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our second video at the Corsair suite at CES 2016. In my lap, I have one of the
two working models they have here of the Corsair Bulldog. This puppy's been a
long time coming, but as a refresher, if you've forgotten since the first time
you heard about it, this is Corsair's concept for 4K gaming in the living
room. Because as we all know, the modern consoles aren't capable of it. And I
mean, you know, if you remember from my Alienware Steam Machine video, a lot of
the other sort of PC type consoles really aren't ready for it as well. So,
their concept was that, okay, we need a case that's small and mediacentry
looking, which unfortunately to Corsair meant glossy plastic on the front. I
really wish they'd gone with like a a brush finish. And then in addition to
that, we need adequate cooling for the high performance components inside. in
order to have it not only run cool enough for them to not thermal throttle,
but also to be quiet!. So, what that meant was designing more than just a
case. They actually had to develop an SFX line of power supplies. So, this is
the 600 watt and then there's also a 450 watt that's going to be available. They
had to design this really cool well cooler. It's called the H5SF and it's a
blower design. And it actually reminds me kind of like a heat pipe blower in a
laptop except instead of heat pipes, it's got water tubes that go to the CPU.
It's like 40 mm tall by 120 mm wide. And
they figure it can handle anywhere from a 100 watt heat load like near silently
up to a 150 watt heat load. They also had to source a motherboard for it. So
they're actually using a Gigabyte Z170N Wi-Fi as part of like a barebones kit.
And then they also worked with MSI to develop a liquid cool GTX 980 Ti
graphics card. So the idea is that if you buy all the components in the
Bulldog ecosystem, you can put together a kick-ass silent gaming machine. In
terms of the case itself, obviously any ITX motherboard is pretty much going to
work. You could use a different SFX power supply. You can buy everything alakart because that's the Corsair way.
but they intend for people, I think for the most part, to buy them as a
barebones. For the more um timid buyers
who don't aren't familiar with putting together a PC completely on their own.
So, if you do that, you can add yourself up to three SSDs or a single SSD and a 3
and 12 in drive. And you don't have to do a liquid cooled graphics card. You
can go air cooled as well. Now, for me personally, I'm not necessarily that
sold on where the technology is at in terms of 4K gaming in the living room. I
mean, Corsair brings up to me that with overclocking, their GTX 980 Ti can run
up to 20% faster than a standard 980 Ti,
but personally, I don't necessarily think 20% is the difference between
1080p K 1080p gaming and and 4K gaming.
So, I think the technology's got a ways to go, but if nothing else, Corta is
taking a step in the direction of bringing 4K gaming to the living room.
And at least their solution is actually somewhat capable of doing it when you
compare it to uh well, game consoles.
But of course, the bulldog isn't the piece that's actually supposed to go in
your lap. No, my friends, this is the lap dog. And
this is the sort of accessory for the bulldog, but also would be appropriate
for any number of other PC solutions
that go on your TV, of which there actually aren't that many, but you know,
we're not too stressed about that. If more are released, the Lap Dog should be
a good accompiment for them. And actually, I'm a pretty big fan of this
product. It's gone through some evolutionary changes since the first
time we saw it, like way back early last year, if I recall correctly. And it
seems like for the most part, they're not only better than previous iterations, but also better than other
similar concepts that I've seen in the past. So, I actually unboxed a Phantom
Lapboard way back in the day. It was
like functional, but pretty pretty awful. Then I checked out the Nerdy Tech
Couchmaster, which has the two big cushions on either side of you and the
big platform with active USB cables and and all that kind of stuff. This takes
that idea of having a platform with you on the couch, like kind of a TV tray, so
to speak, and makes it way more ergonomic and way easier to store. So,
I'll walk you guys through it really quick. You've got a single USB connection that goes over to your
computer. Comes with I think it's a 16 ft cord. And then there's a four- port
USB hub that allows you to connect your keyboard, your mouse, and then a couple
of peripherals on the side, whether you want like a USB stick or something like
that or whatever the case may be. There's a swappable mouse pad platform
over on the right hand side. And this is cool, there's a swappable keyboard slot
on the left. It's compatible with the K65 and the K70 keyboards, not the
Strafe. Now, with that said, I don't think that you're going to like be
ripping your keyboard out and putting it back in all the time because if you are
using it properly, you're probably going to be using the cable management like
routing tray thing under this handy little hinge up here to make the whole
thing really clean and really tidy so you don't have any mouse cord drag or
anything along those lines. This is kind of I personally feel this is kind of
unnecessary. But the really soft like surprisingly soft. It's like a It's like
a memory gel kind of like a really nice
material on the bottom is actually detachable from the main board via
magnets. I guess one benefit of this would be if you wanted to put it on the
coffee table in front of you and you wanted it to sit flat, it would be able
to do that. But from an ergonomic standpoint, I don't really see why you
wouldn't just want it in your lap because unlike the Couch Master, it's
not up at an uncomfortable height. I find it's at just the right height for
me to have my shoulders in a relaxed position and game quite comfortably on
it. I think this is a huge step in the right direction. And uh I mean more
modularity is always nice, but it's not like the keyboards that go with it are
uh you know phantom lapboard class keyboards. We're talking K70 RGBs with
Cherry MX switches. So, not exactly uh you know, slim pickings as far as that
goes. So, thanks for checking out video number two from the Corsair booth here
at CES 2016. Don't miss our other one if you're interested in their new cases.
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