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check out their new machine and domination line of memory of
motherboards sorry about that these are dead 87 chipset boards and holy cow if
you look at the domination ones that is blinging their CPU socket is plated with
gold and it just looks pretty awesome if you're one of those lucky few people
that got the limited edition swiftech block that would go so well with that i
can't even begin to explain how well that would go with that the red color
scheme is actually the same so these two are z87 h3-ax models they both have an
external and internal uh Thunderbolt port which is just pretty epic i'm not
entirely sure what you can use that internal one for but you have that
option they both have six out of 3.0 ports v-checkpoints tons 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
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