CES 2015: Spying Gigabyte's Wild Water Force Cooling System [Video]

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Not your typical liquid cooling solution

Have you ever seen a water cooling setup that resembles Cthulhu? If not, then you've never seen Gigabyte's Water Force cooler, a unique and crazy looking apparatus that we had to see for ourselves. And now you can too, thanks to our Online Managing Editor and proficient deep water diver Jimmy Thang, who waded his way through the busy crowd at the Consumer Electronics Show to catch on camera Gigabyte's cool creation.
Despite how it looks, Gigabyte maintains that its Water Force setup isn't difficult to install -- it's just a matter of pulling the large size box through your case and plopping it on top. From there, a series of cables dangle down and back into the case, where they're attached to cooling solutions on three included graphics cards -- Gigabyte describes its Water Force as an "all-in-one external liquid cooling system with three graphics cards" on its retail box.
Inside the box that sits atop your case are three radiators. And on the front are digital controls, which allow you to configure how cool you want the graphics card to run.
Have a look:

Next up, Gigabyte showed off some new high end X99-based motherboards and a Brix PC. On some of the boards, like the X99 SOC Champion, there are additional pins in the socket you can enable with a DIP switch -- these are intended to allow for better overclocking by unlocking options for adjusting certain voltages. This is a feature that will mainly be of interest to record breaking overclockers who use liquid nitrogen.
As for the Brix, it's been refreshed with Intel's 5th Generation Core processor (Broadwell) and has a slightly modified case. Have a look:

Moving on, we also got a chance to see some of Gigabyte's gaming laptops, including a 14-inch model (P34W) and a 17.3-inch model (P37X), both of which are extremely thin and light in the gaming category. More here:

And finally, Gigabyte showed off some gaming laptops under its Aorus brand. We got a look at the X5, a 15.6-inch laptop with dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M GPUs powering an optional 3840x2160 display. Gigabyte claims it's the thinnest and lightest 15.6-inch SLI gaming laptop around.
Check it out:

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