1 00:00:00,190 --> 00:00:06,720 - Opening up with our sponsor disclosure. This video is brought to you by Digital Storm. 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:12,460 But Linus you might say, "Ah, that's not a Digital Storm box." 3 00:00:12,460 --> 00:00:17,600 And I would reply, Yes, this (grunts) 4 00:00:18,530 --> 00:00:23,200 is a brand new PC gaming brand called Redux. 5 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:27,660 Their pitch is simple, they build you a custom gaming rig 6 00:00:27,660 --> 00:00:34,040 with off the shelf premium quality parts. Like for example, this prime Z490P motherboard from ASUS 7 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,150 and only mark up the system, $75. 8 00:00:38,150 --> 00:00:41,840 That's right, 75 bucks gets you the build, 9 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,079 two years of warranty. And do you get any tech support? 10 00:00:46,079 --> 00:00:49,249 (grunts) Hasty, overhead raining. 11 00:00:49,249 --> 00:00:51,063 (objects cluttering) Oh shoot. 12 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,910 I'm fine, oh wait our team of in-house gamers will get you back up 13 00:00:55,910 --> 00:01:01,360 and running if you run into any issues. So, I guess that includes tech support as well. 14 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:05,920 Ouch, that really hurt. I just pulled the full boat and my hands under it. 15 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:13,640 I'll be very interested to see what kind of build quality we can expect from a $75 build machine. 16 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:20,730 You know, what's interesting is this is very similar to the model that we had for NCIX PCs way back in the day 17 00:01:20,730 --> 00:01:25,240 it was $25 to just put the hardware together, 18 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,397 no validation, no operating system install, 19 00:01:28,397 --> 00:01:32,280 $50 to install the OS and configure drivers and all of that. 20 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:36,440 And then I think we actually upped it to like 75 and a hundred later on down the line. 21 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,980 So $75 for a completely assembled system. 22 00:01:40,980 --> 00:01:46,630 We also only offered a one-year warranty at that price. With two-year warranty looks very attractive 23 00:01:46,630 --> 00:01:52,810 especially if the sponsor of this video Digital Storm has anything to do with it. 24 00:01:52,810 --> 00:01:58,410 To start with, this is a pretty, attractive looking chassis seems to be a variation of the TD500 mesh 25 00:01:58,410 --> 00:02:03,890 from cooler master with a little bit of custom branding on it. So you can see they've got a custom badge on the front. 26 00:02:03,890 --> 00:02:10,260 I can tell you for $75 per build, you actually cannot afford to do a whole lot of custom branding 27 00:02:10,260 --> 00:02:13,490 but they still manage to spend a couple 28 00:02:13,490 --> 00:02:19,910 of bucks on one of these expanding, foam packing pieces to hold your graphics card in place. 29 00:02:19,910 --> 00:02:21,993 And ooh look at that. 30 00:02:23,170 --> 00:02:29,690 They've actually customized the AIO cooler as well as, Oh, did they do the fans too? 31 00:02:29,690 --> 00:02:33,090 Where's my packing material at? you know what, I'm kinda surprised at this. 32 00:02:33,090 --> 00:02:37,200 I was all ready to say Oh, well, you know, maybe they should have spent a bit more 33 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:42,760 on the packing, but this might just be a case where the courier drop kicked it 34 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:48,370 because you can see one of the back thumb screws got kind of bashed in 35 00:02:48,370 --> 00:02:53,370 but Redux is actually using a nice high quality foam here. 36 00:02:53,410 --> 00:02:56,990 So, double boxing might've solved it 37 00:02:56,990 --> 00:03:01,540 or just having thumb screws that stick out a bit less. You can see there's kinda like a spacer 38 00:03:01,540 --> 00:03:06,530 on this that makes it so they stick out quite a lot. That would probably be the solution to that. 39 00:03:06,530 --> 00:03:10,680 Either way it's not the kind of thing that affects the aesthetics of the build once it's in place. 40 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,760 It's just something that is a bummer when you get a new system. 41 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:21,410 And one of the firm's crews is kinda bopped into the back. Okay, you can definitely see some of the pedigree here. 42 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:26,410 Like that is some pretty nice cable management. 43 00:03:26,410 --> 00:03:33,350 included with this case is an RGB... Wait no, not included with this case. 44 00:03:33,350 --> 00:03:36,707 How very interesting DS PCB. 45 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,170 I wonder what DS is short for, hold on a minute. 