Corsair Bulldog - Liquid cooled, 4K-capable home theater PC!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,468 words · ~7 min read
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a quick thanks to MSI for sending us here this year we would not be at computex without them and also thank you
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to linda.com so the Bulldog a lot of you
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guys probably already have opinions about this system to be completely
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honest it's been quite covered so far and we're on day one of comex pretty
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ridiculous but I guess that's kind of Corsair's whole thing now looking at the
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Bulldog from the outside I think everyone in their mom has an opinion
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about how they probably don't like how it looks I'm sure there's a few out
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there that do like it but but I'm not necessarily in that camp either I had
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some flashbacks of a crab the crab logo
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came to mind it looked like a very wide crab and I I didn't like it but it
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doesn't really matter they're going to be designing more outside cases and
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that's why sitting next to me here is more just the inner framing of the
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Bulldog what actually really matters right now there will be changes to this
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as well but the main changes are probably going to be happening to the outside you're probably going to see a
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much more muted design but we'll have to stay tuned and find out how that goes
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another thing to note is that the config can change now whatever vendor you buy
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it from will have their own config so new egg or NX or whoever the heck will
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have their own set of components within the Bulldog chassis but Corsair will
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offer it with the chassis an sf600 power
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supply a not yet determined motherboard
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and an H5 SF CPU Cooler said motherboard
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will be decided much closer to the release date of Skylake so stay tuned
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for that that CPU Cooler though is is freaking cool it has a freaking tiny rad
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you can actually see it right here it's just the exposed metal kind of showing
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part and then across under the plastic right there it doesn't go further into
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the actual cooler which is just kind of a shroud and the fan but that fan is
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interesting it's a blower fan which has about 11 mm of pressure which is kind of
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insane this this small unit equals about the same cooling efficiency of an h55 it
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doesn't have Corsair link has a tiny freaking rad has really high fin density
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and a crazy fan which equates to a pretty cool cooler especially because
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this thing also mounts to the motherboard it doesn't actually mount to
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the outside of the Bulldog which it kind of looks like it does at first but it
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does not meaning that if they want to
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and I've seen some expression that they might they could sell this off by itself
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and a lot of cases have venting just over the I/O so this could work in
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pretty much whatever you want pretty effective little cooler and a very low
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profile another thing to note about this CPU Cooler is that you will need
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relatively low profile RAM as it's fairly all-encompassing over the
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motherboard across from the CPU Cooler you can see Corsair link which is
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obviously not required and doesn't actually come with Corsair's barebone
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system but you could add in yourself and then the SF 600 wat power supply this is
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interesting this is Corsair's first foray into sfx power supplies and at 600
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watts which is not a low wattage at all
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pretty badass and this little guy will be definitely sold on its own so if
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you're looking into home theater PCS you can stay tuned for that in the more
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vertical upper part of the rest of the case you have your drive mounting now
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here you can have three ssds or one SSD
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and a hard drive so you'd be available to have essentially probably one fairly
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insane SSD array or an SSD for your operating system and some programs and a
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hard drive for like your bigger files and whatnot just below that as you can
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now see we have the graphics card which is actually cooled by an h55 which is
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something called unique about this case a lot of Home Theater PCS don't exactly
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have options for water cooling a graphics card a lot of Home Theater PCS
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don't really have a lot of options in terms of water cooling at all and in
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this one you can water cool the CPU and GPU now this is using Corsair's graphics
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card mounting system you could use whatever you want but definitely not a bad idea another thing to note is to
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kind of ignore those two included fans they're there and they'll be that size
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but they'll maybe not be exactly the same I can't really say any more than
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that for now just just hang with me on that one so the CPU is cooled by a super
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interesting new CPU Cooler with 150 watt TDP a blower style fan and a tiny little
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rad with really dense fins which is really interesting configuration the
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graphics card is cooled in a home theater box there's tons of mesh all
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over the place there's two intakes where for dedicated fans there's this new
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power supply from them what what what's the point what's the theme well the
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outside's ugly so we're going to ignore that for for now the whole theme behind
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this is is cooling this is a crazy amount of cooling for home theater box
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and a lot more than I expected coming into it but does it matter recently we
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released a video of a tiny little Home Theater box that we fit a 16 core CPU
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which is hyperthreaded into it I think 64 gigs of RAM and a Titan X and the
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temperatures were fine well not necessarily the Titan X was fairly hot
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because the Titan X is a fairly hot card so this could solve that problem ALS so
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it was fairly quiet but it wasn't the quietest machine out there in this guy
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everything from Corsair including the graphics card cooler is under 30 DBS
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which is pretty damn good last but not least it has a shielded Riser cable for
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that graphics card so it's able to sit flat alongside the motherboard and that
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will be in Black not the weird blue it currently is speaking of the change
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there there will be quite a few changes to the inside of this not just the
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outside and with that what do I think of
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the Bulldog I don't usually Give opinions from events as I don't think
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it's necessarily the greatest idea but in its current state I'm not necessarily
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a huge fan mainly due to Aesthetics but that's going to change there's some
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internal things are going to change as well I think this is going to be an extremely important product if nothing
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else home theater is a really interesting segment and something that's
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growing with stuff like steam box coming out steam machines and all that kind of
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stuff and there's been a few players in the space for a while now but corsera
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seems to come into segments and just make them absolutely explode look at the
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all-in-one water cooling segment it existed and then Corsair came around and
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now it's freaking huge will they be able to do the same with home theater PCS let
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me know in the comments down below or on Twitter at Luke lafr thanks a ton to MSI
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for sending us here this year we would definitely not be in Taiwan right now if it wasn't for them so check out their
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