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Given how the world today revolves around data and digital files, it shouldn't be a surprise how ransomware has become the most dangerous and also most rampant form of malware in recent years. From individual users to large corporations, anyone and everyone can be a victim, with larger entities promising the biggest potential profits. That could be the case with Taiwan-based computer hardware manufacturer Gigabyte, whose latest cyberattack incident puts other tech giants also at risk.

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CES is always a time to reveal new products and even the COVID-19 pandemic isn't powerful enough to stop that. It has been a big day for computing, especially laptops, at today's virtual version of the annual event and an even bigger day for NVIDIA. The graphics tech giant just announced laptop versions of its GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs and, unsurprisingly, that came with a flood of new laptops bearing them. Not to be left behind, computer hardware manufacturer Gigabyte has revealed new models across its AORUS and AERO lines, all of them with a bent towards gaming and multimedia creation.

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You may have started hearing about gaming smartphones that boast about some form of water-cooling (technically vapor), but the real titleholders in water-cooled systems are monstrous gaming PC rigs. Not a problem when you have a huge desktop tower, not so much when your gaming computer of choice is a laptop. That's where Gigabyte's latest baby comes in. The AORUS RTX 2080 Ti Gaming Box claims to be an external graphics enclosure like no other, boasting of the industry's first water cooling solution inside a graphics dock.

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Over the past few weeks we've been testing the Gigabyte Aero 15X gaming notebook. This is one of the newest in new gaming notebooks - as such, it is not part of the "massive performance means massive hardware" families of the past. This machine also boasts a few other features that make it unique - like long battery life, a highly decent display (with TINY bezels) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q graphics inside.

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Gigabyte has announced the Aorus X9, a gaming laptop with a pair of NVIDIA GTX 1070 GPUs, as well as a 7th-generation Intel processor and up to 64GB of DDR4-2400 RAM. This Gigabyte model packs a massive high-resolution display, as we'd expect from a powerful gaming laptop, plus a keyboard stylized by RGB backlights. The Aorus X9 doesn't come cheap with a starting price of nearly $1750.

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As far as graphics cards are concerned, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is one of the most powerful on the market. A top-of-the-line card in every respect, GPUs like the GTX 1080 usually end up taking up a lot of space in your case. Gigabyte is hoping to solve that issue by introducing its new GeForce GTX 1080 Mini ITX today.

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When gamers think of gaming rigs with eccentric designs, they will most likely think of brands like Alienware or ASUS' Republic of Gaming. The new Brix Gaming GT from Gigabyte probably can probably go toe to toe with those and won't look out of place in an Aliens movie prop. Encased in a "chimney" style tower with a motley green design and blue lights at the top, the Brix offers every spec a gamer would want. The only issue might be that design.

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Gigabyte has a new array of “Brix” miniature PCs that sport Intel’s latest Kaby Lake processors, giving consumers a very-small-form-factor way to use the hardware. These Brix units are, as the name suggests, shaped relatively like bricks and they're not much larger at only 4.7″ x 4.4″ x 1.4-inches (starting size). Consumers can choose from the latest Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 processors.

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When you hear about gaming rigs, you usually imagine hulking boxes with all sorts of ports, lights, and odd cooling apparatus specifically fine tuned to meet the extensive demands of high-end PC gaming. Some gamers, however, would like to take up a little less space on the desk or shelf. Yes, Mini ITX gaming PCs are a thing, and GIGABYTE just unveileed is custom-made GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX OC card to give those smaller boxes some added graphics muscle to still perform adequately while keeping the space footprint to a minimum.

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The Gigabyte Aero 14 ultraportable gaming laptop, first announced in late May, is now available to purchase. The laptop boasts the features and power gamers need, all of it packed up in a lightweight shell. Among other things, Gigabyte says users can get up to 10 hours of run time using the larger battery, making it suitable for those days you need to be away from an outlet, as well as features like a QHD 2560 x 1440 IPS display and an Intel quad-core i7 H-series processor.

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In the days since 9/11, airport security around the world is significantly tighter than it once was. Customs agents in New Zealand recently tore the GPUs out of a computer that went through inspection on its way to some final destination. The reason the customs agents tore the GPUs out of the machine, destroying the mainboard, was to look for a weapon.

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It's been barely two months since Gigabyte launched its 15.6-inch P35X gaming laptop, and yet here it is again announcing a successor. The Gigabyte P37X, however, might not be too big of a jump to deter you from grabbing the smaller notebook. It is, naturally, bigger than the P35X, but, aside from some few highlights, the two share a lot in common, especially in design. That said, if you're aiming to go big with your gaming on the go, this laptop might be worth considering too.

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