46 00:03:44,170 --> 00:03:50,197 No, this seems to be customed, if I had to guess I'd say it's either for Digital Storm or DesignSpark 47 00:03:50,197 --> 00:03:55,720 which is a PCB making company. So, could be either way. 48 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,990 I'm actually, just gonna pull it off. Look if they didn't want it torn down 49 00:03:59,990 --> 00:04:03,420 they wouldn't send it to me. No markings on the back, all right. 50 00:04:03,420 --> 00:04:07,360 It doesn't tell us anything useful. Then let's go ahead and put this stuff back in. 51 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,710 Yes, Brandon, that is an RTX 3080. 52 00:04:10,710 --> 00:04:17,780 These are rarely seen out in the wild certainly a coveted addition to any gaming PC 53 00:04:17,780 --> 00:04:20,810 that is at least for the time being. 54 00:04:20,810 --> 00:04:23,830 At the time of shooting this video AMD had announced, 55 00:04:23,830 --> 00:04:30,740 but not yet actually released their rDNA to Radian RX 6000 graphics cards. 56 00:04:30,740 --> 00:04:34,000 So we'll have to see how that goes over the next little bit. 57 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,790 But there's a couple of note worthy things about this bill. Aside from the cable management 58 00:04:37,790 --> 00:04:40,800 being well, frankly, excellent. 59 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,320 The attention to detail is just outstanding. 60 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,440 So we've got a positive air pressure configuration 61 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,150 with three intake fans at the front one exhaust fan at the back. 62 00:04:51,150 --> 00:04:55,000 And then we're gonna have passive exhaust at the top of the case. That's all pretty normal 63 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,800 other than just being done correctly. But look at this has Digital Storm 64 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,360 been watching Gamers Nexus look at the orientation 65 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,710 of this all in one cooler, got them tubes at the bottom. 66 00:05:06,710 --> 00:05:11,060 So just in case there's any air bubbles that are stuck in the loop from filling at the factory, 67 00:05:11,060 --> 00:05:14,090 they're gonna settle here in this tank 68 00:05:14,090 --> 00:05:18,330 at the top of the reservoir instead of getting stuck in your pump 69 00:05:18,330 --> 00:05:21,980 causing it to be louder and potentially have a shorter lifespan. 70 00:05:21,980 --> 00:05:27,460 Also note worthy is the appropriate amount of slack on cables like these front panel connectors 71 00:05:27,460 --> 00:05:32,810 and this CEDA cable here. One of the, just sort of classic blandas 72 00:05:32,810 --> 00:05:38,232 that we made back in my NCIX days was having technicians that would go, 73 00:05:38,232 --> 00:05:42,960 "Okay, I've got everything plugged in. Now I'm gonna put my zip ties on, right? 74 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:47,830 I'm gonna do a great job of cable managing the system." And they cinch the zip ties tight. 75 00:05:47,830 --> 00:05:51,620 And what they would actually do is they would put so much tension on the plug 76 00:05:51,620 --> 00:05:55,470 that what would happen in shipping is you wouldn't believe the amount of flex 77 00:05:55,470 --> 00:05:59,950 that even something as rigid looking this will undergo. During shipping the system would flex 78 00:05:59,950 --> 00:06:03,427 it would actually pull them out and the customer would get it and go, 79 00:06:03,427 --> 00:06:07,810 "Did you guys not ship me a hard drive or what?" 'Cause the system wouldn't boot or wouldn't turn on 80 00:06:07,810 --> 00:06:11,960 because the power plug had been pulled out So you can see that Redux has actually gone 81 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,530 and put an appropriate amount of slack on all of the cables here 82 00:06:15,530 --> 00:06:18,950 to make sure that they don't accidentally just pop out during shipping. 83 00:06:18,950 --> 00:06:24,090 In terms of accessories ah there we go. I found them, Oh, this is interesting. 84 00:06:24,090 --> 00:06:29,090 It's like a, an acrylic GeForce RTX Sag reduction doodad. 85 00:06:29,690 --> 00:06:34,640 Oh cool, we should put that on. I've got some extra screws, motherboard manual 86 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:39,733 power cord for the power supply, as well as any additional modular cables we might want. 87 00:06:41,820 --> 00:06:45,293 Oh, there's a little nubbin in here that's kinda getting in the way. 88 00:06:47,130 --> 00:06:50,800 Okay, these are not for cutting acrylic. 89 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,750 Watch the whole thing cracked now, there's even a pretty successful caitilin looks pretty clean 90 00:06:57,270 --> 00:06:58,363 This one here, 91 00:07:01,809 --> 00:07:04,820 I think I got it, it's fired up. 92 00:07:04,820 --> 00:07:09,450 Oh, they're RGB fans, nice, was it pretty looking? 