all right guys so I'm here at the Masters overclocking Arena from MSI I'm
here at the welcome Booth right now I'm actually sort of co-hosting this event
so I'm not just arriving right now but I'm just going to show you guys sort of
some of the stuff going on here this is at the pull position uh Las Vegas
Raceway so U anyone who comes to the event can also sign up I believe to do
some go-karting and then they can also check out the live overclocking over
there so we got some swag we have uh vibrating hand
grenades which is bizarre and then we
also have some dog tags and whatnot so there's a little sign so I'm going to
head in and we're going to check out some of the new products that MSI is
showing off oh apparently there's also a buffet coming out so I'm going to have to check that out in a little bit all
right here we go so this is the video card table so there's some stuff here
that we're already familiar with we've got the n460 GTX Hawk which as you guys
probably know was one of the first well I believe it was the first GTX 460 to
achieve a one gz overclock on air it's been quite a popular product over its
life cycle we've also got a few things here that are brand new so this is one
that I've never seen before this is a GTX 580 lightning so I'll have a look at
the overall specs here it has a 16 phase pwm design that is one of the most
critical aspects for an overclocking card it also has two 8 Pin PCI Express
connectors and it is capable of running an up to three-way probably four-way too
but up to three-way SLI configurations because it does have two SLI Bridges
we've also got voltage readout points here on the top of the card and it looks
like we're using a let's see how many heat pipes is that on the uh stock
cooler this is a twin frozer 3 design
stock cooler with dual 92 mm fans and it
looks like we've got 1 2 3 4 five heat pipes directly over the GPU there so
that's a pretty cool one we've also got a Radeon 6850 and 6970 so the 6850 is
using their uh ever popular Cyclone
cooler and then uh this one right here so this is a 6970 lightning so this uses
an 18 phase pwm design 2 gigs of memory
just like a normal 6970 and what else have they done here
to make this card custom well I can see a couple things right off the bat the
Dual bio switch well it's been moved I guess we've also got the voltage readout
points as well as the Dual 8 Pin power connectors we saw the GTX 580 and last
but not least we have goldplated connectors for our dual mini display
port HDMI and dual DVI connectors I didn't notice that on the GTX 580
lightning but you can see that that one has uh goldplated DisplayPort HDMI and
dual H and dual DVI as well so let's
move along here we're going to have a look I'll be doing unboxings of all of
these motherboards over the next uh couple weeks but we've got some h67
boards so these are supporting Intel's latest core I3 and core i5 well they
support core i7 as well but I probably wouldn't be putting a core i7 on an h67
board because if you're buying a core i7 I would definitely recommend spending a
couple extra bucks to get a K series processor and the h67 chipset does not
support multiplier changing so you really shouldn't use a K series
processor in it these are the boards that I'm more interested in these are
their p67 boards so we're moving from the lowest end so this is a c series
board meaning it only has single Graphics up to their lowest end G Series
board so this is a great value board that has support
for there's a lot of noise there right now okay well hopefully I can drown it
out has support for dual SLI and Crossfire in adx adx mode Let's Move On
along so the gd65 is an upgraded version
of the gd55 so it actually uses the same PCB same number of power phases there's
just a couple key differences you can see there are some spots on this board
where there are things that appear to be well missing so let's show you what this
one has it has more say to 6 gbit per second ports it also
has let's see what else what else is changed oh it has dual e SATA ports on
the back whereas the 55 board does not
and I I recall seeing more changes when I did my unboxing but I think it's oh
yeah there we go we got V checkpoints here at the top whereas here we only
have solder points for them so those are a couple of the key changes that they've
made on the 65 version and it looks like
this one is actually mislabeled this is
has the same label in front of it as that one but this is a p67a gd80 so this
one's supporting up to three-way SLI and Crossfire you've also got a
supplementary power connector here in order to have full support for all those
gpus it does have more power phases using
a oh man it looks like a 10 plus 3phase
power design but I'm actually not 100% % sure one thing you know for sure it is
is that it is using Dr Moss and their military Class 2 concept what else do we
have on this one we've got say to 6 GB we've got uh wow six USB 3.0 ports on
the back panel so that's pretty exciting thing to see as well as look at that two
