Cebit 2008 Coverage Part 2
Tradeshow & OC events by piotke @ 2008-03-25
Part 2 of Cebit 2008 coverage finally hit the web. We´ll be showing product highlights from EVGA, Asus, MSI, Foxconn, DFI, Zotac, Zalman, G-Skill, Team Xtreem, Abit and Sandisk.
Review
Introduction & SanDisk
Introduction
SanDisk
The Vaulter disk drive is designed specially for notebooks. It's something between a Solid State Disk and flash memory and ought to speed up your PC quite a bit. Note that this is only equally fast as a SSD when looking at the read speed.
The disk appears as a regular disk in your Windows operating system.
This small card can contain up to 16 Gb of storage capacity. It won't be available for end users, just for systems builders. This is because you need a special designed mainboard with the possibility to boot from the PCI express slot.
Here we see the IBM HS21 Blade server. This unit is featuring two of SanDisk latest products.
Most special to my opinion is the uSSD 5000? This is actually a small SSD. It can contain up to 8 Gb, and contains software to make the server accessible from a remote location. But it can also contain management software.
Here we see two naked 16 Gb Solid State Disks. They are squeezed together so that they only take the size of one 2.5" hard disk drive. Depending on the board settings it can be used as the separate drives or in RAID mode.
The SanDisk FlashBack Adapter is a flash card reader that needs to be installed in the PCMCIA express connector of your laptop. Now, what's so special about it ? It comes paired with (Windows Only) software. The software allows you to choose some files and folders that need to be back upped automatically. This way the risk for data loss will be significantly reduced.
Here it how it looks once it's installed:
We like to thank the following companies who made our trip to Cebit 2008 possible:
SanDisk
The Vaulter disk drive is designed specially for notebooks. It's something between a Solid State Disk and flash memory and ought to speed up your PC quite a bit. Note that this is only equally fast as a SSD when looking at the read speed.
The disk appears as a regular disk in your Windows operating system.
This small card can contain up to 16 Gb of storage capacity. It won't be available for end users, just for systems builders. This is because you need a special designed mainboard with the possibility to boot from the PCI express slot.
Here we see the IBM HS21 Blade server. This unit is featuring two of SanDisk latest products.
Most special to my opinion is the uSSD 5000? This is actually a small SSD. It can contain up to 8 Gb, and contains software to make the server accessible from a remote location. But it can also contain management software.
Here we see two naked 16 Gb Solid State Disks. They are squeezed together so that they only take the size of one 2.5" hard disk drive. Depending on the board settings it can be used as the separate drives or in RAID mode.
The SanDisk FlashBack Adapter is a flash card reader that needs to be installed in the PCMCIA express connector of your laptop. Now, what's so special about it ? It comes paired with (Windows Only) software. The software allows you to choose some files and folders that need to be back upped automatically. This way the risk for data loss will be significantly reduced.
Here it how it looks once it's installed:
Asus & DFI
Asus
Asus had a large booth this year on Cebit. The eye catcher wasn't the latest mainboard or laptop, no it was the real life Lamborghini that was on display. This was to promote the Asus Lamborghini series.
Here we see the Lamborghini laptop:
Which is available in multiple styles. Here we see the yellow version on the left en the leather version on the right.
A lot of goodies and accessories are available in the Lamborghini style. Such as portable hard disks.
Mice and mouse pads.
And a stylish bag.
Asus will also be focussing more on the PDA / GSM market. He we see the Lamborghini one:
For the people who want a completely different style Asus has designed a portable with a bamboo cover and inlay.
Or how about some flower design engraved ?
When it comes to viodecards there isn't much new here. The 9800GX2 isn't for exposure available yet. But Asus has some things to show when it comes to video cards. The card on the picture below has a new cooler. This new design will be used in the near future on multiple vga cards.
And something bigger. Here we see the 9600Gt completely passive cooled.
Also mainboards have bigger cooling solutions. Here we see the Asus M3N-HT deluxe. An AM2+ Phenom mainboard, based on the Nvidia 780 Sli chipset.
The Asus Maximus II Extreme is based on the Intel P45. Notice the separate audio card, the watercooled (!!) chipset and the EPU. Energy Processing Unit takes case of the CPU power circuit and can disable some stages if there isn't much power needed.
Here we have the Asus Rampage Formula. The baddest of them all. Based on Intel X48 and a lot of copper on the northbridge and around the CPU socket this board is ready for it !
