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we doing this david yeah because i don't know what's in the box

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what's in the box i actually don't know what's in the box

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there's a sponsored uh sponsored unboxing

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from verla which i have never heard of before now

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this is my first time ever hearing of them and inside here

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is what they call the centaur pc

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i don't know what kind of pc it is but i know it's got some bubble wrap

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it's got some spare parts some evga

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stuff so there's a graphics card in there ooh goodies so they make servers and

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workstations i thought this was going to be yet another gaming computer

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all right what is this thing got a power cable

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i don't know if i have enough clearance for this box to come up

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good luck everybody ah

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oh hey

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got it please remove packing material from inside the computer before use

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that's a good strategy oh oh i just about punched

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myself in the face that was so close the plastic like

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whipped me right under the eye i was wrong by the way

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this is a gaming pc so they were founded in 2016

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doing like workstations for vfx and like

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you know hollywood and that shiz hence the you know la

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based location and then last year they branched into gaming systems so we got a

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tempered glass side panel on this puppy

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oh and that would be quite the gaming system

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um that we've got ourselves in here they managed to get an rtx 3080

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wow okay all right maybe these guys are legit then

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you know i'm actually pretty impressed right off the bat they haven't made any

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critical mistakes that jump out to me like you might see someone who's not

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that experienced with gaming machines you know misconfigure the airflow for the system

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so in this case we've got three 120 millimeters in the

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front two in the top one in the back so they're clearly going for kind of like a

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a balance between intake and exhaust which

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has been shown time and time again is well the correct way to go about it

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in terms of cable management man it's hard to find

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flaw with any of this it's pretty freaking clean to the point where we're

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gonna have to take the side back panel off and see if we can find any problems

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that's not bad everything is neatly tucked away but

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also not to the point where i look at it and i go yeah obviously they knew who

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they were sending it to so they went and you know put special fancy cable ties and spritz

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some you know new car smell in it or anything like that

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just smells like a normal computer but everything's out of the way of the fans

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and we basically can't see the cables through the windowed side panel see that

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can you see me though hi david hi how's it going

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in terms of spec they've gone with a 750 watt b5 series power supply from evga

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i actually don't know what kind of CPU is in there but we've got

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32 gigs of RAM from g skill let's see 3200 cl 16 so

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i would say reasonable high end so

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without overspending on anything this is a very potent basically top of

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the line gaming machine the one question i have is with respect

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to thermals so they've chosen a case that does have

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three 120 millimeter fans in the front but also has a tempered glass front

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panel now this is a lot better than one we checked out recently over on Linus tech

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tips that had almost no space along the side for intake and

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had these front fans getting suffocated but i'll be interested to see what kind

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of thermals we get when we fire this puppy up interestingly they've configured the

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fans to run at very different rpms the front ones are

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they're ripping and these top ones

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they're barely spinning we are on the desktop in terms of bloat there's pretty

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much nothing GeForce experience which i would install anyway

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RGB fusion which is uh gigabytes RGB

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controller software which i'm going to fire up and see if i can figure out

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how to light this puppy up and then microsoft edge and yes i did count

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microsoft edge that's probably not fair probably not

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fair i'm kidding it's chromium now i'm kidding i'm just

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i'm just i'm just teasing microsoft and ah there's your problem

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oh oh it's not too bad

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there we go oh wow had a connector come loose in shipping happens to the best of

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us wow that is i am actually kind of super into that

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cooler that that looks not bad at all

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and uh hold on a second you're definitely right

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that's definitely worse there you go so

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that is how it is intended to be opera that looks

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that looks awesome they went and they put their logo on there and everything

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how's that that's pretty good all right looking good oh the one thing we don't have

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synced is our poor evga graphics card well yeah rip indeed i'll live with it it is

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time to close up the panel and see how much chica looks let's see if what

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they learned about workstations and servers applies to gaming thermals i mean they

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are very similar principles but as everyone knows a principal is not

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necessarily the same as a teacher man rtx 3080 is one impressive

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piece isn't it yeah got that 100 percent

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usage using up 70 of the GPU in code

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and i don't even see any complaints about dropped frames

