What's in the Box?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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713 words · ~3 min read
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all right kids the extreme rig challenge is back and this time they're stepping
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it up a little bit classy
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style there we go so instead of a
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backpack we get a briefcase and instead
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of a piece of paper that I printed out out of my email actually I have that too
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I get this black envelope so let's follow the instructions shall we set up
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your camera we got a Brandon over there no problem open the box the first thing
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you'll is a black envelope mine was on the outside of the box that's okay
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extreme rig challenge 2017 the top
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system builders in the world 12 of them are competing to see which seven are
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going to attend PS East so you guys are going to have to vote to see which of
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them is going to be unveiling their rigs in March so you can follow on social
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media by using # rig challeng sweepstakes and you can enter the sweep
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Stakes over at rig challenge. Intel.com
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what exactly could you win while they're giving away an HTC Vive and you can vote
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I believe once a day it is you'll find the full terms in the video description
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you can also win one of the amazing rigs
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so let's have a look at what's in here oh first up is an all access pass to PAX
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East wow includes airfare hotel and
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conference so fun fact about these all access passes I tried to use one for PS
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Prime with the last Intel R challenge you still have to go to the ticket
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counter you don't just put this on and try and walk through the door they don't
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let you in that was fun uh next up we've
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got a t-shirt these are always large why do they assume that nerds are large I
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wear a medium that's okay I'll give it to Luke and he'll be happy he doesn't
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like paying for clothes anyway and next up we've got oo some very interesting
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stuff here a lot of very safe protective
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foam and oop
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that's awkward it's over here ah maybe I
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shouldn't have thrown around this uh this doad here before we uh before we
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got started so we've got a core i7
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7700k this is Intel's Flagship mainstream processor so this puppy's
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clocked at 4.2 GHz and she'll boost higher than that with a fully unlocked
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multiplier for overclocking basically you put this in any z270 board you throw
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a nice cooler on her and it is pretty much to the races it also has upgraded
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support for a wider range of ddr4 dual Channel frequencies and uh that's pretty
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much all you need to know about it it's about as fast as it gets for gaming
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today this one's interesting though this is one that I haven't seen before this
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is Intel's SSD 600p so Intel finally has an m.2 NVMe
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SSD they were one of the first ones out the door with PCI Express and U2 ssds
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targeted towards consumers and they followed it up with m.2 so they sent
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over their 1 tbte capacity one so this
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will be a great upgrade for a desktop or a notebook whatever it is that you need
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to have a ton of wicked fast storage inside and uh I'm actually really
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looking forward to putting this puppy through the paces in the next little bit
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super tiny so it uses the m.2 interface
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right there and the NVMe protocol over the m.2 interface for reduced latency
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and improveed performance you can learn more about the whole m.2 NVMe ahci
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Quagmire right over there and figure out
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how to know if your system would be compatible with a 600p but in the
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meantime the priority is the extreme rig challenge so follow # rig challeng
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Sweepstakes on social media and head over to the link in the video
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description to start voting vote early vote often for a chance to win an HTC
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Vive or one of the rigs