1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,160 are you guys ready for gaming night yeah 2 00:00:03,179 --> 00:00:09,020 yeah are you guys ready for dad troubleshoots our broken theater room 3 00:00:06,779 --> 00:00:12,900 night at least that's what would have happened 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:18,060 if MSI didn't sponsor me to come in on my sick day and show you guys the 5 00:00:15,420 --> 00:00:23,220 Trident X2 when I downgraded my gaming rig to an a770 for the Intel Arc 30 day 6 00:00:20,820 --> 00:00:28,500 challenge I realized pretty quickly that none of my long distance optical cables 7 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:32,220 were working on it which means that all of a sudden I went from having a 8 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:36,600 computer that could sit in a central location but be used in my office or the 9 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:41,100 land room or the theater to having a computer that was just in a central 10 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:45,360 location and that's it no way to get a signal to the other rooms in the house 11 00:00:42,420 --> 00:00:52,079 thankfully MSI sent over this monster with an RTX 49d core I9 3900 KF and a a 12 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:55,800 touch screen um okay so there's clearly more to this 13 00:00:54,360 --> 00:01:00,180 than just having the fastest Hardware let's see if we can get gaming Knight 14 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:04,619 back on and see if MSI's cooling can survive in a stuffy AV cabinet is it 15 00:01:03,359 --> 00:01:09,180 technically cheating on the arc challenge if I add a whole new PC to the 16 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:12,600 house that wasn't there when Luke and I made the switch to Intel that's going to 17 00:01:10,740 --> 00:01:15,360 be for the judges to decide just kidding there are no judges or points because 18 00:01:13,979 --> 00:01:19,740 everything in this challenge is made up just to frustrate me so I'm not actually 19 00:01:17,820 --> 00:01:24,180 allowed to keep this thing but I do get to experience what 4K 120 hertz 20 00:01:22,439 --> 00:01:28,020 projector gaming would be like on the fastest machine money can buy and then 21 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:31,380 experience the disappointment of ripping it away from my adoring children uh 22 00:01:29,580 --> 00:01:35,520 let's take a closer look starting with what the heck is going on with this 23 00:01:33,479 --> 00:01:38,880 screen here once we get past the fancy boot animation and get to the desktop 24 00:01:37,079 --> 00:01:44,700 it's full of all kinds of interesting things temperatures frequencies fan 25 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:46,320 speeds and even an FPS counter which I 26 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:50,420 have my doubts about whether it would be accurate or not but I guess we'll see 27 00:01:48,060 --> 00:01:50,420 soon enough 28 00:01:56,060 --> 00:02:03,659 oh wow look at that hey it totally does work huh it shows you what I know MSI 29 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:08,039 calls this thing the HMI 2.0 it's four and a half inches has a resolution of 30 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:11,879 480 by 800 allows you to adjust input and output volume you can set shortcuts 31 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:16,680 to launch games and gaming mode switch power profiles free up RAM which is not 32 00:02:14,879 --> 00:02:21,360 necessary by the way but hey you can do it and you can control your RGB what I'm 33 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,540 interested in though is changing it to a custom video 34 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:28,680 hey it's so cool that's not really the most 35 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:32,580 practical thing so I'm going to switch back over to hardware monitor mode and 36 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:35,700 I'm going to focus on temperatures and then let's get a stress test running and 37 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:40,860 see how high we can push this thing let's give her 20 threads of prime 95 38 00:02:38,099 --> 00:02:45,000 small fft what we're really going to do while we wait for it to heat up is 39 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:48,360 unstuffyify this cabinet truthfully it's not that bad because I did know that I 40 00:02:46,980 --> 00:02:53,760 was going to be putting some pretty high performance stuff in here when I designed the cabinet these meshes are 41 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:57,180 quite open and all the shelves are actually mesh as well with the idea 42 00:02:55,620 --> 00:03:01,080 being that air would