1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:07,120 Linus Tech Tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCIX.com, your source 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:12,000 for great technology, selection, and service along with Corsair Memory and 3 00:00:09,519 --> 00:00:15,920 Western Digital. Welcome to the EVGA suite where they've got, of course, some 4 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:19,760 graphics cards, but also some not graphics cards. So, we're going to start 5 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:23,199 with the Torque mouse. It's available in a couple of different configurations. 6 00:00:21,119 --> 00:00:28,320 I'm holding the carbon fiber one, which has carbon fiber on the side versus 7 00:00:25,439 --> 00:00:32,079 there's a regular more like plastic one. It's got the usual gaming grade 8 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:35,920 features. So, you've got RGB lighting that you can customize using their 9 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:40,160 software. It's got, you know, side buttons on either side. So, it's got an 10 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:44,239 ambidextrous design. It uses an 8200 DPI sensor, but there's some other cool 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:48,160 stuff as well. The top has a removable plate. There's no confirmation one way 12 00:00:46,239 --> 00:00:51,840 or the other. It looks like at launch it won't be swappable for something else 13 00:00:50,079 --> 00:00:56,239 for a custom look, but what it does give us access to is the weight system 14 00:00:54,559 --> 00:00:59,760 underneath. So, you can add and remove weights at will. 15 00:00:58,079 --> 00:01:04,640 Not as common of a feature, but something we've seen before is ah yes, 16 00:01:02,359 --> 00:01:08,640 adjustability. So you can use a screw at the back and you can actually adjust the 17 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:11,840 back of the mouse or the butt of it up a little bit higher or a little bit lower 18 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:16,000 depending on what is most comfortable for you. There are of course slippy pads 19 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:21,119 on the bottom covering almost the entire bottom of the surface. And the mouse overall is I'd say about an average 20 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:24,960 weight. So once you added some weight to it, you could make it quite hefty if 21 00:01:23,119 --> 00:01:29,119 that's what you preferred. Next up, we've got, of course, there's the GTX 22 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:34,000 780 Ti Classified back there, but no, no, no, no, no. The one we're going to 23 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:36,560 be focused on here is the GTX 780 Ti 24 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:41,920 Classified Kingpin Edition. So, instead of a 12-phase power design, this one has 25 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:48,000 a 14phase power design. In addition to its otherwise amazing sexiness, it has 26 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:53,280 three BIOSes, which are accessible using a BIOS switch on the top of the board. 27 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:58,159 It also has two 8pin and one six pin power connector. Now, to be clear, guys, 28 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:01,840 this card is not like a lot of products you see where it's like, okay, yeah, 29 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:05,759 it's got like two eight pin CPU connectors on a motherboard. Um, but 30 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:10,640 like realistically, you could never run that kind of power through the socket. 31 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:12,319 This is actually designed for hardcore 32 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:16,080 liquid nitrogen overclocking. Quite frankly, if you're just a regular user, 33 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:19,120 you aren't going to benefit from it other than the extreme bragging rights 34 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:24,400 that come along with owning a product like this. It does support their EVBOT 35 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:28,400 uh you their EVbot dongle so you can make adjustments to the settings of the 36 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:33,040 card on the fly even when it is powered on. And up at the top you've got 37 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:36,959 comprehensive voltage checkpoints that can be used to monitor voltage using a 38 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:40,480 multimeter if you don't necessarily trust software or if you want something 39 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:45,360 that you can monitor even when you don't have your software fired up. It uses a 40 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:49,519 dual fan design and yes that clear shroud is the final design. So, the 41 00:02:47,599 --> 00:02:54,640 Kingpin edition will have a very different look than the normal 780 Ti 42 00:02:52,239 --> 00:03:00,640 classified. And personally, I am waiting for someone to figure out a way to get 43 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:03,920 some crazy custom LED lighting going on 44 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:05,840 on this very unusual looking ACX cooler 45 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:10,959 from EVGA. It's got the usual output, so dual DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort. And of 46 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:14,800 course, it is a non-standard length, non-standard height, non-standard card 47 00:03:12,959 --> 00:03:19,360 in every possible way. designed to squeeze the last bit of possible 48 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:22,879 performance out of the GTX 780 Ti GPU. Now, speaking of squeezing the last bit 49 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:27,040 of possible performance, NVIDIA Greenlight has limited in many ways what 50 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:31,200 board partners can do in terms of allowing their customers to overclock 51 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:34,400 the cards balls to the walls. And EVGA hasn't quite figured out what they're 52 00:03:32,239 --> 00:03:38,480 going to do yet, but they will find a way somehow to make this card 53 00:03:36,879 --> 00:03:43,280 unfettered. So, you're not going to be limited by those pesky power limits and 54 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:46,799 things that just cause the card to shut down in the middle of everything. So, 55 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:52,159 I'm excited to see where they're going with this. And now we're here with the 56 00:03:49,599 --> 00:03:55,920 Hadron Hydro. Now, we actually did a review of the Hadron Air not that long 57 00:03:54,159 --> 00:04:00,159 ago, and what we liked about it was it was extremely compact. It has a 500 watt 58 00:03:58,239 --> 00:04:06,239 power supply. It is capable of holding a GTX 780, 780 Ti, or GTX Titan in it. And 59 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:09,599 it is a microATX case that actually once you build in it doesn't have bad cable 60 00:04:08,239 --> 00:04:14,560 management. You got to be a little bit careful. You got to kind of tuck things away. But when you're working with 61 00:04:12,879 --> 00:04:17,199 extremely small enclosures that can house extremely powerful hardware, 62 00:04:16,239 --> 00:04:20,479 that's just kind of something you have to deal with. Now, the Hydro adds a 63 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:24,160 little bit of extra height, but is otherwise basically the same case. That 64 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:29,120 extra height is being put to very good use. And instead of two 120 mm fans in 65 00:04:26,639 --> 00:04:34,400 the top, we're getting two fans and a 240 mm radiator. Now, you can put your 66 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:38,080 own water cooling stuff in, but EVGA also has an option for you to buy their 67 00:04:35,919 --> 00:04:43,199 water kit for somewhere in the sort of $170 to $200 range. I'm not sure if it's 68 00:04:40,479 --> 00:04:46,400 100% finalized yet, but that kit is actually fairly reasonably priced. It 69 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:50,639 comes with a CPU block, one I've never seen before, but I mean it even the 70 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:54,000 worst CPU block these days is probably only going to be five, six degrees 71 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:57,440 better or worse than, you know, the best one. So, it comes with a CPU block. It 72 00:04:55,759 --> 00:05:01,600 comes with a pump and reservoir. It comes with a radiator. It comes with 73 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:05,600 tubing and fittings, including these special fittings at the back that are uh 74 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:08,960 that are hard fittings just be for a better aesthetic as well as less risk of 75 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:12,720 damage or catching them on something. And finally, it comes with enough extra 76 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:16,880 tubing and fittings for you to plum in your own graphics card after the fact 77 00:05:15,039 --> 00:05:21,520 using whatever water cooling solution you want for that. 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