Asus is introducing a new series of coolers. Both in aluminium as copper. Some coolers look a bit like the design from another well known cooler manufacturer ;-).
DFI
Besides the new Intel Based mainboards, DFI is ready to introduce a new chipset cooler setup.
Just as most recent mainboards it will consist of a heatpipe structure. Starting at the southbridge, passing over the northbridge, and ending near the CPU power circuit. Or sometimes even going to the outside of the case.
The disadvantage nowadays was that if you would like to watercool one of these parts, ore use a rather special sized cpu cooler, which you need to remove the entire structure.
The solution DFI is proposing, is to keep the northbridge heatsink to a minimum, so that the user can install any cooler the want on top of it. DFI will be producing, together with the Thermalright a smaller and a larger heatsink. Both of them can be easily installed by clipping them onto the base of the chipset cooler.
An overview of the complete installation.
The small chipset cooler installed.
Here we see the DFI lanparty DK P45-T2R.
Here we see the DFI lanparty DK X48-T2R. Both these board also exist in DDR3 version of course.
Asus had a large booth this year on Cebit. The eye catcher wasn't the latest mainboard or laptop, no it was the real life Lamborghini that was on display. This was to promote the Asus Lamborghini series.
Here we see the Lamborghini laptop:
Which is available in multiple styles. Here we see the yellow version on the left en the leather version on the right.
A lot of goodies and accessories are available in the Lamborghini style. Such as portable hard disks.
Mice and mouse pads.
And a stylish bag.
Asus will also be focussing more on the PDA / GSM market. He we see the Lamborghini one:
For the people who want a completely different style Asus has designed a portable with a bamboo cover and inlay.
Or how about some flower design engraved ?
When it comes to viodecards there isn't much new here. The 9800GX2 isn't for exposure available yet. But Asus has some things to show when it comes to video cards. The card on the picture below has a new cooler. This new design will be used in the near future on multiple vga cards.
And something bigger. Here we see the 9600Gt completely passive cooled.
Also mainboards have bigger cooling solutions. Here we see the Asus M3N-HT deluxe. An AM2+ Phenom mainboard, based on the Nvidia 780 Sli chipset.
The Asus Maximus II Extreme is based on the Intel P45. Notice the separate audio card, the watercooled (!!) chipset and the EPU. Energy Processing Unit takes case of the CPU power circuit and can disable some stages if there isn't much power needed.
Here we have the Asus Rampage Formula. The baddest of them all. Based on Intel X48 and a lot of copper on the northbridge and around the CPU socket this board is ready for it !
Asus is introducing a new series of coolers. Both in aluminium as copper. Some coolers look a bit like the design from another well known cooler manufacturer ;-).
DFI
Besides the new Intel Based mainboards, DFI is ready to introduce a new chipset cooler setup.
Just as most recent mainboards it will consist of a heatpipe structure. Starting at the southbridge, passing over the northbridge, and ending near the CPU power circuit. Or sometimes even going to the outside of the case.
The disadvantage nowadays was that if you would like to watercool one of these parts, ore use a rather special sized cpu cooler, which you need to remove the entire structure.
The solution DFI is proposing, is to keep the northbridge heatsink to a minimum, so that the user can install any cooler the want on top of it. DFI will be producing, together with the Thermalright a smaller and a larger heatsink. Both of them can be easily installed by clipping them onto the base of the chipset cooler.
An overview of the complete installation.
The small chipset cooler installed.
Here we see the DFI lanparty DK P45-T2R.
Here we see the DFI lanparty DK X48-T2R. Both these board also exist in DDR3 version of course.
G-skill & Team Xtreem
G-Skill
Now that memory is getting clocked higher and higher it also gets hotter and hotter. And that's where the G-Skill active memory cooling could come in handy.
This year G-Skill didn't present us any record breaking speeds, but they more focussed on cooling. Here you can see the new heat spreader design.
The focus was on cooling, but also capacity. This is demonstrated by the 4 Gb DDR2 kit, working at 1 GHz.
Or what about an 8 Gb (2*4 Gb) kit ?
Next to the regular memory we see also more and more SSD showing up and G-skill wants also a bit of that pie.
Team Xtreem
The eye catcher Team Xtreem is presenting us is a 2 Gb set of DDR memory, operating at the amazing frequency of 2133 Mhz. This should be the highest frequency for computers available now.
