Corsair Dream PC Showcase Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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905 words · ~4 min read
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so today on my video blog we're going to be having a look at a system that I put
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together for our friends at Corsair they are actually doing a lot of messaging
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around the Corsair dream PC these days and what that means is that you can buy
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brand name components and build your own brand name PC so to speak so what
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they're saying sometimes to do it right you have to do it yourself basically
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they're encouraging users to load up on all the Corsair parts that they can
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because what that means is that you're going to have good warranty support good
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quality parts and generally a good
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functioning system so let's have a look at what we use for our Corsair dream PC
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first of all I've got the Intel Core i7 975 as well as the Intel extreme series
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Smackover motherboard so that is an excellent base for any dream PC next we
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have Windows 7 Home Premium which comes with direct X11 it's got Aros snap which
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I was actually confused on my uh my Windows 7 preview Aros snap means that
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you or Arrow Shake sorry means that you shake it and then all the other Windows
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go away or come back um sometimes there we go and then Arrow snap is where you
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drag it to the side or to the other side
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or to the top there so now I'm no longer confused about what all the different
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Arrow things are with Windows 7 anyway we got dx11 trim support and Windows 7
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that's good stuff then cooling we have the Corsair H50 so this is their uh
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fully integrated liquid cooling system and I'm going to show you the real Parts
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in just a second so not going to focus too much on the boxes we have a of
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course our solid state drive also included with the system the the memory
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box was kind of ugly but there's some memory so we're not going to really show
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too much of that and then we have the Corsair power supply now something I
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want you to notice about this box is it says it's got a 5year warranty that's
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one of the reasons that Corsair is encouraging users to stick with Corsair
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and to go with good brand name components for their own dream PC
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because even though you're not buying this dream PC from a builder you are
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buying all components that have good aftermarket support so you pick up some
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radon cards from XFX you got lifetime warranty on those you pick up memory
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from Corsair you got lifetime warranty on that 5year warranty on a Corsair
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power supply you've got a three-year warranty on an Intel motherboard so I
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mean basically you're getting an extended warranty package three to
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Lifetime years and you don't actually have to buy a pre-integrated PC now
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let's get this thing open here first of all and there we go so I'm just going to
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show off what we've got in the dream PC here so here's our Corsair triple
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Channel 6 gig memory kit with the Dominator airflow fan here's the Corsair
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H50 CPU Cooler and it's actually running quite cool I really like this thing
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actually and then up here I've got it kind of creatively mounted here is a
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Corsair p128 SSD it's actually uh
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velcroed in there just cuz I want people to be able to check that out and this
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machine is going to be at trade shows so I don't want people ripping them out of
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the hot swap drives that are in this case so that would be a really bad thing
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then we've got our 975 processor Smackover motherboard board and then
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down in the bottom I've got some lighting on it here I bet the camera's
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going to go crazy trying to focus on that but there's our hx1000 modular
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power supply and I want you to check out a couple of cool features about this
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case as I mentioned you've got your hot swap Drive Bay so I'm going to get the
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cameraman to come around and have a look at the front those are actually empty on
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mine and he just tripped over all the boxes I put on the ground that's awesome
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so there's your hot Swap and then in terms of other really unique features
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about this case I guess the biggest one has got to be how water cooling friendly
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it is first of all you can put a triple rad on the top and a single in the back
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and see we've got three 120 mm blue LED fans up there looking pretty sweet and
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then the other big one is the cable management I put like no effort into the
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cable management of this PC however it ends up looking really slick because you
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got all these little rubber grommeted back pieces where you can route any
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feasible cable I mean I managed to mount a hard drive there and it looks like it
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belongs there it's awesome anyway thank you for checking out my blog video on
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the dream PC