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so we're coming to you from the MSI suite where they've got is it a booth i
don't know what this is it doesn't matter the point is there's some cool stuff in here first and foremost they've
got a new version of their trident gaming desktop that is a lot heavier
than the old one oh is he going to drop it is he not going to drop it the point
is the hardware has not changed a ton so
you're still going to get a core i7 processor but this time it's 8th gen for
up to 6 cores and they've done up to a gtx 1080 graphics card in this tiny form
factor now so all that weight that is a whole lot of heat sink cliff you ready
here you go bud also behind me they've got a new monitor
so MSI's been doing monitors for a little while but they're really getting
serious about it now this is the optics mpg
27cq it's a 1440p 144 hertz freesync
gaming display it's got a va panel so you get those nice deep blacks and 3001
contrast ratio it's got two HDMI 2.0 ins and a displayport 1.2 and
most importantly RGB lighting so MSI has
been working with partners like Corsair steel series and cooler master to enable
you to synchronize the RGB lighting on the monitor with your peripherals or
even with your computer but there's some special integration with steel series so
using steel series engines game sense you can actually use the lights here for
something that's not completely stupid because i don't think anyone was asking
for RGB lighting around the outside of what they're trying to focus on no no
but with game sense in supported games which includes games like counter-strike
minecraft and dota with pubg coming it allows you to actually configure these
not just in terms of brightness and color but to reflect things that are
happening in game so you could have your right side change color according to
your health your left side change according to your ammo oh and the middle
one could maybe light up with brighter and brighter colors or it could flash
every time you get a head shot pretty cool stuff another innovation in this
monitor something that shocks me that we haven't seen before is the ability to
change on-screen menu items not just with the joystick at the back but also
through a software application so everything from throwing a cheater
crosshair in the middle of your monitor to adjusting the brightness to even
changing your input can now be done through MSI's software so this one's
going to come at around 400 to 450 bucks with an NVIDIA g-sync version planned in
the future though i would expect that one to cost a couple hundred dollars
more because dem NVIDIA licensing costs uh oh one
more cool feature is that with all this lighting stuff you can actually synchronize across multiple systems if
you're into that sort of thing or even that cool laptop over there that actually has the lighting on the back so
this way if you've got a whole team of people playing you could like have them all flash red and then turn off like as
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Linus ces and then uh yeah i think
that's pretty much it why not do it so thanks for watching guys if you
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the monitor's not coming till later and this is not coming till super later so