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x99 overload here in the Intel Booth
everybody has systems featuring the new 5960x 8 Core Extreme Edition
hyperthreaded turbo boost processor but
we kind of figured well there's so much stuff on display here maybe we should
narrow it down to the coolest systems that we found with this new processor
technology so starting with this one right here from Falcon Northwest which
has a custom name plate that says packs so you either they built this system
last year and they've had samples for over a year not likely or they built
this system just to bring to the show here so it features a custom red
Automotive grade paint job it's got a custom case that was you can tell from
the uh Drive cages here they collaborated with Silverstone on it
so it's their design however it's got that Silverstone quality to it they're
using a Silverstone power supply to go along with it they've got a couple of
ASUS graphics cards it should be noted this is a powered by ASUS system they
are a member of that exclusive club and
this is a really interesting feature so aside from liquid cooling for the CPU
they go air cooling on the gpus but with this shroud right here that leads from
what I believe is a 180 mm fan down here in the bot
and that's one of silverstone's air penetrator fans designed to really
direct air flow up they've got both of these cards running in their own
separate wind tunnel that Falcon tells me can achieve up to
15° different temperatures compared to the CPU compartment that means you're
keeping your GPU heat away from everything else and well out of your
system where you do not want it actually I don't know how exclusive the powered
by ASUS Club is it looks like they're letting just about anyone into it these
days here's a system from ncx I'm just teasing you guys this is actually a
pretty sick system it's built in the Corsair 760t and it features a liquid
cooling setup that I am personally quite fond of this is swifttech all-in-one
liquid cooler that comes out of the box ready to be installed so you could just
buy one of these from ncx and throw it in your computer and liquid cool your CPU or what's really cool about is is it
can be expanded so it comes with this triple 120 mm radiator that's in here
and the CPU block which also includes a pump but it has been expanded in this
case to include a front dual 120 mm
radiator as well as two EK water blocks
cooled GTX 780 direct cu2 cards from
ASUS you can also see that they have upgraded the stock look of this
particular case this is a Corsair 760t with a sweet ASUS powered by ASUS Rog
Dey thing that looks resplendant with
the red LED lighting inside definitely one of our top picks but this one is
water cooled on a whole other level you
can hardly even recognize the Corsair
900d case that main gear transformed
into this wonderful beautiful Beast so
okay yes it's got an x99 motherboard as extreme Edition Etc okay it also has two
R9 295x2 so that's a quad GPU setup but
check this out they don't even take up that much space on the Rampage 5 extreme
motherboard you can actually install other things in there and you don't have
to have the you know pre-attached liquid coolers because this whole thing is
completely custom done out up here in the top we've got a triple 140 mm
radiator with a custom shroud down here in the bottom we have a quadruple 120 mm
radiator with a custom shroud they have customized the fans by cleverly putting
Main gear stickers on them but actually they're a bit of a custom de from
Corsair definitely a nice performing fan
and it looks nice too with that white LED lighting but guys this is all about
the liquid cooling aside from radiators there has got to be based on my rough
ballpark estimate at least $150 worth of
fittings alone in this liquid cooling setup and that leaves aside the you know
uh quick stopping valves in the bottom so in case
one of your dual pumps dies you can actually keep running the system that
ignores the custom Reservoir dual pump
unit that EK built for them in order to even make it so that it can run dual
pumps and it ignores the absolute beauty of that 38 in thin wall tubing that
they've got running in these extremely tidy straight runs all over the system
for a bit of an automotive internals
inspired look to it overall is it cheap
no don't be stupid is it is it beautiful yeah now let's wrap things up with the
alien wear Area 51 they are really dug
hard to find a unique name for this system that's different from all the names of all of their other systems that
was a joke that was sarcasm but what they did dig for was a case design that
is unlike anything else that I have ever seen before so at the front it's got
kind of this angular intakes optical
drive front IO thing with custom lighting going on and at the back it is
similarly angled in a way that is actually kind of smart because whether
your system's on the floor or on your desk there's probably a wall behind it
and this makes it a little bit easier to reach the rear IO they had to go with a
bit of an unusual internal structure check that out the lighting on the side
turns off when you unplug it or when you uh disconnect it there we go and that's
with the motherboard mounted at kind of like a I don't know 30° angle or
something like that so of course it's powered by x99 and all that good stuff
but this is very very very strange to me
they've got a modular power supply in here of course you're going to have support for three-way or yeah it looks
like three-way if this is the motherboard they're using up to three-way graphics card configurations
the one thing I would worry about here is whether or not we're trading
convenience for potentially shorter lifespans for the fans cuz mounting a
fan at an angle versus straight up and down or horizontal depending on the
bearing type can be a bit of an issue one thing I will say is they are using
extremely high static pressure fans and spinning at a nice low RPM so the system
does remain quite quiet in spite of the powerful Hardware inside that's actually
being used by this game streamer right here so guys thanks for checking out our
best x99 core i7 extreme
5960x fourth generation new we're just
going to call it Haswell e extreme Edition thanks for checking out our coverage of the top systems here in the
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