IDF Showcase: NVIDIA, Corsair, X38 and More

Name: IDF Showcase: NVIDIA, Corsair, X38 and More
Brand: IDF

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 09:00 AM EDT

There were a multitude of products on display on the show floor at the Intel Developers Forum this year, most of which were designed for the enterprise space. In addition to the plethora of servers on display, however, were products from a number of manufactures that are well known to enthusiasts. We stopped by a few of their booths and snapped off some pictures to give you all an idea as to what was on display.

One of Intel’s many booths had quite a few interesting systems on display. Machines from CyberPower, Falcon Northwest, 3XS, Maingear, and a handful of other partners were being demoed in the booth, all featuring quad-core processors and Intel’s upcoming X38 chipset. The 3XS system really caught our eye, with its innovative chassis design and integrated CPU water cooling system. This machine was decked out with a Core 2 Extreme QX6850 quad-core chip, 2GB of RAM and dual ATI Radeon 2900 XTs in CrossFire.

There were also a multitude of Centrino notebooks on display of varying form factors from all of the major players in the mobile space, like Asus, MSI, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Sony and others. Hey, is that Scott and Adam from the Tech Report checking out those notebooks?

Kingston was also at the show showcasing their numerous desktop and server memory products, in addition to their extensive line of flash memory devices. A display loaded with DDR3 DIMMs from just about every memory manufacture was also nearby.

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com