every streamer's got to have a gaming PC
company now and shroud is no exception
that's right shroud is now a co-owner of
main gear PC who just sent over a new
showcase computer for the ShortCircuit set we absolutely love the one we had
before but it was so bright that it was causing problems for our editors that's
the only reason that it is being moved and it will it's a good thing it's heavy
and it will be replaced by this
one and there's some stuff in
here really all right the one thing main gear
asked me to mention is their 3D configurator where you can upload custom
art for the front panel and see all the different parts sizing previewed inside
the computer just like it'll be when it
arrives and well one sec I'm just G to
hopefully hopefully I didn't just Crush all of the
memes all right let's get this out of
here what it's designed for that let's have a look at what they include in
terms of accessories shall we oh good
foam Oh shoot that's what was in it well
this is an m.2 SSD carrier support two
additional ssds but at Gen 5 speeds when
those finally make it to the market speakers extra SATA cables extra braided
power cables I guess we'll find
oh ah look if they wanted it unboxed
carefully they'd have sent it to someone else motherboard manual oh QC checklist
hey thanks Matt for the computer and Charles for making sure that it's good
and Daniel for making sure that it's good again really remote controlled RGB
you know that actually makes sense because the software controlled RGB can
have a profound imp on performance it turns out and this is the only way to
completely avoid it 32 gig thumb drive that's going to have probably your
Windows installation on it Wi-Fi antenna
and other wait what two whole different
styles of Wi-Fi ant that can't possibly
be included with the motherboard they've got a shark fin style Wi-Fi antenna and
then they've also got the kind that just screws right into the back of the board
it doesn't seem right we'll talk about the front panels later first let's get
this rig open up make sure it made it here in one
piece not bad a there's so many things that
separate an experienced Builder from a brand new Builder and this is one of
them you can easily cable manage too
much in the sense that you overtighten your cables and you actually put a ton
of strain on the connectors but you can see the way main gear cable manages is
not purely aesthetic it's also functional every zip tipe High acts as a
strain relief so look at this one for example they could have easily taken
this one and just cranked it a little bit tighter over here but there'd be a chance that it could come out so they've
added a strain relief right here that makes it absolutely impossible this is a
really good one when you've got a big bundle of cable like this the the
gravity of it can actually disconnect it in shipping but the way that it was
positioned actually sits down at the bottom of the case so there is no
there's no gravity effect it can never be pulled out these RGB connectors are
horrible which is why they put electrical tape over all of them so that they won't accidentally come apart they
knew who it was going to though so this is not going to keep us from Secret
shopping them again in the future they've come out very well in previous
secret shoppers though so I have no reason to believe that they've actually
given me special treatment here besides you guys are watching this video so if
you're going to go order a main gear PC and you get something other than this
well you're going to be pissed off right be totally misrepresenting it actually
love to hear from you if you did not get this experience before powering on this
is good this is good it's not enough to put a warning in an email it's not
enough to put a warning in the manual that's what I want to see before
powering on you must remove the packing foam inside of the computer and this is
most excellent packing foam short of building custom acrylic brackets like
Puget systems does this is about as good as it gets these liquid expanding foam
bags are shockingly expensive but they
are hands down the best or at least second best way of ensuring that nothing
comes loose in shipping which is like a cascading series of failures when it
happens like if the graphics card comes loose well guess what it starts banging
around and knocking into other things and I actually love the way that they've
applied the bags with one bag for the GPU because that's the heaviest
component with the least security and a second bag essentially to keep the first
bag in place I mean how else could you possibly hope to ship wow this is this
is one heck of a machine they sent over how else could you possibly expect to
ship an RTX 490 with all of its weight
and have it not uh this is like perfect
cable tied tubes this is not strictly speaking necessary but what it does do
is it keeps everything in position so that the first time you open up the
system it's not going to be like kind of sitting like this all ugly it's going to
be nice and together uh pretty good cable management for everything up here
they've got cable Combs on the 24 pin the Dual 8 pins the six pin auxiliary
power connector everything down here is tucked down as it should be no
meaningful strain on the 12 pin PCI
Express Gen 5 power connector they also included although I believe this is an
accessory that comes oh no is this a Cooler Master product Oh interesting yes
this is a Cooler Master product but it is devoid of actual Cooler Master logos
which leads me to believe that they're probably buying them in bulk as an o M
version of this definitely Cooler Master product cuz that's their logo whoever
makes it and whatever the business Arrangement is doesn't matter the point is I like it it's magnetic it's got
grips up here to keep it in place and it goes a long way toward preventing GPU
seg look at that it's not going anywhere
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the description below I don't know what's more wild right now the fact that
this has a 1300 W power supply the fact
that it's from EVGA and the GPU isn't or
the fact that a 1300 W power supply isn't even that wild anymore with a 490
in there like yeah and here you don't
want to miss the moment here we go
ready well well you got to do the thing
ooh not bad very classical RGB classical RGB
with the strips with the remote control I get it though I get it this is
very tasteful yeah I like the diffusion on there o
this is nice too oh that's nice oh oh
These front panels are interchangeable see so they've got those cool uh
compressible pin style contacts and then
they've got oh that's interesting there's only four here but there's six
here there's an extra power and an extra ground huh neat well either way it's
connected by simply putting it on oh wait is it magnetic oh cool it's
magnetic too wait what the hell hold on
a second here I am saying these are remote controlled but then they're
clearly software defined what software are they using
aryn well no idea what this is for oh hi
Mark hi all right here we
go let's have a look at what settings we're running at Ray tracing
Ultra motion blur you all right
everything almost
cranked oops oh she's not dead she's
fine cool streak playing karmageddon
here it's not just that it's running at a good frame rate it's the consistency
of the frame delivery like my average FPS is around 110 115 but my 1% lows so
that is the 1% of the frames that are generated that that are the slowest are
at like 85 90 frames per second it just
feels so smooth I've never seen cyber
punk run like this yeah yeah as configured this
machine's like 5 grand it doesn't start at that you can configure it a lot more
reasonably but that's what topof the line
costs no no the cops don't the cops don't even care dog whoa the cops care a
little um oh wow yep okay let's have a
look at some front panels oh yeah this is almost certainly
the one that will live here in the longer
term tasteful got that ShortCircuit
logo well credit for the printing quality this is actually really
good this is this is not very tasteful
um main gear I forbid you to offer this
as an option on your site I actually don't think there's really anything I
can do to prevent it I think users can just upload their own
artwork you guys I forbid you to submit
this picture and for our final front panel you knew it had to
be I mean it's kind of
classy let's come over here and have a look at how our GPU new cooling holds up
with preheated air going through a fairly restrictive front panel I've left
cyberpunk running back here while we've continued the shoot uh with Hardware
info running the wow okay well that's
why the 490 so big we only managed to hit like
66° and obviously in a gaming workload
the CPU is not going to go very man it's like
55 cuz we're not really utilizing it heavily in games I think the server room
is louder from here than this computer yeah the door's closed I was thinking
like oh it's actually kind of loud though but it's in my left
ear yeah all right main gear pretty cool
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