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rces 2019 coverage is brought to you by the dbrand grip super grippy case and

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dbrand's prism screen protectors we're here in the ASUS rog component

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suite which also clearly is not fully

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set up yet but we found some really cool stuff in here so they've got this demo

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system that's not running yet oh my god that's heavy

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i am not going to mess with that too much but it's clearly water cooled it's

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clearly got a motherboard that we have never seen in person before oh let's

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just open it up look at that um so this is their dominus extreme i'll show you

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that in a little bit more detail later and they've got the first ever

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water-cooled video card that doesn't have like an external

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radiator with tubing to it that you gotta like put over here anyway that's

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that system's not actually running yet but that doesn't matter because i've got

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the key components over here so this i was actually thinking of doing a

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dedicated video called Intel your desperation is showing or something like

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that this is going to run their upcoming 28 core overclockable CPU but the reason

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we didn't end up doing a dedicated video even though this thing is nuts look at

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this four eight pin CPU power connectors

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three pci express power connectors

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and two 24 pin connectors like the

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entire top of the board is just vrm this

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entire thing is just power delivery um the reason we didn't end up doing a

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video is because we don't really know anything about it six channel memory

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yeah just like the xeon platinums for pci express slots um

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we don't know pricing of the board we don't know pricing of the CPU we don't

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know what realistic overclocking results are Intel showed five gigahertz but that

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was on like very very chilled liquid so it just it's kind of like a it's like a

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showpiece right now it's all it really is but

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now i'm not going to help ASUS with too much of their booth setup here but i did

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find this power brick that is trailing out the

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back of this thing that wasn't plugged in that seems to fire up the fans on the

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card and there's a usb cable back here that i'm going to go ahead and plug into

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my hey my portable power battery bank

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hey look at that see i'm helping i am helping i mean i'm not gonna leave my

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battery bank here but that that's not the point also i'm gonna unplug this because

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guess what i got i got my tool kit

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so we're gonna have a look at what exactly

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a water-cooled graphics card like this yes

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oh man hopefully this even like

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can be pulled off because i've sort of committed to it now

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no it's fine guys chill i'm not gonna break it

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no that's fine look if they didn't want

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a bull running around in their china shop

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they shouldn't have had

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him on the guest list okay so

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the crazy thing about this is that from the front

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from the bottom from the back from the side everything about it looks

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fairly normal to the uninitiated

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and you know even to the fairly initiated i would say so i think this

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shiny piece here has to come off yeah okay i thought there might be a screw

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under there i no longer believe that there's a screw under there anyway

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one hint as to what we're about to see though is

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this so that is like more of a uh like a a water

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block style cold plate down there and then it appears as though they're using

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the same kind of pump and water block combo unit that

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we've seen in aio coolers and then if we look closely instead of just heat pipes

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running to uh aluminum fins we've got a radiator here

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it's just bolted to the front of the card now i want to get a better look at

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it i'm having a really hard time figuring out where the additional screws

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you know what i'm doubling down

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i'm doubling down on my the screws are under here theory

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i have more than one of these here right yep okay

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i don't know if they have another one to put back on their little demo stand

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though i mean this adhesive seemed to go back on pretty well

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i just want to see the radiator i tried to stop it

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okay so there were three screws on the bottom we got those up i haven't taken

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it apart you haven't taken it apart so so you're okay

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so it it seems more dominoes

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okay so it seems like there's something holding it over here

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yeah gary mentioned you wanted to take it apart something along here i just want to be able to show the radiator and

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the block like kind of show how it goes together this adhesive i've had it up and down

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once already it seems to be holding together pretty well

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in case you were curious you know what

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i think i might know what's going on here i think i might not have the right

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screwdriver for this there's three screws that are just

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barely accessible through the back here yeah

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and this is all i have and i can't get to them

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you know the ifixit kit yeah i even thought about grabbing my like more

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traditional jewelers screwdrivers but they look so much like a weapon i didn't

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want to put them in my luggage i am look like the right screws though

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really annoyed yeah so i can put this plate back

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on um that sucks

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sorry whoa whoa hold on okay no no i was just putting the card

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back together i had given up i found the screws

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so they're uh they're back there but i left my my like traditional jewelers

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screwdrivers at home but then this was sitting down here

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and it was like that kind of looks like a tool kit but

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why does it have this on it apparently

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to make sure that no one will open it

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because that's exactly what i need

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okay so let's try this

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this is gonna be really really hard to put back together

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i legitimately don't know if i'm going to be able to put these screws back in

