we're at the digital storm suite at CES 2023 and I'm ready to show you three of
their latest newest baddest computers starting with one that is such an early
prototype this thing is literally made out of plastic okay I mean maybe not
entirely there's a metal frame and everything but I assure you the top
I don't even want to move it I was asking if I could take it apart earlier
and they're all like and now they're looking at me like scared they got their
phones out this is like in for insurance purposes right
but I assure you what's inside seriously cool this is what they're calling the
spark and it's actually not the first time the Spark's been released this is
an entirely new version redesign the
previous version was based on mobile components so that's a laptop CPU and a
laptop graphics card and it also had an external power brick which a lot of
people didn't really like understandably you can't upgrade a laptop on this
system it's actually based around an Intel Nook which is not something I've
seen before it looks like a custom system it's got custom water cooling oh
God oh I'm sorry guys water cooled
graphics card but inside that's not an ITX motherboard it's literally parts
from a Knuck now specifically inside this is a z790 chipset which means you
can use any of Intel's 13th gen processors this system right now is
equipped with a 13900k full fat not a
laptop one you're getting all of the performance of a 3900k in this system on
the back a little bit weird it's an RTX 3080. now they told me basically the
problem right now is getting water blocks for a 40 series is tricky the
fittings on this card actually come out of the bottom this is an EK block but
Digital Storm usually uses their own custom Watermark so they have to design
their own water block to First fit in this chassis and then they have to have
enough stock apparently there's been a ton of orders of 40 series cards uh over
the holidays so this one it's just for show when you order the system you can
get up to a 4080 don't worry about that I've been told the only thing I'm
allowed to take off on this thing is the side panel now these are long screws
they're all watching in horror it's my favorite
oh it's good
oh yeah look at what right there it's a fancy Nook as it is a
Knuck the system uses sodium memory those are the little kind of laptop
style RAM sticks but they're not soldered so you can pull them out it's
only two slots so you can do up to two by 32 this system is currently
configured with 2x16 for 32 gigs the main benefit of using Intel's nut
platform over laptop components is it's a lot more easy to upgrade don't get me
wrong you're not putting an ITX motherboard in the system at home but if
you were to send the system back to Digital Storm say when 14th gen Intel
comes out it's very possible that they can easily slot in a new motherboard and
new CPU without having to kind of rebuild an entire new system which is a
lot easier than the laptop components before for cooling they're using their
own custom water blocks as well as a 240mm front AIO along with two 120 mil
fans now in the final versions the real
thing there will be cooling holes on the back right now it's just a flat panel so
I wouldn't expect the thermals on this thing are fantastic yet but I mean it's
a pretty good amount of cooling for how small this case is like for reference
two iPhones tall and like an iPhone and a third wide while it is very small it
is technically a little bit bigger than the first generation spark and a big
part of that is to accommodate a full discrete power supply this is a standard
sfx power supply from Corsair sf750
instead of the previous generation which had a giant power brick that you had to
lay on the floor duct tape to the bottom of your desk this it's just integrated
you just need a regular PC power cable oh my God this thing is so small I'm
trying to find where the pump is oh yeah
oh wow so it's kind of mounted flat on
the bottom cool wow oh yeah I see like I see the tube
there's one tube comes up it's like it's sitting like pancake style at the bottom
one tube comes up to the graphics card and then oh God
is the other two does it come out of the bottom of the
wrap yeah okay so the other one comes over the bottom of the Rat okay that makes
sense this is a very compact it must suck to have to be the person at digital
storm that assembles these things I don't envy them
because of the size of this system you're not going to get this thing air
cooled it's only going to come water cooled with either soft or hard tubing
depending on what your preference is and for storage there's three m.2 slots
there's only m.2 storage you're not putting any two and a half inch ssds
unless you happen to have double-sided tape laying around but I promise you
they will not sell it to you like that looking at the back again you'll
probably notice the only i o is this power button he's just chilling there I
think he's double-sided tape or something prototype prototype but the
intention is long term for this top panel to be able to slide off to give
access to the i o they'll probably ship it with some sort of like right angle
DisplayPort cable so you can actually get display signals out but for now
you're not plugging anything in they're expecting this system to come out in Q2
of this year with a price point starting around two thousand dollars now now for
your two thousand dollars you're looking at around a 70 class NVIDIA GPU as well
as like an Intel 13600k but you can definitely upgrade it up to 40 80 up to
3 900k I'm gonna put this down because I'm scared
pretty colors
this is a good looking computer you can customize the colors on the fans
of course this thing has a lot of fans up to 10 actually this is the new
revamped version of their lumos which is their best selling computer now there's
some changes here of course this case is actually entirely new now for the new
version the front is now very open I mean this is about as open as you can
get aside from just having straight mesh looks super nice it's going to have a
ton of airflow on the top same deal fully meshed panel
and of course the back is vented like any computer case so lots of cooling
that's the main theme for the new system unlike the spark we looked at before
