WEBVTT 00:00:00.190 --> 00:00:06.720 - Opening up with our sponsor disclosure. This video is brought to you by Digital Storm. 00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:12.460 But Linus you might say, "Ah, that's not a Digital Storm box." 00:00:12.460 --> 00:00:17.600 And I would reply, Yes, this (grunts) 00:00:18.530 --> 00:00:23.200 is a brand new PC gaming brand called Redux. 00:00:23.200 --> 00:00:27.660 Their pitch is simple, they build you a custom gaming rig 00:00:27.660 --> 00:00:34.040 with off the shelf premium quality parts. Like for example, this prime Z490P motherboard from ASUS 00:00:34.040 --> 00:00:38.150 and only mark up the system, $75. 00:00:38.150 --> 00:00:41.840 That's right, 75 bucks gets you the build, 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:46.079 two years of warranty. And do you get any tech support? 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:49.249 (grunts) Hasty, overhead raining. 00:00:49.249 --> 00:00:51.063 (objects cluttering) Oh shoot. 00:00:52.400 --> 00:00:55.910 I'm fine, oh wait our team of in-house gamers will get you back up 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. 00:01:01.360 --> 00:01:05.920 Ouch, that really hurt. I just pulled the full boat and my hands under it. 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. 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 00:01:20.730 --> 00:01:25.240 it was $25 to just put the hardware together, 00:01:25.240 --> 00:01:28.397 no validation, no operating system install, 00:01:28.397 --> 00:01:32.280 $50 to install the OS and configure drivers and all of that. 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. 00:01:36.440 --> 00:01:40.980 So $75 for a completely assembled system. 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 00:01:46.630 --> 00:01:52.810 especially if the sponsor of this video Digital Storm has anything to do with it. 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 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. 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 00:02:10.260 --> 00:02:13.490 but they still manage to spend a couple 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. 00:02:19.910 --> 00:02:21.993 And ooh look at that. 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? 00:02:29.690 --> 00:02:33.090 Where's my packing material at? you know what, I'm kinda surprised at this. 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 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:42.760 on the packing, but this might just be a case where the courier drop kicked it 00:02:42.760 --> 00:02:48.370 because you can see one of the back thumb screws got kind of bashed in 00:02:48.370 --> 00:02:53.370 but Redux is actually using a nice high quality foam here. 00:02:53.410 --> 00:02:56.990 So, double boxing might've solved it 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 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. 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. 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:13.760 It's just something that is a bummer when you get a new system. 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. 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:26.410 Like that is some pretty nice cable management. 00:03:26.410 --> 00:03:33.350 included with this case is an RGB... Wait no, not included with this case. 00:03:33.350 --> 00:03:36.707 How very interesting DS PCB. 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:44.170 I wonder what DS is short for, hold on a minute. 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 00:03:50.197 --> 00:03:55.720 which is a PCB making company. So, could be either way. 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 00:03:59.990 --> 00:04:03.420 they wouldn't send it to me. No markings on the back, all right. 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. 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:10.710 Yes, Brandon, that is an RTX 3080. 00:04:10.710 --> 00:04:17.780 These are rarely seen out in the wild certainly a coveted addition to any gaming PC 00:04:17.780 --> 00:04:20.810 that is at least for the time being. 00:04:20.810 --> 00:04:23.830 At the time of shooting this video AMD had announced, 00:04:23.830 --> 00:04:30.740 but not yet actually released their rDNA to Radian RX 6000 graphics cards. 00:04:30.740 --> 00:04:34.000 So we'll have to see how that goes over the next little bit. 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 00:04:37.790 --> 00:04:40.800 being well, frankly, excellent. 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:44.320 The attention to detail is just outstanding. 00:04:44.320 --> 00:04:47.440 So we've got a positive air pressure configuration 00:04:47.440 --> 00:04:51.150 with three intake fans at the front one exhaust fan at the back. 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 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:59.800 other than just being done correctly. But look at this has Digital Storm 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:03.360 been watching Gamers Nexus look at the orientation 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:06.710 of this all in one cooler, got them tubes at the bottom. 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, 00:05:11.060 --> 00:05:14.090 they're gonna settle here in this tank 00:05:14.090 --> 00:05:18.330 at the top of the reservoir instead of getting stuck in your pump 00:05:18.330 --> 00:05:21.980 causing it to be louder and potentially have a shorter lifespan. 00:05:21.980 --> 00:05:27.460 Also note worthy is the appropriate amount of slack on cables like these front panel connectors 00:05:27.460 --> 00:05:32.810 and this CEDA cable here. One of the, just sort of classic blandas 00:05:32.810 --> 00:05:38.232 that we made back in my NCIX days was having technicians that would go, 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? 