WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:07.839 Would it really be packs if we didn't do like top five gaming desktops at the 00:00:04.720 --> 00:00:10.000 Intel booth? The answer is yes. Yes, it 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:14.480 would. But this is good, too. So, we're going to start with a system that was 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:19.119 done up by our buds over at BS Mods. You always got to include those guys cuz 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:21.199 their systems are always so gorgeous. 00:00:19.119 --> 00:00:26.160 So, in this case, get it Case. They started with a Case Labs SM8. They got 00:00:23.680 --> 00:00:30.880 the just primed version so that they could put their trademark automotive 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:34.880 grade finish on this puppy. I mean, what do they not put a beautiful automotive 00:00:32.559 --> 00:00:40.000 grade finish on? In terms of specs, it has some beautiful hardware. So, we got 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:44.960 a Core i7 5960X. That's of course supporting quad channel DDR4, which we 00:00:42.239 --> 00:00:48.879 had 32 gigs of from Corsair. Those are Dominator Platinums, but they've done a 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:52.719 lot of little subtle customizations here. those black strips on the top of 00:00:50.559 --> 00:00:57.360 the Dominator Platinums, the removal of the white shroud on the X99 Deluxe 00:00:54.719 --> 00:01:01.920 motherboard to make this look absolutely gorgeous in a monochrome black and white 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:06.880 and gray color scheme. We've got dual GTX 980s, water cooled by EK Water 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:10.880 Blocks along with the CPU with that sick looking Maym fluid inside. But this 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:15.520 machine is really all about the SSDs, and there are a lot of SSDs in here. 00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:20.159 We've got two 750 series SSDs plugged directly into PCI Express slots down 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:23.759 there. We have a third plugged into ASUS's hyper kit coming off the 00:01:22.320 --> 00:01:27.759 motherboard there and plugging in with the cable and then mounted on like a 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:33.040 showcase pedestal stand. And then as if that wasn't enough, the entire front of 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:35.119 the case is full of four more SATA 3 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:40.240 SSDs. I mean, I guess that's, you know, the 730 series has been, you know, 00:01:37.759 --> 00:01:46.159 panded off the mass storage duties now, as if the, you know, 1 point whatever 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:50.720 that is, 2 terb of PCI Express SSD wasn't enough. What an overkill build, 00:01:47.759 --> 00:01:56.320 but absolutely gorgeous. Number two, you know that song that you 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:59.360 know I'm always singing. I like little 00:01:56.320 --> 00:02:01.520 builds. They make me feel so good. Well, 00:01:59.360 --> 00:02:06.240 this one is a little tiny machine that makes me feel pretty good. I'm calling 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:07.360 it the like fantastic fiber or 00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:12.160 something. It doesn't have a real name, but Exotic PC did it up for the show. 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:15.680 They're actually triing a new finish for the outside of the case. You'd hardly 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:20.080 even recognize that this is a Corsair Air240 because they went and they put 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:26.400 like automotive blue paint on it, then like some hydro something dip to bring 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:27.840 out this sort of faux carbon fiber blue 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:31.920 and silver finish, and then they clear coated it to give it shine and 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:34.640 durability. Looks absolutely fantastic. But of course, none of that would be 00:02:33.200 --> 00:02:39.680 meaningful if it didn't have the horses under the hood. And it does. We've got a 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:44.400 Maximus 8G motherboard. That's an MATX board in there with a Core i76700 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:48.879 K processor. Of course, that supports DDR4 memory. So, we got 32 gigs. Of 00:02:46.480 --> 00:02:54.480 course, they're Dominator Platinum DDR4. And these GPUs, they fit in there just 00:02:52.480 --> 00:02:59.840 barely. You can actually see if you look closely, the window is Boeing from the 00:02:57.519 --> 00:03:03.599 manifold thing sitting over top of both graphics cards that puts parallel water 00:03:01.519 --> 00:03:07.040 flow through them. So, they did get them in there, even if it was a bit of a 00:03:05.040 --> 00:03:11.440 tight fit. And of course, this is always a nice finishing touch for I mean, 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:18.000 mounting your SSD in a drive sled is so like, you know, 2000s. It's 2015. 