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remember the good old days when your desktop was in your own room where it

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could be as big and bright and loud as you wanted without anybody yelling at

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you unfortunately for many of us

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life is just not that simple anymore maybe you're in a dorm room or in a

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studio apartment with no walls or maybe your wife just never lets up with that

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computer is so ugly can't you just use a

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laptop it doesn't go with our reimagined

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boho aesthetic that's what she sounds like

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anyway whatever the reason there are times when

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it's beneficial for your gaming rig to be inconspicuous or have an air of

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sophistication and if you like the karma jib then i'd

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like to introduce you to the volta v

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on the outside it's a mature piece for

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your space but on the inside it's a

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frame rate destroying beast

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synergy allows you to share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers

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at once check it out now at the link in the video description

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the volta v is a 15.6 liter complete

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system from computer direct outlet whose custom designed enclosure is made of

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domestically sourced selectively cut usa

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walnut or if you're more into chao men than apple pie

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bamboo in many ways it's a wonderful marriage

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of form and function the uninterrupted facade makes it look completely at home

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on your desk or entertainment center while the front i o on the side is still

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easy to access the rest of the i o is at the back well actually in an effort to

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streamline cable management most of the i o is actually inside the box and we

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access it simply by lifting off the magnetically held lid no tools required

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not all of it though is that easy to get at due to the 92 millimeter rear cooling

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fan with that said inside we've got an entire motherboard's worth of

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connections our asrock z270m itxac is

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equipped with dual gigabit lan ports six usb three five gig ports no type c

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though onboard ac wi-fi and three video

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outputs but you won't need those because there's an HDMI port and three display

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port ports on the back of the what gtx 1080 ti

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very nice so what else is in here while there are a ton of options on cdo's site

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our unit has a core i7 7700k kb lake

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chilled by a 92 millimeter ace attack all-in-one liquid cooler with 16 gigs of

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ddr4 RAM and a 512 gig samsung 960 pro

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m.2 SSD power is taken care of by a 600 watt sfx

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power supply from Corsair with custom length cables to keep everything nice

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and tidy inside which is a nice touch because even with a few questionable

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decisions like the friction mount for the radiator it looks and feels as

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classy and premium inside as it does out

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it's little things like the shielded PCIe riser and quiet and efficient

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Noctua fans which brings us to thermals air is drawn

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in through these easy to clean nylon dust filters then it's exhausted out the

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back end in three discrete cooling zones for the power supply

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GPU and everything else and even with all of

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those high performance parts inside there was no smoke

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and no thermal throttling though i will admit that after running synthetic

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benchmarks for a while the room did smell a little woody

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it even stayed impressively quiet though at idle it's barely louder than the

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noise floor in our office and while it does of course get louder under load it

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never screamed like some small form factor systems do bottom line then

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the volta v can make short work of your favorite games without causing a code

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red even if it's sitting on your desk just a few centimeters away and that's a fine

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spot to put it since it's designed to support your monitor on top of hide your

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keyboard underneath that is unless you have a mechanical keyboard which brings

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us to the voltavi's shortcomings the biggest one being the feet

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our unit is missing one and the ones that we do have simply roll off whenever

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you slide them across the very desk they're meant to protect

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so i give them an f-plus furthermore some of the unsanded surfaces and the

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roughly cut emi shielding leave the volta v feeling less finished than you'd

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expect a fine piece of furniture to be the lack of anything resembling a

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deliberate alignment on this end of the case makes my ocd flare up something

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fierce and finally there are some problems with

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what designers call affordance this recess for example seems to imply

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that i should lift from this side but actually i'm required to lift from

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here where there is no recess and to me the protruding front piece

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looks like a drawer that i should pull on but it doesn't open these might sound

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like nitpicky things but considering the cost of this case i have to mention them

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our config here came to 3409.

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which means that after custom power supply cables air filters and a pci

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express extender we are still well over a thousand dollars for the lifetime

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service warranty and the chassis so is that worth your money

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well depending on what kind of furniture stores you shop in it'll either look

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like a rip-off or a bargain so i will leave that up to

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you and focus on the stuff that we can quantify

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the volta v gets the thermals and noise right and is easily serviceable and

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upgradable all while looking subjectively gorgeous the only trick

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then is getting some furniture budget allocated to it without also giving up

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some of the boy toy budget synergy is a software download that

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solves once and for all the problem of having multiple computers

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and multiple keyboards and mouse connected to them so you have to like

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physically move if you want to go between them you got to remember which one goes to which it's a nightmare it

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allows you to share one mouse and one keyboard between two or more computers

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over the network so you'll no longer confuse which one goes to which and the

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best part is it works cross-platform so

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you can have your Windows station for gaming and your mac station for

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productivity and your Linux station and you can just drag the mouse across the

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screens seamlessly they've got features like clipboard

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sharing between the computers drag and dropping files between computers the

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ability to set up hotkeys and more so check out their basic and pro options

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and save 50 on synergy at the link in the video description

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