kind of be passively drawn in the bottom and then 43 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:04,319 we could exhaust out the top but if we don't actually have any fans then we're 44 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,580 not really going to be exhausting anything so that's where these noctuates 45 00:03:06,660 --> 00:03:13,560 come in how to actually Mount them though is another question in a perfect 46 00:03:11,519 --> 00:03:18,900 world we would want large fans spinning out a very low RPM so that if we can 47 00:03:16,319 --> 00:03:22,920 hear them it's a very low hum and unlikely to be audible over the sound of 48 00:03:20,819 --> 00:03:27,659 the projector in terms of mounting what I had in mind as inelegant as it might 49 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:31,920 be is to just use these silicone noise isolator grommet things that Noctua 50 00:03:29,819 --> 00:03:37,500 includes with their fans and just kind of hope that my two fans would kind of 51 00:03:35,159 --> 00:03:43,920 line up with the holes I wouldn't describe this as perfect but it's 52 00:03:40,319 --> 00:03:46,980 actually surprisingly good oh yeah I 53 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:48,780 mean that's not that no uh well No One's 54 00:03:46,980 --> 00:03:51,959 Gonna notice that right if anyone asks me I'm going to make up some audio file 55 00:03:50,459 --> 00:03:57,720 bullets what the dang it it happened again 56 00:03:54,680 --> 00:04:00,659 ah these shelf holders are not the right 57 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:04,920 size and I I'm fine 58 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:09,780 also I think I put all these on wrong because I'm gonna have the power coming 59 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:15,599 from the top obviously and I went around them down here okay 60 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:17,400 I'm so annoyed I told them I told them I 61 00:04:15,599 --> 00:04:23,100 was like uh hey those don't seem right it seems like they're not gonna hold and 62 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:25,080 I was like oh it seems fine I was like I 63 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:30,360 really don't think so it's not even right oh shoot 64 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:34,259 no no no no um 65 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:38,699 oh my gosh come on 66 00:04:35,759 --> 00:04:43,680 seriously no these are still in so this is good oh my gosh 67 00:04:42,060 --> 00:04:46,100 move just 68 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:53,460 oh okay nope stop why you fall 69 00:04:52,020 --> 00:04:59,400 we're good yeah Cable Management shelves 70 00:04:56,940 --> 00:05:03,660 happy get out of here oh I finally caved 71 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:07,860 bought an Apple TV why 72 00:05:05,660 --> 00:05:11,699 fantasian yeah they got one of the original creators of Final Fantasy VI 73 00:05:09,540 --> 00:05:15,180 which is my favorite and he did this new game it's in this like super unique 74 00:05:13,139 --> 00:05:20,040 visual style like a really apparently it's like a really classic style RPG so 75 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:23,580 I'm super excited to play it and finally at long last 76 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:28,680 there it is power for the fans that was that the whole point of all of that 77 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:34,080 I think I put that one in the wrong s oh stop 78 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,820 why because I have other components in 79 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:39,060 here that are going to generate heat as well like there could be an Xbox or a 80 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:42,660 PlayStation here down the line not to mention the AV receiver I want these 81 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:46,800 fans running all the time but I want them running at a pretty low RPM so this 82 00:05:44,940 --> 00:05:51,840 little power brick here that I was cable managing in before and the shelves fell 83 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:54,180 haha we got minus we made things drop on 84 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:58,500 him haha anyway the point is this runs to a Molex connection that I'm going to 85 00:05:56,280 --> 00:06:02,400 be running into one of these handy dandy little fan Splitters this is very old 86 00:06:00,479 --> 00:06:07,800 school fan control what you're looking at is these white ones are 5 volt and 87 00:06:05,639 --> 00:06:12,539 these yellow ones are 12 volt and then I'm going to take my two Banks of fans 88 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:16,740 and I'm actually gonna go five volt here hope that these