My Favorite Compact Console Killer
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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right so we're here in the MSI Booth where somebody namely MSI has finally built
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the computer that I've been asking to be built for like four years four years
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I've been asking for someone to make a chassis that is legitimately about the
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size of the PlayStation 4 with exactly the compromises that I asked for now
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mind you it did take a little while for the technology to catch up because back
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when I was asking for that we didn't necessarily have m.2 ssds in the
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mainstream so uh you know they do have the advantage of the Ever Ever Changing
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tech industry but this is it this is the
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Trident 3 what they're calling the world's smallest VR ready gaming PC I
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guess MSI's desktop division never got
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the memo from the The Notebook division that they actually have a lot of smaller
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notebooks that are also VR certified but I see what I see their point they mean desktop PC so that's fine so what do you
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get with this puppy aside from a form factor that is actually pretty darn
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similar to the PlayStation 4 you also
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get flexibility cuz we've seen stuff like this from Indie makers like the
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Sentry case where it was like yeah we have this super slim chassis it was
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actually taller and you couldn't put it on its side without compromising cooling
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this one has rubber feet on the Bott so you can pick any orientation you want it
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has a full spec IO so you've got headphone microphone type-c USB regular
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USB and an HDMI port if you're one of those people who has a VR headset and
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you want to be able to plug it in from the front because you unplug it for some reason instead of just having the cable
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anchored and having it running around to the back of your computer maybe you move it around a lot I don't know how you do
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that because the lighthouse is kind of screw into your roof I don't know I'm not too worried about why it is exactly
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that we need that on the front but you also get this this is exactly the layout
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that I've been asking for fans on one
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side no internal power supply so they're using a single external brick and does
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that come at a bit of a cost maybe but you're still getting a very good gaming
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experience so you can get up to an Intel Core
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i77700 you can get up to 32 gigs of ddr4
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dual Channel memory you get an m.2 on the back and a 2 and a half inch SSD
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kind of behind the video card there and you can fit I mean I've been been asking
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for this chassis ever since the 970 mini from ASUS was launched okay so you're
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able to fit one of these little mini what are these 8 in Long something along
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those lines the mini cards that go up to a GTX 1070 which is an incredible amount
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of gaming power in a very small form factor now this one is only shipping at
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this time with up to a core i7 and a GTX 1060 but they've told me that sometime
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in March we can expect a 1070 model to
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come it looks freaking awesome I can't wait to review it and it actually based
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on my experience here at the show so far is pretty darn quiet too so thanks for
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