The MOST AMAZING Side Panel EVER
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,027 words · ~5 min read
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thank you to dbrand for sending us the CES 2017 this year if you want to check
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out their skins check out the link below this ladies and gentlemen is the iby
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power snow blind if you watched our Intel top three desktops of PA West 2016
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you would have seen lonus just scream about it but this thing is so freaking
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cool multiple times I can't look away from it it's so amazing and this is so
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cool he did that with actually pretty
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good reason it's genuinely quite amazing
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so how does the world's most Fantastical side panel actually work well it's
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straight up a monitor it's a 5x4 1280 x
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1024 19in screen that they take the back
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off in I believe a clean room I'm just going to assume that and then mount it
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in here meaning that you have to do the backlighting yourself meaning that if
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you open the side panel it's ridiculously bright in there the amount
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of like LED light that they have to have is pretty int and also one thing that I
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want to note is that all of the colors of the LEDs will be matched this one
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like little bit more yellowy one will be replaced don't worry about that the
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production model will look fine that may sound relatively easy to do but it's not
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especially not as cleanly as they have done it they have their own little box
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inside that takes the control stuff from the monitor that powers the monitor that
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sends the DVI cable out the back of the computer so it can go back into your
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graphics card because again it's a screen you can configure what's on here
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right right now they have this really cool rain meter set up and they show the
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iby power logo or the Intel logo and the like CPU usage with the little iby power
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Chimera down there and the time up at the top along with the date and whatnot
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you could set up your own rain meter setup or you can just use theirs that
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comes with it and they have this really cool default graphic but they will be
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having others and they're going to be running a campaign online so if you go
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to their social media and check it out you might be able to try to submit some
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of your ideas now this no blind is the case but it's iby power so you'll be
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buying an entire system this one right here is pretty specked out it comes with
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an i77700 k a GTX 1070 16 gigs of ddr4
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RAM a 240 GB SSD a 1 tbte hard drive and
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an 800 W power supply with its own custom white cabling which looks pretty
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slick and this unit's entire hopeful
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targeted price is $17.99 meaning that the panel does not cost $1,000 like lus
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said in that previous video it's closer to about a $200 50 Adder you may also
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notice that most of the stuff inside is like silver or white and even their own
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iby power logo in the back is white as well with a little bit of gray on there
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that is all by Design and if you go through the configurator you're going to
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have to pick white or gray things which should be pretty easy has a lot of stuff
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on the market right now that looks really cool is actually in like a white
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black or gray stylized design so it shouldn't be too bad they have air
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cooler options if you want to go with that but they all need to be white or
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gray so they reflect the light inside the case again they need a lot of light
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in there now you might be wondering about the resolution yeah the aspect
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ratio is a little bit off but that makes sense because they have to fit it to a
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side panel not a like wide format screen but the resolution did seem a little low
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as well that's for good reason one the individual pixels are larger which would
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generally be worse for a standard screen that you're looking at but is better in
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this case because it allows more light per pixel which makes it easier to see
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and so that it will pop a little bit better which is actually very helpful
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and the density isn't higher meaning that the like amount of lines that have
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to Grid in between all the pixels is lower which will look better because if
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you look too closely at it and you can see all of those lines it doesn't look
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as good if you guys are interested in the snow blind be sure to check it out
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this is easily the best implementation of a side panel that I have personally
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ever seen and I am absolutely certain that it will be a huge eye-catcher on
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whatever desk you decide to put it on thank you to dbrand for sending us here
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so I could check out this case and check out everything else that we've seen at CES 2017 this year if you want to check
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out and configure their skins you can do that down in the description down below
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they have tons of different options I have a marble skin on my phone right now
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and I went with like a a Haunter theme on my laptop originally it was a joker
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theme because it was purple black and green and then now I'm going to change
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the keyboard to like a purple Fire theme and go with Hunter I don't know it's
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pretty sick you can see it in the Christmas video that we filmed not way
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too long ago but yeah check out dbrand description down below I'll see you guys
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in the next video Stay subscribed for all of our CS
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