The downside of this frequency is that the memory timings are quite a bit worse (10-10-10-30). Also the voltage is quit high. We're talking here about 2.1 to 2.2 volts. Don't forget that official JDEC standards state that DDR3 should work at 1.5 volt.
Not a new record, but DDR2 at 1200 Mhz is also a nice achievement.
More DDR2 "Dark" series...
Team Xtreem has also introduced the Elite series. Offering both So-dimm as regular memory. The target audience for these memory modules are people that want decent memory with decent warranty service.
The Elite DDR2 series...
Overview of the products.
Now that memory is getting clocked higher and higher it also gets hotter and hotter. And that's where the G-Skill active memory cooling could come in handy.
This year G-Skill didn't present us any record breaking speeds, but they more focussed on cooling. Here you can see the new heat spreader design.
The focus was on cooling, but also capacity. This is demonstrated by the 4 Gb DDR2 kit, working at 1 GHz.
Or what about an 8 Gb (2*4 Gb) kit ?
Next to the regular memory we see also more and more SSD showing up and G-skill wants also a bit of that pie.
Team Xtreem
The eye catcher Team Xtreem is presenting us is a 2 Gb set of DDR memory, operating at the amazing frequency of 2133 Mhz. This should be the highest frequency for computers available now.
The downside of this frequency is that the memory timings are quite a bit worse (10-10-10-30). Also the voltage is quit high. We're talking here about 2.1 to 2.2 volts. Don't forget that official JDEC standards state that DDR3 should work at 1.5 volt.
Not a new record, but DDR2 at 1200 Mhz is also a nice achievement.
More DDR2 "Dark" series...
Team Xtreem has also introduced the Elite series. Offering both So-dimm as regular memory. The target audience for these memory modules are people that want decent memory with decent warranty service.
The Elite DDR2 series...
Overview of the products.
EVGA & Zotac
EVGA
EVGA was the only one at Cebit to show an almost naked 9800 GX2, with custom watercooling. Left we see the reference card, right the card with the waterblock. The two cores are both pointing to the inside, which makes it easier to install watercooling. Just one "dual sided" block is needed.
The two PCBs are linked together with a flexible SLI bridge.
A closer look at the block.
A side view. Notice the holes in the PCBs. Normally there's a fan behind these holes to such cold air in between the cards.
Something new we've seen is the dual (and more) monitor break out box. It only requires a free USB port, and you'll have an extra DVI port.
The DVI port. The box is barely larger then the port.
Here you can see it in action. (Well, it's not on the picture, but you get the intention ;-)) Installed on the new dual screen setup from EVGA.
Further we see the new cooling on the 8800 GT card.
With a rear heatpipe cooler.
I've made some more pictures at the EVGA booth, showing the new main boards, and the fancy new screen. But as I left my own cam at home, I borrowed a smaller Canon Ixus, but had some troubles making decent pictures. So our apologies for this.
Zotac
Zotac didn't show much new this year. Just one wall with some 8800 and 8600 cards. What they had to show, was this 8800 GT card, with a display port?
They claim to be the first introducing this on the 8800 cards.
And as for every new interface, there is also a converter for it to the more common used ports.
EVGA was the only one at Cebit to show an almost naked 9800 GX2, with custom watercooling. Left we see the reference card, right the card with the waterblock. The two cores are both pointing to the inside, which makes it easier to install watercooling. Just one "dual sided" block is needed.
The two PCBs are linked together with a flexible SLI bridge.
A closer look at the block.
A side view. Notice the holes in the PCBs. Normally there's a fan behind these holes to such cold air in between the cards.
Something new we've seen is the dual (and more) monitor break out box. It only requires a free USB port, and you'll have an extra DVI port.
The DVI port. The box is barely larger then the port.
Here you can see it in action. (Well, it's not on the picture, but you get the intention ;-)) Installed on the new dual screen setup from EVGA.
Further we see the new cooling on the 8800 GT card.
With a rear heatpipe cooler.
I've made some more pictures at the EVGA booth, showing the new main boards, and the fancy new screen. But as I left my own cam at home, I borrowed a smaller Canon Ixus, but had some troubles making decent pictures. So our apologies for this.
Zotac
Zotac didn't show much new this year. Just one wall with some 8800 and 8600 cards. What they had to show, was this 8800 GT card, with a display port?
They claim to be the first introducing this on the 8800 cards.
And as for every new interface, there is also a converter for it to the more common used ports.
