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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair vengeance and our trusted retail partner

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is ncix.com hey guys we're here at the ecs booth to

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check out their new machine and domination line of memory of

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motherboards sorry about that these are dead 87 chipset boards and holy cow if

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you look at the domination ones that is blinging their CPU socket is plated with

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gold and it just looks pretty awesome if you're one of those lucky few people

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that got the limited edition swiftech block that would go so well with that i

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can't even begin to explain how well that would go with that the red color

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scheme is actually the same so these two are z87 h3-ax models they both have an

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external and internal uh Thunderbolt port which is just pretty epic i'm not

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entirely sure what you can use that internal one for but you have that

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option they both have six out of 3.0 ports v-checkpoints tons of fan

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connectors they both support quad sli with 16x um pci express slots they're

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just beast beast motherboards all the on onboard buttons you could possibly want

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gold plated caps it looks like gold plated caps

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they also have creative sound core 3d

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which will help apparently help isolate sound and through in FPS games and other

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stuff as well they've got where was the other thing dual killer gigabit lan

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ports apparently they interviewed some gamers and decided that gamers don't

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like it when they lag which is um i guess anyone could have told them that

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but they interviewed some gamers they support team complexity so they probably

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interviewed them and they decided that it might be a good idea to throw killer networking on their boards when we moved

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down to their z87 h3 a2 x boards which

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are slightly chopped down versions of the previous boards we were just looking at um you lose the dual Thunderbolt you

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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

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v-check points you still have all that kind of stuff you still have dual

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gigabit killer lan but it's a little bit chopped down like i just said not quite

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all the options you had before still tons of onboard buttons they're still

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very high in boards they still have the same color scheme so if you don't need

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an internal Thunderbolt header and a few other things that are on the insane high

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end boards you can still get these ones still get the color scheme still get an

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awesome board and still be happy we're going to move on in the ucs booth if you

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want to see all of our computex content be sure to keep watching and we're gonna

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move on alright guys we're still here at the ecs booth they have something very

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very cool going on that i haven't seen anywhere else here at computex they have

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a build log competition if you guys know i run the forum and i love the build log

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section that's why we have a build logs a awards every single week on our live

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stream these things are insane they have a huge

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competition they're giving away a million new new taiwanese dollars to

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whoever wins this competition so we're going to do a really really quick

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one-through of the top five that they have brought here so what you're

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supposed to do is go to www.facebook.com ecs and vote on which one you think is

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the best i'm i haven't had enough time to actually

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see everything here so i'm just going over some really general stuff this thing looks absolutely nuts you can see

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right angle graphics card with an extension which is nuts it's water

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cooled you got dominators on there this thing's insane he's got some custom

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cabling going on he's got custom lights going on he built the whole freaking

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thing this top can drop down to actually actually in my opinion look better but

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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

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looks absolutely amazing down here you've got some triggers you've got some

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vandal switches a lcd panel this thing's

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crazy just everything's going on and it's just an absolute beast it's

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apparently called the orthus so if we can back up here and check out the next

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one this one is very very different compared to the last one we're looking at this one's very very minimalistic it

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looks very very classy he sleeved his cables to go along with the board i hope

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it's it's wooden and this is uh plexiglas it seems and just very very

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nice not the insane performance that we saw on the one previously but it's just

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very very clean cut it would be very very nice to have this on your desk i'm

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not going to pull this just in case i can break something but i'm assuming that turns off these two lights which is

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just so classy this would be very very very cool to have in your office if you

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are a businessman and it seems to be tuned for that style as a very small

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motherboard and not the biggest graphics card ever very nice build then we come

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down here and we get to your industrial design very very heavy metal sharp sharp

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sharp looks very very nice huge radiators there massive massive

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reservoir very cool we come around this side and you see the water cooled

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graphics cards which are just absolutely awesome very very nice sleeving looks

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very very tight not sure where he got that from but it could be a million dollar pc because of how nice it looks

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it looks like it was all done by him very very nice heat shrink cuts the

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whole thing just looks absolutely amazing like i said industrial design

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we've got a nice lcd panel up here where he can control different fan speeds and

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pump speeds and lighting which is just very very very cool

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come down to another one this is actually two but it's submitted by one person

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again industrial design aggressive looks like a tank not like the classy one that

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we saw previously but still looks like a tank you can see he's got some custom

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painting going on looks very military this one looks just nuts there's lights

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going off everywhere it looks very gundam i'm not exactly sure how he did this but that's

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very cool it's from a vexer so it's probably something awesome

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again i haven't actually interviewed these individual people so i'm not entirely sure what's going on

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unfortunately this one's not on but it's very very very cool now we're coming to

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our last one if i can back up here but there's people in my way hopefully i can

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get back okay this one again comes more with the

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classy style that we saw earlier very very clean it looks really really good

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there's tons of painting going on i'm not entirely sure what this is made out of

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feels like metal isn't metal aluminum it's made out of aluminium

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aluminium there we go very very nice did you cut this all yourself

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that's fantastic it looks really really good i like the minimalistic styles for

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build logs so the big aggressive ones while they're very very cool not

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necessarily my style i like the more subtle ones like the one previously and

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this one like i said previously you guys can go on facebook.com ecs vote which

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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

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think is the best thanks for watching and we're gonna continue all right guys

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just before we left the ecs booth i came by their Thunderbolt demonstration so

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what they've done here is they put five Thunderbolt drives in here and hooked up

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a Thunderbolt monitor all these are linking together you see all the crazy cables hopefully if you're

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going to do something like this you can get shorter cables because that's just nuts and the cable management enthusiast

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in me just cries when he sees this although the loops are quite nice i

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would like shorter cables and tied down anyways it goes out the back here

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plugged into this machine and then this machine is reporting and showing how

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fast the transfer speeds are going now i asked them which drive they're

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actually reporting this from and they did not tell me but it's i o

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meter so i'm assuming it's an overall that i'm not sure if they're transferring data or doing anything

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interesting like that but this just goes to show what you can actually do with

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Thunderbolt it's one plugin and you're plugging all this stuff in so say you're

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a business user you have a business class notebook or business cast system that you're moving around you can just

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come home plunk down your laptop instantly have all this insane amount of

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storage and a monitor plugged in with no real problems also with some people like

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silverstone hooking up new external graphics card boxes where you can have a

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graphics card in a box and have a plug-in with Thunderbolt that's another thing you can do with this and have them

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all linked together you can have all your storage your monitor and an external graphics card all linked in

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through one plug which is very very clean and i'm very happy that they have

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this on display thank you for checking out our ecs content if you want to see

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