Intel 4th Gen Core i7 Processor System Showcase - PAX Prime 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,439 words · ~7 min read
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x99 overload here in the Intel Booth
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everybody has systems featuring the new 5960x 8 Core Extreme Edition
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hyperthreaded turbo boost processor but
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we kind of figured well there's so much stuff on display here maybe we should
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narrow it down to the coolest systems that we found with this new processor
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technology so starting with this one right here from Falcon Northwest which
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has a custom name plate that says packs so you either they built this system
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last year and they've had samples for over a year not likely or they built
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this system just to bring to the show here so it features a custom red
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Automotive grade paint job it's got a custom case that was you can tell from
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the uh Drive cages here they collaborated with Silverstone on it
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so it's their design however it's got that Silverstone quality to it they're
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using a Silverstone power supply to go along with it they've got a couple of
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ASUS graphics cards it should be noted this is a powered by ASUS system they
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are a member of that exclusive club and
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this is a really interesting feature so aside from liquid cooling for the CPU
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they go air cooling on the gpus but with this shroud right here that leads from
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what I believe is a 180 mm fan down here in the bot
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and that's one of silverstone's air penetrator fans designed to really
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direct air flow up they've got both of these cards running in their own
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separate wind tunnel that Falcon tells me can achieve up to
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15° different temperatures compared to the CPU compartment that means you're
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keeping your GPU heat away from everything else and well out of your
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system where you do not want it actually I don't know how exclusive the powered
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by ASUS Club is it looks like they're letting just about anyone into it these
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days here's a system from ncx I'm just teasing you guys this is actually a
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pretty sick system it's built in the Corsair 760t and it features a liquid
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cooling setup that I am personally quite fond of this is swifttech all-in-one
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liquid cooler that comes out of the box ready to be installed so you could just
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buy one of these from ncx and throw it in your computer and liquid cool your CPU or what's really cool about is is it
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can be expanded so it comes with this triple 120 mm radiator that's in here
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and the CPU block which also includes a pump but it has been expanded in this
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case to include a front dual 120 mm
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radiator as well as two EK water blocks
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cooled GTX 780 direct cu2 cards from
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ASUS you can also see that they have upgraded the stock look of this
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particular case this is a Corsair 760t with a sweet ASUS powered by ASUS Rog
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Dey thing that looks resplendant with
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the red LED lighting inside definitely one of our top picks but this one is
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water cooled on a whole other level you
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can hardly even recognize the Corsair
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900d case that main gear transformed
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into this wonderful beautiful Beast so
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okay yes it's got an x99 motherboard as extreme Edition Etc okay it also has two
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R9 295x2 so that's a quad GPU setup but
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check this out they don't even take up that much space on the Rampage 5 extreme
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motherboard you can actually install other things in there and you don't have
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to have the you know pre-attached liquid coolers because this whole thing is
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completely custom done out up here in the top we've got a triple 140 mm
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radiator with a custom shroud down here in the bottom we have a quadruple 120 mm
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radiator with a custom shroud they have customized the fans by cleverly putting
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Main gear stickers on them but actually they're a bit of a custom de from
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Corsair definitely a nice performing fan
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and it looks nice too with that white LED lighting but guys this is all about
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the liquid cooling aside from radiators there has got to be based on my rough
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ballpark estimate at least $150 worth of
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fittings alone in this liquid cooling setup and that leaves aside the you know
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uh quick stopping valves in the bottom so in case
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one of your dual pumps dies you can actually keep running the system that
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ignores the custom Reservoir dual pump
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unit that EK built for them in order to even make it so that it can run dual
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pumps and it ignores the absolute beauty of that 38 in thin wall tubing that
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they've got running in these extremely tidy straight runs all over the system
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for a bit of an automotive internals
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inspired look to it overall is it cheap
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no don't be stupid is it is it beautiful yeah now let's wrap things up with the
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alien wear Area 51 they are really dug
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hard to find a unique name for this system that's different from all the names of all of their other systems that
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was a joke that was sarcasm but what they did dig for was a case design that
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is unlike anything else that I have ever seen before so at the front it's got
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kind of this angular intakes optical
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drive front IO thing with custom lighting going on and at the back it is
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similarly angled in a way that is actually kind of smart because whether
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your system's on the floor or on your desk there's probably a wall behind it
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and this makes it a little bit easier to reach the rear IO they had to go with a
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bit of an unusual internal structure check that out the lighting on the side
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turns off when you unplug it or when you uh disconnect it there we go and that's
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with the motherboard mounted at kind of like a I don't know 30° angle or
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something like that so of course it's powered by x99 and all that good stuff
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but this is very very very strange to me
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they've got a modular power supply in here of course you're going to have support for three-way or yeah it looks
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like three-way if this is the motherboard they're using up to three-way graphics card configurations
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the one thing I would worry about here is whether or not we're trading
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convenience for potentially shorter lifespans for the fans cuz mounting a
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fan at an angle versus straight up and down or horizontal depending on the
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bearing type can be a bit of an issue one thing I will say is they are using
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extremely high static pressure fans and spinning at a nice low RPM so the system
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does remain quite quiet in spite of the powerful Hardware inside that's actually
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being used by this game streamer right here so guys thanks for checking out our
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best x99 core i7 extreme
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5960x fourth generation new we're just
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going to call it Haswell e extreme Edition thanks for checking out our coverage of the top systems here in the
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Intel Booth don't miss any of our packs Prime 2014 coverage and a big thanks to
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it's not just the usual like oh here's some like memory it's going
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