for far too long the console form factor
has been solely occupied by well
consoles but I say no more this right
here is exactly what I have been asking for for literally years so you can watch
me gushing about it at CES here but can
it live up to my expectations well I hope so I hope we'll
have a new living room King today the MSI rdent
3 Synergy is the amazing software that
lets you share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers check it out
now at the link in the video description the Trident 3 comes in
slightly bigger than the PS4 at 4.71 L
though inir Ness the PS4 also has an internal power supply and much smaller
than the original xbone so it easily fits under an ARM and it comes with a
cloth bag so you don't have to worry about scratches if you want to cart it
around to a friend's house or to a land party it does have a mild case of the
gamer aesthetic but the only really eyeg
grabbing aspect of the industrial design IMO is the RGB light on the front and In
fairness to MSI I think Trump signed an executive order or something saying that
all gaming computers need RGB lighting so is it really their fault iio is
strong on the front you'll find two USB type A's a USBC audio ports and if
you're into that sort of thing a second HDMI out for VR then around the back
you'll have another five USB ports gigabit Lan microphone line in and out
DVI DisplayPort and a whopping four
HDMI ports though it should be noted one of them is for the VR Link at the front
one of them is for your monitor and the other two are the input for the VR Link
at the front and off the motherboard itself which most people won't want to
use the specs of the MSI Trident 3 prove
that the days of mini PCS being only suitable for productivity are over with
its core i7 and GTX 1070 this thing
should be able to Crush games at 1080p
or 1440 though as we've seen time and
time again when powerful components get crammed into a small case thermals can
quickly become an issue so we booted up Ida 64 and sent the CPU Off to the Races
at normal room temperature the Trident 3 did get a little hot with the CPU peing
at 92° C but to its credit it never
thermal throttled or had to downclock so
with the powerful core i7 that's in there the Trident 3 could survive video
rendering sessions or crunching cosmology equations as long as you're
not doing it 24/7 the GPU cooling is even more
impressive during the firmar GPU stress test the powerful GTX 1070 version
didn't even sweat reaching a Max temperature of 72° c and remarkably the
Trident 3 was able to maintain these temperatures while remaining virtually
silent so good on you MSI this doesn't
tell us if it's actually performing up to Snuff though so to test if the
smaller case is an issue we set up an identically speced test bench and ran it
alongside it and from these tests we saw
virtually no difference between the Trident 3 and our open air bench with
all our results being within what I'd consider margin of error let's talk
about expandability now typically not a strong point for these tiny PCS and the
motherboard is as expected non-standard
meaning that you're stuck with this basic platform for good there is also
some good news though the CPU GPU and
RAM can all be easily swapped with only
the storage requiring a complete disassembly in order to get at it should
be noted though if you're going to upgrade the GPU your options will be
somewhat limited so for the 1060 version of the Trident 3 you will also have to
upgrade the power supply to the more powerful 330 watt version if you want to
put in a graphics card that sucks more juice though if you have the 1070
version which comes with that power supply you might even be able to put in
a hypothetical future graphics card and enjoy a nice FPS boost the included
keyboard and mouse look a little over the top as do many gaming peripherals
these days again I think there was an order but they are actually surprisingly
functional the mouse is comfortable in the hand moves smoothly and accurately
and even has adjustable weights and while the keyboard isn't mechanical it
was actually good enough to fool JN into thinking it was using Cherry MX Browns
not quite sure how that happened but I was also comfortable typing on it at the
very least so good on MSI for bundling peripherals that we don't need to
immediately throw in the Trap recycling
if I had to nitpick a bit it does come with a lot of pre-installed bloatware
most of it is at least gaming related or
gaming version but it's still annoying
for a freshly booted computer to prompt me to register for several things that I
didn't ask for and I don't care about as for the inclusion of Norton well I'm
sure you all know how I feel about that though maybe if they included like a
gaming version of Norton it could just have one button
uninstall bottom line though is it worth it for the MS Trident 3's compact size
you'll be spending around $200 more than you would on an identically speced
fullsize pre-built desktop that would be easier to upgrade in the future and
unless you're very unlucky would have better cooling with that being said
unless you're a single dude in college putting a full-size gaming desktop in
your living room probably won't fly making the Trion 3 a great way to get
non-cinematic frame rates on your big screen it definitely gets a
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