{"video_id":"v7JY6UpMziY","title":"ECS z87h3-ax, z87h3-a2x and Mod Men Competition - Computex 2013","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2014-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":457,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":6.64,"text":"Linus tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by western digital our","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.72,"end_s":11.28,"text":"trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair vengeance and our trusted retail partner","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.8,"end_s":14.559,"text":"is ncix.com hey guys we're here at the ecs booth to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.96,"end_s":18.48,"text":"check out their new machine and domination line of memory of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.08,"end_s":23.6,"text":"motherboards sorry about that these are dead 87 chipset boards and holy cow if","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.439,"end_s":28.16,"text":"you look at the domination ones that is 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of fan connectors they both support quad sli with 16x um pci express slots they're just beast beast motherboards all the on onboard buttons you could possibly want gold plated caps it looks like gold plated caps they also have creative sound core 3d which will help apparently help isolate sound and through in FPS games and other stuff as well they've got where was the other thing dual killer gigabit lan ports apparently they interviewed some gamers and decided that gamers don't like it when they lag which is um i guess anyone could have told them that but they interviewed some gamers they support team complexity so they probably interviewed them and they decided that it might be a good idea to throw killer networking on their boards when we moved down to their z87 h3 a2 x boards which are slightly chopped down versions of the previous boards we were just looking at um you lose the dual Thunderbolt you lose stuff like that but they're still very very nice high-end boards you still got six set of 3.0 ports you still have v-check points you still have all that kind of stuff you still have dual gigabit killer lan but it's a little bit chopped down like i just said not quite all the options you had before still tons of onboard buttons they're still very high in boards they still have the same color scheme so if you don't need an internal Thunderbolt header and a few other things that are on the insane high end boards you can still get these ones still get the color scheme still get an awesome board and still be happy we're going to move on in the ucs booth if you want to see all of our computex content be sure to keep watching and we're gonna move on alright guys we're still here at the ecs booth they have something very very cool going on that i haven't seen anywhere else here at computex they have a build log competition if you guys know i run the forum and i love the build log section that's why we have a build logs a awards every single week on our live stream these things are insane they have a huge competition they're giving away a million new new taiwanese dollars to whoever wins this competition so we're going to do a really really quick one-through of the top five that they have brought here so what you're supposed to do is go to www.facebook.com ecs and vote on which one you think is the best i'm i haven't had enough time to actually see everything here so i'm just going over some really general stuff this thing looks absolutely nuts you can see right angle graphics card with an extension which is nuts it's water cooled you got dominators on there this thing's insane he's got some custom cabling going on he's got custom lights going on he built the whole freaking thing this top can drop down to actually actually in my opinion look better but right now he's trying to show off all the hardware considering he's at ecs he wants to show off ecx's hardware it looks absolutely amazing down here you've got some triggers you've got some vandal switches a lcd panel this thing's crazy just everything's going on and it's just an absolute beast it's apparently called the orthus so if we can back up here and check out the next one this one is very very different compared to the last one we're looking at this one's very very minimalistic it looks very very classy he sleeved his cables to go along with the board i hope it's it's wooden and this is uh plexiglas it seems and just very very nice not the insane performance that we saw on the one previously but it's just very very clean cut it would be very very nice to have this on your desk i'm not going to pull this just in case i can break something but i'm assuming that turns off these two lights which is just so classy this would be very very very cool to have in your office if you are a businessman and it seems to be tuned for that style as a very small motherboard and not the biggest graphics card ever very nice build then we come down here and we get to your industrial design very very heavy metal sharp sharp sharp looks very very nice huge radiators there massive massive reservoir very cool we come around this side and you see the water cooled graphics cards which are just absolutely awesome very very nice sleeving looks very very tight not sure where he got that from but it could be a million dollar pc because of how nice it looks it looks like it was all done by him very very nice heat shrink cuts the whole thing just looks absolutely amazing like i said industrial design we've got a nice lcd panel up here where he can control different fan speeds and pump speeds and lighting which is just very very very cool come down to another one this is actually two but it's submitted by one person again industrial design aggressive looks like a tank not like the classy one that we saw previously but still looks like a tank you can see he's got some custom painting going on looks very military this one looks just nuts there's lights going off everywhere it looks very gundam i'm not exactly sure how he did this but that's very cool it's from a vexer so it's probably something awesome again i haven't actually interviewed these individual people so i'm not entirely sure what's going on unfortunately this one's not on but it's very very very cool now we're coming to our last one if i can back up here but there's people in my way hopefully i can get back okay this one again comes more with the classy style that we saw earlier very very clean it looks really really good there's tons of painting going on i'm not entirely sure what this is made out of feels like metal isn't metal aluminum it's made out of aluminium aluminium there we go very very nice did you cut this all yourself that's fantastic it looks really really good i like the minimalistic styles for build logs so the big aggressive ones while they're very very cool not necessarily my style i like the more subtle ones like the one previously and this one like i said previously you guys can go on facebook.com ecs vote which one you think is the best they will get a ton of money so make sure you go and support which case which modern case you think is the best thanks for watching and we're gonna continue all right guys just before we left the ecs booth i came by their Thunderbolt demonstration so what they've done here is they put five Thunderbolt drives in here and hooked up a Thunderbolt monitor all these are linking together you see all the crazy cables hopefully if you're going to do something like this you can get shorter cables because that's just nuts and the cable management enthusiast in me just cries when he sees this although the loops are quite nice i would like shorter cables and tied down anyways it goes out the back here plugged into this machine and then this machine is reporting and showing how fast the transfer speeds are going now i asked them which drive they're actually reporting this from and they did not tell me but it's i o meter so i'm assuming it's an overall that i'm not sure if they're transferring data or doing anything interesting like that but this just goes to show what you can actually do with Thunderbolt it's one plugin and you're plugging all this stuff in so say you're a business user you have a business class notebook or business cast system that you're moving around you can just come home plunk down your laptop instantly have all this insane amount of storage and a monitor plugged in with no real problems also with some people like silverstone hooking up new external graphics card boxes where you can have a graphics card in a box and have a plug-in with Thunderbolt that's another thing you can do with this and have them all linked together you can have all your storage your monitor and an external graphics card all linked in through one plug which is very very clean and i'm very happy that they have this on display thank you for checking out our ecs content if you want to see all of our content from computex make sure 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