Corsair Dream Machine 2012 Update From the Crazy Russian Lab Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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yet another crazy update from the Crazy Russian laboratory this is and I don't
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know if you guys know this but my original Corsair dream machine in the
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800d which is the same case we have here today is one of my most viewed videos
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ever and that was featuring an x58 platform so that's all old and crappy
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now right so now we have an updated Corsair dream machine Elite this is with
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Intel's latest x79 platform so we're using Aus P9 x79 Pro motherboard we also
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have an Intel Core i7 3930k unlocked
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processor this will be pre-overclocked although the final clock speeds are to
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be determined we want to make sure that whatever clock speed we validate at we
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validate it in a case with the side panel closed to ensure that our
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customers are not going to have any issues with their pre-overclocked machine it also has some other stuff
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that's fairly new as well you know what let's finish up with the outside before
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we get inside so you can see it's got a bit of a blue and black overall color
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schemes other than those two video cards that's two Radeon
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hd7950 so the reason we went with 279
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50s we went with a 3930k we went with 16 gigs of RAM we
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went the pr level motherboard so this is all the highest possible
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performance sort of scaled back one notch with within reason so you're not
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paying that huge premium for getting the Halo Parts like the extreme Edition like
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the uh Republic of Gamers board the 797s but you're getting that sort of 85%
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of the performance at you know 65% of
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the price sort of rule that tends to apply to stuff like that so we've gone
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with an HX 1050 yes the ax is a higher end power supply but this is also fully
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capable of powering a machine like this so it looks great performs great but
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it's going to come in at a price that I don't actually know what the price is
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going to be yet but it'll be hopefully less than you think so why don't we just
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finish up on the outside here so on the outside you guys have seen the 800d
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before we've got a Blu-ray player we've got USB 3 so the 800d has been updated
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to include USB 3 now although the lighting is very terrible here so I
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don't know how good that is in here we find some cool stuff so there's a three
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terab storage Drive hard drives are finally starting to come back down and
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pricing a little bit as well has the latest Intel 520 Series sand Force SSD
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now this is going to be kind of cool guys we're using a different kind of lighting it's fully customizable
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lighting with this system and when I take this off it's actually going to
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unplug one of them so I got to be a little bit careful here but we are using
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these cool there we are these cool LED
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strips from bit Phoenix see here so
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there's LEDs spaced out here you can actually use little adapters to extend
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them them if you want to run longer chains of them see just with these four
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little plugs here that's all you got to do you can actually cut them at the
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pre-marked places so they're marked on the back so you can do little short ones
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here if you want to get some extra lighting there uh these are really
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really cool these are pretty similar to the lean Lee ones that I looked at a little while ago although they are
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somewhat cheaper and there's a wider variety plus they have that extension
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ability which the lean Lee ones did not have so we've got the cable for that
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running through here other than that this is a fairly standard Corsair case
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except for the upgraded fans so we're using Spectre Pro LED fans for the three
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that's three right yeah yeah for the three 120 mil fans in the top we've got
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an h100 cooling the CPU we have a 140 mm
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Spectra Pro fan here and then finally we have another 120 mm here and I don't
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know if they upgraded this one I suspect I did no that's the stock fan that one's
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pretty quiet anyway cuz it has the Shroud on it and you can't see it so it
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doesn't really contrib read anything to the looks I already mentioned the HX
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1050 so you can see the wiring is nice and clean there's almost nothing even
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coming out of the power supply and then we're using the included cable routing
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options in the 800d in order to make things look as clean as possible
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inside now this is something that probably a couple people are going to
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comment on these 7950 are very close together the reason for that is that
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ASUS doesn't include long Crossfire Bridges with these motherboards so it's
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something where if you wanted to Source an aftermarket Crossfire Bridge you could move it down to the bottom PCI
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Express 16x slot either way it's not the end of the world because during gaming
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yes the fans will ramp up no they do not overheat and then when you're idling the
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these cards produce almost no heat at all anyway so it's definitely not an
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issue during just day-to-day usage so yeah it's not perfect but it's a
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solution that we can live with here in the PC laboratory I think that pretty
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much covers it you know I mean we might as well show the overall IO options of
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ailable on this motherboard so we do have Intel
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Ethernet which is cool 4 USB 3.0 ports
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eeta we have their BIOS flashback feature BIOS flashback is cool because
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even though it comes pre-overclocked if you decide to keep tweaking it you will
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and and you run into issues where you corrupt your BIOS or you update the BIOS
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and you corrupt it that way you can actually flash it back just by putting a
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BIOS file on a USB disc putting it into the corresponding Port all this info is
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in your motherboard manual which you'll receive with your system and then you
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can reflash the BIOS just like that so that's actually really cool as well now
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there was something that I was sure I wanted to
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mention oh yeah okay well there's obviously the fact that while this is
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sort of not quite Balls to the walls you know 16 gigs instead of 32 gigs of RAM
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79 50s instead of 797s no extreme Edition it can be upgraded to add all of
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those parts and the Aesthetics will still be awesome last thing I want you
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guys to see is actually the turned on you can you can see the brightness of
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these LEDs up there so I think that's
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cool can you see that yeah it's like almost like too bright like if I like
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cover here a little bit maybe I don't know I don't know how to like show how
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bright they are without like blinding the camera so thank you for checking out
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this PC laboratory update the Corsair
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dream machine Elite updated 2012 edition
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will be coming out soon don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for more
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unboxings reviews behind the scenes updates here in the lab and other great
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stuff like that also this SSD is awesome I know I haven't done a video about it
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yet but it's like balling