MSI Masters Gaming Arena, Nightblade MI, and more! - PAX Prime 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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so we're here at the MSI booth at PA Prime 2015 and they are throwing one
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heck of a party it all centers around
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the Grand Final of their Master's Gaming Arena 2015 this is a Heroes of the Storm
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and Starcraft 2 competition that has actually been going on since May of this
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year and we are finding out actually right behind us right now who will be
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taking home the title for Heroes of the Storm and Starcraft 2 is going to be
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tomorrow but the subject of this video is the technology running the show
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behind me so let's have a closer look at the laptops that the gamers up on the
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stage there are using okay so I promised we'd check out
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the GE 62s that the competitors are using up there but we got a little
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distracted on the way because this is the next Generation
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gt72s okay it's kind of similar it's a little bit bigger but it has some pretty
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amazing upgrades over the last generation product so first of all this
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is running the allnew core i7 6820 HK
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yes K overclocking on a notebook we've
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talked about this on W show now it's real MSI figures you can Peak at around
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4.2 GHz if you overclock on a quadcore on a
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laptop and you can run sustain probably in the neighborhood of about 4 GHz and
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the rest of the specs are no slouch as well you've got a GTX 980m 8 gig in
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there it's got a 17.3 in full HD g-sync
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display it's got up to 64 GB by of ddr4
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memory but the storage oh the storage is
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where things get really off the hook as I believe the kids say check out this
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Crystal disc Mark that is a read speed of 3.2 gigabytes per second and a right
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speed of 1.25 GB per second they are
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achieving this with two PCIe Forex gen 3
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ssds those are NVMe
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ssds that is something that I personally
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um have not seen before oh yeah there
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are some other upgrades right physically so it's got a new keyboard design and
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they've replaced one of the DisplayPort ports in the back with USB type c with
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Thunderbolt 3 capability coming in the future the certification is not quite
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done yet but the logo's on there the Hardware's in there and it is going to
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be ready to go very very soon okay I had
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to stop and see this this is the Nightblade m now this isn't the first
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time that we've seen MSI do a super
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compact gaming machine but this is a
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whole other level because you guys will be much more impressed by it when I tip
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it over onto its side and show you just how slim this puppy is so it features
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support for the latest sixth generation core i7 processors yes you can stuff a
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6700k in here it's got a custom mini ITX
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motherboard inside that takes so damn memory so they are like really going for
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all the space saving they can get on this bad boy it can hold a fullsize
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graphics card so this particular one is kitted out with a GTX 970 with their
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allnew Silent Storm cooling on it but yeah it's really fast it's got lots of
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cooling and all that stuff but that is not even what's most impressive about
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this bad boy to me so let's go ahead and open her up oh wow that came off pretty
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smoothly normally it doesn't go that well for me we've got a single 2 and 1/2
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in SSD up here we've got two 3 and half
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inch hard drives on these handy dandy little sleds you just take out two
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screws and you're ready to replace a hard drive and we've got an optical
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drive they fit four drives into this
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tiny like shoe box siiz chassis I mean
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that's freaking unbelievable so if you do want to pick one up it'll be
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available as a barebones in North America so basically you throw in your
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own CPU and drives and like all that
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kind of stuff or in other regions worldwide you'll be able to buy it as a
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complete system very nice and wrapping things up we've
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got the all-in-one that's being used by the commentators here this is the 24g E2
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QE and we've seen gaming grade Allin
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ones okay so yeah it's got a core i7 processor either fourth or fifth gen
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depending on which skew you're shopping for this particular one is fourth gen
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it's got a GTX 960m so you can watch videos at the 4K resolution of the
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built-in 23.6 in screen and play like
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mainstream games like League of Legends it's got enough horsepower for that it's
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got 16 gigs of RAM it's got a 128 gig MSA SSD with two slots for 2 and 1 12 in
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drives in this case it's got a couple of hard drives for mass storage but the
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thing that we haven't really seen much of in the past is super slim gaming
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Allin ones it's one of those things I've always wondered why we don't do we've
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got all these slim gaming laptops well Ms side goes well hold on a second
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that's the same bloody technology why don't we go ahead and put that into an
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allinone and they're doing a few other things right with this one as well that
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4K display is now IPS and 10-point
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multitouch so it's got all all the
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fixings as far as all of that is concerned so thanks for checking out our
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coverage of the MSI I don't even want to call it a a a booth it's like an
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extravaganza here at PAX Prime 2015 don't miss any of our content and I will
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see you guys on our next video assuming you subscribe which you should