Zalman
Zalman
Zalman didn't bring many new products this year. But we'll give you a small highlight of what we've seen at their booth. It starts with watercooling.
All of these blocks are already available and should cover almost every possible VGA card/processor or chipset.
What Zalman also did was take the Z-machine case and the reserator XT watercooling unit. And make one case of them. The radiator is installed in the side panel, the pump in installed next to the hard disk rack on the bottom of the case.
The control and monitoring part in installed in the front of the case.
The existing power supplies, with different cable sleeving.
The HTC casings.
A new case design. (Keep in mind that this is just the prototype). Featuring hot swap SATA bays.
It's a black case, not with a blue accent as shown on the previous picture.
The power supply is installed in the bottom of the case.
The install the PSU easy there are 2 rails provided with small wheels, so that you can just slide in the PSU.
Here we see the new VGA cooler. A small plate installed on the core and 3 heatpipes transfer the heat to a larger surface. This will be positioned near the rear exhaust fan. But as every case is different the radiator should be movable. How this would be solved couldn't be answered yet.
The picture shows a prototype.
Some more finished cooler is de Zalman VF2000. This is a rather big VGA cooler, or a rather small cpu cooler. This unit can be both.
Zalman didn't bring many new products this year. But we'll give you a small highlight of what we've seen at their booth. It starts with watercooling.
All of these blocks are already available and should cover almost every possible VGA card/processor or chipset.
What Zalman also did was take the Z-machine case and the reserator XT watercooling unit. And make one case of them. The radiator is installed in the side panel, the pump in installed next to the hard disk rack on the bottom of the case.
The control and monitoring part in installed in the front of the case.
The existing power supplies, with different cable sleeving.
The HTC casings.
A new case design. (Keep in mind that this is just the prototype). Featuring hot swap SATA bays.
It's a black case, not with a blue accent as shown on the previous picture.
The power supply is installed in the bottom of the case.
The install the PSU easy there are 2 rails provided with small wheels, so that you can just slide in the PSU.
Here we see the new VGA cooler. A small plate installed on the core and 3 heatpipes transfer the heat to a larger surface. This will be positioned near the rear exhaust fan. But as every case is different the radiator should be movable. How this would be solved couldn't be answered yet.
The picture shows a prototype.
Some more finished cooler is de Zalman VF2000. This is a rather big VGA cooler, or a rather small cpu cooler. This unit can be both.
Corsair & Intel
Corsair
Corsair is demonstrating the fastest DDR memory modules around. Operating at a whopping 2133 Mhz, with more then decent timings (8-8-8-24). We couldn't find out at what voltage they were operating.
And here we have on overview of that setup using Corsair watercooling, Corsair power supply and a 2 Gb pair of there fastest DDR3 modules.
And there are also the new series HX power supplies.
A closer look at the specifications of the 1000 watt version.
And overview of the wide range of USB memory sticks. The largest available format is 32 Gigabyte for the moment.
The "White Cobra" custom build case.
Corsair was also proud to announce that Dell XPS, the high end and gaming series from Dell, are using Corsair Dominator memory modules.
Here we se a system with 8 Gb of memory. Just to show that 4 stiks have no problem working decently together.
Intel
Also Intel was present, and even on multiple locations. Here we see some F1 gaming action. The games were running on Core 2 Quad powered Fujitsu systems.
Some partner created boards using Intel chipsets.
Micro ATX and custom sized boards.
A look at the server based boards
Corsair is demonstrating the fastest DDR memory modules around. Operating at a whopping 2133 Mhz, with more then decent timings (8-8-8-24). We couldn't find out at what voltage they were operating.
And here we have on overview of that setup using Corsair watercooling, Corsair power supply and a 2 Gb pair of there fastest DDR3 modules.
And there are also the new series HX power supplies.
A closer look at the specifications of the 1000 watt version.
And overview of the wide range of USB memory sticks. The largest available format is 32 Gigabyte for the moment.
The "White Cobra" custom build case.
Corsair was also proud to announce that Dell XPS, the high end and gaming series from Dell, are using Corsair Dominator memory modules.
Here we se a system with 8 Gb of memory. Just to show that 4 stiks have no problem working decently together.
Intel
Also Intel was present, and even on multiple locations. Here we see some F1 gaming action. The games were running on Core 2 Quad powered Fujitsu systems.
Some partner created boards using Intel chipsets.
Micro ATX and custom sized boards.
