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welcome to an unboxing and first look that is more exciting due to what it

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represents in the future than it is necessarily for its practicality today

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for gamers this is the magma Express box 3T this is quite simply a Thunderbolt

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external enclosure that has two PCIe 8X

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and one PCIe 4X slots inside of it it

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has a 250 W power supply and it is capable of installing pretty much

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anything that you would normally install in a PCI Express slot inside your

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computer so right now driver support is

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a bit of a challenge it comes with a carrying case so you can take it around

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with you on the road think of this guys laptops that you can install up to three

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full-size PCI Express expansion cards in

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essentially okay just mind blown right

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okay so uh comes with a blower that you can install if you have something like a

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Quadro graphics card that you want to use to accelerate Cuda applications

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although right now you can't use it as a display output yet and that's mostly

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supported on on Apple at the time or at this time uh here are is a quick start

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guide I've actually already opened this and I've already tinkered with it a fair

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bit so that's why there's like PCI slot

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covers in here because I've already installed cards in it but

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right so what makes it more useful in the future than it is today because for

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general consumers you're going to find that Hardware compatibility is a bit of

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a challenge with not just this one but with all of the Thunderbolt PCI Express

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expansion uh expansion Bays that you can

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obtain so here it is it's crafted out it's very beautiful I mean it's very

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appes the way that it's constructed it's got a nice matte aluminum finish over

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the whole thing with a simple magma logo on both sides it's got a perforated

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front to the enclosure that has a power indicator it's a button but generally

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speaking you won't even use it because it's automatically activated as soon as

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a Thunderbolt connection is detected and the computer is booted up so you can

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just leave it plugged in and leave it on all the time and it'll automatically

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turn itself on and off with your computer should you desire that there's

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also a cooling fan behind here it's an 80 mil cooling fan so you can install

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power hungry things graphics cards to go along with that 250 wat power supply the

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bottom again is quite simple you've just got four rubber feet so that it doesn't

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go anywhere and once you load this thing up with expensive Hardware you're going

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to want it to not really go anywhere so I've got three cards in here right now

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one of them is an ASUS Zonar uh uh Zen

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it's a Zen sound card so this is for the

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uh the split out for more analog connectors I've also got a Blackmagic

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capture card that's an HDMI capture card it's an intens Pro and last but not

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least I have some random LSI raid card

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that I decided to throw in here and see what happened I tried a number of

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graphics cards it looks like the challenge right now is that the graphics

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card manufacturers need to release drivers that will support running over

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Thunderbolt so that Thunderbolt connection is 10 gbit per second and you

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can daisy chain this device for multiple

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Express boxes or storage devices or whatever else remember Thunderbolt Daisy

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chains up to six times um and that gives

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you enough bandwidth these are all PCIe 2.0 ports so it has there you go two 8X

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slots and a 4X slot with one of those 8X slots having an open back so you can

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install a 16x card so I tried a bunch of different graphics cards GeForce cards

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Radeon cards uh I even had a Quadro 6000

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that I put in but unfortunately on the Windows platform I wasn't able to

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leverage that but out of the cards that are in here the black magic intensity

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Pro worked flawlessly so if you wanted to say for example have a portable

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capture station so you had like a nice powerful ivybridge laptop with a

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Thunderbolt port and you wanted to carry one of these guys around with you with I

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mean it wouldn't consume much power in that configuration so you have a small

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UPS or something battery backup that you run it off of you could actually do

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multiple camera captures all at the same time do live to tape recording on set

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somewhere so that's fascinating you could install three of those cards

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capture up to three sources at the same time very cool stuff power is provided

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by two Molex connector so you could adapt those to PCI Express if you were

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running a Mac which apparently runs completely driverless you just throw the

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quadro 6000 in there you plug in the power so you use a PCIe adapter and you

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install it right there um so you get two

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of those and a 250 watt power supplies I mentioned before the raid C didn't

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really get detected and the Zonar zense

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works it works but the ASUS control

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panel wouldn't install so what I've encountered is everything from stuff

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that doesn't get detected at all to stuff that Tex and works perfectly like

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the black magic I even captured video to stuff that works but doesn't quite work

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so we're almost there this is extremely exciting technology because what I am

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waiting for CU I like notebooks I like

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portability but I hate how gutless notebook Graphics are and how horrible

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generally speaking notebook onboard sound is how limited the expansion

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options are now all of a sudden through the magic of Thunderbolt you could just

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sit down at your desk at home plug in your notebook one cable hot pluggable

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have a graphics card a beast sound card

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and like an awesome external ra like raid card that runs off to like some

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storage array or something like that and the whole thing could run off your notebook you disconnect it you go on the

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road and you're ready to go so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first

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look at the magma Express box 3T I am so

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excited for the future of devices like this right now they're also quite

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