part, nobody is going to show a product under NDA because someone will eventually ask a question about it.  However, there are exceptions to the rule such as showing something with no identification and have it guarded by an engineer who doesn’t know anything about it.

Thing is, we all know what it is, just nothing to specific.  I remember back in the early days, there would be motherboards posted without heatsinks.  On the surface it seems logical to show the components but, really it was to hide the heatsink design since it was not allowed to be shown.