A look at the server based boards
MSI
MSI
Just as the previous years MSI had a rather large booth, exposing very detailed their complete product ranges.
MSI doesn't only make mainboards and video cards. Laptops (see further down this page) and mice / webcams / USB sticks / BT sticks / ... are also on their repertoire. Here you can see a small overview of their current products.
Let's save the nature by cutting down trees and use them as laptop casings. ;-)
MSI already had some special laptop designs (Just think of Swarovski on some of their laptops). But now we have a wooden designed laptop. This for the moment still is a prototype, not sure if it will ever hit retail market.
A laptop that will be released more likely in the near future is this carbon looking laptop.
MSI is reintroducing the Turbo button. Where it was used in the past to speed up computers, it has a multifunctional purpose nowadays.
If the laptop is plugged in on the AC circuit, pushing the turbo button will make it work faster. The cpu got a 400 Mhz boost, coming from 2.2 GHz and jumping to a nice 2.6 GHz.
But if you're running on batteries, and push the turbo button then, clock speeds go down, just as the brightness of the screen. This will give you some extra minutes working with the battery.
And here we have the P45 DDR3 counterpart.
AMDs' Phenom processor isn't really a big hit amongst enthusiasts. But that doesn't stop MSI for designing new boards. Here you can see the latest high end board, the K9A2 Platinum.
Below we see the P45 Diamond. The chipset cooling is not present, as it wasn't released yet on Cebit. It's the successor of the looping/rollercoaster heatpipe construction.
Besides that, what's so special about this board ?
We find 6 SATA ports just below the memory slots, 7 more in the down right corner, and 2 (not visible on the picture) on the rear I/O panel. Giving a total of a whopping 15 SATA ports.
And here we have the DDR3 counterpart.
And the P7N, Nvidia chipset based 775 mainboard. Here we still can see the previous chipset cooling construction.
Finally in our short mainboard tour, we see the MSI G45M. This board is equipped with the Intel G45 chipset which has the GMA X4500HD video accelerator. High Definition playback shouldn't be an issue.
On to the video card wall. The two biggest cards are the already known AMD radeon 3870 X2 in the upper right corner. The other big card is the much anticipated Nvidia 9800 GX2. The card is released on the 18th of march.
The first day we couldn't see the card anywhere on Cebit, but as from day two (after some leaked pictures) Nvidia gave their partners the authorisation to expose the card.
We've also seen cards with on board HDMI port. So no more need for converters.
The recent 9600 series from Nvidia can be found in different flavours...
Here we see the 1 Gb DDR3 version.
... 512 Mb, but passive cooling ...
... And combining the better of two worlds, silent heatpipe cooling from Zalman and 2 (!!) Gb of DDR3 memory.
Just as the previous years MSI had a rather large booth, exposing very detailed their complete product ranges.
MSI doesn't only make mainboards and video cards. Laptops (see further down this page) and mice / webcams / USB sticks / BT sticks / ... are also on their repertoire. Here you can see a small overview of their current products.
Let's save the nature by cutting down trees and use them as laptop casings. ;-)
MSI already had some special laptop designs (Just think of Swarovski on some of their laptops). But now we have a wooden designed laptop. This for the moment still is a prototype, not sure if it will ever hit retail market.
A laptop that will be released more likely in the near future is this carbon looking laptop.
MSI is reintroducing the Turbo button. Where it was used in the past to speed up computers, it has a multifunctional purpose nowadays.
If the laptop is plugged in on the AC circuit, pushing the turbo button will make it work faster. The cpu got a 400 Mhz boost, coming from 2.2 GHz and jumping to a nice 2.6 GHz.
But if you're running on batteries, and push the turbo button then, clock speeds go down, just as the brightness of the screen. This will give you some extra minutes working with the battery.
And here we have the P45 DDR3 counterpart.
AMDs' Phenom processor isn't really a big hit amongst enthusiasts. But that doesn't stop MSI for designing new boards. Here you can see the latest high end board, the K9A2 Platinum.
Below we see the P45 Diamond. The chipset cooling is not present, as it wasn't released yet on Cebit. It's the successor of the looping/rollercoaster heatpipe construction.
Besides that, what's so special about this board ?
We find 6 SATA ports just below the memory slots, 7 more in the down right corner, and 2 (not visible on the picture) on the rear I/O panel. Giving a total of a whopping 15 SATA ports.
And here we have the DDR3 counterpart.