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i've got a filter on the top there

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oh look at that they put little stickers on so it won't come off during shipping

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need to put one of those on the RGB cable there

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i'm just teasing guys i know stuff like that happens it really does create a

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pain in the butt for customer support when someone calls in about something as trivial as that though

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some customers might not even realize that half of their RGB isn't working

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so this is not a bad idea hot glue hot glue is there's a pro tip for you and a

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half you can get hot glues that kind of like peel off really easy

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but like hold on really nice we've got a 970 evo plus 500 gig for our boot drive

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a one terabyte hard drive spinning storage that's your mass storage right

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there two and a half gig lan and for CPU they've gone with a core i7

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10 700 that is interesting

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it's a good balance again between like price

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to performance ratio and i wouldn't expect it to be a huge bottleneck for an

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rtx 3080 but a lot of the time with the more traditional you know gaming system

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companies you would see them put like a core i9 top of the line in there

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even if they don't expect the customer to overclock which let's face it

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if you're the kind of person that's buying a pre-built i would say the odds

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of you tinkering in the BIOS and overclocking probably slimmer the one thing then that

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i would critique about this configuration is that if i knew i was going to go with

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a non-k CPU i might not go with a z490 motherboard

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except that well they loaded up with pc 3200

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megahertz memory which of course these days you need a

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z-series chipset for which is like it shouldn't be the case but i guess it is so

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there's the rationale there i guess i talked myself into the motherboard

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kind of looks like it's not gonna i think we're settling in at a nice

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comfortable 75 degrees celsius might get up as high as 76.77 but given

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that we're still turboing up to 1530 megahertz that's looking pretty

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good another good sign is that this particular 750 watt power supply must

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have been validated by them because we've run into issues where even a power

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supply that's rated for the amount of power that an rtx 3080 technically calls for

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can still run into issues where the overcurrent protection will kick in

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because of a sudden spike in draw from the rtx 3080 or for that matter

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rtx 3090 so so far we're not seeing any of those symptoms

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hey they even have in their talking points i'm supposed to mention that this

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is what all the pcs look like not just mine so there you go they actually did

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go out of their way not to specially build one for me this is great

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especially in the current market buying a pre-built is a great choice please

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demonstrate this somehow i can demonstrate that real easy you

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want to know how how the hell else are you going to get an rtx 3080

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NVIDIA has a long and proud history

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of getting the boutique builders and the system integrators

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way way more stock relative to the size

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of their business than the part sellers get and i remember

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this because at ncix even though we had a system

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building division and i would go to NVIDIA and i'd say hey

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we should probably get system builder allocation they wouldn't send it to us because i

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think they assumed we were just going to send them out as individual cards

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i don't get it though because obviously it was in our best interest to sell a

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whole system around it but that was always a point of contention so i know

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for a fact that there's extra allocation for system

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builders so that's a real easy one right there as long as it's reasonably priced i got

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nothing against a pre-built system 100

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for lots of people it doesn't make sense like it's easy for me to say yeah

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i could build this system in i wouldn't even say half an hour i'd say

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cable managing to this level probably more like an hour but if you have no

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idea how to do it and you have to like look up what parts to get and look up

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how to put it together and then and then put it together and then double

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check that everything's right i mean we're talking for just like an average

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person it could be a five six hour process so if you pay yourself like 20 bucks an

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hour yeah it's pretty easy to say yeah there's 100 to 150 value and having

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everything built and warrantied by someone who knows what they're doing all right you know what i'm convinced

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very reasonable gaming rig reasonable part selections

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totally happy with the build quality and of course the performance speaks for

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itself or at least it would if i had remembered to open up the performance

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metrics got him

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i'm gonna keep doing the gotham thing forever i've already got complaints about it

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which makes me extremely happy so there's not much else to say

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vrla verla i don't really care how you pronounce it but you can check out their

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systems at the link down in the video description and it's

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not just gaming systems they've got professional stuff as well which i think

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is super super cool maybe next time they'll

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send a workstation over

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by the way subscribe to ShortCircuit

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are you okay i'm good yeah i'm fine