NCIX Tech Fair Booth Review 1 - NCIXPC, INWIN, Seagate, Trendnet, Intel
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,457 words · ~7 min read
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welcome to the ncx PC Booth we want to do a tour of all of the booths so we're
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going to break it up a little bit but we're starting here you dream it we build it NC PC can build pretty much
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anything gaming rigs workstations home and office and even servers so at the
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booth today rather than just focusing on the NC PCS themselves because we have
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about six of them spread out at all the various vendor booths we actually
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decided to do a very unique demo we have one of our head technicians this is
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Brian who is going to be doing a live demo of how to build your very own PC
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every hour on the hour then you can browse our lineup of NC PC systems here
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and in the background you can also see this guy not familiar with who that is
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but I think um I don't know he has vinus that's him uh so he's also showcasing
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some of the NC PCS that have been designed by the Crazy Russian himself
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and usually these demo ones are a joint collaborative project to make them look
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as good as possible between the Russian and Brian right
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here all right we're here at the inwind booth so they've got a variety of
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different new products on display including their green series 550 W power
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supply as well as their 1200 W Commander 2 so this is an evolutionary step
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forward from the original commander and you can see that while a lot of uh
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companies are doing military color themed components these days actually no
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one else does a power supply so if you're going to buy yourself a saber-tooth motherboard and some not to
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a fan and go for like kind of a you know Urban sort of look inside your PC then
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this might not actually be a bad choice at all CU it's like a sort of an army
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green kind of thing going on it's a semi modular power supply and let's move on
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to the case so for cases we've got the Dragon Rider this one comes in white or
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black this is actually one of the most complete options of front panel
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connectors I have ever seen with microphone headphones 2 USB 3 2 usb2
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Fire Wire 400 and two e SATA ports all
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on the top of the case you can also see there's a 22 cm side panel fan as well
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as no dampening material on the rest of the inside and what's cool about this as
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as well is hold on a second yeah as as well as the fact that it has a switch
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for the fan right on the side so that's hardwired into the case this is an XL
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ATX case it has eight expansion slots and it's fully water cooling ready with
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two 120 mm 2x20 mm radiators supported
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in the top it also uses a rail sliding mechanism for the hard drives and this
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is a cool feature that we've seen only a couple times before with an additional
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cooling fan on the back of the motherboard so some motherboard manufacturers are actually putting
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components on the back of the board behind the CPU socket that will serve to
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effectively cool them lots of room for cable management you should probably come get a shot of the front of the case
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and then you'll be able to see over on the other side that compared to the competition inwind solution is a much
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higher airflow solution for cooling the back of the
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board finally we've got one of their midtower cases which is not maybe not
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quite as fully featured as the Dragon Rider s but you have to have a complete
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product stack so you know if you're not willing to sell out the extra for the
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advanced features of the Dragon Rider you can go something like this as well they've also got a few more things just
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including a couple fans and thank you for checking out the inwind booth here
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we are at the Seagate Booth so we've got uh oh yeah we've got these check this
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out bam best swag ever am I right uh so
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we've got a wide variety of different products they've got some of their external products on demo including the
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free agent glex which is available in a variety of color they've also got a few
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other variants of goflex here there's a slim one there's a pro one but the main
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focus for Seagate is the momentus XT so momentus XT is a hybrid Drive which
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combines the benefits of a mechanical drive with the benefits of a solid state
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drive all within a 2.5 in form factor that you can easily install into your
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notebook so if you want to learn more about the momentus XT you can come and
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talk to our seate rep here at the booth and I hope to see you guys at the show
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Welcome to the trend net Booth where they are mostly showcasing they're IP
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camera Solutions so these are security cameras whether it's for home or
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commercial use it's totally up to you they've got everything from your Simple
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wireless fixed cameras to your much more
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advanced Uber looking industrial cams you got ones with pen and uh and tilt as
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well as umom optical zoom you have motion sensing ones too right motion
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sensing motion sensing we've also got ones here you can see anything that has
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the infrared lights around it that is a day night camera as well so there's a a
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huge variety of solutions but that's not all Trend net is responsible for in the
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networking World they do switches routers kind of unique Solutions like
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little wireless extender doodads that are great for hooking up your Xbox to
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your wireless network even though it only has a wired connection um and check
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this out this is a free app called IP cam viewer light thank you IP cam viewer
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light so there's absolutely nothing proprietary about the solution that
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trenet is demoing that works with their cameras so these are all cameras that
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are running on this table right now so
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thank you for uh checking out this video about the trend net
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booth at the Intel Booth we find the
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Vesta i1 which is the finest machine Intel ever built to bring to our show
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actually ncpc built it but we couldn't do it without Intel technology so inside
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here we have a pre-overclocked 3770k processor because we felt that
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even though the engineers at Intel did a fantastic job of the i7 3770k it needed
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to go even faster but Unfortunately they built in that capability for us so this
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has not only the 3770k but it has also
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got an optional upgrade to the GTX 690 from NVIDIA so this is pretty much as
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powerful as it gets for a gaming machine these days we've also got it running on
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a 27in 1080p monitor in 3D Vision mode
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just for the sake of demonstrating to
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anyone who comes to the show that Intel
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is pretty much the bees needs when it comes to gaming now also in here we've
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got an Intel SSD that's a 520 series that is the fastest SATA 3 consumer SSD
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on the market today and it also comes with legendary Intel reliability with a
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5-year warranty last but not least let's do a quick brief of the specs of this
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bad boy so it's cooled by a Corsair h100 with 16 gigs of cor air r on an as
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Sabertooth board that's why it looks so slick inside we've got a cic 850 W 80
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plus gold power supply and for storage we've got a Seagate 3 tbte storage
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drive2 G 32 gigs is it a cash no 32 GS
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of RAM oh 32 gigs of RAM my bad I thought he meant the SSD because that's
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so much RAM it's getting into like storage system territory the lighting is
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done by bit Phoenix Alchemy lights and the case itself has a custom carbon
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fiber vinyl wrap that is actually Automotive grade and looks just
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fantastic in person last but not least we've got the Corsair 650d case with
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easy to clean fan filter in the and good looks