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is nc.com all right guys I'm here at the Silverstone boost with Tony and we're

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here to come uh we're here to check out some of their home theater systems so this is our htpc section

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earlier this year at CES we showed off this very nice and compact ml05 miniitx

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htpc case so for computex we're showing

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uh the brother of it it's called The m06 it shares the same basic internal

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structure as the ml05 except it front panel is now aluminum instead of acrylic

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and plastic so moving on we have a brand

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new case that we're unveiling for comput

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Tex this year this is our Raven prototype uh mini case uh the reason we

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put it here in the home theater section is that we think this will be a really

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nice complement for people to put in their living room even though this is

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designed for a gaming PC so inside if I

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open this up you'll see that it has a lot of feature that help you build a

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really powerful uh PC out of this so

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first of all um to make it small the case use utilizes a mini ITX motherboard

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and sfx power supply up front and on here on the right side this

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bracket if I remove it you you'll see

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it'll hold a graphics card really long one too so you can build really powerful

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system with this and on the bottom of the chassis you could actually fit a

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thin um dual 120 mm radiator

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underneath that's awesome now with with stuff like Steam Big Picture I brought

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this up a few times here at computex already but with stuff like Steam Big

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Picture these kind of computers are being such a big deal because everyone

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wants to have Steam Big Picture in their home theater they want to use

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controllers sit on their couch but play PC games cuz PC games are what's up so

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now if you can build an awesome system in a case like this that looks really

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sharp maybe not quite as professional and amazing looking as an aluminum front

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cover but if you can make a sharp goodlook gaming system to run Steam Big

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Picture that's great so this case it's very cool we're going to move on and cover some more Silverstone stuff all

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right we're still here at the Silverstone Booth we got something really cool to check out which are SATA

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power extensions and Splitters this is their previous one and I'm just going to

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go right to you so uh last year we introduced a one 124 uh Power SATA

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connector so that it's got two uh capacitor built-in which we uh took a

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long time to actually develop because you have to get the right number of capacitor and the right size for them to

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provide stable enough power for all four connections to your SATA drives um one

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of the things that people really like about uh this is that they can use it on

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cases with hard drive cages that have multiple drives but some of the really

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smaller cages uh users actually have to find that they

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have to bend this cable rather stiffly like this so what you end up with is

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that you you're putting a lot of stress on your side at drives so this year uh

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we're introducing uh these two new cables

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so uh one is for two connections and one

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is for four just like before but if you can see we changed the material of the

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cable to be very very soft and flexible so I can bend it like this and they'll

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still keep uh a very straight um actually

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stress-free connector to your SATA drives that's actually really cool

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because I personally I haven't broken that much Hardware but I've broken a

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hard drive before by having so much stress from the power connector on it so

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now what I have to do is I have to actually have the cable pulled down by a

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zap strap so that the hard drive can actually be read from so having more

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malleable cables like this where you can move it around and torque it a little

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bit and have no actual issues is very cool now we're going to move away from

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cables and go right over the liquid coolers because these are awesome my

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favorite part I'm going to give it to him pretty soon but my favorite part is that they're all metal here it's very

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sharp and shows True Performance I I don't really like plastic in my system

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at all I like full metal cases I like full metal everywhere so that's awesome

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what do you have to say about this okay so we developed this inhouse so um okay

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so let's take a look at this this one's a little beat up but you can see uh just

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from the radio to design it's different from any other

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water cooling radiat on on the market these use the same type of heting Ray uh

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heting fin array like the highend very

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high-end air coolers that you see on the market they're very tough it's very hard

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to bend them uh if you ever seen uh or

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used uh other radiators you'll know that if you put a lot of pressure on them by

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hand they you'll actually bend the fence but because these are designed more like

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air coolers they're they're not and also they have much greater surface contact

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uh with the water piping going through the radiator than traditional radiators

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designs okay and the second thing that um of course it's our water block is all

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metal so the bottom is copper this main

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body here is uh uni unibody aluminum

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that's this is actually older version let's show the newer version little

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B okay so this is nickel nickel plated

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so it looks very nice and even the bracket here is Al aluminum so it's very

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very strong doesn't Flex uh like the other middle brackets on the market and

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this is soldered on the copper base solder onto the unit body as opposed to

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screwed on like the other units on the market you not wasting any space with

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screws it looks super sharp very very high quality build that's awesome so

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when we first came by this computer I had already seen their previous coolers

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and he said just what guess what this cooler doesn't have a pump at first I

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thought was kind of crazy maybe misinformed maybe a lunatic I'm not

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really sure but then I noticed that okay I can see the water flowing it's not

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actually rushing rushing rushing as fast as it normally is where you can't actually see the water flowing so I

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started to believe him a little bit and then he explained exactly how it doesn't

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have a pump and I'm going to let him do that now okay so we're using a liquid

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with the lower evaporation point uh than normal so that means uh the heat from

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your CPU actually evaporate this liquid causing this uh flow uh to go up and

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condenses back down after it gets cool by the radio on top so what what we can

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do now is maybe turn off the computer so we can show how much it changes so it's

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going to turn off the computer there's still going to be residual heat on the CPU so it's going to take a little while

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for it to slow down but you can probably already tell that the rate at which the