93 00:07:09,450 --> 00:07:12,910 Here is cooler master fans, this little things 94 00:07:12,910 --> 00:07:18,500 like you can see even this back fan it runs like under the VRM heat sink. 95 00:07:18,500 --> 00:07:23,820 So you can't really see it running down to the K-fan header back here, a brown back plate 96 00:07:23,820 --> 00:07:29,453 on this PNY accelerator is a bit of a shame PNY if you're watching brown, like. 97 00:07:30,570 --> 00:07:34,150 Now let's try to figure out the point of this RGB controller. 98 00:07:34,150 --> 00:07:37,180 I have to assume that 'cause I know Digital Storm uses 99 00:07:37,180 --> 00:07:41,910 these just like a RGB remotes for their systems still, just 100 00:07:41,910 --> 00:07:45,890 so that you don't have to have any ugly bloody software. 101 00:07:45,890 --> 00:07:49,130 I have to imagine that this just accidentally ended up 102 00:07:49,130 --> 00:07:52,450 I think, cause it's part of this tendon package. 103 00:07:52,450 --> 00:07:56,230 I'm sure they'll have that sorted out before they're shipping Redux systems off the website. 104 00:07:56,230 --> 00:08:02,090 There's nothing to really see Brandon. There's no bloat whatsoever. 105 00:08:02,090 --> 00:08:06,660 The closest thing to bloat would be the Microsoft Solitaire Collection 106 00:08:06,660 --> 00:08:10,830 which is included with Windows. I don't even have any like 107 00:08:10,830 --> 00:08:14,890 a candy crush, king.com nonsense in here. 108 00:08:14,890 --> 00:08:17,423 So we've got GeForce experience, Microsoft edge. 109 00:08:18,750 --> 00:08:20,513 Wow not bad. 110 00:08:21,750 --> 00:08:26,200 And then homepage is obviously a website that's not launched yet so 111 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:30,310 by the time you guys go to build redox.com it will actually be something 112 00:08:30,310 --> 00:08:33,330 Oh, I guess now it's a good a time as any to talk specs on this thing. 113 00:08:33,330 --> 00:08:36,870 It's a Core i7-10700K with an RTX 3080 114 00:08:36,870 --> 00:08:41,910 So I am expecting to be able to max out the 360 Hertz refresh rated to this display. 115 00:08:41,910 --> 00:08:46,660 It's got 16 gigs of 3200 Megahertz memory. It's kind of a custom build from them. 116 00:08:46,660 --> 00:08:50,330 'Cause it's got an upgraded graphics card compared to their high-end spec. 117 00:08:50,330 --> 00:08:55,460 So it's got a 500GBm.2 from a data as well as two terabytes of mechanical storage. 118 00:08:55,460 --> 00:08:59,750 So that'll cover all of your gaming needs. And then it's got a 600 watt power supply 119 00:08:59,750 --> 00:09:04,420 which might seem like an odd choice for an RTX 3080. 120 00:09:04,420 --> 00:09:09,360 But, if you bear in mind that this is supposed to have an RTX 3070 in it, then it's probably fine. 121 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:17,170 Now what I wanna know, is if this is even gonna work. because we've seen 750, even 850 watt units just buckle 122 00:09:18,020 --> 00:09:23,070 under the momentary current spikes from these RTX 3000 series cards. 123 00:09:23,070 --> 00:09:27,133 So guess we'll find out sooner though. 124 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,763 I am really big into the tinted glass with RGB look. 125 00:09:34,350 --> 00:09:37,750 Oh, that poor power supply. I was trying to figure out why it was running so loud. 126 00:09:37,750 --> 00:09:43,970 'Cause most RTX 3000 cards, they're pretty reasonable. And it's got like a dual one 20 milli IO on it. 127 00:09:43,970 --> 00:09:46,963 It's that poor 600 watt power supply, okay. 128 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,660 I wouldn't expect to have that issue on a final system though. What are we looking at here? 129 00:09:51,660 --> 00:09:56,660 350-400fps and 75 bucks to build a machine like that. 130 00:09:57,710 --> 00:10:03,270 Not too shabby. Now for some random, honestly I would look at it 131 00:10:03,270 --> 00:10:08,803 and I'd go, ah, they gotta be cutting corners somewhere. But knowing who, (clears throat) well is, 132 00:10:09,940 --> 00:10:12,433 behind the scenes 75 bucks right? 133 00:10:14,575 --> 00:10:18,220 when now obviously when they say "No mark up" they mean compared to a retail price 134 00:10:18,220 --> 00:10:22,480 at another store where presumably they're making at least some margin 135 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,300 but that's still very competitive with building it on your own. 136 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:30,340 Obviously, especially when system integrators are... As far as I can tell the only ones 137 00:10:30,340 --> 00:10:33,403 that can actually get access to these bloody video cards right now. 138 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:38,770 So if you're looking for a gaming rig no matter what game it is, once their website's up 139 00:10:38,770 --> 00:10:44,300 they're gonna have a feature where you can basically just plug in what games you play and what kind of performance you want. 140 00:10:44,300 --> 00:10:49,940 And it'll suggest a rig for you. Makes the whole experience much, much simpler 141 00:10:49,940 --> 00:10:54,860 than configuring everything on your own. Again for 75 bucks like, okay, 142 00:10:54,860 --> 00:10:58,850 where's that blow up thing? Dang it, I missed it. Oh yes, subscribe to ShortCircuit. 143 00:10:58,850 --> 00:11:01,000 Sorry I got distracted playing video games.