have you ever wanted to smash together the innards of a console and a pc into
one chassis no
me neither but despite the fact that no one was really asking for this origin pc
and Corsair went ahead and did it anyway
the big o is now a real product that people can buy today but instead of the
four system behemoth that origin sent to unbox therapy last year this version
combines a gaming pc with either a ps4 pro or an xbox one s starting at 2 500
and while i was just making fun of the idea the
way that they built this thing is actually kind of cool and the more i thought about it the more i could see
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so origen actually showed off the original
big o back in 2010 that featured a gaming pc paired with a liquid-cooled
xbox 360 slim but the one they sent to lou had a ps4 xbox one nintendo switch
and a gaming pc all in one giant mondo
case it was really just a concept piece
something to send to influencers so they can go whoa
that's pretty cool but the guys from origin told us here at
ces that they actually had a ton of people asking them to make a more
consumer-friendly big-o so instead of four gaming systems in one build they've
settled on two which is much more reasonable just like the prices for our
merch at ltdstore.com to make this work origen had to modify
the Corsair 280x micro atx chassis so that the console motherboard could mount
to the other side of the case's dual chamber design they also replaced the
console's original air cooling system with a Corsair liquid cooler to match
the one on the gaming pc side that's not going to give you a boost in performance
or anything but origin does say that it could make it quieter than a console or
than a non-modified console other than that the console components have been
largely left untouched although you can upgrade from the default hard drive up
to a two terabyte SSD and of course doing all of that breaks the
manufacturer's warranty but origen says they're putting their own warranty on
the system so don't you worry now your console options here are limited to the
ps4 pro or the xbox one s all digital
edition origin says that they would have used the 4k capable xbox one x instead
but apparently its software requires an optical drive to be installed so they
went with a lower powered 1s microsoft do you know what year it is but if you
do go with the xbox version at least the final price tag will be about 150 bucks
cheaper on the pc side the base configuration is an Intel core i5 9600k
or ryzen 5 3600 16 gigabytes of RAM a
GeForce gtx 1660 super and a 240 gig SSD
but all of that is upgradable but what's that thing there an elgato 4k60 pro yes
that's correct so this is where this machine starts to make a little more
sense than if it were just a console duct taped to a pc the capture card
which you can add to the system for another 500 bucks yeesh not only enables
streamers to capture their console gameplay and easily edit on their pc
without the wires and doohickeys that might normally entail but it also means
you don't need a separate display for the pc and the console since you can
play console games through the elgato capture software yeah sure it's it's not
a problem that many people have but who said solutions needed
problems in the first place don't think about it too much origin is
building the big o as the ultimate entertainment and content creation
machine so it might make sense for a streamer who wants to also play a lot of
console exclusives or maybe do direct comparisons between
console and pc versions of games i don't know
like i said the audience for this thing is going to be pretty small and then
there's also the fact that sony and microsoft are releasing the ps5 and the
xbox series x later this very same year
so buying current gen console hardware that will be out of date in a very short time
is it's your money you can you can do what
you want although origin is planning on making new versions of the big o with
the new consoles when those launch now i really don't think origen is
planning on selling a truckload of these they're making the big o for the same
reason we ended up doing this video on it it's
it's kind of cool oh no
i'm that influencer i was talking about but seeing wacky out there tech that
doesn't really make a ton of sense is kind of what ces is all about
plus if you get a scuff gaming controller along with the system you'll
now have representatives of the entire Corsair family origin elgato and scuff
so if nothing else this pc gives you a chance to catch them all speaking of oh
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thanks for watching guys that's it for this video stay tuned for more ces 2020
coverage i have to go because it is kind of cold and getting dark and i'm scared