this is a lot more standard of a computer it looks mostly just like a
really nice ATX computer and that's basically what it is in terms of other things that are new for this generation
there's a custom distribution block with uh right now has a DDC pump supposedly
the new generation of DDC that's a lot more reliable but they're telling me
that the actual systems are probably going to ship with a D5 pump a lot more
reliable that's what you're going to want this one is custom water cooled you
can get this one air cooled this one's equipped with a 3900k and a 4090 but of
course with any Boutique system builder you can probably spec this thing out however you want you could do you put
249s in there you can water cool 2490s in there you
probably shouldn't because SLI is dead but you could if you wanted to this new
version of the lumos is coming out late q1 it's going to be starting at around
1500 bucks for that you could expect a 13 600 KF and a 50 class NVIDIA GPU if
you wanted to go to something like a 60 class GPU you're looking more around
1800 bucks but
yeah like the spark most of the water cooling components are done in-house and one
thing I did notice this is the same water block as the spark
but the big boy over there has a different water block let's go check it
out this is what I was looking for but
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giving out Tech tips awesome oh my god um with the magic of oh my God huh
didn't break it it's fine don't worry wow
it's so much brighter with the side panel off I almost like don't want a
tinted side panel can you do not a tinted side panel
they're all tinted all right they like tint here at digital storm look at this
thing this is beautiful can I take it home
this is if I can carry it oh my God
oh my God okay no not taking it home
this is the new generation of their aventum system which is as you can see
the flagship this is the Big Kahuna big
donger I got lots of money and I want a nice computer computer okay
this absolute monster of a gaming computer is equipped with a 3900k ASUS
z790 Maximus extreme motherboard how much RAM we got in here doesn't matter
you can get as much RAM as you want this is the computer when you have [ __ ] you
money and that's what digital storm is all about
now curiously this graphics card is a
3080. again this comes down to supply chain constraints they have a lot of
customer orders to fulfill with 4080s and 40 90. so this one just for the show
just just pretend 49. you can configure
it with up to 249s which is super cool they have this awesome quick disconnect
system I watched the video of the previous eventum that we did recently I
was really hoping this one still had it and it totally does if the computer
wasn't running I could just unplug that would you be
mad if I unplug the quick disconnect while it was running
not advisable look at this
the Magic The Magic of the aventum
look at that
there was a drop of water but that's pretty much it now all you have to do is take the screw
out unplug these power connectors and you can pull that graphics card out
it's pretty freaking sick I made a little mess I'm sorry
just a couple drops in terms of changes from the previous aventis this one comes
by default with a dual pump configuration with these super cool kind
of reservoir they're not really distribution plates there's one of those
on the back but they're just kind of cool reservoirs both of them have a D5
so that means you're gonna have better flow if you have multiple graphics cards or if one of the pumps were to Die the
water would still flow which is kind of important when you have a crazy
system like this the other major change this time around is airflow of course
with new components getting hotter and hotter some things had to change in that
regard now at the bottom you have a giant mesh panel here for the 560 mil
radiator that's on the bottom here on the other side there's a 280 mil
radiator and on the top there's a 420 Mill radiator three radiators every
single aventum comes with three radiators which is funny because the
stock configuration of this thing can come with a 30 50. they told me the
reason for this is a lot of their customers will just take the graphics card out then you can put an air-cooled
card or when you order the system you could spec out whatever custom crap you
want like dual 4090 single 40 90 whatever you want now believe it or not
the back side looks pretty much as good as the front so let's check it out
it's stuck oh it's on push pins they're all on push
pins all right I know what I'm doing on the back like the previous generation
there's the big distribution block curiously there are two fans kind of
just chilling here with the side panel on there's like that much space between
the fan and the panel but they are there sort of for a reason there's a fan
controller back here that gets pretty hot and it also kind of covers the back
of the motherboard to help cool the CPU I don't know how much of a difference it
actually makes but the other main reason is just that it looks cool rather than
just being cool see look fans
on the bottom here you can see where the 280 mil radiator I was talking about
before how does this come up oh okay
oh look at that 280 mil red and then over here is the power supply this is an
HX 1500i which is pretty much as high as
you will go this thing is very prototype and like 3D printed laser cut trust me
the final one will be better I'm just going to let them put that back
on
it's going to angle down look what I just kicked this system is also
launching at the end of q1 along with the lumos at a starting price of 3750
maybe up to four grand for that you're looking at a 7950x AMD processor 64 gigs
of ddr5 and like I said before a 50
Series card but of course you can upgrade it to whatever you want now
unfortunately after all of that the digital storm guys didn't bring a
monitor and didn't bring a keyboard and mouse so I don't get to Game on any of
their fancy gaming computers so instead I'm just going to take this one home
along with my ShortCircuit hoodie ltdstore.com
bye that was the digital storm suite at CES
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