WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.160 are you guys ready for gaming night yeah 00:00:03.179 --> 00:00:09.020 yeah are you guys ready for dad troubleshoots our broken theater room 00:00:06.779 --> 00:00:12.900 night at least that's what would have happened 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 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 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:28.500 challenge I realized pretty quickly that none of my long distance optical cables 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:32.220 were working on it which means that all of a sudden I went from having a 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:36.600 computer that could sit in a central location but be used in my office or the 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:41.100 land room or the theater to having a computer that was just in a central 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 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 00:00:50.160 --> 00:00:55.800 touch screen um okay so there's clearly more to this 00:00:54.360 --> 00:01:00.180 than just having the fastest Hardware let's see if we can get gaming Knight 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 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:09.180 technically cheating on the arc challenge if I add a whole new PC to the 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 00:01:10.740 --> 00:01:15.360 be for the judges to decide just kidding there are no judges or points because 00:01:13.979 --> 00:01:19.740 everything in this challenge is made up just to frustrate me so I'm not actually 00:01:17.820 --> 00:01:24.180 allowed to keep this thing but I do get to experience what 4K 120 hertz 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:28.020 projector gaming would be like on the fastest machine money can buy and then 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:31.380 experience the disappointment of ripping it away from my adoring children uh 00:01:29.580 --> 00:01:35.520 let's take a closer look starting with what the heck is going on with this 00:01:33.479 --> 00:01:38.880 screen here once we get past the fancy boot animation and get to the desktop 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:44.700 it's full of all kinds of interesting things temperatures frequencies fan 00:01:41.520 --> 00:01:46.320 speeds and even an FPS counter which I 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 00:01:48.060 --> 00:01:50.420 soon enough 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 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 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:11.879 480 by 800 allows you to adjust input and output volume you can set shortcuts 00:02:10.200 --> 00:02:16.680 to launch games and gaming mode switch power profiles free up RAM which is not 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 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:24.540 interested in though is changing it to a custom video 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:28.680 hey it's so cool that's not really the most 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:32.580 practical thing so I'm going to switch back over to hardware monitor mode and 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 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 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 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:48.360 unstuffyify this cabinet truthfully it's not that bad because I did know that I 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 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:57.180 quite open and all the shelves are actually mesh as well with the idea 00:02:55.620 --> 00:03:01.080 being that air would kind of be passively drawn in the bottom and then 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 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:08.580 not really going to be exhausting anything so that's where these noctuates 00:03:06.660 --> 00:03:13.560 come in how to actually Mount them though is another question in a perfect 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 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 00:03:20.819 --> 00:03:27.659 the projector in terms of mounting what I had in mind as inelegant as it might 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:31.920 be is to just use these silicone noise isolator grommet things that Noctua 00:03:29.819 --> 00:03:37.500 includes with their fans and just kind of hope that my two fans would kind of 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:43.920 line up with the holes I wouldn't describe this as perfect but it's 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:46.980 actually surprisingly good oh yeah I 00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:48.780 mean that's not that no uh well No One's 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 00:03:50.459 --> 00:03:57.720 bullets what the dang it it happened again 00:03:54.680 --> 00:04:00.659 ah these shelf holders are not the right 00:03:57.720 --> 00:04:04.920 size and I I'm fine 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 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:15.599 from the top obviously and I went around them down here okay 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:17.400 I'm so annoyed I told them I told them I 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 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:25.080 I was like oh it seems fine I was like I 00:04:23.100 --> 00:04:30.360 really don't think so it's not even right oh shoot 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:34.259 no no no no um 00:04:31.320 --> 00:04:38.699 oh my gosh come on 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:43.680 seriously no these are still in so this is good oh my gosh 00:04:42.060 --> 00:04:46.100 move just 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:53.460 oh okay nope stop why you fall 00:04:52.020 --> 00:04:59.400 we're good yeah Cable Management shelves 00:04:56.940 --> 00:05:03.660 happy get out of here oh I finally caved 00:05:02.100 --> 00:05:07.860 bought an Apple TV why 00:05:05.660 --> 00:05:11.699 fantasian yeah they got one of the original creators of Final Fantasy VI 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 00:05:13.139 --> 00:05:20.040 visual style like a really apparently it's like a really classic style RPG so 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:23.580 I'm super excited to play it and finally at long last 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 00:05:26.100 --> 00:05:34.080 I think I put that one in the wrong s oh stop 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:35.820 why because I have other components in 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 00:05:37.440 --> 00:05:42.660 PlayStation here down the line not to mention the AV receiver I want these 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 00:05:44.940 --> 00:05:51.840 little power brick here that I was cable managing in before and the shelves fell 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:54.180 haha we got minus we made things drop on 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 00:05:56.280 --> 00:06:02.400 be running into one of these handy dandy little fan Splitters this is very old 00:06:00.479 --> 00:06:07.800 school fan control what you're looking at is these white ones are 5 volt and 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 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:16.740 and I'm actually gonna go five volt here hope