Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 3 — the heat bites as our team races across Taipei
Hyte showed off a few new items, including the Y50 case , a less expensive version of the popular Y50. We finally made it to the Gigabyte booth at the convention center and had a chance to see the X870E Infinity Next motherboard in person, and wow. It’s absolutely stunning with the 3D-printed metal heatinks and that lava-rock-like pattern. Be quiet! Showed off a few items, but I was impressed with the Light Base 803 chassis, and a new power supply (Dark Power Pro 14 IO) with software monitoring that even shows how much it costs to run your rig.
My last appointment was at Thermal Grizzly, who showed off new coatings for their waterblocks, new thermal pastes, and different versions of the WireView Pro for you RTX 5090 owners. By that point, I couldn’t tell if I was coming or going, and thankful all of my appointments were done. A little nap at the hotel and I am back to writing about Computex for the last night.
I’m incredibly thankful for the opportunity to come out to Computex. For me, it’s a completely different experience from CES in Las Vegas. Both have their positives and negatives. Tomorrow I’m excited to get a tour of Asus HQ, but really looking forward to starting the long, long trek back to the U.S. It was real, it was fun, but it wasn’t really fun. Ohio, here I come!
This was my last day in Taipei, and I tried making the most of it. The majority of my morning was spent running back and forth between the two halls of Nangang and talking with various companies, racking up some 20,000 steps in the process (the halls are literally across the street from each other). Some of the details of that tirade through the trade show I can’t talk about quite yet, but as the blisters slowly forming on my feet will tell you, I kept myself plenty busy.
My afternoon was spent at Asus HQ in the Beitou District (about an hour-long trek from Nangang on the MRT). I usually visit the Asus campus, and it is beautiful. There, I met up with several Asus reps and various other media to learn more about Asus’ announcements, as well as some products that are coming down the pike. But, as you might expect, I can’t talk about those quite yet.
Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 0 — peek behind the curtain to see how we're covering the biggest trade show of the year
After four intense days writing into the early hours, visiting vendor showcases, and criss-crossing the show floors at both TaiNEX halls, today was my last in Taiwan, so I once again headed over to Nangang before my departure to ferret out any last hidden hardware gems that we might have missed.
I walked through the massive Gigabyte booth with Joe, admired the company’s classy wood-trimmed Aero cases and Infinity graphics cards, and mused with Gigabyte staff about how the show and the industry have changed since I was last at Computex almost ten years ago.
But my next stop was down the escalators to G.Skill’s booth, which maintains much of the freewheeling enthusiast spirit that I recall from my last visit to Computex so many years ago. If you want to see extreme overclockers chasing world records in real time through swirling clouds of liquid nitrogen, G.Skill’s booth is the place to be. And I got to go deep into the weeds with the company’s reps about DDR5 sub-timings, the resultant memory latencies, and their effect on modern CPU performance. After a week of parsing bold visions for the future of computing, it felt good to get back to the basics. Farewell, Computex, and I hope to be back in Taiwan soon.
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