here at ces 2019 we've seen a whole range of desktops and laptops that go
from freaking incredible to genuinely disappointing and now it's time for our
roundup of the top five Intel-powered computers sponsored by Intel
starting of course with the orion 9000
or more specifically the orion 9000
hooked up to what acer is calling the thronos
this thing couldn't be more aptly named it comes with the core i7 8700k
processor an rtx 2080 ti like 64 gigs of
RAM or something crazy like that it's this giant tower but it's nothing
compared to the chair that actually comes as part of the package so for your
ten thousand dollars you get an awesome
gaming system a full set of gaming peripherals three 27 inch 144 hertz
gaming monitors and a motorized gaming
cockpit that not just has an ARM that
swings open and closed to bring your peripherals to you but it also has drink
holders a usb hub and even a zero
gravity mode where it tilts the entire thing back so you can be completely
immersed in your games the last thing that blew me away is that acer will come
to your house and set it up for you a process that
they say will take two hours or more
next up we've got the Corsair one pro so two years ago when the Corsair one
originally came out we were amazed that they were properly cooling and powering
a quad core processor and a gtx 1080 in
such a small package with water cooling too but since then Corsair has turned up
the dial upping the course to six and we were like okay that's nice but then
12 12 cores in the Corsair one pro and
they claim it could handle even Intel's
18 core processors if someone wanted to come in and upgrade it themselves
so this thing cannot just game but it can crank out renders streams and
generally hold its own in any kind of workstation
and generally hold its own in any kind of light workstation application like
video editing and when it is time to game the one pro is equipped with an rtx
2080 ti and they've got a 750 watt power
supply crammed in there that like the rest of the fans in the system can be
turned off when it's idle so it is darn near silent next up what if you want to
go even smaller than a Corsair one well zotek has you covered with the mech mini
crammed into this 9.17 liter chassis
they have somehow got a core i7 8700 and
an NVIDIA rtx 2070 meaning you can have
real gaming power at a lan or like dreamhack or something without breaking
your back the rest of the loadout is fairly sensible with 16 gigs of RAM a 240 gig
SSD and two terabytes of hard drive space to store all your games and
currently it's destined to be available in this black color in a month or two
and then they also have four other funky colors that could be coming if there's
interest keeping with this video's theme of increasing portability as we go ASUS
made this so the rog mothership it's like a laptop
but with the laptop bits moved up behind the screen so moving the components here
has allowed them to make it a lot thinner than the g703 that it sort of
replaces due to the improved thermals that they get when the computer part
isn't being choked out by sitting right next to the desk the rg mothership
features a detachable wireless keyboard meaning you can center its position in a
more comfortable way compared to the screen and if you're worried about
latency by the way you can plug it in via usb type-c
of course it wouldn't be a desktop replacement if it didn't have the horses
of a desktop but fear not rocking a core i9 8950 hk six core overclockable
processor an rtx 2080 and three
m.2 drives in raid 0 through the CPU itself rather than all through the
chipset for better bandwidth the mothership can certainly run with the
big boys and we are very curious to see what it's going to be like to switch to
longer term once it's past the prototype phase
on the subject of prototype phase we've got the ASUS strix 240 hertz with almost
every laptop under the sun getting an upgrade to rtx 20 series gpus and of
course super fast core i7 processors getting them to pump out frames isn't a
problem it's having a display that can keep up but ASUS has fixed that by
increasing the refresh rate of their new strix scar 2 to
240 hertz like the responsiveness of the display on this thing is absolutely
incredible with that many frames being delivered to your eyes you have a true
competitive advantage in games like cs go and rainbow six siege and you know
what's even better it's not a tn panel meaning you get that added
responsiveness and fluidity without sacrificing things like color and
viewing angles now for those of you keeping score you
might have realized that we already did five but five just wasn't enough when
alienware came in with their area 51m and basically blew my mind
like sure it's pretty big as far as laptops go and it doesn't change the
form factor like the mother ship did but somehow they got a full powered desktop
core i9 9900k in this thing like look at
this that is a desktop socket like you could just you could you could buy a
lower end one and just rip out the CPU and and put in a different chip if you
wanted and the craziest thing is they didn't stop the upgradeability there because
the GPU and rtx 2080 they are saying can
also be swapped out with dell's not mxm
mobile GPU form factor so that means that assuming they continue to support
it which they've said they want to this machine could be spitting out top end
frame rates for years to come
and i guess that about does it for our top Intel powered systems at ces 2019
thank you to Intel for sponsoring this video thank you guys for watching it and
we will see you guys back at the office