1st Annual NCIX Tech Fair Preview and Last Minute Setup Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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so guys we're setting up at the NC Tech Fair we're just doing like some last
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minute preparation before everything gets started you can see the stage is
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set up we're in aine Center here and uh we're going to take you around and show
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you some of the booths that are in the process of getting ready to go remember
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abine Center Mall in Richmond Saturday Sunday May the 12th and 13th come check
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it out during the day for more information you can visit www.nc.com and
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look for the info about the tech fair or nc. doc on Facebook for more information
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ASUS here is one of our Platinum sponsors so they're showing off a wide
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variety of different things including gaming systems monitors motherboards
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networking ASUS makes almost everything so definitely you want to check that out
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we're here at the Galaxy Invidia joint Booth they kind of pulled together and
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grabbed a few tables so that they could set up together so they're going to have
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a couple really cool gaming setups they're going to show 3D large format as
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well as got they got some Heaven benchmarks running here on a pretty cool Ming machine so that's another thing
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you're going to want to make sure that you definitely come and check out and
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there's also great prizes you can win we've got tablets TVs Xbox and a variety
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of other things over $10,000 in prizes to give away but you do have to come out
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to the show and fill out one of these forms and put it in the old Fishbowl in
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order to qualify here's the Samsung booth never
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one to be upstage when it comes to awesome demos so we're going to take a
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closer look at a couple of the things they have inside here at the Samsung
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booth there's tons of cool stuff including their new series 9 Central
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Station monitor so this reduces the cable clutter at your desk as well as
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delivering their latest PLS panel technology in a super high resolution
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glass Sleek looking front panel format this looks like a beautiful monitor as
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you guys know I'm a huge fan of their existing PLS monitors so it can only get
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better with time we've also got a couple of Series 7 tablets this one's running
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Windows 7 but they're actually going to have one set up running Windows 8
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preview as well so you can take full advantage of the touchscreen
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capabilities of this TBL they've got a wide variety of other stuff including
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their latest TV technology even some printers and last
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but not least about six notebooks that you can try out whatever you want just
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check it out so see you there gigaby
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boots pretty blinged up I saw antec sort of swing by here earlier putting their
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little LEDs on the table in order to dress things up a little bit as well as
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tidying up the cable management you know not that we're burning our our Gigabyte
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guy here at the show on his tidy cabling but you see it looks pretty slick with
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everything all tied up nicely using nice cable extensions as well as the antec
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920 cooler H2O with the sweet LED lighting
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effects and no it show will be complete without AMD they're showing off an
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ifinity setup running off of one of our gaming machines here and they also have
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a bunch of other really cool stuff so you can see sort of where we've come
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from in terms of video card technology and how much more advanced is these days
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with the 7900 series and they also have one thing that I think is pretty cool is
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a bit of a Museum of AMD CPUs going all the way back to some pretty ancient
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stuff from back when AMD used to even share a socket with Intel now they've uh
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they've definitely come a long way from that as well they've also got a wafer
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here showing how the CPUs actually come out of the manufacturing facility before
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they're packaged up like this Corsair's got their wide portfolio of products on
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demo including their peripherals mice keyboards headsets as well as cooling
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products including my personal favorite pre-done liquid Co unit the h100 they've
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also got one of their newer cases on demo so you can actually touch it feel
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it see how you like it and uh I don't see any RAM but I think we're all pretty
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familiar with Corsair RAM at this point Ben Q projectors and monitors don't
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forget they do both they've got the gp2 here their little pocket projector this
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is one of the show deals where you can get it with the battery pack that runs
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for about 4 hours which is pretty cool they've also got a 3D Vision light boost
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ready monitor powered by him an ncip see
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one that we actually did a video about a little while ago and Sony really brought
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everything they brought they pulled out all the stops with their PS Vita Booth
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so you can come here check out the vaita they built this whole thing in a matter
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of like an hour so I didn't even manage to get footage of of the actual setup so
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they're just putting the finishing touches on it now this is their latest handheld gaming system I haven't
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actually used one yet but hopefully I'll be able to sort of say something more
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intelligent about it a little bit later apparently I'm partying now and MSI and
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ocz are back to back here they're both going to have really cool demos of their
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respective Technologies so MSI we're going to be putting together their test
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bench showing their one button OC gen overclocking where you can try it and
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see how easy it is in real time and ocz
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has a live demo where they have two identical notebooks each with a
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different storage setup one with a Vertex 4 SSD and the other with a hard
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drive so you can do the Pepsi challenge so to speak and try it to see whether
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you can tell the difference for yourself and last minute setup is the uh
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definitely the domain of the NC PC team we get things done no matter what you
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can see we've got our Flagship i1 system here at the Intel Booth with the GTX 690
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running inside looks absolutely amazing let's go in and get a closer look at
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that so remember guys this is the carbon fiber wrap system that is pretty much
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Balls to the walls pre-overclocked uh
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core i7 3770k gtx690 and it doesn't get
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much faster than that and last but not least we don't believe an event like
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this be complete without some pretty sweet deals so we've got like sort of
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dimsum menu Style a bunch of the show
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deals that are available there's actually a second page as well so we're
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just going to pan through these really quick you can always pause if you really want to read them don't forget you have
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to be here at the abine mall location in order to take advantage of these deals
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and you can see that quite a few people have decided that they are interested in
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the deals and they want to come check out the fair as well