Early CES coverage from around the web - part 1

Hardware Canucks is pleased to present our exclusive look at MSI's upcoming Z77 Motherboards & Graphics Upgrade System.

Quote: The show may not have even started yet but CES 2012 is already off to a roaring start and we’re got a few people nosing around. The latest bit of information we’ve received is a quick peak inside of MSI’s suite, a location that held a few surprises including Ivy Bridge motherboards and Thunderbolt-equipped external graphics solutions.

Thermaltake had a room full of interesting products here at CES 2012 and Legit Reviews stopped by to take a look and see what the hot products are going to be for 2012. Thermaltake also had an impressive Level 10 GT case mod called 'Aztec' that was done by Dan McGrath that you have to see!

While Intel is being tight lipped about the up and coming 'Ivy Bridge' platform, GIGABYTE gave us a little bit of hands on time with five of their motherboards. The Intel Z77 Express chipset supports the next generation of Intel 22nm processors. Each of the GIGABYTE motherboards we are about to show off support 'Ivy Bridge'. We didn't get any time with processors, so performance is still a mystery, but GIGABYTE has a pretty solid product stack already!

Gigabyte were busy with media interviews at CES 2012 when Marketing Manager Colin Brix stormed in with a nice selection of Z77 boards to grace us with.

Prior to the start of the CES 2012 show in Las Vegas this week, major players in the storage industry kicked off their mini conference, in an effort to get the buzz going early in consumer and enterprise storage. Of course Micron and Crucial were there in force to show us their latest SSD technologies, starting with their big, bad P320h PCI Express SSD...

We weren’t sure what to expect from NVIDIA’s press event at CES, but the big news turned out to be that ASUS is shipping the world’s first Ice Cream Sandwich tablet--starting today--an ASUS Transformer Prime, which boasts the NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took the stage and hosted an impressive demonstration of the new Transformer Prime...

In addition to a number of new laptops, smartphones, and a TV, Lenovo announced the IdeaPad Yoga Ultrabook today. This new multi-mode notebook meets the specifications for an ultrabook and also has a 360-degree flip-and-fold design.

Over at the 64th floor of the luxurious Trump Hotel in Vegas, we got some exclusive sneaks of ASUS's new ROG Xonar Pheobus sound card, which is a PCIe 118db SNR standalone offering. Also on display was the ROG 'ThunderFX' USB powered audio breakout box (sequel to the R3E-Black Edition's Thunderbolt), to be bundled with a planned special edition of the ROG Rampage IV Formula.