here we are at the XFX Booth this is going to be the start of our second
round of Booth showcases they have a whole bunch of really cool stuff on demo
including like this funky music so XFX is best known for their
video cards they made a little bit of a Switcheroo a couple Generations ago
where they used to do GeForce cards where now they're focused entirely on
Radeon cards so they have brought their years of experience designing and
Manufacturing graphics cards as well as the sweet coolers that go with sorry
slick says it's a little low to over to the radon side so they have an immense
variety of different cards including reference cards cards with non-reference
coolers overclocked version of their cards so if you're going to go with a
graphics card for the radi on side actually is hard to make a better choice
than XFX because not only do they build the cards incredibly well they have one
of the best warranties In The Biz as well which isn't to say that graphics
cards are the only things that they do this I don't know if you guys have seen
this episode on my NC Tech tips Channel but I actually showcased this guy right
here this is their triple monitor stand which is capable of mounting up to three
24-in monitors either in landscape or portrait mode for the just most Balls to
the walls Affinity setup that you can get without spending a fortune on a
custom solution like the Samsung MDT series last but not least we have a
fairly new addition to XFX is lineup so this is their Pro Series power supplies
they actually have power supplies ranging from 80 plus bronze all the way
up to their limited edition 1,000 W 80 plus Platinum 1,000 watt and if you guys
are following my personal rig upgrades on my lineus tech tips Channel you'll
probably already know that I'm actually custom sleeving one of those with
individually sleeved cables and that is what I've opted to use for a couple of
reasons number one is that it has the best efficiency on the market and number
two is their hybrid silent fan switch all you got to do is flip that switch in
your fan on your power supply doesn't even turn on until you hit about 500 WS
load which means it's 100% silent unless you're in like a Max load gaming
scenario we're here at the a booth where they have a variety of different
professional types of products so check this out these are designed to basically
clip to a shirt pocket or to the inside of a notebook or even like on your pants
pocket you can see I'm sporting one right now these are meant to replace
your long bulky cables that have the potential to you know get broken or lost
more easily these you can clip somewhere keep them safe they're 100% durable and
they're not long so that's uh that's a
dummy that's a dummy so that's not going to fit in there at all but that's not
really the point the point is that it will fit in a real one and then there's
also a variety of other things so you've got usba a to mini as well as usba to
micro b we've also got a couple other products so this is their notebook stand
which is made out of highlight highlight thank you which folds up like this and
then you can and reassemble
it like that bam and finally last but
not least they've got a line of iPad cases that actually uses a composite
aluminum on the back so it feels like you're actually still holding an iPad
and they're compatible with the Smart Cover so you just clip your smart cover on here and then you are pretty much
completely protected as far as your iPad goes we also have one more product here
Port charging station aha portable charging station so this actually sits
here it PLS into here this activates a
hub you can charge up at three devices at one time has 15 WS of power enables
charging of iPad iPhone Blackberry or
any other Bluetooth uh headset anything
that's USB charge enabl awesome there you go and you keep that in a handy little carrying pouch here so that you
don't lose anything if you're traveling you're on a roll all the time you just
have one thing to plug into the wall all your cables right here and you're ready
to build good stuff here we are at the MSI Booth where
the main focus is military class 3 so the military class 3 con
basically revolves around using the highest quality most stable possible
components to design their cards and their motherboards
so military class 3 doesn't actually refer to some of their other Concepts
such as hey this doesn't balance unless you have a graphics card on it there we
go such as their twin frozer three coolers so right here we have their GTX
580 although they do have next Generation products coming with their
custom coolers so the advantage of a twin frozer cooler is that rather than a
reference design which will ually load around 75 to 80° twin frozer coolers can
keep even high-end graphics cards at around 55° under loow so while you do
have a little bit more exhaustive heat in your system you get significantly
better temperatures on your graphics card which is great if you're going to
overclock your video card on the motherboard side MSI has a full lineup
of products including everything from basic d41 LGA 775 Legacy stuff all the
way up to the very latest LGA 2011 and LGA a 1155 motherboard platform so they
aha c77 motherboard is actually the main