And the P7N, Nvidia chipset based 775 mainboard. Here we still can see the previous chipset cooling construction.
Finally in our short mainboard tour, we see the MSI G45M. This board is equipped with the Intel G45 chipset which has the GMA X4500HD video accelerator. High Definition playback shouldn't be an issue.
On to the video card wall. The two biggest cards are the already known AMD radeon 3870 X2 in the upper right corner. The other big card is the much anticipated Nvidia 9800 GX2. The card is released on the 18th of march.
The first day we couldn't see the card anywhere on Cebit, but as from day two (after some leaked pictures) Nvidia gave their partners the authorisation to expose the card.
We've also seen cards with on board HDMI port. So no more need for converters.
The recent 9600 series from Nvidia can be found in different flavours...
Here we see the 1 Gb DDR3 version.
... 512 Mb, but passive cooling ...
... And combining the better of two worlds, silent heatpipe cooling from Zalman and 2 (!!) Gb of DDR3 memory.
Abit & Foxconn
Abit
Abit was also this year present on Cebit. Just as most other manufacturers there weren't many shocking new products. Here's a quick view on some of the new boards.
High End chipset cooling. With active fan cooling and heatpipe construction. The size of this chipset cooler used to be a processor cooling about 2 generations ago. This is what we may expect soon on high end boards.
The Abit AN78G board for AMD AM2+.
The Abit IP35 Pro XE board for Intel 775.
The Abit IP45 GT3 board for Intel 775.
The Abit IP45 Pro board for Intel 775.
The Abit X38 Quad GT board for Intel 775.
Foxconn
Foxconn is in the market for a very long time. But recently they started focussing more on the end user market. And almost immediately we see some very special products.
But first an overview of some multimedia products, digital cameras and recorders.
And a range of cases....
Just as a lot of other manufacturers Foxconn is following the "Green" trend this year. Introducing some power efficient mainboards.
What if ... all computers on Cebit would use Foxconns Green boards ? Well, this counter shows us chat we could have saved.
The Foxconn "Destroyer" series. Nvidia Nforce 780 SLI based AM2 board.
And the Intel 775, "Dreadnought" counterpart.
A range of boards with on integrated VGA.
Foxconn Quantum Force is presenting the Intel 775 "Blackops" board, based on Intel’s' latest X48 chipset. Hence the high end watercooled chipset cooling.
Foxconn has an extended sized mainboard, bringing 4 16x PCI express slots, with a lot of place between the slots. Dual Slot cooling or even exotic cooling shouldn't be a problem.
The board further has watercooling pre-installed for the chipset, and even a peltier is installed on the chipset.
Shamino is preparing for an extreme overclocking week, hence the 300 litres of LN2.
Abit was also this year present on Cebit. Just as most other manufacturers there weren't many shocking new products. Here's a quick view on some of the new boards.
High End chipset cooling. With active fan cooling and heatpipe construction. The size of this chipset cooler used to be a processor cooling about 2 generations ago. This is what we may expect soon on high end boards.
The Abit AN78G board for AMD AM2+.
The Abit IP35 Pro XE board for Intel 775.
The Abit IP45 GT3 board for Intel 775.
The Abit IP45 Pro board for Intel 775.
The Abit X38 Quad GT board for Intel 775.
Foxconn
Foxconn is in the market for a very long time. But recently they started focussing more on the end user market. And almost immediately we see some very special products.
But first an overview of some multimedia products, digital cameras and recorders.
And a range of cases....
Just as a lot of other manufacturers Foxconn is following the "Green" trend this year. Introducing some power efficient mainboards.
What if ... all computers on Cebit would use Foxconns Green boards ? Well, this counter shows us chat we could have saved.
The Foxconn "Destroyer" series. Nvidia Nforce 780 SLI based AM2 board.
And the Intel 775, "Dreadnought" counterpart.
A range of boards with on integrated VGA.
Foxconn Quantum Force is presenting the Intel 775 "Blackops" board, based on Intel’s' latest X48 chipset. Hence the high end watercooled chipset cooling.
Foxconn has an extended sized mainboard, bringing 4 16x PCI express slots, with a lot of place between the slots. Dual Slot cooling or even exotic cooling shouldn't be a problem.
The board further has watercooling pre-installed for the chipset, and even a peltier is installed on the chipset.
Shamino is preparing for an extreme overclocking week, hence the 300 litres of LN2.