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Western Digital. Welcome to the EVGA suite where they've got, of course, some
graphics cards, but also some not graphics cards. So, we're going to start
with the Torque mouse. It's available in a couple of different configurations.
I'm holding the carbon fiber one, which has carbon fiber on the side versus
there's a regular more like plastic one. It's got the usual gaming grade
features. So, you've got RGB lighting that you can customize using their
software. It's got, you know, side buttons on either side. So, it's got an
ambidextrous design. It uses an 8200 DPI sensor, but there's some other cool
stuff as well. The top has a removable plate. There's no confirmation one way
or the other. It looks like at launch it won't be swappable for something else
for a custom look, but what it does give us access to is the weight system
underneath. So, you can add and remove weights at will.
Not as common of a feature, but something we've seen before is ah yes,
adjustability. So you can use a screw at the back and you can actually adjust the
back of the mouse or the butt of it up a little bit higher or a little bit lower
depending on what is most comfortable for you. There are of course slippy pads
on the bottom covering almost the entire bottom of the surface. And the mouse overall is I'd say about an average
weight. So once you added some weight to it, you could make it quite hefty if
that's what you preferred. Next up, we've got, of course, there's the GTX
780 Ti Classified back there, but no, no, no, no, no. The one we're going to
be focused on here is the GTX 780 Ti
Classified Kingpin Edition. So, instead of a 12-phase power design, this one has
a 14phase power design. In addition to its otherwise amazing sexiness, it has
three BIOSes, which are accessible using a BIOS switch on the top of the board.
It also has two 8pin and one six pin power connector. Now, to be clear, guys,
this card is not like a lot of products you see where it's like, okay, yeah,
it's got like two eight pin CPU connectors on a motherboard. Um, but
like realistically, you could never run that kind of power through the socket.
This is actually designed for hardcore
liquid nitrogen overclocking. Quite frankly, if you're just a regular user,
you aren't going to benefit from it other than the extreme bragging rights
that come along with owning a product like this. It does support their EVBOT
uh you their EVbot dongle so you can make adjustments to the settings of the
card on the fly even when it is powered on. And up at the top you've got
comprehensive voltage checkpoints that can be used to monitor voltage using a
multimeter if you don't necessarily trust software or if you want something
that you can monitor even when you don't have your software fired up. It uses a
dual fan design and yes that clear shroud is the final design. So, the
Kingpin edition will have a very different look than the normal 780 Ti
classified. And personally, I am waiting for someone to figure out a way to get
some crazy custom LED lighting going on
on this very unusual looking ACX cooler
from EVGA. It's got the usual output, so dual DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort. And of
course, it is a non-standard length, non-standard height, non-standard card
in every possible way. designed to squeeze the last bit of possible
performance out of the GTX 780 Ti GPU. Now, speaking of squeezing the last bit
of possible performance, NVIDIA Greenlight has limited in many ways what
board partners can do in terms of allowing their customers to overclock
the cards balls to the walls. And EVGA hasn't quite figured out what they're
going to do yet, but they will find a way somehow to make this card
unfettered. So, you're not going to be limited by those pesky power limits and
things that just cause the card to shut down in the middle of everything. So,
I'm excited to see where they're going with this. And now we're here with the
Hadron Hydro. Now, we actually did a review of the Hadron Air not that long
ago, and what we liked about it was it was extremely compact. It has a 500 watt
power supply. It is capable of holding a GTX 780, 780 Ti, or GTX Titan in it. And
it is a microATX case that actually once you build in it doesn't have bad cable
management. You got to be a little bit careful. You got to kind of tuck things away. But when you're working with
extremely small enclosures that can house extremely powerful hardware,
that's just kind of something you have to deal with. Now, the Hydro adds a
little bit of extra height, but is otherwise basically the same case. That
extra height is being put to very good use. And instead of two 120 mm fans in
the top, we're getting two fans and a 240 mm radiator. Now, you can put your
own water cooling stuff in, but EVGA also has an option for you to buy their
water kit for somewhere in the sort of $170 to $200 range. I'm not sure if it's
100% finalized yet, but that kit is actually fairly reasonably priced. It
comes with a CPU block, one I've never seen before, but I mean it even the
worst CPU block these days is probably only going to be five, six degrees
better or worse than, you know, the best one. So, it comes with a CPU block. It
comes with a pump and reservoir. It comes with a radiator. It comes with
tubing and fittings, including these special fittings at the back that are uh
that are hard fittings just be for a better aesthetic as well as less risk of
damage or catching them on something. And finally, it comes with enough extra
tubing and fittings for you to plum in your own graphics card after the fact
using whatever water cooling solution you want for that. Guys, don't miss any
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