The first edition of the European Hardware Awards close the opening day of Computex Taipei 2015: winning companies, products and technologies that represent the best available in the European ICT market.
The first day of Computex Taipei 2015 ended with the announcement of the winners of the European Hardware Award 2015. This is an initiative in which the staff of Ubuntu, one of the founders has contributed to the selection and the vote of the products and technologies decreed as winners.
The founding members of the European Hardware Association sites are Hardware.Info (Netherlands), KitGuru (United Kingdom), Hardwareluxx (Germany), Cowcotland (France), Ubuntu (Italy), Hispazone (Spain), PurePC.pl (Poland and Lab 501 (Romania). The purpose of this association is to identify what are the best products and the most innovative technologies in the field of ITC, combining the experience gained by publishing sites strong members of more than 20 million visits per month and a database over 100,000 articles written over the years.
Analysis of product candidates and the votes of the winners took place in the months of April and May: every site founder has formulated its own ranking of the most interesting among those analyzed during the last 12 months. From this list, it started a process of internal evaluation that has defined the winners below:
Category | Winner |
Best processor | Intel Core i7 5960X |
Best Motherboard ATX | ASUS X99 Deluxe |
Best Motherboard Micro ATX | ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer |
Best Motherboard Mini ITX | ASUS Maximus VII Impact |
Best series of memories | Corsair Vengeance |
best GPU | NVIDIA GM204 |
Best video card with GPU AMD | Sapphire Radeon R9 290x Tri-X OC 4GB |
Best video card with NVIDIA | ASUS GeForce GTX 980 4GB Strix |
Best monitor | ASUS PB279Q |
Best monitor for gaming | Acer Predator XB270HU |
Best cooling system for the processor (air) | Noctua NH-D15 |
Best cooling system for the processor (liquid) | Enermax LiqMax II 240 |
Case fan series | be quiet! Pure Wings 2 |
Best Hard Drive | Western Digital Red 6TB |
Best SSD | Intel SSD 750 |
Best Optical Drive | LG GH24NS |
Best NAS Device | Synology DS415+ |
Best USB Flash Drive | Samsung T1 |
Best (Micro) ATX Case | Fractal Design Define R5 |
Best Mini ITX Case | BitFenix Prodigy |
Best PSU Series | Seasonic Platinum |
Best Mouse | Logitech MX Master |
Best Keyboard | Corsair K70 RGB |
Best Headset / Headphone | Kingston HyperX Cloud |
Best Router | ASUS RT-AC87U |
Best Sound card | ASUS Xonar Essence STX II |
Best All-in-One PC | Apple iMac 27 “5K |
Best mini-PC / Barebone | ASUS ROG GR8 |
Best Notebook | Dell XPS 13 |
Best Hybrid Tablet / Notebook | Microsoft Surface Pro 3 |
Best Gaming Notebook | MSI GT80 |
Best Tablet | Apple iPad Air 2 |
Best product overall | NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X |
Best new technology | AMD FreeSync |
Best product for overclocking | Gigabyte X99 SOC Champion |
Person of the year | Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft |