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so I get asked all the time which system should I buy where should I buy it from

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uh what graphics card would you recommend for this game and uh this

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video is sort of meant to be a couple of things it's going to be the answer to a

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lot of those questions and it's also going to be a bit of an introduction to

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a to a gaming system that NC as probably

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most of you know I work at NC the computer store here in Canada and uh

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this is a gaming system that NC is going to be releasing for back to school

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because as you know uh students only

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focus on their studies when they go off to University that's the only thing they

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do they never use their computers for gaming never happens okay so what I have

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running here is a firmar so this is just

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a test um and I've done a lot of features on the MSI Cyclone series of

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coolers but we're just going to okay first I want the cameraman to come over

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here and just get close to this computer just get close with we're listening to

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it so you don't have to worry about what you're pointing it at I have a novice cameraman today so

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uh the point is this computer is very very quiet even under a full gaming load

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so it's using a fractal design toine R3 case that means you've got a front door

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on the case here which has a nice kind of a a brushed matte finish on it inside

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we've got a DVD writer we've got room for another optical drive the R3 is

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slightly revised so it has kind of these cool 5 and a/4 inch Bay covers that have

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a little uh a little hinge here so you can just lock them in just like that

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you've got a couple of removable fan filters on the front so it's populated

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by default with with one 120 mm fan and when we open up the inside you'll see

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that uh NC installs the 3 and 1/2 in Drive behind the fan so that it gets

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optimal cooling you've got all your sound dampening materials here behind

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the door just want to have a quick look at that so the Define R3 is basically

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like the Define R2 which I unboxed quite some time ago when it was first released

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in North America so let's run around here and have a look at the back of the

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system so it has a 550 W power supply

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it's powered by an MSI Motherboard which features USB 3.0 and you can't see it

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but on the inside it actually has SATA 6 gbit per second too so not two as well

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so that means that you've got all of the latest Technologies on this particular

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system and uh why don't we open it up

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and uh have a look at the inside so the Target price of this

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system is going to be about $8.99 Canadian and uh what that means is that

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you get a dual core processor it's only

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going to be a core I3 but as most people

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know when you're gaming at High resolution HD resolutions usually the

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CPU is not the bottleneck and it usually comes down to the GPU so that's why we

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focused more on putting a very very powerful graphics card in here and

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building the system around that now this is an SLI ready motherboard so it's

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going to be also available in a higher-end configuration where you're going to add one more GTX 460 upgrade

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the power supply a little bit to make sure that it's SLI compliant as well as

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uh throwing in a quad core so that'll be kind of like a deluxe package anyway so

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on the inside you see we've got a standard ATX motherboard 4 gigs of

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Kingston RAM we've got the dual core I3 processor even come close even with the

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side panel off I want you to listen to the system it's still quite quiet so even

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when you're gaming you don't have to worry about excess noise and you can see

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the GPU runs at a cool 62° uh peaking at 66 even with the case

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closed and never goes over about 76% fan

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speed so even if we turn off After Burner so let's do that

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and the cameraman's phone is going off here so there he turned it off good work

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okay so when we turn off After Burner you're going to see it's actually going to get quite a bit quieter still and as

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I mentioned before we have the hard drive so it's a one tbte hard no I

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believe it's a 500 gig hard drive no it is a 1 terab hard drive by default

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installed down here at the bottom you can actually install up to eight hard

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drives in this case so with all of the expansion options on the board you've

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got six SATA 2 ports two SATA 3 6 GB per

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second ports so you're probably going to use one of those for your DVD or Blu-ray

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Drive and then you can have up to six hard drives supported directly off the

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motherboard go ahead and look at the uh motherboard don't worry about looking at me all the time so you can see now that

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we've turned off of we've turned off the 3D application the system is darn near

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silent even with the side panel off and you can actually get the NCI technicians

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to make some changes for you too you can get additional fans installed cuz the

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Define R3 does support an additional 120

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mm or 140 mil fan on the side blowing onto your graphics card

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you can see that it's covered with a noise dampening material by default but

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you can just take that right out you can actually put an additional two 120 or

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140s in the top and then um you can put

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an additional 120 mm fan in the front so

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if you don't care about the silent aspect you can actually make this case

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all about the cooling performance instead now speaking of uh fan filters

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you've got an additional 120 mm on the bottom that one's filtered and then the

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power supply uses a 20 mm fan on the

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bottom of the power supply and you can see that's pulling air through a

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filtered fan hole right on the bottom of the case again more fan filters more

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case air flow and it makes sure your power supply stays nice and cool so this

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is a system that uh we're pretty proud of for 8.99 so uh check it out I think

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this is the first time I've ever really done a video on something that NC does

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on PCS even though that's been a big part of my job for about 2 years I get a

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lot of questions too on my blog about what exactly is my job

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uh well that's one of the things I do I am responsible for making sure our PC

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configurations are up to date well engineered and well thought out and that

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you get sort of the right config for the money so thanks for checking out my

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video blog and I hope you've enjoyed this little feature on the silent

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aspects of this particular NC

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PC one other thing I wanted to mention really quick I talked about the noise

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dampening material inside the case but I want the cameraman to kind of

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demonstrate just how much of an impact it has so this is is at idle so this is

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if you're just editing Word documents or actually doing school work you know on

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the Internet or whatever so hopefully the camera's

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microphone is close enough to the back here that you can hear some noise coming

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out the back of the case and then I want the hold on don't

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move yet but on my Mark I want the cameraman to move the camera away and

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just kind of sit it next to the side panel where there's noise dampening

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material so what I'm hoping is that on the YouTube video you'll be able to tell

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that that's quite a bit quieter and we might as well have a look at the front panel uh connectors too which we didn't

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look at before so you got headphones microphone USB E power and then inside

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here hidden is a little reset switch