under volt gracefully 89 00:06:14,639 --> 00:06:21,300 they're not to us they should and theoretically 90 00:06:18,979 --> 00:06:25,440 I just have to kind of cable manage this across the top but it should be pretty 91 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:28,979 tidy look at that let's go see how the computer's doing and then we're gonna 92 00:06:26,580 --> 00:06:32,699 throw it in here very nice there's actually some other things that the 93 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:39,060 screen can do MSI sent over their Optics MPG 321 Ur Dash QD monitor so it's 4K 94 00:06:36,479 --> 00:06:43,259 144hz quantum dot uh with a number of gaming oriented features night vision uh 95 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:46,740 on-screen Crosshair optic scope Zoom effect and color profile switching but 96 00:06:45,300 --> 00:06:52,800 the thing that I want to show you guys is that you can actually control the OSD 97 00:06:49,979 --> 00:06:57,180 for this monitor through the Trident X2 screen why anyone would want to control 98 00:06:54,960 --> 00:07:01,919 it here when they can just control it here is sort of Beyond me especially 99 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:06,000 considering that you can also use the MSI gaming intelligence app to change 100 00:07:04,139 --> 00:07:09,900 all this stuff with like a mouse which is faster and better but hey I'm sure 101 00:07:08,220 --> 00:07:14,759 there's a reason it's definitely different same goes for the guts it just 102 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:18,720 takes three screws to get access to it and it's immediately obvious that what 103 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:23,280 we're looking at here is an Australian PC meaning that it uses an inverted 104 00:07:20,819 --> 00:07:29,340 layout with the GPU on top and the CPU on the bottom it's also matx which was 105 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:33,720 clearly intended to help keep the size under control I mean it's still big but 106 00:07:31,919 --> 00:07:37,620 when your GPU is the size of a small vehicle there's only so much you can do 107 00:07:35,220 --> 00:07:42,120 about that now MSI's take on the inverted layout concept it's called 108 00:07:39,419 --> 00:07:45,780 Silent Storm and it has three zones the least obvious but most straightforward 109 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:49,440 zone is on our thousand watt power supply the fan draws air in through the 110 00:07:47,940 --> 00:07:52,979 bottom of the case and the only place that it can escape is out the back see 111 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:58,199 you later heat the top down to GPU that I pointed out earlier is the next zone 112 00:07:55,139 --> 00:08:00,539 now I know the RTX 4090 is a massive 113 00:07:58,199 --> 00:08:05,819 card but it's not actually this big this piece up here is a plastic shroud that 114 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:07,979 MSI added above the GPU fans to make 115 00:08:05,819 --> 00:08:11,819 sure that all of the life providing cool air that's coming in through this top 116 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:15,780 mesh is going straight to the GPU heatsink right here in practice the 117 00:08:13,919 --> 00:08:18,960 Shroud actually didn't make much of a difference to cooling once we reached a 118 00:08:17,340 --> 00:08:22,740 heat soak State we sent it over to the lab for testing but it isn't harming 119 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:26,039 anything and shout out to their support bracket at the the rear of the card 120 00:08:24,180 --> 00:08:30,180 because this thing is not going to Sag and we had no concerns about it coming 121 00:08:28,020 --> 00:08:36,360 loose during shipping finally we've got the CPU Zone down here for our core I9 122 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:37,500 3900 KF a chip that will gladly use all 123 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:42,240 of the thermal Headroom that's available to it and ours did just that while also 124 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:46,740 managing to stay well clear of thermal throttling I'm also liking this super 125 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:51,360 open mesh giving the ah here it is I kind of moved it radiator a clear path 126 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:56,760 to blast hot air out of the case other notable inclusions are the two terabyte 127 00:08:53,640 --> 00:09:00,240 m.2 SSD hidden under the GPU dual extra 128 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:02,519 two and a half inch slots for SATA SS 129 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:06,120 more m.2 slots including one of them that's super easy to access here on the 130 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:09,959 back kind