2026 marks the 30th year for Lexar and they started CES off with an announcement that they were going to be the global storage partner for the Argentina National Football (Soccer) Team and launched a number of AI focused storage devices.
According to CES 2026 material there were over 4100 exhibitors registered to attend along with several unknowns looking to take advantage of CES by hosting their own events in area hotels. It is not practical to see everything but with a good pair of shoes and a crisp Pepsi I attempted to do the impossible.
Pro Gamers Group was available at CES showing of some of the latest products available in their catalog including a number of ultra light mice, a racing chair and some rather impressive GPU waterblocks.
A big concern with many enthusiasts is knowing if their 12VHPWR cable connection is going to burst into flames and make the evening news. Well, with this new PSU from Cooler Master you'll be alerted to impending danger before the system shuts down for safety.
There are several unicorns when it comes to computer hardware and while most are considered unobtainium a few stand as consumer hot rods. The MSI Lightning series of video cards are not only fast but have the hardware to push the limits.
NVIDIA lifted the embargo on the new RTX 20-Series and in admits of the rejoicing and Ray Tracing goodness some questions remained, namely if upgrading to RTX is worth it.
EVGA had a few things to show during Computex 2018 including a couple new motherboards, an update to their X299 Dark UEFI that adds a stress test and auto overclocking feature. The final is more halo and features automatic LN2 overclocking.
Phanteks announced a new version of the EVOLV called the EVOLV X and it is good! All the bells, all the whistles and all the RGB now with vertical gpu support.
Speaking of tasteful the new X399 Gaming Xtreme motherboard is amazing. This will be a halo product from Aorus/Gigabyte occupying what would normally be considered a UD9. I am really looking forward to getting one of these into the lab.
EK Waterblocks is a new company for me to visit at Computex and much to my surprise they had a good majority of stuff on display from their low cost aluminum based watercooling kits to some ultra high-end wooden watercooling parts
Micron was announcing their Ballistix Sport AT TUF series memory. In keeping alignment with the ASUS TUF Gaming Alliance initiatives the Ballistix Sport AT modules are priced accordingly and feature a heatspreader design to match the ASUS TUF series motherboards.
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