Hardware Asylum CES 2025 Coverage
I would like to thank Yeyian Gaming for helping sponsor Hardware Asylum during CES 2025. The Consumer Electronics Show starts Jan 9th and runs through Jan 12th.
Yeyian Gaming offers an wide range of solutions for the PC gamer including pre-built PCs to fully customized gaming computers with an online configurator. Their builds feature the latest in computer hardware including Intel Ultra, AMD Ryzen 9 and the latest in Nvidia RTX.
Be sure to check them out at https://us.yeyiangaming.com and the Venetian Tower if you'll be attending CES 2025.
Asylum Review Block: Z170 All Around
I ranted a bit about Skylake and the Z170 chipset in the latest Hardware Asylum Podcast noting that due to some changes in the USB implementation didn't work well with Windows 7. There are more of an annoyance really but the issues don't stop there since many games fail to run on Skylake due to shoddy DRM and some classic benchmarks throw random BSODs.
Heck I got BIOS corruption once requiring a reflash. Issues aside the motherboards are still quite good.
Web Reviews:
- MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM Review @ Vortez
- ASUS Z170 ROG Maximus VIII Extreme review @ Guru3D
- EVGA Z170 FTW Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews
- MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION Review @ [H]
- EVGA Z170 Stinger Motherboard Review @ Hardware Slave
- Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GAMING G1 (Intel LGA-1151) @ techPowerUp
I have a couple of boards in the lab going through the paces so stay tuned, those reviews will be going live soon.