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. 00:05:47.830 --> 00:05:51.620 And what they would actually do is they would put so much tension on the plug 00:05:51.620 --> 00:05:55.470 that what would happen in shipping is you wouldn't believe the amount of flex 00:05:55.470 --> 00:05:59.950 that even something as rigid looking this will undergo. During shipping the system would flex 00:05:59.950 --> 00:06:03.427 it would actually pull them out and the customer would get it and go, 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 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 00:06:11.960 --> 00:06:15.530 and put an appropriate amount of slack on all of the cables here 00:06:15.530 --> 00:06:18.950 to make sure that they don't accidentally just pop out during shipping. 00:06:18.950 --> 00:06:24.090 In terms of accessories ah there we go. I found them, Oh, this is interesting. 00:06:24.090 --> 00:06:29.090 It's like a, an acrylic GeForce RTX Sag reduction doodad. 00:06:29.690 --> 00:06:34.640 Oh cool, we should put that on. I've got some extra screws, motherboard manual 00:06:34.640 --> 00:06:39.733 power cord for the power supply, as well as any additional modular cables we might want. 00:06:41.820 --> 00:06:45.293 Oh, there's a little nubbin in here that's kinda getting in the way. 00:06:47.130 --> 00:06:50.800 Okay, these are not for cutting acrylic. 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:54.750 Watch the whole thing cracked now, there's even a pretty successful caitilin looks pretty clean 00:06:57.270 --> 00:06:58.363 This one here, 00:07:01.809 --> 00:07:04.820 I think I got it, it's fired up. 00:07:04.820 --> 00:07:09.450 Oh, they're RGB fans, nice, was it pretty looking? 00:07:09.450 --> 00:07:12.910 Here is cooler master fans, this little things 00:07:12.910 --> 00:07:18.500 like you can see even this back fan it runs like under the VRM heat sink. 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 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. 00:07:30.570 --> 00:07:34.150 Now let's try to figure out the point of this RGB controller. 00:07:34.150 --> 00:07:37.180 I have to assume that 'cause I know Digital Storm uses 00:07:37.180 --> 00:07:41.910 these just like a RGB remotes for their systems still, just 00:07:41.910 --> 00:07:45.890 so that you don't have to have any ugly bloody software. 00:07:45.890 --> 00:07:49.130 I have to imagine that this just accidentally ended up 00:07:49.130 --> 00:07:52.450 I think, cause it's part of this tendon package. 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. 00:07:56.230 --> 00:08:02.090 There's nothing to really see Brandon. There's no bloat whatsoever. 00:08:02.090 --> 00:08:06.660 The closest thing to bloat would be the Microsoft Solitaire Collection 00:08:06.660 --> 00:08:10.830 which is included with Windows. I don't even have any like 00:08:10.830 --> 00:08:14.890 a candy crush, king.com nonsense in here. 00:08:14.890 --> 00:08:17.423 So we've got GeForce experience, Microsoft edge. 00:08:18.750 --> 00:08:20.513 Wow not bad. 00:08:21.750 --> 00:08:26.200 And then homepage is obviously a website that's not launched yet so 00:08:26.200 --> 00:08:30.310 by the time you guys go to build redox.com it will actually be something 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. 00:08:33.330 --> 00:08:36.870 It's a Core i7-10700K with an RTX 3080 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. 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. 00:08:46.660 --> 00:08:50.330 'Cause it's got an upgraded graphics card compared to their high-end spec. 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. 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 00:08:59.750 --> 00:09:04.420 which might seem like an odd choice for an RTX 3080. 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. 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 00:09:18.020 --> 00:09:23.070 under the momentary current spikes from these RTX 3000 series cards. 00:09:23.070 --> 00:09:27.133 So guess we'll find out sooner though. 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:32.763 I am really big into the tinted glass with RGB look. 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. 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. 00:09:43.970 --> 00:09:46.963 It's that poor 600 watt power supply, okay. 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? 00:09:51.660 --> 00:09:56.660 350-400fps and 75 bucks to build a machine like that. 00:09:57.710 --> 00:10:03.270 Not too shabby. Now for some random, honestly I would look at it 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, 00:10:09.940 --> 00:10:12.433 behind the scenes 75 bucks right? 00:10:14.575 --> 00:10:18.220 when now obviously when they say "No mark up" they mean compared to a retail price 00:10:18.220 --> 00:10:22.480 at another store where presumably they're making at least some margin 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.300 but that's still very competitive with building it on your own. 00:10:26.300 --> 00:10:30.340 Obviously, especially when system integrators are... As far as I can tell the only ones 00:10:30.340 --> 00:10:33.403 that can actually get access to these bloody video cards right now. 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 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. 00:10:44.300 --> 00:10:49.940 And it'll suggest a rig for you. Makes the whole experience much, much simpler 00:10:49.940 --> 00:10:54.860 than configuring everything on your own. Again for 75 bucks like, okay, 00:10:54.860 --> 00:10:58.850 where's that blow up thing? Dang it, I missed it. Oh yes, subscribe to ShortCircuit. 00:10:58.850 --> 00:11:01.000 Sorry I got distracted playing video games.