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Here in the MSI suite, we've got what was I thought was a pretty cool little
demo. You have a bit of a history of the MSI Twin Frozer series cooler. So, this
is the Twin Frozer. It looks like a dog, quite frankly. Sorry, man. Twin Frozer 2
added looks. It added more dense fins and it well performed a little better.
Okay. Twin Frozer 3 adds propeller blades. So, here we're actually
improving the performance of the cooler over the previous generation products in
addition to again looking better. And Twin Frozer 4, Alex from MSI is joining
us. Why don't you tell us what you guys added with Twin Frozer 4, which is the
current generation Twin Frozer. Turn frozer 4 actually a slightly different
design on the shroud a little bit more aggressive but the biggest change was we
added a the dust removal technology
which is allows the fans to spin backwards on system startup and the
biggest thing is is that every generation of tin frozer we keep adding
something to the design of the graphics card to improve and in reality if you're
buying a twin frozer series graphics cards uh you're not paying for anything
extra like a special technology whatever we just keep adding something to it from
a previous generation. Okay. So, tell us about this system over here. So, this
features MSI technology inside it. This is an ITX gaming machine. What the heck
is this thing? Uh, this is actually done by one of our partners, I by Power. This
is the Revolt chassis. It's a mini ITX
based system. Very small as you can see, very compact. The system is standing
upright, but you can also set it, you can send it on its side. And it's got a
fullsize GTX 680 graphics card inside of
it. um along with a custom um you can
actually see that right there. Yeah, you can actually see it. It uses a uh PCIe
bridge to have the graphics card mounted on the side. That's very very cool. So I
want to give you an angle of the back of it here sort of. So you can see that the
motherboard and the graphics card are mounted in sort of a sort of a strange
way. So they've designed this chassis to be used with a bridge and it you pretty
much can't install a graphics card in it without that then I suppose. Yes. Very
cool. Okay. Okay. And what's that other system you've got over there past the
MSI mechanical keyboards? Oh, the MSI
mechanical keyboards. But this is the um uh Cooler Master half XP uh case. More
meant for like, you know, open bench kind of uh testing. But the inside we
have our Z77 Empower motherboard as well
as a GTX 680 Lightning graphics card and
also the Vexier Empower Edition memory
kit. And uh of interest is that all these three components match color-wise.
They're all black in sync with yellow accents and um very clean system setup.
I mean this is if you were building Empire based Z77 empower based uh
system. This is how you would want to set it up. Yeah, this looks this looks
gorgeous actually. I'm going to tweet that right now. So next we're going to
do the MSI system section of their booth. Now I did make a slight mistake.
Uh we're not going to see systems just yet. We're going to wrap up with a few
motherboards on the component side, then we'll move over to systems. It's going to be a separate video. So, what do you
guys got here? We've got a Z77 ITX. We've got a Value Z77 board that has
Thunderbolt on board. And tell us about this guy right here in the middle. This
is actually a Z77, not Z77, this is actually X79, sorry,
gaming motherboard. This is going to be the X79A GD45
gaming. The name actually might not be gaming when it's announced, but for the
time being, it's it's being called gaming. It's a refresh of the X79
platform in advance of a new processor that's coming out towards the middle of
this year, 2013. And not that you can give us any details on that, right? No,
not that I can give you any details, but you can use your imagination as to what
the next version of the code name for uh socket 2011 CPU is concerned. but it is
a new color scheme and it is going to be one of several refresh boards that we
will have for the X89 chipset. Okay, so guys, don't forget don't miss any of our
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