00:03:15.760 --> 00:03:25.360 Mounted to the window. Loving it. Nice touch. Number three, we've got the Main 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:27.120 Gear Force. And this is about as like, 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:33.200 you know, cosmic bowling as I think you can pretty 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:35.760 much get with a computer. Although, as a 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:39.920 fan of the UV lighting effects myself, I have to say they've taken a pretty novel 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:46.400 approach here. So, they've actually mixed LED lighting for the green with 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:50.080 blue LEDs. So, they've got green LEDs around the fans with these thermal fans 00:03:48.239 --> 00:03:54.640 as well as illuminating the front panel. And then they've got blue LED strips on 00:03:52.239 --> 00:03:59.360 the inside to illuminate the UV reactive green fluid. So you don't really see the 00:03:57.040 --> 00:04:03.439 blue as more than just kind of like an underglow to the foreground popping out 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:08.480 green lighting effect. I think it looks absolutely fantastic. As you can clearly 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.760 tell, it's custom water cooled in a really, really neat way. So they've got 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:15.920 two pumps in the bottom that split the flow between the CPU and the GPUs and 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:19.919 then bring it all back together right at the reservoir that screws right onto the 00:04:17.840 --> 00:04:24.960 top of the dual pump unit. And as always, it's got the horses under the 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:30.320 hood. So, that's a Z170 Deluxe from ASUS with a Core i76700 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:32.720 K. We've got dual GTX 980 Ti. It's got 00:04:30.320 --> 00:04:37.440 an AX1200i power supply. You might hardly recognize it, but this is a 00:04:34.400 --> 00:04:39.759 Corsair 900D case. And then this is one 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:46.800 of the few machines at the show that features uh Yes, there it is. The Intel 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:49.520 750 series SSD, but in the 1.2 terbte 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:53.199 variety. I mean, I guess that's kind of cool. I got one in my rig, so you know, 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:57.280 whatever. I'm not that impressed, but they've definitely blown me away with 00:04:54.880 --> 00:05:02.080 the looks of this machine because as much as it might be that like, you know, 00:04:59.919 --> 00:05:07.680 gamer over-the-top bling, some of us are into that sort of thing. So, yeah. So, 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:12.240 it's time for system number four. And this one is an absolute beauty. It's 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:16.639 actually in the Intel booth because it's running an early build of Karma 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:20.080 Incarnation 1, like a moral choice point-and-click adventure game. But, 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:24.800 we're here for the hardware anyway, so we're going to focus on this puppy. 00:05:21.440 --> 00:05:27.600 Cybertron has put this beast of a 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:31.759 machine in a just gorgeous aluminum and glass enclosure from InWin that has all 00:05:30.080 --> 00:05:36.800 the fix in the me. Check this out. It's got front USB type-C. I love that. And 00:05:34.880 --> 00:05:39.680 it's got a touch sensitive button that I accidentally touched and turned off the 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:43.440 game before when I was trying to reposition it to shoot this video. And 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:48.720 of course, it's got the goods inside. So, we've got a Core i76700 K water 00:05:46.320 --> 00:05:55.120 cooled by EK water blocks. And then we've also got dual GTX Titan blacks. 