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i think i cracked the code after all this time making youtube

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videos i finally figured out what you guys like to see

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pc builds and you know i'm a people pleaser so

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i'ma give you what you want thanks to MSI who sponsored our video today to

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prove once and for all that their competitors aren't the only ones who

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make a lot more than motherboards these days

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that's a lot of boxes and almost every single one of them is MSI

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yes my friends it's time for the all MSI

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gaming pc including their new GeForce

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rtx 3080 gaming x trio so let's get

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cracking and build this sweet rig

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of course even though they make more than motherboards that's still where we're going to start with the MSI meg

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z490 ace the key features of this puppy are of

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course support for the latest Intel 10th gen processors

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two and a half gig networking three m.2 slots and

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enough RGB to choke a horse

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well it's an expression you know it feels like it's harder than

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ever to choose the right CPU these days like that's the

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double-edged sword of having two legitimately good options for a change

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if we go Intel we get called Intel shills oh you guys don't appreciate AMD

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enough but in some cases if we go AMD we

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get people telling us you're leaving performance on the table

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like what happened in our review of the rtx 3080. so

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we've gone Intel we're using the 10900k

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because we're going to be pairing it with an rtx 3080 which is a flipping

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fast graphics card and right now this is

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the fastest CPU for gaming and i say right now because i'm filming this on

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october the 6th not the 8th so we'll see how things change after that

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it changed everything next up is storage we're using a Corsair mp600 2 terabyte

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m.2 SSD for a couple of reasons number one is to highlight that while Intel's

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10th gen processors do not support pci express gen 4 it is expected that 11th

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gen processors which will also be capable of being installed on this

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platform will so pci express gen 4 is going to

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come with some pretty cool benefits once direct storage gets actually implemented

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into Windows and GPU drivers allowing similar features to what we've seen on

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the playstation 5 as well as xbox series

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reason number two is that we don't have any samsung 980 pros in

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the studio right now for RAM we've gone with a couple of 16 gig sticks of

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corsairs of vengeance pro RGB that gives us a total of 32 gigs running in dual

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channel mode and as for why we went Corsair

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well the cold hard truth Corsair's competitors out there is that nobody

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does RGB quite like Corsair that is to say that

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nobody does RGB quite to the extent of Corsair

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now we've reached the point where we're ready to check out our sakura 500x

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tempered glass kit just kidding i already took it out of

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the box because this thing is so freaking heavy and i didn't want to

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unbox it on camera it's got tempered glass pretty much up the wazoo includes

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four RGB fans and has a total of a

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whopping front usb 3 ports who's plugging in that

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much front usb oh yeah maybe this guy brandon would you

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oh all right fair enough 100

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easily removable side panels check giant 200 millimeter fans

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check built in RGB hub check but i do

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get the uncomfortable feeling that it might be haunted

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like i can hear this voice

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they've got solid materials in front of their fans

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i think steve from gamer's nexus died and he's in there we'll find out soon

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enough if these perforations along the side and on the top here where it seems

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air is intended to come in are enough because the system we're loading this

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thing up with is not going to be very forgiving if there isn't enough airflow

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underrated feature the little motherboard standoff nubbin

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right here absolutely love it just makes installing the motherboard a breeze

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personally i like to build standing up like this it's an old habit and it makes it a lot

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easier hey colin how much is this case

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huh okay that's not cheap certainly but definitely fully featured so they

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include the bracket that you need for a vertical GPU mount uh you've got these

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nice little sleds for your three and a half inch drives lots of included fans

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i'm liking it so far not cheap though good packing materials

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actually oh that's worth mentioning i get such a boner for good packing

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materials see got that really nice foam in there

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and these oh yeah confusing branding though MSI's got to

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get their stuff figured out i know they're the sponsor today's video but that doesn't prevent me from you know

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trying to help them you know i got to help what is mpg what's the difference

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between mpg and mg and what's the difference between

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meg and mag m-a-g apparently it's MSI

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performance gaming MSI extreme gaming and MSI arsenal gaming happy to clear

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that up for you on the subject of MSI arsenal gaming it's time to install our

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core liquid 360r so this is a triple 120

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millimeter liquid cooler that if MSI's marketing is anything to go by

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should be a perfect match with our other MSI

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product in fact there are pictures of both this case and this radiator on the

