The Escalade of Gaming PCs – Maingear Omen X
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,342 words · ~6 min read
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so we've been featuring a lot of small
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cases lately on lineus Tech tips and we've gotten a lot of frustration from
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the community for not showing off larger
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designs more often and you know what we heard you so
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we got in touch with main gear who partnered with HP to bring us this The
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Omen X the rotated cubid whose HP
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rendition we first checked out back at CES in January at
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$599 for the case alone that version may
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have tilted some of you but if price is
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a non-c concern for you well you'd be looking at the Mad baller main gear
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version that Sports a mad baller price tag to match anyway I mean go big or go
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home am I
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right
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cooler Master's 25th anniversary edition
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Cosmos 2 features a unique dual curved
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tempered glass side panel check it out now at the link
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below so let's take it from the top The
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Omen X has a gigantic package I mean
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when it first arrives that is the first thing that you will notice but that's a
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good thing when you consider the omen X's weight at over 50 lb it is certainly
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something that you will think twice before moving especially if you've got
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to go up and down the stairs like we had
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to but who says big can't be beautiful
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the HP version is nice but what a job
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main gear did on this one done up with a
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gorgeous coat of blue automotive paint paint and some other tweaks so we've got
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the main gear logo in place of the omen logo on the front panel that Sports
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individually addressable quadrants of RGB Lighting on the right we've got our
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front IO including two USB type-c ports
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and down below we've got wait a DVD burner okay well In fairness it can be
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equipped with a Blu-ray Drive if you want but main gear wisely assumed that
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we wouldn't care if they put a piece of new car scented blue cardboard in there
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anyway around the back we've got our rear I/O which thankfully reveals an
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offthe shelf motherboard from ASUS and not a proprietary HP Omen board as well
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as our power supply and huh what's this
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screw here well let's just remove it and
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now press this button and whoa that side
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panel just opened like a car door very cool and looking even deeper inside oh
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yeah we areg be now boys sorry I got
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carried away there anyway in here we find one of our three cooling zones and
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here the motherboard and gpus live alongside a 120 mm radiator up front
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with our Reservoir and a 240 mm radiator
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up top pulling exhaust Duty we can't
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help at this point but to tear up a little bit gazing upon the gorgeous hard
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line tubing job main gear has painstakingly done for this unit it
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includes a whopping 75 Chrome fittings
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and no bends apparently this helps prevent damage in shipping our blocks
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are running in parallel in our Loop and all of them contain a delightful pastel
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blue coolant reminiscent of a delicious liquefied Smurf but if you look closely
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here you'll see that our Loop actually extends into the bottom chamber to where
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the Corsair ax1200i is housed it's a
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little tough to access but down there you'll actually find a third radiator to
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complete the cooling system I mean this thing packs some serious cooling
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capacity all right then lonus what's in the third chamber Drive Bays for days
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well four Drive Bays anyway for four
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days but they're cool ones all four are hot swappable with locking
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mechanisms and cloth pull tabs that let you slide out trays big enough to
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accommodate up to 3 and 1/2 in hard drives while we did report though at CES
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that the omen X would support .2 drives
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ours doesn't this isn't the end of the world for and now there isn't a ton of
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selection in ud2 drives but we are looking forward to seeing future
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configurations with that option nudge nudge so with all of that together we've
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got a baaf machine that should be more than capable of handling high-end work
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like 3D rendering and video editing all the way down to more pedestrian tasks
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like 4K gaming which I can't believe I just said starting off then with our
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gaming tests we can see that right off the bat main Gear's Factory overclock
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has given them quite a bit of Headroom over the stock configuration so it's not
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all for show then and and I imagine if
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you wanted to really sit down and grind out the voltage tweaks for an
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unreasonably long period of trial and error you could probably push both the
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6950x CPU and the 1080 TI gpus even
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further but that's a little outside the scope of a normal System review though
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with that said maybe we'll get a chance to take a closer look at an omen X in
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the future maybe after Threadripper anyway this is an expensive system but
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this is main gear so you have to expect it these guys handb build every unit
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they send out the door and hand overclock them too I mean during the
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course of this video our motherboard actually developed a fault and they flew
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the guy who built the system to make the repair for us and while they won't
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necessarily do that for every end user it does show a level of commitment that
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we've never seen before even towards us
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from a system builder and it also highlights something very important that
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we brought up in our recent review of the digital storm bolx and that is that
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Hardline tubing is a pain and a half to
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maintain even if it looks stunning and
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this one is one stunning series of
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tubes that Artistry in support though like I said doesn't come cheap and as
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configured we are sitting at
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105,000 us even our balls to the wall
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test bench parts cost less than half of
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that so then just like the bolx The Omen
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X isn't for an Enthusiast who likes to
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get their hands dirty but rather it's for someone who wants a unique looking
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rig with an utterly one-of-a-kind water
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cooling setup that compromises on nothing without the hassle and with full
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support if something goes wrong is it for you well that depends just how much
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