00:05:51.840 --> 00:05:58.000 We've got 32 gigs of DDR4 memory from 00:05:55.120 --> 00:06:02.240 Crucial. We've got an EVGA power supply of some sort. It's like buried in there 00:06:00.080 --> 00:06:07.520 in this very uniquely laidout interior that has like a triple 120 mm radiator 00:06:05.520 --> 00:06:12.080 in the back. And then it's got like another fan here. And then all the water 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:15.440 cooling tubing, which is hard pipe by the way, looks beautiful, is like 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:20.160 stealthily run up here and run between all the components. Another dual 120 mm 00:06:18.479 --> 00:06:25.199 radiator in the front. It's got two more intakes in the bottom. I mean, the thing 00:06:21.520 --> 00:06:27.360 is cooled to the absolute nines. And of 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:34.240 course, it's got, yes, there it is. An Intel 750 series 400 gig PCI Express SSD 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:35.840 down there. All on an ASUS Maximus 8 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:43.680 Ranger. Man, I love this like just slightly lit 00:06:39.440 --> 00:06:45.600 but very dark like contrasty almost like 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:49.840 comicbooky looking color scheme they got going on here. Just beautiful. System 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:53.759 number five is something you don't see from us very often. This is a tier one 00:06:51.840 --> 00:06:57.680 pre-built machine. I mean those suck right now. This one looks pretty darn 00:06:56.080 --> 00:07:01.520 interesting to me. This is the Acer Predator. And while the look might be 00:06:59.919 --> 00:07:04.880 quite polarizing. Nick calls it the armadillo, but I think it looks more 00:07:02.960 --> 00:07:07.680 like a the front of a tank tread or something. They've done a few things 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:12.639 that are kind of cool here. So, in your front with your front IO, you got your SD card reader, your headphone, 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:16.800 microphone jacks, two USB 3, and boom. What's that? Headphone holder. Yeah, 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:22.080 that's right. Headphone holder right in the front of the case. Uh, okay, fine. That's kind of bizarre. Uh, you've got 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:25.759 your optical drive just in case you still have one of those. This is pretty 00:07:23.520 --> 00:07:30.720 cool. Pop this baby down. You got a hot swap either 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and 1/2 in 00:07:29.039 --> 00:07:34.319 sled. So, you can go ahead and do a hard drive upgrade pretty easily should you 00:07:32.960 --> 00:07:39.599 so desire. We're just going to leave that. Now, this is where things get really interesting on this one. It is 00:07:37.599 --> 00:07:43.680 almost impossible to get open without instructions, but of course, I managed 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:46.560 it. Uh, in fact, one of the people showing people around at the Intel booth 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:51.919 was like, "Yep, I straight up don't know how to get that out." Because it is kind 00:07:49.520 --> 00:07:57.120 of weird in terms of its construction. It's like a normal Acer case inside. 00:07:54.800 --> 00:08:01.840 See, just like very normal case construction. And then it's actually got 00:07:58.960 --> 00:08:05.599 like a gigantic body kit on it or something. Uh the hardware inside is 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:11.280 looking pretty good though. So we've got a Core i76700 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:14.000 K. We've got a custom Z170 microATX 00:08:11.280 --> 00:08:20.720 motherboard. So it's a Acer Acer special in there. We've got a GTX 970. It's a 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:22.800 very short looks like OEM only skew with 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:28.960 a blower design which is very nice for cooling. We've got I don't know 16 or 32 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:31.120 gigs of DDR4 memory. And we've got a 00:08:28.960 --> 00:08:36.719 very strange hard drive configuration. 4 terbte Seagate drive and a 3 TB WD 00:08:33.680 --> 00:08:38.240 green. So, I guess the 4 TB Seagate is 00:08:36.719 --> 00:08:43.680 the boot drive. Well, whatever. You'll be able to get it in a variety of different configurations. I would 00:08:40.640 --> 00:08:44.880 recommend one with an SSD and then get a 00:08:43.680 --> 00:08:50.080 storage drive as well. Those are good, but boot off your SSD. And uh it's very 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:55.279 interesting to see Acer's take on the gaming desktop up close and in person. 00:08:53.680 --> 00:08:58.720 So, I think that's pretty much it, guys. Thanks for checking out our top five 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:03.040 gaming desktops at the Intel booth here at PAX Prime 2015. Don't miss any of our 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:07.120 PAX Prime coverage because it's all freaking awesome. I haven't actually 00:09:04.640 --> 00:09:11.040 watched any of it yet cuz like Luke did it and I haven't watched it yet, but I'm 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:17.680 sure it's awesome. He does a good job. Oh, and one thing I missed, it's got a 00:09:13.680 --> 00:09:19.440 turbo button. Bringing back the 486 00:09:17.680 --> 00:09:23.279 days. Yeah. as you.