Every spring, the major hardware manufacturers gather in Taiwan for Computex. It’s the show for PC fans, but this year we were a little worried, with a 2025 edition dubbed “AI Next”. We clearly thought we were in for an indigestion of marketing concepts and useless products… But that was NOT to be. This 2025 edition of Computex was an excellent vintage, with real novelties and striking moments. We’ll tell you what we remember.
Computex 2025: You didn’t miss a thing :
AMD, Intel & Nvidia conferences: commonplaces…
From a PC fan’s point of view, Nvidia’s conference won’t go down in history. The revelation of the RTX 5060 wasn’t expected to create any sparks, but at least we weren’t disappointed. As for the rest, the GeForce RTX 50 series has just had its most successful, fastest launch in our history…No matter how many times we’ve been told: we’re not buying it. We were hoping to get excited about the ARM chip for the PC world, but we’ll have to wait a little longer.
AMD was better, but not enough to break a leg. The RX 9060XT has been launched, albeit on tiptoe for its 8GB version. We’ll soon be testing this new card, and seeing if the Reds continue to sniff out the new card. We’re also pleased to see the Threadripper back on the market, but there’s still a lot of information missing (price, availability…). We had high expectations of Intel. Probably too many. A potential Arrow Lake refresh, a B770 that would shake up the market a little… We were able to see the future Panther Lake running in real PCs, the Pro B50 and B60 boards, interesting for business but boring as hell. We were about to go under, and then Battlematrix came along…
What not to miss(really)
- The Battlematrix project really shook us out of our torpor. This system is as awesome as its name suggests. Primarily designed for AI developers, the Battlematrix project is a turnkey, rack-mounted system based on an Intel Xeon processor equipped with up to eight B60 GPUs and benefiting from Intel’s work on the software stack, enabling models to be distributed across several installed B60 GPUs. A price tag of around $10K for a solution capable of running LLMs with over 70 billion parameters. That’s quite a lot if you compare it with a single 48GB ADA RTX 6000 priced at over $7K. We’ll have to wait and see, but Intel surprised us where we least expected it.
- The MSI stand and its multiplication of references. With a new Claw console equipped with an AMD Z2 Extreme APU, the brand ‘s historical references revisited and a little boost for its Project Zero (PZ), you had to hang on to see everything. But what really stood out for us was the incredible Strike Pro keyboard and graphics card collection.
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- Hyte X50. A case range that manages to break the codes without looking ugly or déjà vu, it’s still a joy. That’s what we saw at Hyte.
- Thermaltake: so much to see. A lively stand, cool products, Simracing galore and live modding on site. Don’t forget ram, cooling, boxes… It was very dense, very well done and often exciting. At the end of 2024, we were still wondering about the future of the brand.
- be quiet! surprised us earlier with its keyboards. At Computex, the brand presented several other new products, including the AIO Pure Loop 3, with a truly aggressive price positioning. We’ll be following these products with interest over the coming weeks.
- ARCTIC has been one of our favorite choices in recent months. At this year’s Computex, the brand officially launched its ARCTIC Xtender (VG) case. A bold entry into this segment. The stand was also packed with new products.
- MAXSUN, the Chinese brand that’s firing on all cylinders. Maxsun first came to our attention with its anime-themed iCraft gaming boards. Then we turned our attention to its motherboards, taking a Z890 Vertex to the extreme. We weren’t surprised to see its ties strengthened with Intel and the presentation of its Bi-GPU B60, which could do a lot of good for the Blues on the Chinese market. We also discovered and appreciated the madness of its teams, with a RTX card “concept” that’s well worth the detour…
- TRYX has managed to surprise us , and not without difficulty. Indeed, after launching an AIO like the Panorama 360, it had to hit harder. TRYX struck out in a different direction, with sobriety, classy cases (the ARCVISION), an interesting airflow approach (the Flova)… and AIOs and fans with screens everywhere!
But there were many other things too…
- Starting with a visit to typical Taipei stores (well, typical for us)…A must 😉
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- The (long) visit of the Gigabyte booth
- And an overview of Noctua’s products
- Antec too
https://youtube.com/shorts/zpE97Tv8CFU?feature=share https://youtube.com/shorts/un6xyR3P31w?feature=share We’ll definitely be back next year!