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water is Flowing is slowing down it's still being heated by the CPU the fan is

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already stopped as you can see here so the computer is off but you can still

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it's still going not super fast but still going that's very cool this is the

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same style of technology that is in uh air coolers and systems already the heat

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pipes that you have actually have a liquid in them and it's evaporating and

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then coming back down that's how it's moving heat into the fins but I haven't

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seen this yet on an actual liquid cooler so that's very very cool thank you for

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showing us this cooler we're going to move on to some more things all right guys coming back at you from the

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Silverstone Booth we came over here they've have a digital power power spice

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this is in their Zeus series it's a 12200 watt which is Beast it's a

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platinum which is beast but something that's a little bit more interesting about this is that it's digital so if

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you can explain the UI we see here on the screen and explain just how you can

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change from single to quad which is personally my favorite part okay so it's

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a digital controlled uh power supply so that means we could do everything

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through the software interface here um this power supply has the ability to

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change from single rail so all I have to do is click here and it becomes a single

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rail power supply if I click on quad you

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can see again all four rails show up from 12v and um because it's digital

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control that means you could actually fine-tune uh each individual rail like

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the 3.3 volts I could lower it or

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increase it okay and hit okay to apply

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the setting I can do this for all of the rails on the power supply also on the

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fan control we we have this very in uh

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simple to understand interface you could

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choose any fence be points in which uh

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you want to choose for your uh different Power loading levels so I can choose to

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have a very strong uh fence speed when

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the power is loading higher or I could go really low on some of these uh power

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settings power supplies have been that interesting beast in your computer

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because for so long you've been able to change kind of whatever you want about

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your computer except for the power supply has just kind of sat down there and done its job which is good but not

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exactly what most people want we're hot rers we want to be able to do whatever we want so it's very cool to see these

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digital power supplies coming out where you can change anything on the Fly

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that's awesome we're we're going to move on all right so knck has been around for a little while our next unit of

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computing but they've been not super

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interesting at least in my opinion until someone like Silverstone has decided to

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come around and just flip the whole thing on its head now it's actually

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quite interesting you can get a lot of different options I'm going to let you go through it but these two are the ones

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I'm mainly interested so far okay so this is the pt14 our first uh nut case

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so this is design with finless operation in mind you can see already tell from

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the hising fin look alike top cover yeah

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there's also a fan option on the bottom where you can uh install as a safety so

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if you're placing this uh nut case in somewhere that you you can touch then

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obviously you won't have this fan running uh to avoid uh CPU running I

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mean CPU running at 60 or 70° C actually

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uh okay for the CP itself but not for your skin so if you want to put this

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somewhere next to you you probably want to have that F running but if you're

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putting this away maybe somewhere behind the monitor like that over there then

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it's probably okay for you to run fin this right cuz you can mount these on

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the back of monitors you can mount them on the back of digital signage and storage you can mount them on the back

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of anything so that's pretty awesome and for those uh of you that are not you

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know not interested in using a Fess case we also have a very beautiful looking

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nut case that's just uh that can utilize

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the regular Intel uh blower cooler on

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the knock and uh this is really nice looking it's also aluminum that aluminum

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front panel is just absolutely awesome aluminum on anything just looks

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absolutely great and now this guy is an interesting Beast so let's go through

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this one so this is a pt16 we're also showing it for the first time here at

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computex it has a built-in car reader

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slot and if I press it on on the side

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here I can slid a hot swap of two and a half in Drive Bay for a bit of uh Drive

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expansion or external storage it's cool

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because you know sometimes if it's a huge file it's not really that viable to

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move it over the network very quickly so if you can just pop a drive out and

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throw it in this thing that's awesome that's very very cool functionality now

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this guy is interesting this guy isn't actually in the Intel series of nut

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computers this is AMD so yeah okay so um

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AMD has been of course uh looking at the

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development of KN so we believe that um it it is a like they say n

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next TR next year so MD decided to also

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join and we're really happy to also help help out and popularize the Knuck yeah

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it's very cool so AMD spreading out Intel spreading into something crazy

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this is all crazy hey guys we're here at our last stop of the Silverstone Booth I

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wanted to cover this it's not ready yet it doesn't have a name we can't test it

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out yet but it's pretty crazy so I wanted to make sure you guys could see

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it can we take off the front here real quick sure we're going to take off the

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front and reveal what's actually going on here we can take off the top and then

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the front comes out very very nice looking case so

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basically if you haven't noticed yet there's no real motherboard in there

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there's a there's a there's a control panel but it's not a motherboard so basically what you can do with this is

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put a put a tiny little power supply in there put a graphics card in there and

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then connect through Thunderbolt to say a laptop if you have a business grade

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laptop that's just amazingly good-look sharp laptop but doesn't have a graphics

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card and you want to be a gamer and you don't necessarily want to buy a huge PC

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you can just Thunderbolt this to your laptop once it's ready and be able to play games on that business class

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notebook or laptop thin Ultrabook whatever you want as long as it has a

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Thunderbolt cable you can add tons of power to it desktop Graphics will always

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Crush laptop Graphics because you just have all that service area to put big

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big big chips and whatever else you want so this is a very very cool product

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