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back of the motherboard with a clever pin header location making them a

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perfect match ew that's a gross spider go away no no don't go under my rug

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well i'm not gonna i don't want to kill it it's a spider spiders are good they're our friends just i just don't

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want it here that's all this threw me for a bit of a loop here i

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saw this thing embedded in the radiator and my

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immediate response was oh okay it looks like MSI came up with the admittedly

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quite cool idea of putting the temperature sensor for the CPU cooler in

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the radiator so that you could actually adjust the RPM of your fans based on

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coolant temperature but what it actually is is a pump so this is the way that MSI

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has gotten around that acetec patent they also claim that it helps improve

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the longevity of the pump because it keeps it away from the heat source which

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is of course the CPU the coolant will not be nearly as warm as the CPU itself

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with that said there's a coolant buffer in between the pump and the CPU itself

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anyway so i don't think it'd make that much of a difference but hey what do i

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know i'm not MSI's engineer that's a pretty neat idea especially given that

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it sits right in the dead zone right under the hub of the fan like you're

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probably not losing a ton of cooling potential

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oh interesting very interesting so you're actually using the outer edges of

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the radiator where your water is hottest which as

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colin found in a recent video you guys should go check that out when you're

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done with this one does make a difference having the most cooling

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potential where the water is hottest one thing i don't like that much about this

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approach is that they've only put a cable management spot over here on this

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side see to get this out without mushing the cable but what i actually wanted was

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to have it oriented this way with the cable coming out the other way so MSI i

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would love it if you guys put a slit on this side as well so i could go out that

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way it's fairly minor but just

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you know there's only one orientation that i would really recommend in this

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particular case for the fan so that's pulling air down into the case and the

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reason for that is twofold one it makes cleaning the radiator pretty simple

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because it's just two thumb screws to slide it out

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pretty cool little mounting mechanism and number two the fans are

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pre-installed on the top blowing air down and you don't want to be you won't

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want to have them fighting each other also from a lighting standpoint reason

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number three we're gonna have RGB lights here so there's no point putting the

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fans up above the rad we want our RGB lights right here right so we can have

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RGB everywhere from the front there's gonna be a sick looking system from the

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back even with all this pre-done cable management

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it's going to be a bit of a challenge i couldn't help noticing that the built-in

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RGB hub which has eight slots on it only has two of them free

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so um it looks like for the fans for the

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radiator we're gonna need to take advantage of the daisy chaining feature

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here if i can figure out which one is which so that we only use up the one

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port then for the fans we're gonna have to use the included three-way splitter

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to plug this into the CPU fan header and then this into all three of the fans and

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then we'll just like cable tie it down okay i went from happy

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about the abundance of headers on this motherboard that made it super easy for

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me to plug in all of my system fans and all that cool stuff to

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being sun i am disappoint because there's

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literally a picture of this case on the back of this motherboard box this case

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has two of the older style usb 3.0 connectors this motherboard only has one

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of that style header so two of my usb ports at the front are

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gonna be dead now MSI can solve this problem by just including a usb 2 to usb

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3 adapter so that i could have two of them just be usb2 but still work

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but it doesn't appear to be included for now so

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they could still make me happy while you might say that an hx1000 power supply is

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overkill we've actually found in our rtx 3000 series testing that NVIDIA's

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recommendations for power supply for the first time that i can remember

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might not be overkill and in fact you might be better off going with something

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even higher than what they say because there tend to be these spikes in power

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draw that can trigger the over current protection of a lesser power supply so

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1000 watt power supplies for the first time in the 10 years

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they've existed they're not pointless one thing to watch

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out for if you've got a longer power supply is look at this

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not a lot of room between this hard drive cage and the back of the psu

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there's no way i'd be able to plug in cables right now the good news is most

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people don't have a ton of hard drives these days and you can remove this cage

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it looks like there's a couple of screws in the bottom so we're gonna pop this out to give us some more room to run all

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our cables we've got two options here we can either mash these cables because

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this power supply is a little bit on the long boy side or we can actually use

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this cover plate here to

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fill in the gap which do you prefer

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cover plate oh all right well that's easier

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the more i use this case the more i'm kind of rooting for it here so being

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able to slide this in and out while i'm working means that it's much much easier

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than in some of the other cases i've worked with to get at things like the 8-pin CPU power connectors up here i'm