more additional front panel USB 3.0
ports so we got a TV we got the racetrack back there so that's a pretty
cool thing to be able to check out I know a lot of the guys who are here for
the event are also uh racing here we've got a little test
bench set up we've also got their big bang X power motherboard which is
actually the one that I use in my own system I'm a big fan of this board
really like it I've got a 980x extreme Edition processor in mine and this this
is new this one I haven't seen before this is a non-standard layout board so
you can see it's actually a little bit wider than a normal ATX board and it's
also a little bit longer because normally there'd be one slot here and
then we we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6
78 eight PCI Express 16x physical slots
now these aren't going to all run at 16x
bandwidth I believe this will I'll have to follow up for you guys when I do an
unboxing of this board and find out how they've managed to achieve this many PCI
Express slots on a p67 motherboard because remember that board is only
natively going to support a single 16x or dual 8X and a single 4X PCI Express
Lots let's see what other kinds of features we've got so we do have a
supplementary PCIe six pin power connector dual 8 Pin CPU power
connectors for that LGA 1155 CPU we've got a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 looks like a 16 plus
2phase power design and then we've got support for dual Channel DDR3 memory
we've got some dip switches up here which I'm not actually sure what those are for maybe they're for overvolting or
something like that I can't even begin to speculate until I have some actual
specs in front of me here oh and it looks like that's a 24 phase power
design my bad there might actually be other stuff buried in there all right
we've got our 24 pin connector in its ideal location we've got voltage
checkpoints we've got uh four PCI SATA 3
6 GB per second ports we've got support for up to four front USB 3 ports and
eight additional usb3 ports on the back panel of this board although I mean
really I can talk about all the stuff all the other things all I want but the
reality of it is like check this out 8 PCIe 16x slot so you're going to need a
special case to house this particular motherboard but we're going to get some
pretty good performance out of the core i7 2600k or any future processors with a
motherboard like this so I'm also going to take you guys sort of a little bit
further in you can check out the uh all the liquid nitrogen that is on hand for
this overclocking event as well as some of the cool camera setups that we're
using to see uh all of the that we're
using to actually broadcast live to a live audience for this uh for this event
we've got our control Booth over here we have live score updates so we actually
already finished the super pie 32m portion of the competition and now all
of the teams are about half an hour into the 3D Mark 11 competition right now
looks like team Pier is in the is in the lead at this moment but it was actually
uh Team I believe it was team over the edge that took the Super PI 32 million
portion of the competition let me just have a look at the scores really quick
here uh at 26257 yes I believe that they were the
winners for that one so remember the Super PI 32m is actually only 40% of the
total score and 3D Mark 11 is 60% of the
total score here's the uh Command Center other Command Center where I'm doing my
live broadcast C and right now my partner in crime reie from MSI is
interviewing a couple of ladies and I think that pretty much covers everything
I wanted to show you guys here I'll just take you around to have a look at some
of the uh tables where these guys are overclocking in real time right now so
we've got an MSI GTX 580 running with an MSI Big Bang X power and an Intel Core
i7 980x extreme Edition
processor right now they're playing around with their temperatures to make
sure that they're getting the optimal balance between the low possible
temperatures and not going down too low so that they run into any instability or
cold bug issues let's see I thought I had someone
over here who was blowtorching his pot in order to uh bring the temperatures up
a little bit you can see everything's getting pretty frosted over
here let's kind of cruise around and see what else is going down I think uh I
think one of the teams over here actually had some volt mods on their GTX
580 so this is one of the crazy iier looking setups I don't want to get in
the way here so yeah please do step in front of me if you need to last thing I
want to do is disrupt these guys as they maintain the delicate balance that is
required for this kind of overclocking
so they're trying to get into Windows right now it looks like got paper towels
all over so that's uh ghetto fabulous of
course look at that you can see the liquid nitrogen that is uh boiling away
there under the immense heat load that is an overclocked Intel 4E i7 980x so
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