BEST Intel Gaming PCs at PAX East
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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PAX East 2017 unfortunately for the
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attendees is over and with it comes the end of the Intel extreme rig challenge
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all of the contestants have completed their seventh generation core i7
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processor and 600p SSD powered computers
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if you haven't seen the leadup videos for this project you can start with
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episode one right up here but now we have the final Awards and spoils the
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seven teams that made it out of 12 include Ava direct or PC iby power main
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gear cyber power PC zyx and
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NC and they were competing in four different categories most creative best
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engineered highest performance and most
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appeasing to you also known as Community Choice the first category to be decided
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was most creative and the top three system builders in this category were
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zyx NC PC and cyber power cyber power
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went for a really unique look and they accomplished this by utilizing copper
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piping and using a deframe chassis from inwind which is really rare and helped
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make a pipe frame style aesthetic they also use copper and orange as their main
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colors which are not very common and really help them Stand Out zidax went
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with this really cool looking monochrome water cooling setup with one Loop being
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set up with black liquid and another loop being set up with white liquid and
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then contrasted that monochrome with possibly the most RGB enabled fan hands
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I have ever seen in a single case and
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three individual lighting controllers that were accessible from outside of the
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case to control all of those freaking fans NC inspired by ASUS's Gladius and
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spatha mice went with an impeccably detailed engraving throughout their
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entire system and fully utiliz thermales
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RGB water cooling fittings with white pastel liquid cooling to great effect
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and it really made their system pop when the dust was set and all the votes were
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finally cast The Grand winner of the most creative category was cyber power
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PC with zidax and NC tying for second
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next up was best engineered and the top three systems voted in by the judges
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were ncx zidax and Ava direct now we
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just took a look at zida and NCI so we're going to go directly to Ava direct
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and clean and pristine must have been the marching orders at Ava when they
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were designing this system from the color palette to the aluminium cable
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Combs chosen just to perfectly manage all of their cables to the water cooling
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setup in general it comes together in a
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computer that is just refreshing to look at but in the end when all was said and
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done NC took first place with Ava direct
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coming in right behind them and zyx pulling a solid third then we come to a
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category with no judges no Community judges no judge panel this is
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performance you have to win with a score in this one and the top three systems
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were Ava direct zidax for a third
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freaking time and iby power iby power
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system was the legendary snow blind which we've actually featured on our
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Channel twice in the past it features an
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awesome side panel which is a translucent monitor which you can do
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with pretty much whatever you want you can do anything that you would do on a
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normal monitor over there but it's recommended that you run a rain meter
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setup which will show all your system settings which is actually pretty badass
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inside that side panel you see an extremely white overall aesthetic with
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very intense LEDs because they have to generate a lot of light and bounce a lot
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of light around in order to have it come through that translucent side panel but
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when the numbers came in for performance Ava direct claimed a strong first place
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with zidax and iby Power claiming second and third respectively which leaves us
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with the grand prize the Community Choice Awards there was
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12644 votes cast against the 12 original
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teams that were entered in this contest
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but above all others was origin PC and I
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get it their computer or computers should I say at this point are epic to
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explain what I mean by that they're running two individual VR ready systems
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within the same electric blue chassis
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each system is revealed through its own translucent monitor on its own side
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panel talk about using the budget I think origin really went with the two
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computers for the price of Awesome on this one if you want to play VR games
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with a friend or spouse at home look no further this computer perfectly fits
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that albeit relatively small Niche and
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with that the Intel extreme rig challenge of 2017 is concluded thank you
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to all the system builders for participating win or lose you guys all
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had spectacular systems thanks to Intel
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for doing this again and letting me be a part of it and last but not least at all
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thanks to you guys for watching and commenting and voting let me know in the
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comments down below if you'd be interested in seeing Intel do this again
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next year and with that I'll see you guys next time