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gonna put the Intel bracket on the CPU block now and this is a cool feature you

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can actually rotate the logo here to make sure that it's oriented the right

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way and then you can have your tubes kind of wherever is most natural for you

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it's kind of nice oh they're shooting a ShortCircuit on the new google speaker

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over that's why we got crab rave in the background

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make sure you're subbed to ShortCircuit by the way we do a lot of our like first impressions and unboxings and stuff over

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there i love the labels for the 5 volt addressable RGB headers on the board so

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there's two of them one at the bottom and one at the top and they're called j

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rainbow i cleaned up a few things off camera so

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we've got our front usb 3 plugged in our front panel headers plugged in down here

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tidy that the cables out the back a little bit

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is that acceptable can we accept that all right all right we're going with

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acceptable and now it's time for my favorite part

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graphics card it is such an exciting time to be a pc

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gamer not because of the 3080 specifically necessarily but the whole

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3000 series is just turning the existing

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you know price to performance ratio on its head it's going to drive

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once they're actually available readily it's going to drive pricing of last generation stuff down like everybody

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benefits when there's a big leap forward in performance like this and then of

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course there's the fact that if you can get your hands on a 3080 and you can

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afford it 4k gaming is finally within reach

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i'm a big fan of the over-the-top approach for the pci express power

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connectors because one of the things it helps with is reducing GPU sag although

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MSI does actually include a bracket in the box for supporting it

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i don't think i need it though that looks pretty level which means it's time

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for the finishing touch all we gotta do is put these thumb screws in

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lock the radiator in place enough pc building let's take a look at our

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peripherals oh

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fine whatever i'm over it

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this is the mpg 341cqr

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it's got HDR 400 support it's 3440 by

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1440 and of course features a high refresh rate 144 hertz panel and one

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millisecond response times this right here is the vigor gk50 elite it's got

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individually backlit RGB keys and kale blue switches it's also available with

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some other different switch types and this is the gm30 clutch mouse which has

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like a u-shaped RGB thing what are we waiting for

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let's fire this thing up and see the RGB this looks

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flippin awesome same goes for the top damn can you see

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smoked glass and RGB there's very few things that look better

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i like it they even managed to get the MSI like

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tacky dragon shield thing on there and have it not look too bad oh yeah i

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didn't talk about their wrist rest thing they included they really sent over like MSI everything

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it's actually really nice it's like super mushy another thing they nailed is

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enough space behind the motherboard tray that you can actually close the door as

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long as your cable management isn't horrible

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we are on ultra nightmare absolutely everything running at 3440 by 1440 and

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we have not dropped below the refresh rate of this monitor which is 144 hertz

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but it's smooth of course the question wasn't whether or

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not this rig was going to run games real well i mean it's rtx 3080 and 10 900k

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what do you think is going to happen the question is whether the thermals will

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hold up

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hey there we go all right the fans are definitely going

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now you can really hear the difference all right let's load a checkpoint and

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let's pop open hardware info and see how high we went on our temps here our CPU

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wow our CPU is pinned at 5.1 gigahertz

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pretty happy with that sitting at around

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65 to no 70 to 75 degrees okay that's

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reasonable with our preliminary results we're just going to pop back into doom

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here reset the timer and then what i want to see is after maybe another five

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minutes of playing once it's already heated up in there what's the minimum

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clock speed we see so the rated boost clock on this card is 18 15 megahertz

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but honestly i expect better

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more like 2 gigahertz if it's actually doing its job

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yeah based on how hot that glass is i'm uh

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not sure really pleased with every other aspect of this system but unfortunately

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i think this case is just going to struggle with this tier of hardware

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unfortunately the glass is hot to the

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touch and if we go ahead and

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pop open hardware info here we're going to see that our GPU clock

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went down as low as 1830 megahertz that is technically within spec

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but everything you need to know about how hard this poor thing is working

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you'll know when i do this

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okay the fans turning down

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can you hear that yeah everything else

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great thanks to MSI for sponsoring this video

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if you guys enjoyed this video we're gonna have the parts list down below

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along with links for where you can buy them thanks for watching and we'll see

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you guys at the next one if you enjoyed this video maybe go check out our

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ultimate high airflow machine where we actually used an industrial fan to put

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the most airflow we possibly could through a computer case that was pretty

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fun