so today on my video blog we're going to be having a look at a system that I put
together for our friends at Corsair they are actually doing a lot of messaging
around the Corsair dream PC these days and what that means is that you can buy
brand name components and build your own brand name PC so to speak so what
they're saying sometimes to do it right you have to do it yourself basically
they're encouraging users to load up on all the Corsair parts that they can
because what that means is that you're going to have good warranty support good
quality parts and generally a good
functioning system so let's have a look at what we use for our Corsair dream PC
first of all I've got the Intel Core i7 975 as well as the Intel extreme series
Smackover motherboard so that is an excellent base for any dream PC next we
have Windows 7 Home Premium which comes with direct X11 it's got Aros snap which
I was actually confused on my uh my Windows 7 preview Aros snap means that
you or Arrow Shake sorry means that you shake it and then all the other Windows
go away or come back um sometimes there we go and then Arrow snap is where you
drag it to the side or to the other side
or to the top there so now I'm no longer confused about what all the different
Arrow things are with Windows 7 anyway we got dx11 trim support and Windows 7
that's good stuff then cooling we have the Corsair H50 so this is their uh
fully integrated liquid cooling system and I'm going to show you the real Parts
in just a second so not going to focus too much on the boxes we have a of
course our solid state drive also included with the system the the memory
box was kind of ugly but there's some memory so we're not going to really show
too much of that and then we have the Corsair power supply now something I
want you to notice about this box is it says it's got a 5year warranty that's
one of the reasons that Corsair is encouraging users to stick with Corsair
and to go with good brand name components for their own dream PC
because even though you're not buying this dream PC from a builder you are
buying all components that have good aftermarket support so you pick up some
radon cards from XFX you got lifetime warranty on those you pick up memory
from Corsair you got lifetime warranty on that 5year warranty on a Corsair
power supply you've got a three-year warranty on an Intel motherboard so I
mean basically you're getting an extended warranty package three to
Lifetime years and you don't actually have to buy a pre-integrated PC now
let's get this thing open here first of all and there we go so I'm just going to
show off what we've got in the dream PC here so here's our Corsair triple
Channel 6 gig memory kit with the Dominator airflow fan here's the Corsair
H50 CPU Cooler and it's actually running quite cool I really like this thing
actually and then up here I've got it kind of creatively mounted here is a
Corsair p128 SSD it's actually uh
velcroed in there just cuz I want people to be able to check that out and this
machine is going to be at trade shows so I don't want people ripping them out of
the hot swap drives that are in this case so that would be a really bad thing
then we've got our 975 processor Smackover motherboard board and then
down in the bottom I've got some lighting on it here I bet the camera's
going to go crazy trying to focus on that but there's our hx1000 modular
power supply and I want you to check out a couple of cool features about this
case as I mentioned you've got your hot swap Drive Bay so I'm going to get the
cameraman to come around and have a look at the front those are actually empty on
mine and he just tripped over all the boxes I put on the ground that's awesome
so there's your hot Swap and then in terms of other really unique features
about this case I guess the biggest one has got to be how water cooling friendly
it is first of all you can put a triple rad on the top and a single in the back
and see we've got three 120 mm blue LED fans up there looking pretty sweet and
then the other big one is the cable management I put like no effort into the
cable management of this PC however it ends up looking really slick because you
got all these little rubber grommeted back pieces where you can route any
feasible cable I mean I managed to mount a hard drive there and it looks like it
belongs there it's awesome anyway thank you for checking out my blog video on
the dream PC