yet another crazy update from the Crazy Russian laboratory this is and I don't
know if you guys know this but my original Corsair dream machine in the
800d which is the same case we have here today is one of my most viewed videos
ever and that was featuring an x58 platform so that's all old and crappy
now right so now we have an updated Corsair dream machine Elite this is with
Intel's latest x79 platform so we're using Aus P9 x79 Pro motherboard we also
have an Intel Core i7 3930k unlocked
processor this will be pre-overclocked although the final clock speeds are to
be determined we want to make sure that whatever clock speed we validate at we
validate it in a case with the side panel closed to ensure that our
customers are not going to have any issues with their pre-overclocked machine it also has some other stuff
that's fairly new as well you know what let's finish up with the outside before
we get inside so you can see it's got a bit of a blue and black overall color
schemes other than those two video cards that's two Radeon
hd7950 so the reason we went with 279
50s we went with a 3930k we went with 16 gigs of RAM we
went the pr level motherboard so this is all the highest possible
performance sort of scaled back one notch with within reason so you're not
paying that huge premium for getting the Halo Parts like the extreme Edition like
the uh Republic of Gamers board the 797s but you're getting that sort of 85%
of the performance at you know 65% of
the price sort of rule that tends to apply to stuff like that so we've gone
with an HX 1050 yes the ax is a higher end power supply but this is also fully
capable of powering a machine like this so it looks great performs great but
it's going to come in at a price that I don't actually know what the price is
going to be yet but it'll be hopefully less than you think so why don't we just
finish up on the outside here so on the outside you guys have seen the 800d
before we've got a Blu-ray player we've got USB 3 so the 800d has been updated
to include USB 3 now although the lighting is very terrible here so I
don't know how good that is in here we find some cool stuff so there's a three
terab storage Drive hard drives are finally starting to come back down and
pricing a little bit as well has the latest Intel 520 Series sand Force SSD
now this is going to be kind of cool guys we're using a different kind of lighting it's fully customizable
lighting with this system and when I take this off it's actually going to
unplug one of them so I got to be a little bit careful here but we are using
these cool there we are these cool LED
strips from bit Phoenix see here so
there's LEDs spaced out here you can actually use little adapters to extend
them them if you want to run longer chains of them see just with these four
little plugs here that's all you got to do you can actually cut them at the
pre-marked places so they're marked on the back so you can do little short ones
here if you want to get some extra lighting there uh these are really
really cool these are pretty similar to the lean Lee ones that I looked at a little while ago although they are
somewhat cheaper and there's a wider variety plus they have that extension
ability which the lean Lee ones did not have so we've got the cable for that
running through here other than that this is a fairly standard Corsair case
except for the upgraded fans so we're using Spectre Pro LED fans for the three
that's three right yeah yeah for the three 120 mil fans in the top we've got
an h100 cooling the CPU we have a 140 mm
Spectra Pro fan here and then finally we have another 120 mm here and I don't
know if they upgraded this one I suspect I did no that's the stock fan that one's
pretty quiet anyway cuz it has the Shroud on it and you can't see it so it
doesn't really contrib read anything to the looks I already mentioned the HX
1050 so you can see the wiring is nice and clean there's almost nothing even
coming out of the power supply and then we're using the included cable routing
options in the 800d in order to make things look as clean as possible
inside now this is something that probably a couple people are going to
comment on these 7950 are very close together the reason for that is that
ASUS doesn't include long Crossfire Bridges with these motherboards so it's
something where if you wanted to Source an aftermarket Crossfire Bridge you could move it down to the bottom PCI
Express 16x slot either way it's not the end of the world because during gaming
yes the fans will ramp up no they do not overheat and then when you're idling the
these cards produce almost no heat at all anyway so it's definitely not an
issue during just day-to-day usage so yeah it's not perfect but it's a
solution that we can live with here in the PC laboratory I think that pretty
much covers it you know I mean we might as well show the overall IO options of
ailable on this motherboard so we do have Intel
Ethernet which is cool 4 USB 3.0 ports
eeta we have their BIOS flashback feature BIOS flashback is cool because
even though it comes pre-overclocked if you decide to keep tweaking it you will
and and you run into issues where you corrupt your BIOS or you update the BIOS
and you corrupt it that way you can actually flash it back just by putting a
BIOS file on a USB disc putting it into the corresponding Port all this info is
in your motherboard manual which you'll receive with your system and then you
can reflash the BIOS just like that so that's actually really cool as well now
there was something that I was sure I wanted to
mention oh yeah okay well there's obviously the fact that while this is
sort of not quite Balls to the walls you know 16 gigs instead of 32 gigs of RAM
79 50s instead of 797s no extreme Edition it can be upgraded to add all of
those parts and the Aesthetics will still be awesome last thing I want you
guys to see is actually the turned on you can you can see the brightness of
these LEDs up there so I think that's
cool can you see that yeah it's like almost like too bright like if I like
cover here a little bit maybe I don't know I don't know how to like show how
bright they are without like blinding the camera so thank you for checking out
this PC laboratory update the Corsair
dream machine Elite updated 2012 edition
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stuff like that also this SSD is awesome I know I haven't done a video about it
yet but it's like balling