of like the PlayStation you take off the little cover and then you 131 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:13,440 just plug it in right down there and an additional three and a half inch hard 132 00:09:11,339 --> 00:09:16,860 drive slot if you want to add more bulk storage down the road we've also got 133 00:09:14,940 --> 00:09:19,260 Wi-Fi 6E and two and a half gig Lan and I guess that's all you really need to 134 00:09:17,940 --> 00:09:22,860 know let's go ahead and get this thing connected shoot what on Earth are we 135 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:26,160 going to do if I don't have a shelf holder that is going to allow me to put 136 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:31,019 this thing in here well let's find out oh no 137 00:09:30,180 --> 00:09:36,300 um okay this is really not my finest cable 138 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:40,980 management work so the HDMI output is at the top and I 139 00:09:39,300 --> 00:09:44,700 need to be careful not to touch any of these shelves because if I do they might 140 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:49,220 fall over I just want to put this 141 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:55,200 here CPU pillows lttstore.com look they look 142 00:09:53,399 --> 00:09:59,820 like CPUs cute I'm also going to put this bean bag here so if the computer 143 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:02,779 comes flying off the shelf it'll at least hit something soft 144 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:09,420 hello hello 145 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:13,220 oh my goodness come unplugged now I have hope 146 00:10:10,260 --> 00:10:13,220 and 147 00:10:13,380 --> 00:10:19,019 okay this is not a good sign hey hey 148 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:22,980 there we go I don't even know what happened but for whatever reason my 149 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:28,279 receiver wasn't playing nicely and now it is so haha yes 150 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:34,320 yes oh yeah oh yeah 151 00:10:32,700 --> 00:10:38,279 all right oh you saw the HDR kick in there hey 152 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:44,060 Brandon and this is with the house lights on and you shining a light at the 153 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:47,700 screen Brandon not bad eh also this game 154 00:10:44,060 --> 00:10:48,959 runs so well on the 40 90. I can't even 155 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:54,260 believe it this looks freaking awesome give me your 156 00:10:52,079 --> 00:11:00,600 car fight me copper 157 00:10:56,940 --> 00:11:04,019 ow ow ow stop dang it yeah pretty sick 158 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:05,820 hey so there is absolutely no reason to 159 00:11:04,019 --> 00:11:08,240 use any setup other than this for gaming at this point 160 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:15,360 oh man I was making that look real good for a bit there ow ow what are the cops 161 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:20,220 firing at me for well that's what happens buddy this 162 00:11:17,279 --> 00:11:24,660 looks freaking awesome MSI's Trident PCS used to be so small that you could hide 163 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:27,779 them away in the ceiling tiles but it's pretty clear with the amount of heat 164 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:32,160 they're managing and the amount of performance this thing packs that they 165 00:11:29,399 --> 00:11:35,180 had to shake things up a little bit oh man 166 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:42,899 yeah it's pretty it's pretty great 167 00:11:40,820 --> 00:11:46,800 you're so right we were thinking about what to get our kids for Christmas I'm 168 00:11:44,579 --> 00:11:51,680 sitting here going everything I as a kid could have ever possibly wanted is 169 00:11:49,079 --> 00:11:55,920 already in this house what Christmas looking pretty good MSI it looks like 170 00:11:54,180 --> 00:11:59,579 gaming Knight can proceed as planned top of the line Hardware good cooling great 171 00:11:58,019 --> 00:12:04,800 looking chassis and there's a touch screen as well and now that we've got 172 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:06,720 the exhaust set up actually oh yeah how 173 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:12,120 are we doing for temps oh we're at like 65 and 72. not bad if you guys enjoyed 174 00:12:10,740 --> 00:12:17,100 this video you might also enjoy the more detailed look we took at the theater room and all the things that had to come 175 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:22,459 together to get as good of a viewing experience as we're getting right now 176 00:12:20,279 --> 00:12:22,459 foreign