The BEST New PCs for 2019
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,110 words · ~5 min read
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here at ces 2019 we've seen a whole range of desktops and laptops that go
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from freaking incredible to genuinely disappointing and now it's time for our
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roundup of the top five Intel-powered computers sponsored by Intel
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starting of course with the orion 9000
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or more specifically the orion 9000
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hooked up to what acer is calling the thronos
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this thing couldn't be more aptly named it comes with the core i7 8700k
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processor an rtx 2080 ti like 64 gigs of
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RAM or something crazy like that it's this giant tower but it's nothing
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compared to the chair that actually comes as part of the package so for your
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ten thousand dollars you get an awesome
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gaming system a full set of gaming peripherals three 27 inch 144 hertz
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gaming monitors and a motorized gaming
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cockpit that not just has an ARM that
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swings open and closed to bring your peripherals to you but it also has drink
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holders a usb hub and even a zero
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gravity mode where it tilts the entire thing back so you can be completely
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immersed in your games the last thing that blew me away is that acer will come
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to your house and set it up for you a process that
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they say will take two hours or more
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next up we've got the Corsair one pro so two years ago when the Corsair one
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originally came out we were amazed that they were properly cooling and powering
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a quad core processor and a gtx 1080 in
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such a small package with water cooling too but since then Corsair has turned up
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the dial upping the course to six and we were like okay that's nice but then
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12 12 cores in the Corsair one pro and
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they claim it could handle even Intel's
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18 core processors if someone wanted to come in and upgrade it themselves
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so this thing cannot just game but it can crank out renders streams and
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generally hold its own in any kind of workstation
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and generally hold its own in any kind of light workstation application like
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video editing and when it is time to game the one pro is equipped with an rtx
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2080 ti and they've got a 750 watt power
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supply crammed in there that like the rest of the fans in the system can be
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turned off when it's idle so it is darn near silent next up what if you want to
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go even smaller than a Corsair one well zotek has you covered with the mech mini
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crammed into this 9.17 liter chassis
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they have somehow got a core i7 8700 and
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an NVIDIA rtx 2070 meaning you can have
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real gaming power at a lan or like dreamhack or something without breaking
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your back the rest of the loadout is fairly sensible with 16 gigs of RAM a 240 gig
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SSD and two terabytes of hard drive space to store all your games and
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currently it's destined to be available in this black color in a month or two
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and then they also have four other funky colors that could be coming if there's
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interest keeping with this video's theme of increasing portability as we go ASUS
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made this so the rog mothership it's like a laptop
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but with the laptop bits moved up behind the screen so moving the components here
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has allowed them to make it a lot thinner than the g703 that it sort of
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replaces due to the improved thermals that they get when the computer part
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isn't being choked out by sitting right next to the desk the rg mothership
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features a detachable wireless keyboard meaning you can center its position in a
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more comfortable way compared to the screen and if you're worried about
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latency by the way you can plug it in via usb type-c
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of course it wouldn't be a desktop replacement if it didn't have the horses
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of a desktop but fear not rocking a core i9 8950 hk six core overclockable
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processor an rtx 2080 and three
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m.2 drives in raid 0 through the CPU itself rather than all through the
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chipset for better bandwidth the mothership can certainly run with the
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big boys and we are very curious to see what it's going to be like to switch to
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longer term once it's past the prototype phase
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on the subject of prototype phase we've got the ASUS strix 240 hertz with almost
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every laptop under the sun getting an upgrade to rtx 20 series gpus and of
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course super fast core i7 processors getting them to pump out frames isn't a
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problem it's having a display that can keep up but ASUS has fixed that by
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increasing the refresh rate of their new strix scar 2 to
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240 hertz like the responsiveness of the display on this thing is absolutely
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incredible with that many frames being delivered to your eyes you have a true
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competitive advantage in games like cs go and rainbow six siege and you know
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what's even better it's not a tn panel meaning you get that added
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responsiveness and fluidity without sacrificing things like color and
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viewing angles now for those of you keeping score you
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might have realized that we already did five but five just wasn't enough when
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alienware came in with their area 51m and basically blew my mind
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like sure it's pretty big as far as laptops go and it doesn't change the
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form factor like the mother ship did but somehow they got a full powered desktop
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core i9 9900k in this thing like look at
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this that is a desktop socket like you could just you could you could buy a
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lower end one and just rip out the CPU and and put in a different chip if you
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wanted and the craziest thing is they didn't stop the upgradeability there because
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the GPU and rtx 2080 they are saying can
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also be swapped out with dell's not mxm
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mobile GPU form factor so that means that assuming they continue to support
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it which they've said they want to this machine could be spitting out top end
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frame rates for years to come
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and i guess that about does it for our top Intel powered systems at ces 2019
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thank you to Intel for sponsoring this video thank you guys for watching it and
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we will see you guys back at the office