The four buildings yesterday aren’t quite big enough to hold the entire show. A new exhibition center called Nangang opened up this year just time time for Computex and it is the largest building of them all. It is located in a different part of the city, so I decided visit this site today.
The Nangang Exhibition Hall had most of the important companies on the upper floor, which was a smart move to get everyone out here. There was Intel and AMD from the US and all the major Taiwanese motherboard companies like MSI, Foxconn, Gigabyte, and Abit. There were tons of memory companies, like AData. Cooling companies like Zalman and Thermaltake. Things were more exciting here since many companies were using computer games to show off their hardware.
The hottest thing this here are the ultra portable PCs. Intel was showing around 10 different implementations using their new efficient Atom CPU. Intel also had a section showing overclocking of their CPUs. For example, they had a 3GHz CPU running at 4GHz with air cooling. There were more extreme demonstrations too. I noticed some companies had canisters of Liquid Nitrogen around. I saw some demos where they would pour the liquid directly onto the CPU and they got one up to 5.5GHz. It isn’t very practical though since you have to continuously pour the liquid on the CPU since it evaporates.