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for far too long the console form factor

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has been solely occupied by well

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consoles but I say no more this right

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here is exactly what I have been asking for for literally years so you can watch

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me gushing about it at CES here but can

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it live up to my expectations well I hope so I hope we'll

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have a new living room King today the MSI rdent

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3 Synergy is the amazing software that

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lets you share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers check it out

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now at the link in the video description the Trident 3 comes in

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slightly bigger than the PS4 at 4.71 L

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though inir Ness the PS4 also has an internal power supply and much smaller

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than the original xbone so it easily fits under an ARM and it comes with a

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cloth bag so you don't have to worry about scratches if you want to cart it

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around to a friend's house or to a land party it does have a mild case of the

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gamer aesthetic but the only really eyeg

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grabbing aspect of the industrial design IMO is the RGB light on the front and In

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fairness to MSI I think Trump signed an executive order or something saying that

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all gaming computers need RGB lighting so is it really their fault iio is

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strong on the front you'll find two USB type A's a USBC audio ports and if

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you're into that sort of thing a second HDMI out for VR then around the back

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you'll have another five USB ports gigabit Lan microphone line in and out

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DVI DisplayPort and a whopping four

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HDMI ports though it should be noted one of them is for the VR Link at the front

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one of them is for your monitor and the other two are the input for the VR Link

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at the front and off the motherboard itself which most people won't want to

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use the specs of the MSI Trident 3 prove

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that the days of mini PCS being only suitable for productivity are over with

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its core i7 and GTX 1070 this thing

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should be able to Crush games at 1080p

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or 1440 though as we've seen time and

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time again when powerful components get crammed into a small case thermals can

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quickly become an issue so we booted up Ida 64 and sent the CPU Off to the Races

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at normal room temperature the Trident 3 did get a little hot with the CPU peing

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at 92° C but to its credit it never

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thermal throttled or had to downclock so

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with the powerful core i7 that's in there the Trident 3 could survive video

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rendering sessions or crunching cosmology equations as long as you're

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not doing it 24/7 the GPU cooling is even more

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impressive during the firmar GPU stress test the powerful GTX 1070 version

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didn't even sweat reaching a Max temperature of 72° c and remarkably the

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Trident 3 was able to maintain these temperatures while remaining virtually

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silent so good on you MSI this doesn't

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tell us if it's actually performing up to Snuff though so to test if the

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smaller case is an issue we set up an identically speced test bench and ran it

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alongside it and from these tests we saw

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virtually no difference between the Trident 3 and our open air bench with

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all our results being within what I'd consider margin of error let's talk

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about expandability now typically not a strong point for these tiny PCS and the

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motherboard is as expected non-standard

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meaning that you're stuck with this basic platform for good there is also

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some good news though the CPU GPU and

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RAM can all be easily swapped with only

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the storage requiring a complete disassembly in order to get at it should

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be noted though if you're going to upgrade the GPU your options will be

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somewhat limited so for the 1060 version of the Trident 3 you will also have to

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upgrade the power supply to the more powerful 330 watt version if you want to

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put in a graphics card that sucks more juice though if you have the 1070

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version which comes with that power supply you might even be able to put in

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a hypothetical future graphics card and enjoy a nice FPS boost the included

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keyboard and mouse look a little over the top as do many gaming peripherals

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these days again I think there was an order but they are actually surprisingly

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functional the mouse is comfortable in the hand moves smoothly and accurately

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and even has adjustable weights and while the keyboard isn't mechanical it

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was actually good enough to fool JN into thinking it was using Cherry MX Browns

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not quite sure how that happened but I was also comfortable typing on it at the

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very least so good on MSI for bundling peripherals that we don't need to

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immediately throw in the Trap recycling

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if I had to nitpick a bit it does come with a lot of pre-installed bloatware

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most of it is at least gaming related or

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gaming version but it's still annoying

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for a freshly booted computer to prompt me to register for several things that I

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didn't ask for and I don't care about as for the inclusion of Norton well I'm

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sure you all know how I feel about that though maybe if they included like a

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gaming version of Norton it could just have one button

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uninstall bottom line though is it worth it for the MS Trident 3's compact size

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you'll be spending around $200 more than you would on an identically speced

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fullsize pre-built desktop that would be easier to upgrade in the future and

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unless you're very unlucky would have better cooling with that being said

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unless you're a single dude in college putting a full-size gaming desktop in

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your living room probably won't fly making the Trion 3 a great way to get

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non-cinematic frame rates on your big screen it definitely gets a

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