PAX East 2017 unfortunately for the
attendees is over and with it comes the end of the Intel extreme rig challenge
all of the contestants have completed their seventh generation core i7
processor and 600p SSD powered computers
if you haven't seen the leadup videos for this project you can start with
episode one right up here but now we have the final Awards and spoils the
seven teams that made it out of 12 include Ava direct or PC iby power main
gear cyber power PC zyx and
NC and they were competing in four different categories most creative best
engineered highest performance and most
appeasing to you also known as Community Choice the first category to be decided
was most creative and the top three system builders in this category were
zyx NC PC and cyber power cyber power
went for a really unique look and they accomplished this by utilizing copper
piping and using a deframe chassis from inwind which is really rare and helped
make a pipe frame style aesthetic they also use copper and orange as their main
colors which are not very common and really help them Stand Out zidax went
with this really cool looking monochrome water cooling setup with one Loop being
set up with black liquid and another loop being set up with white liquid and
then contrasted that monochrome with possibly the most RGB enabled fan hands
I have ever seen in a single case and
three individual lighting controllers that were accessible from outside of the
case to control all of those freaking fans NC inspired by ASUS's Gladius and
spatha mice went with an impeccably detailed engraving throughout their
entire system and fully utiliz thermales
RGB water cooling fittings with white pastel liquid cooling to great effect
and it really made their system pop when the dust was set and all the votes were
finally cast The Grand winner of the most creative category was cyber power
PC with zidax and NC tying for second
next up was best engineered and the top three systems voted in by the judges
were ncx zidax and Ava direct now we
just took a look at zida and NCI so we're going to go directly to Ava direct
and clean and pristine must have been the marching orders at Ava when they
were designing this system from the color palette to the aluminium cable
Combs chosen just to perfectly manage all of their cables to the water cooling
setup in general it comes together in a
computer that is just refreshing to look at but in the end when all was said and
done NC took first place with Ava direct
coming in right behind them and zyx pulling a solid third then we come to a
category with no judges no Community judges no judge panel this is
performance you have to win with a score in this one and the top three systems
were Ava direct zidax for a third
freaking time and iby power iby power
system was the legendary snow blind which we've actually featured on our
Channel twice in the past it features an
awesome side panel which is a translucent monitor which you can do
with pretty much whatever you want you can do anything that you would do on a
normal monitor over there but it's recommended that you run a rain meter
setup which will show all your system settings which is actually pretty badass
inside that side panel you see an extremely white overall aesthetic with
very intense LEDs because they have to generate a lot of light and bounce a lot
of light around in order to have it come through that translucent side panel but
when the numbers came in for performance Ava direct claimed a strong first place
with zidax and iby Power claiming second and third respectively which leaves us
with the grand prize the Community Choice Awards there was
12644 votes cast against the 12 original
teams that were entered in this contest
but above all others was origin PC and I
get it their computer or computers should I say at this point are epic to
explain what I mean by that they're running two individual VR ready systems
within the same electric blue chassis
each system is revealed through its own translucent monitor on its own side
panel talk about using the budget I think origin really went with the two
computers for the price of Awesome on this one if you want to play VR games
with a friend or spouse at home look no further this computer perfectly fits
that albeit relatively small Niche and
with that the Intel extreme rig challenge of 2017 is concluded thank you
to all the system builders for participating win or lose you guys all
had spectacular systems thanks to Intel
for doing this again and letting me be a part of it and last but not least at all
thanks to you guys for watching and commenting and voting let me know in the
comments down below if you'd be interested in seeing Intel do this again
next year and with that I'll see you guys next time