Top 3 Intel PCs at PAX West 2016!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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welcome to the Intel Booth where they've got the extreme rig challenge
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competitors showing off their extreme rigs this must be the first video I'm
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doing at the show cuz I clearly haven't lost my voice yet we're going to
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highlight the top three for you guys starting with this little beauty from
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origin PC behind me so in terms of
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hardware specs it's got a core i7 6950x
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I mean big surprise we're in the Intel Booth what else were they going to put in there it's got a rampage 5 10 Edition
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10th anniversary Rog board it's got 32
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gigs of RAM dual 1080s I mean I guess they could have had more RAM and they
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could have had Titan X's but the budget for the cool paint job had to come from
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somewhere I guess and other than that well we can't see a whole lot through
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the window on this side but
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wait what about the window on this side what the hell is that they put another
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computer in there so they've got a 6700k they've got a Maximus whatever I
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think it's eight whatever generation we're on Jean they've got another 16
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gigs of RAM and they've got a couple of Elgato hd60 Pro capture cards as well as
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an Intel 750 series SSD yes my friends this in the same size
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as a regular tower case has two computers and they made some really cool
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modifications to make this happen so for
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one thing they had to completely change up the back panel of the case second in
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order to run two separate water cooling systems each with their own Radiator in
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the basement they had to actually modify a bay Reservoir to have a partition down
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the middle so that they could run them completely separately they had to build
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this entire system in a lowprofile manner and they had to do it beautifully
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because this is the extreme rig challenge so those hd60 Pros are
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actually using PCI Express risers that they're hiding with this origin PC logo
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that's custom done in acrylic and the same goes for this Intel 750 series SSD
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now in terms of the rest of the storage this is pretty cool they've actually got
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two separate hot swap Bays one for the
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gaming system one for the capture system so the idea behind the system is if
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you're a professional streamer you have all the gaming PC and all the capture PC
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you could possibly need in a single Tower oh and it has RGB
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lighting all right next up we've got a system from cyber power here that's
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targeting the uh people who think their PC needs like hydraulic you know bouncy
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suspension am I right yeah man yeah so
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this is the Cyber power PC Lux series it
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features an Intel Core i 769 50x extreme
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Edition surprise surprise 64 gigs of RAM
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dual GTX 1080s in SLI gigabytes new
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design air series x99 motherboard and of
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course the inwin h tower case the only
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case on the planet and maybe it's for
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good reason that can do
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this it closes it opens it slices it
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dices and you guys might be sitting there wondering well what did they
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actually do cuz that's just an off-the-shelf case well they added LED
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lighting effects and they water cooled
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it and even cooler than that and even
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quite frankly this is not a nice thing to say but quite frankly it's kind of
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shoddily done they've got freaking light
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tape in here I have never seen that in a PC mod and I really like the direction
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they're going with it now the cuts were pretty much done by hand with like
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pencil marks to line them up as far as I can tell but with a CNC they figure they
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could do it pretty cleanly and it's got this really neat subtle glow effect like
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you might see in like an exit strip on an airplane or
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a theater you actually can't tell from the lighting in the booth until I turn
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it off that it's illuminated pretty
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freaking cool right they've also got a custom vinyl wrap around it as well as
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you know and I was kind of giving them a hard time about not doing anything it's a really tasteful Hardline water cooling
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job that they've done in here so uh check them out remember these are all
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entries in the extreme ring challenge or at least these two were the next one's
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not our last system actually isn't part
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of the extreme rig challenge but this thing is so freaking cool I can't look
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away from it it's got a I don't know probably a 6950x it looks like probably
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64 gigs of some kind of memory it's got
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an ASUS tough series white motherboard some cool water cooling I by power built
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it apparently or we're not sure because the sticker keeps coming off so I'm not
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going to stress out too much about that it's an NZXT Phantom case it's got some
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ASUS graphics card in it with a mirror on the back so it looks really cool and
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and uh finally there's an Intel SSD in the bottom but no no no no no no this is
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so cool this is the coolest side panel window I've ever seen let me look at
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that like inklot effect I was like how did they do this when I first came over
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and I saw this and I saw this like I thought it was like a tube of like black
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ink and there was like water in there or some no it turns out this is
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actually a transparent display that costs about $1,000 from some company in
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China no one could actually tell me where it was where it was actually from
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and it runs as a third monitor on this
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computer so this is actually a video that's playing I don't know the specs of
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it because I can't look up the some company from China website thank you
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everyone for helping me out here but it looks to be about a 1280 by 1024 kind of
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resolution like it looks pretty darn good as long as you don't get too close
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to it and just to and and this this blew
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my mind it is not black and white which I tested by putting this tasteful color
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picture on it see look look at this look
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at that guy I mean if you could have a side panel that you could put that
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picture on wouldn't you I sure would so
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thanks for checking out our top three rigs here at the Intel booth at PS West
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