that these under volt gracefully 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:21.300 they're not to us they should and theoretically 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 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 00:06:26.580 --> 00:06:32.699 throw it in here very nice there's actually some other things that the 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 00:06:36.479 --> 00:06:43.259 144hz quantum dot uh with a number of gaming oriented features night vision uh 00:06:41.400 --> 00:06:46.740 on-screen Crosshair optic scope Zoom effect and color profile switching but 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 00:06:49.979 --> 00:06:57.180 for this monitor through the Trident X2 screen why anyone would want to control 00:06:54.960 --> 00:07:01.919 it here when they can just control it here is sort of Beyond me especially 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:06.000 considering that you can also use the MSI gaming intelligence app to change 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 00:07:08.220 --> 00:07:14.759 there's a reason it's definitely different same goes for the guts it just 00:07:12.840 --> 00:07:18.720 takes three screws to get access to it and it's immediately obvious that what 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:23.280 we're looking at here is an Australian PC meaning that it uses an inverted 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 00:07:27.180 --> 00:07:33.720 clearly intended to help keep the size under control I mean it's still big but 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 00:07:35.220 --> 00:07:42.120 about that now MSI's take on the inverted layout concept it's called 00:07:39.419 --> 00:07:45.780 Silent Storm and it has three zones the least obvious but most straightforward 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:49.440 zone is on our thousand watt power supply the fan draws air in through the 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 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 00:07:55.139 --> 00:08:00.539 now I know the RTX 4090 is a massive 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 00:08:02.520 --> 00:08:07.979 MSI added above the GPU fans to make 00:08:05.819 --> 00:08:11.819 sure that all of the life providing cool air that's coming in through this top 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:15.780 mesh is going straight to the GPU heatsink right here in practice the 00:08:13.919 --> 00:08:18.960 Shroud actually didn't make much of a difference to cooling once we reached a 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 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:26.039 anything and shout out to their support bracket at the the rear of the card 00:08:24.180 --> 00:08:30.180 because this thing is not going to Sag and we had no concerns about it coming 00:08:28.020 --> 00:08:36.360 loose during shipping finally we've got the CPU Zone down here for our core I9 00:08:32.640 --> 00:08:37.500 3900 KF a chip that will gladly use all 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:42.240 of the thermal Headroom that's available to it and ours did just that while also 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:46.740 managing to stay well clear of thermal throttling I'm also liking this super 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 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:56.760 to blast hot air out of the case other notable inclusions are the two terabyte 00:08:53.640 --> 00:09:00.240 m.2 SSD hidden under the GPU dual extra 00:08:56.760 --> 00:09:02.519 two and a half inch slots for SATA SS 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 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:09.959 back kind of like the PlayStation you take off the little cover and then you 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:13.440 just plug it in right down there and an additional three and a half inch hard 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 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 00:09:17.940 --> 00:09:22.860 know let's go ahead and get this thing connected shoot what on Earth are we 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 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:31.019 this thing in here well let's find out oh no 00:09:30.180 --> 00:09:36.300 um okay this is really not my finest cable 00:09:34.560 --> 00:09:40.980 management work so the HDMI output is at the top and I 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 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:49.220 fall over I just want to put this 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:55.200 here CPU pillows lttstore.com look they look 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 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:02.779 comes flying off the shelf it'll at least hit something soft 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:09.420 hello hello 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:13.220 oh my goodness come unplugged now I have hope 00:10:10.260 --> 00:10:13.220 and 00:10:13.380 --> 00:10:19.019 okay this is not a good sign hey hey 00:10:16.500 --> 00:10:22.980 there we go I don't even know what happened but for whatever reason my 00:10:20.760 --> 00:10:28.279 receiver wasn't playing nicely and now it is so haha yes 00:10:26.040 --> 00:10:34.320 yes oh yeah oh yeah 00:10:32.700 --> 00:10:38.279 all right oh you saw the HDR kick in there hey 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:44.060 Brandon and this is with the house lights on and you shining a light at the 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:47.700 screen Brandon not bad eh also this game 00:10:44.060 --> 00:10:48.959 runs so well on the 40 90. I can't even 00:10:47.700 --> 00:10:54.260 believe it this looks freaking awesome give me your 00:10:52.079 --> 00:11:00.600 car fight me copper 00:10:56.940 --> 00:11:04.019 ow ow ow stop dang it yeah pretty sick 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:05.820 hey so there is absolutely no reason to 00:11:04.019 --> 00:11:08.240 use any setup other than this for gaming at this point 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 00:11:13.680 --> 00:11:20.220 firing at me for well that's what happens buddy this 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:24.660 looks freaking awesome MSI's Trident PCS used to be so small that you could hide 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:27.779 them away in the ceiling tiles but it's pretty clear with the amount of heat 00:11:26.040 --> 00:11:32.160 they're managing and the amount of performance this thing packs that they 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:35.180 had to shake things up a little bit oh man 00:11:36.680 --> 00:11:42.899 yeah it's pretty it's pretty great 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 00:11:44.579 --> 00:11:51.680 sitting here going everything I as a kid could have ever possibly wanted is 00:11:49.079 --> 00:11:55.920 already in this house what Christmas looking pretty good MSI it looks like 00:11:54.180 --> 00:11:59.579 gaming Knight can proceed as planned top of the line Hardware good cooling great 00:11:58.019 --> 00:12:04.800 looking chassis and there's a touch screen as well and now that we've got 00:12:01.680 --> 00:12:06.720 the exhaust set up actually oh yeah how 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 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 00:12:15.300 --> 00:12:22.459 together to get as good of a viewing experience as we're getting right now 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:22.459 foreign