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and but they're already out now so since the ship has sailed

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we might as well just proceed

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like if you're already going to hell you know

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why stop i think i got it

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there we go those three screws released this

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nice okay where's my screwdriver

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get off there off she goes

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there it is

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so that is how they're doing it and i'm glad that i got this popped off because

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there's already at least one thing that i got wrong here

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um so i was telling you guys that it

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looked like they had used a pump CPU block combo here but what they've

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actually done is they've used this

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compact pump right here so this allows

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ASUS to avoid any issues with the acetech patent that prevents

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third parties from using unlicensed

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block pump combo units and

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it still manages to be small enough to

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install directly on top of a graphics card now in terms of the cooling

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capacity here crazily enough they actually haven't

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compromised much there so as far as i can tell this plate right

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here is just a protective piece

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so naturally we'll be removing it um no it looks like i'm not going to be

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able to get that off that easily so this is a protective piece for the tubing

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there's no reservoir so just like a typical closed-loop cooler it's just

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pre-filled at the factory and then

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it wait what

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now hold on a minute

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maybe you can help me with this so we've got the inlet on the pump

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then we've got the outlet right here going to the GPU block power comes off

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the board right here this is a super small pump by the way

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then so we've got our cold plate down there which presumably is covering both the

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GPU and the hbm memory modules is that correct uh i don't know that for a fact

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i mean i can't imagine the vga

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that they didn't do that i don't see anything else down here

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uh it looks big enough to where it would be yeah it's hard to it's hard to go any

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further than this unfortunately you guys we've got vrm over here which is handled

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just with downdraft cooling from the fans up here and then this is weird

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see this here so unlike a normal radiator there's kind

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of uh the end tank is in the middle and

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i don't know how the flow path works but out from the GPU block comes in the

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underside right here on a normal radiator it goes in the one

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side on the end tank down then you have a smaller end tank on the

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other end it goes over and then through these thin tubes right here but it's

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coming right up here and then it's coming out

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here so i can only imagine that they've done

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some kind of routing you know what i think i know what they did i think this is how it works so it goes in the bottom

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here and then there's a divider here

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it goes it fills this tank goes over here

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through the skinny end tank and then out here then it's a parallel flow path i think

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it goes in here down this side of this one

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through this skinny end tank and then up here and then the cooled water comes

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together back through the pump over to the GPU again

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now i don't have verification of this but i

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can't imagine that it would work any other way because it couldn't just go

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straight from here to here you wouldn't get any cooling out of it

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that is something i did not expect to see

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here so while i put this back together

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let's talk about what kind of performance you could expect from a 2080

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ti that is water cooled

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well a lot but

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maybe not quite as much as you'd hope because of the way that NVIDIA has

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restricted their partners abilities to overvolt their gpus

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you're probably only looking at a couple percent faster than a well air cooled

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2080 ti now with that said what ASUS claims is that like other liquid cooled

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graphics cards which have existed in the past but with a separate radiator this one

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will run much cooler and that'll mean

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that the card will be able to maintain its maximum power state more

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consistently and more stably and another

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thing to consider is that while many benchmarkers run their tests in a

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room temperature room your room might not be that temperature

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so if you're from somewhere that's particularly hot or you don't have air conditioning or whatever the case may be

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then something like this might be necessary in order to get the maximum

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performance out of your card

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this was stressful and there we go

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the card is reassembled all that remains

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is to oh wow the box that was being used as a stand for this one's pretty beat up

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hopefully they have another plan for that all that remains is to see if their

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demo still works

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yeah hey

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do the fans still spin

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hey

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and we're done so thanks to ASUS for being

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really good sports about all of this and thanks to you guys for watching and

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thanks to dbrand for sponsoring us here at ces 2019 their dbrand grip cases

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which i will be doing plenty of drop tests

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with are super grippy their impact

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resistant and they're built with the same precision

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you'd expect from dbrand with nice accurate cutouts for your camera your

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touch sensor anything else you might have like say for example a headphone jack or stylus

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did i just break my stylus the stylus popped out is

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oh nope never mind still good

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that's good and they've got super clicky buttons but the really new thing is

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they're prism screen protectors when they told me the demo i'd be doing with

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this thing i thought they were freaking nuts not only did they have me hammer a

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nail into a piece of wood using the screen of a phone only to have it not

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damaged they had me hit the front of the screen with the hammer to demonstrate

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just how impact resistant it is and it comes with this really cool little piece

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that goes into the bottom of your phone and helps you align it perfectly every

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