Top 5 Gaming Desktops at the Intel Booth - PAX East 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,761 words · ~8 min read
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thank you to the hyperx YouTube channel for sending us here this year that's youtube.com/ Kingston hyperx also thank
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you to linda.com and Phantom glass welcome to the Intel booth at PAX East
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2015 what we're going to be doing here today is a top five OEM system Showdown
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so I've gone through all the crazy amount of systems here and picked five
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top systems for usually fairly unique reasons the first one we're going to
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start with is NC PC we got to give them a shout out cuz they're our buddies from
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back home this system is named the Rogue X for Rog and x99 it has a 5820k in dual
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9 80s a 730 series Intel SSD 16 gigs of
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RAM and a 1 TB hard drive the water cooling system in this machine is called
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a turbo Hydro it's got a pump dual radiators a whole bunch of different
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fittings but my favorite part is the quick disconnects if you had any reason
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to swap all the graphics cards if they failed if you wanted to do an upgrade if
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you wanted to put them in system whatever it is you'd be able to take
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these graphics cards out using the quick disconnects to easily do that put the
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quick disconnects back together without the graphics cards and be able to run
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your system totally fine which is a sweet feature it's not hard piping hard
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piping is super cool and looks great but this is going to be easier to work with
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in the long run as you can see here these are Poseidon cards I might have
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mentioned that earlier usually ncipc would be installing EK water blocks on
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their cards but they just wanted to show how they could configure posidon cards
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for you if you wanted them you can pick pretty much whatever the heck you want in their systems and they'll do whatever
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for you they can even put Automotive grade carbon fiber on pretty much any
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piece you want as you can see here one of the tubing runs has carbon fiber on
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it that was Ivan's nice little Edition but you can do pretty much whatever you
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want just contact them and they'll help you configure whatever you need ncx PCS
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is one of only 10 companies in North America that can say that they're powered by ASUS PCS ASUS puts the
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certification on systems that they believe are very well built and very
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high performing it's just a good overall experience next up is dogghouse if you
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haven't heard of them I don't blame you apparently they got the company name by
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the the man who started it when in the doghouse when his wife was kind of mad
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that he started a computer business I don't know how true that story is but I
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heard that from someone that's here so we'll see anyways there's a 5960x inside
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an Intel 730 series SSD a 1000 W EVGA
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power supply an h100i and that's about
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it other than the Dual 980s for performance Hardware in terms of custom
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work they've added a lot of purple LEDs including to the power button at the top
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of the case although I would have hoped that they would have done it to the hard drive activity LED as well instead of
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just the power button but it does look pretty cool and quite unique but the big
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draw for this computer is that doghouse computers will do custom 3D printing for
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you so in this one they've done a 3D printing shroud to go to the fan at the
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back to help cool your motherboard a pretty unique and pretty cool system I
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haven't really seen very many of these so it was really cool to see it it packs this year all right guys next up is the
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Exotic PC executioner this has a 5960x
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dual 980s a 480 gig Intel series 730 SSD
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and 16 gigs of ddr4 RAM as you can see it's very beautifully hard piped I know
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I was just ragging on hard pipe a little bit when I was checking out the nzx PC
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system but that this could definitely be something you're looking for especially
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if you're not looking for Rapid upgrades in the future one thing that they did
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here too is this is clear hard piping so it actually looks like it's solid white
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but that's due to the pastel nature of their actual liquid in the system the
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system is currently just sleeved with the Corsair kit but if you wanted to get
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custom sleeving from exotic PC that is definitely something they offer as well
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one thing they can do too is metal piping if you're not down with that clear acrylic I don't know exactly what
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metals they can use but I know that they can do metal piping and if you want some
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more customization as you can see this system is lit up with LEDs you can get
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your system lit up with LEDs and controlled by an external controller so
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you can like turn the lights off when you want to go to bed or anything like that one of the bigger Jaws for this
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system as well was how much it's been painted they've got an automotive grade
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painting solution where they can paint pretty much anything and in this system
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they've done up the GPU plates on the graphics cards and the actual case
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itself with their custom logos which looks really sick they've actually also
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painted the RAM I didn't notice that at first and it wasn't just the kind of Plasti Dip solution that lonus did in
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his build log it's actually again that Automotive grade paint next up is origin
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PC they have a 5960x 730 series SSD a
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1300 W EVGA power supply and a 380s
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actually most of the systems here are running one or 2 980s but origin went
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for three the CPU is cooled by a triple Radiator in the trop a triple 120 mm
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Radiator in the top which also has their own custom logo on the Block other than
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custom sleeving there actually wasn't a ton of like mods done to this case but
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they made it into my Showdown just because of how badass the actual case is
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as you can see in this situation they've rotated their motherboard something super unique up in the front they've got
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that really sick hard drive cage that they have in all of these cases which is
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just a really nice Adder That You Don't See in a lot of these cases so if if
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you're looking into something which isn't necessarily too crazy this system
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could go for you but origin off also offers a ton of modifications if you go
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for one of their other tier systems and last but definitely not least in
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performance or price is the main gear force superstock in its current
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configuration has a 5960x dual 9 80s on
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a deluxe board with 32 gigs of RAM and a 1200 W Corsair power supply and
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naturally it also has 730 series ssds for storage but any of this stuff is
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configurable you can get more larger 730 series ssds you can get more graphics
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cards this case obviously supports up to quad graphics cards pretty much whatever
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you want the parallelized Dual pump water cooling system on this thing is
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nothing short of insanity there's 85 fittings that's enough fittings to
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easily cool eight different systems if you had to use them individually but
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they use all these 85 fittings to do a lot of really cool things there's a
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really easy access drain Port it looks generally beautiful throughout the
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entire thing but something to remember is that just those 85 fittings alone
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will be around a grand but if you're going for a for superstock Price
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probably isn't a large object for you so I'm just going to move on from there it
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has a triple 140 mm Radiator in the top and a quad 120 mm Radiator in the bottom
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to go along with all that nice fancy water cooling to help justify the cost
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of this system there's an insane level of detail if you you have a very
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specific color that you need all your logos to be they can match that with
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their wire Combs as they make them in-house and they'll even color coordinate everything all the way down
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to the exact zap straps that are all throughout the system all right guys
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thanks for watching be sure to check out youtube.com/ Kingston hyperx they helped
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us a ton with getting us here this year and they release a lot of cool gaming
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to help learn a bunch of cool stuff like editing and Premiere coding business
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works whatever the heck you want all right guys what build was your favorite hit up #y Intel build on Twitter or
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Instagram or Vine or whatever the heck you like to frequent and let them know
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if you submit your build or another Buddy's build or a build you've done or
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maybe even one of these you might be able to win one of three core i7 Intel
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processors along with definitely using that hashtag let me know what system you
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like the most in the comments down below and over on the Forum thank you guys for
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watching stay subscribed to lineus techtips to see all of our paxi 2015
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content all right guys if you stay tuned for this long I have a little surprise
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for you I don't know how much I can tell you about it so I will tell you nothing
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but it is an SSD prototype and if you go to Intel gaming promo.com SSD you'll see
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maybe more information but definitely a countdown timer and if you wait for imem
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or Intel extreme Masters they'll definitely be releasing more info there
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so stay tuned