Cooler Master Elite 110, Novatouch TKL Topre Keyboard, Alcor & MIzar Mice - CES 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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Digital we're kicking things off here in The Cooler Master Suite with the elite
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110 so if you've seen their Elite Series cases before then you'll probably have
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some idea what to expect except this one takes the concept of a super super small
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no compromises gaming rig and makes it well super small and really not that
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many compromises so let's have a look at what got in here you can see there's the
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obvious stuff so it takes a mini ITX motherboard so it's usually two dim
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slots and then you're going to have a maximum of One graphics card in a single
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PCI Express 16x slot they've added a full-size ATX power supply so you can
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actually put even quite a long power supply in here and you'll have a fair
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bit of space as long as you don't also have a liquid cooling radiator so
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they've gone with a v550 which more of a normal size power supply and then
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they've actually got room for a single 120 mm liquid cooling radi rator for the
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CPU down below there's also a little bit of space in between them for cable
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management although you wouldn't want to make things too dense in there in order
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to avoid restricting your air flow to the point where it's detrimental to the
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system in terms of Drive mounting options around on the other side we find
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either two 2 and 1 12 in Drive M mounts or a single 3 and 1/2 in Drive Mount
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then there's actually a cage for the top that can support up to an additional two
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2 and 1/2 in ssds now we can see the graphics card in there so this is going
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to be optimized for your your sort of your mini ITX um designed graphics card
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so MSI for example has an upcoming GTX
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760 that is about the same length as a mini ITX motherboard which would be a
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great option for this so are you building you know a dual Titan rig and
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something that's the size of a couple of shoe boxes no but are you putting a very
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reasonable gaming system in here the answer is yes next up we've got the novatouch tkl
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and the way that they are branding this is Japanese
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hybrid electrostatic capacitive switches however anyone worth their salt when it
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comes to keyboard knowledge is going to take a key cap off this bad boy and go
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oh these are Toppers so for those of you who have been begging Cooler Master to
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bring a toer keyboard to Market your answers or your answers have now been
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prayed yes that is the opposite your prayers have now been answered they have
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just this model coming for now although I wouldn't be surprised to see something
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like a full length with a number pad and you know who knows what other kinds of
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options we might see in the future the one really key thing about this that
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stands out to me is the fact that they are customizing the toer key switches to
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make them compatible with Cherry Key caps so if you're really into the whole
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key cap modding scene you've got a particular set of key caps that you like
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and you want to move it onto your new keyboard you want to get topers this is
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going to be a fantastic option for you next up and to round things out we have
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the Alor and the myar so or May Miser
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merer Miser anyway the point is these are two mice that have a very iconic
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shape to them and we're going to get some great footage of these and I would love for you guys to guess under the
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video what mouse you think the ergonomics of these mice most closely
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resembles cuz that might get you pretty
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excited about the shape of them there are two different options of pretty much
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a similar product so they both have rubber rubbery grippy sort of sides
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they're both optimized for Palm or claw depending on how you want to hold it
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whatever you want kind of a hybrid grip and they the main difference between
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them is they have two different sensors so they both got RGB lighting you can change them to whatever you want but the
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Alor has a 4,000 DPI aago 390 sensor so
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that's the one that's pretty well regarded for not having any um
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acceleration issues or anything like that and then for the leite hack Gamers
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actually this one has better rubberized grips than the Alor sorry excuse me uh
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these are these are quite soft and grippy and this one also gets an 8200
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DPI laser sensor so that gives you a
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little bit more compatibility with different surfaces but of course whether
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people prefer Optical or laser is something that is hotly debated and
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definitely not something that is within the scope of this video guys don't miss
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