so we've been featuring a lot of small
cases lately on lineus Tech tips and we've gotten a lot of frustration from
the community for not showing off larger
designs more often and you know what we heard you so
we got in touch with main gear who partnered with HP to bring us this The
Omen X the rotated cubid whose HP
rendition we first checked out back at CES in January at
$599 for the case alone that version may
have tilted some of you but if price is
a non-c concern for you well you'd be looking at the Mad baller main gear
version that Sports a mad baller price tag to match anyway I mean go big or go
home am I
right
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below so let's take it from the top The
Omen X has a gigantic package I mean
when it first arrives that is the first thing that you will notice but that's a
good thing when you consider the omen X's weight at over 50 lb it is certainly
something that you will think twice before moving especially if you've got
to go up and down the stairs like we had
to but who says big can't be beautiful
the HP version is nice but what a job
main gear did on this one done up with a
gorgeous coat of blue automotive paint paint and some other tweaks so we've got
the main gear logo in place of the omen logo on the front panel that Sports
individually addressable quadrants of RGB Lighting on the right we've got our
front IO including two USB type-c ports
and down below we've got wait a DVD burner okay well In fairness it can be
equipped with a Blu-ray Drive if you want but main gear wisely assumed that
we wouldn't care if they put a piece of new car scented blue cardboard in there
anyway around the back we've got our rear I/O which thankfully reveals an
offthe shelf motherboard from ASUS and not a proprietary HP Omen board as well
as our power supply and huh what's this
screw here well let's just remove it and
now press this button and whoa that side
panel just opened like a car door very cool and looking even deeper inside oh
yeah we areg be now boys sorry I got
carried away there anyway in here we find one of our three cooling zones and
here the motherboard and gpus live alongside a 120 mm radiator up front
with our Reservoir and a 240 mm radiator
up top pulling exhaust Duty we can't
help at this point but to tear up a little bit gazing upon the gorgeous hard
line tubing job main gear has painstakingly done for this unit it
includes a whopping 75 Chrome fittings
and no bends apparently this helps prevent damage in shipping our blocks
are running in parallel in our Loop and all of them contain a delightful pastel
blue coolant reminiscent of a delicious liquefied Smurf but if you look closely
here you'll see that our Loop actually extends into the bottom chamber to where
the Corsair ax1200i is housed it's a
little tough to access but down there you'll actually find a third radiator to
complete the cooling system I mean this thing packs some serious cooling
capacity all right then lonus what's in the third chamber Drive Bays for days
well four Drive Bays anyway for four
days but they're cool ones all four are hot swappable with locking
mechanisms and cloth pull tabs that let you slide out trays big enough to
accommodate up to 3 and 1/2 in hard drives while we did report though at CES
that the omen X would support .2 drives
ours doesn't this isn't the end of the world for and now there isn't a ton of
selection in ud2 drives but we are looking forward to seeing future
configurations with that option nudge nudge so with all of that together we've
got a baaf machine that should be more than capable of handling high-end work
like 3D rendering and video editing all the way down to more pedestrian tasks
like 4K gaming which I can't believe I just said starting off then with our
gaming tests we can see that right off the bat main Gear's Factory overclock
has given them quite a bit of Headroom over the stock configuration so it's not
all for show then and and I imagine if
you wanted to really sit down and grind out the voltage tweaks for an
unreasonably long period of trial and error you could probably push both the
6950x CPU and the 1080 TI gpus even
further but that's a little outside the scope of a normal System review though
with that said maybe we'll get a chance to take a closer look at an omen X in
the future maybe after Threadripper anyway this is an expensive system but
this is main gear so you have to expect it these guys handb build every unit
they send out the door and hand overclock them too I mean during the
course of this video our motherboard actually developed a fault and they flew
the guy who built the system to make the repair for us and while they won't
necessarily do that for every end user it does show a level of commitment that
we've never seen before even towards us
from a system builder and it also highlights something very important that
we brought up in our recent review of the digital storm bolx and that is that
Hardline tubing is a pain and a half to
maintain even if it looks stunning and
this one is one stunning series of
tubes that Artistry in support though like I said doesn't come cheap and as
configured we are sitting at
105,000 us even our balls to the wall
test bench parts cost less than half of
that so then just like the bolx The Omen
X isn't for an Enthusiast who likes to
get their hands dirty but rather it's for someone who wants a unique looking
rig with an utterly one-of-a-kind water
cooling setup that compromises on nothing without the hassle and with full
support if something goes wrong is it for you well that depends just how much
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