1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:07,200 Welcome to Linus Tech Tips at CES 2013. Our trip to the show this year is 2 00:00:04,799 --> 00:00:11,440 powered by Corsair, maker of quality PC components and peripherals. Our trusted 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:16,200 storage partner is Seagate Technology, and our trusted networking partner is 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,200 Links. 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:23,840 Here in the MSI suite, we've got what was I thought was a pretty cool little 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:28,720 demo. You have a bit of a history of the MSI Twin Frozer series cooler. So, this 7 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:34,480 is the Twin Frozer. It looks like a dog, quite frankly. Sorry, man. Twin Frozer 2 8 00:00:31,519 --> 00:00:39,360 added looks. It added more dense fins and it well performed a little better. 9 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:42,800 Okay. Twin Frozer 3 adds propeller blades. So, here we're actually 10 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:46,879 improving the performance of the cooler over the previous generation products in 11 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:50,879 addition to again looking better. And Twin Frozer 4, Alex from MSI is joining 12 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:54,239 us. Why don't you tell us what you guys added with Twin Frozer 4, which is the 13 00:00:52,559 --> 00:00:58,239 current generation Twin Frozer. Turn frozer 4 actually a slightly different 14 00:00:56,239 --> 00:01:03,600 design on the shroud a little bit more aggressive but the biggest change was we 15 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:05,280 added a the dust removal technology 16 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:08,640 which is allows the fans to spin backwards on system startup and the 17 00:01:07,439 --> 00:01:12,799 biggest thing is is that every generation of tin frozer we keep adding 18 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:17,200 something to the design of the graphics card to improve and in reality if you're 19 00:01:15,439 --> 00:01:22,560 buying a twin frozer series graphics cards uh you're not paying for anything 20 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:26,080 extra like a special technology whatever we just keep adding something to it from 21 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:29,600 a previous generation. Okay. So, tell us about this system over here. So, this 22 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:33,759 features MSI technology inside it. This is an ITX gaming machine. What the heck 23 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:39,360 is this thing? Uh, this is actually done by one of our partners, I by Power. This 24 00:01:35,759 --> 00:01:41,280 is the Revolt chassis. It's a mini ITX 25 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:44,240 based system. Very small as you can see, very compact. The system is standing 26 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:49,920 upright, but you can also set it, you can send it on its side. And it's got a 27 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:53,119 fullsize GTX 680 graphics card inside of 28 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:55,200 it. um along with a custom um you can 29 00:01:53,119 --> 00:01:59,040 actually see that right there. Yeah, you can actually see it. It uses a uh PCIe 30 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:03,119 bridge to have the graphics card mounted on the side. That's very very cool. So I 31 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:06,960 want to give you an angle of the back of it here sort of. So you can see that the 32 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:10,800 motherboard and the graphics card are mounted in sort of a sort of a strange 33 00:02:09,119 --> 00:02:14,879 way. So they've designed this chassis to be used with a bridge and it you pretty 34 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:18,879 much can't install a graphics card in it without that then I suppose. Yes. Very 35 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:23,920 cool. Okay. Okay. And what's that other system you've got over there past the 36 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:26,560 MSI mechanical keyboards? Oh, the MSI 37 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:31,360 mechanical keyboards. But this is the um uh Cooler Master half XP uh case. More 38 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:37,200 meant for like, you know, open bench kind of uh testing. But the inside we 39 00:02:33,519 --> 00:02:40,560 have our Z77 Empower motherboard as well 40 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:43,840 as a GTX 680 Lightning graphics card and 41 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:46,160 also the Vexier Empower Edition memory 42 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:50,959 kit. And uh of interest is that all these three components match color-wise. 43 00:02:48,239 --> 00:02:56,239 They're all black in sync with yellow accents and um very clean system setup. 44 00:02:54,239 --> 00:03:00,480 I mean this is if you were building Empire based Z77 empower based uh 45 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:04,080 system. This is how you would want to set it up. Yeah, this looks this looks 46 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:08,560 gorgeous actually. I'm going to tweet that right now. So next we're going to 47 00:03:06,239 --> 00:03:12,560 do the MSI system section of their booth. Now I did make a slight mistake. 48 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:16,000 Uh we're not going to see systems just yet. We're going to wrap up with a few 49 00:03:14,239 --> 00:03:22,000 motherboards on the component side, then we'll move over to systems. It's going to be a separate video. So, what do you 50 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:28,080 guys got here? We've got a Z77 ITX. We've got a Value Z77 board that has 51 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:32,239 Thunderbolt on board. And tell us about this guy right here in the middle. This 52 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:37,120 is actually a Z77, not Z77, this is actually X79, sorry, 53 00:03:35,599 --> 00:03:41,760 gaming motherboard. This is going to be the X79A GD45 54 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:45,120 gaming. The name actually might not be gaming when it's announced, but for the 55 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,519 time being, it's it's being called gaming. It's a refresh of the X79 56 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:53,760 platform in advance of a new processor that's coming out towards the middle of 57 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:56,959 this year, 2013. And not that you can give us any details on that, right? No, 58 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:01,439 not that I can give you any details, but you can use your imagination as to what 59 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:07,360 the next version of the code name for uh socket 2011 CPU is concerned. but it is 60 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:12,080 a new color scheme and it is going to be one of several refresh boards that we 61 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:16,479 will have for the X89 chipset. Okay, so guys, don't forget don't miss any of our 62 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:19,680 coverage of CES 2013. And as always, don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech 63 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:27,000 Tips. Thanks for watching Linus Tech Tips at CES 2013 powered by Corsair, 64 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:27,000 Seagate Technology, and Links.