focus of the booth here today and it's a feature called OC Genie now I've demoed
OC genie on my channels before but I'm going to summarize it really quick for
you OC Genie actually overclocks and tunes your whole system for Optimal
Performance with the push of one button and what's really neat about the new OC
gen on z77 is the fact that you can customize your OC gen profile so say for
example example if you were a system builder like NC you could design a
system to nooc gen to be even more aggressive on that particular system you
give it to the end user and you say hey you want to overclock your system to the
max just press this button and it's already all completely set up for you
you want to turn off the overclock you want to save a little bit on the power consumption whatever else press the
button turn it off no big deal so we've got their z77a gd65 which in my
experience is actually one of the easiest z77 boards to work with in terms
of overclocking and in terms of BIOS navigation with their click BIOS
2o welcome to the ocz technology Booth you can see they got their ocz logo
going on here so ocz used to be mostly known for memory products they are now
no longer involved in system memory
however they have gotten into ssds in a big way so this was actually my
suggestion yeah I'm going to take full credit for it see I'm getting like the stink eye over there but it was totally
my idea my suggestion was that in order
to demo the value of an SS D they bring two identical systems and we're not even
talking high performance systems I mean these are Dells what the it's not a
custom NCI PC by any stretch of the imagination no matter what kind of a PC
you're using whether it's a netbook or an extreme gaming machine you will see a
huge benefit from an SSD now you can do the usual boot up demo but I think we've
all seen that before what I want to focus on is the general responsiveness
of a system using an SSD so you guys at this time don't know which of these
systems has a regular laptop hard drive and which of them has an SSD but I bet
you know now look how long it takes to launch Windows Media Player versus this
one bear in mind guys too these are fresh installs on these machines with
nothing running in the background okay that one was pretty close let's go find
something else that hasn't been opened before Oh Windows Media Center that's a
good one the more you load up these machines with various applications and
Antivirus running in the background and all that kind of nonsense the more
pronounced this difference is going to become and I'm going to have to find a
way to keep talking here while we wait for this hard drive machine to finally
launch Windows Media Center these are two brand new machines I have not
tampered with them in any way we're not even talking Photoshop we're not talking
complicated applications Windows Media Center takes like five times longer to
launch on a hard drive than it does on an SSD so if you guys didn't already
know yes this is the one with the ocz Vertex 4 and if you do happen to attend
the show you can get one for only1 $77.99 this is the highest performing
SSD on the market it is pretty much right up there tied for that performance
Crown right now and at this price it is the best performance per dollar per gig
that you can buy welcome to the PS Vita Booth here at the ncx tech fair this is
actually my first time hands on with the PS VA so it uses a 960x 544 screen that
is almost 1080p so it's pretty darn close this is their full replacement for
the PSP so it is their latest generation handheld game platform and I got to say
even launch titles look absolutely fantastic it has dual analog sticks
which means that you can you can play your games the way you're accustomed to
whether it's movement with the left and camera with the right or whether the
game devb screws up and doesn't do it that way you will be able to operate
your games the way that you're accustomed you've also got a d-pad as well as your full Playstation controls
and based on how complete the control set is on here I wouldn't be that surprised if uh Sony decided to you know
make PS1 games or something available on an arcade in the past cuz I can tell you
these Graphics are more comparable to PS2 than uh than to PS1 that's for sure
in terms of the overall build quality it's got a nice uh nice overall feel to
it without being too heavy you've got l&r buttons here so you don't have quite
as many shoulder buttons as you might be used to on a Sony product however this
is pretty cool it has a touchpad on the back which the game devs are free to use
in any way they want so you can program it to be like R2 R3 L2 L3 for example in
soccer you can aim where you want to do a free kick at the goal according to
where you press on the back pad so there's all kinds of neat stuff like that let's just have a look have one of
the other launch titles where they've got one of the golf games going on here
so let's press X to take the shot yeah yeah okay apparently I didn't take the
shot oh okay I'm taking that shot there we go sorry I'm not much of a console
guy here guys I get confused easily oh it's right in the water excellent so
that pretty much wraps up this round two of Ender boots don't forget to check us
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