ASUS Booth System Showcase @ PAX Prime 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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899 words · ~4 min read
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Our coverage of PAX Prime 2015 is powered by HyperX. Check out their Cloud
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2 headset down in the description below. Also, thank you to ASUS and Corsair. All
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right, guys. So, as you probably know, there's been a ton of really big
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launches in tech recently, namely 950 and Skylake. And ASUS has been a part of
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that with motherboards and graphics cards. So, they don't have a ton that's
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brand new to show us. Also known as they don't have anything brand new to show
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us. So, what we're going to do is check out some of the systems that are around the booth. First off with the NCIX PC.
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This system is beautiful. It was built by the fabled Crazy Ivan. If any of you
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guys remember him, I'm sure you do. And if you saw back at PAX East when we did
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a system showcase at the Intel booth, you probably remember some of the things
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from that video. One of them namely was that I kind of grilled him a little bit
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on his droopy or long run water cooling.
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You can see here it kind of looks like a hardline setup, but it's not. This is
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soft water cooling tubing. Ivan stepped his freaking game up and this looks
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awesome. All of the water cooling is powered by EK. You can see on the back
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of the graphics card, they've done some custom painting to the actual back
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plates of the graphics card which looks sick. Speaking of custom painting,
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there's automotive paint on a lot of the area around the case. There's custom
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stenciling on the top and the front of the case. And you can see a big ASUS
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logo on the side. That means that they are officially elite powered by ASUS.
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They're a top tier partner. That means all of their systems are custom approved
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by ASUS, which is actually pretty freaking cool. It also features cable
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mod cables, which have custom LED runs going through the cables so they glow
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and look super cool. There's other things like carbon fiber accents all
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over the place because Ivan really likes carbon fiber. And there's a pastel
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colored liquid cooling that actually matches the cable mod cables, which
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looks really cool and it goes down to the detail on every level.
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For internal hardware, there's an Intel i76700 K, 16 GB of Corsair RAM, a 750
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series 400 GB SSD, dual 980 strickxes,
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uh Z1 170 Herobbased Maximus 8 series
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board, and an HX850i. You can buy this
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system as is, but there isn't a landing page or even I think a name for it yet
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considering Ivan just finished building this thing like yesterday. So, you'll be
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able to get it soon. Pay attention. The next system is from Puget and it has a
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little bit of a different direction. We'll start with the hardware this time. It has an Intel i76700 K, an ASUS
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Maximus 8G, 32 GB of Crucial memory, and
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an ASUS stricks 980 Ti. But that's where
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things started to go a little insane. The storage setup on this thing is nuts.
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For your main drive, you have a 1.2 TB Intel 750 NVMe drive. For auxiliary
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drives, you have two 1 TB Samsung 850
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EVOs and three 6 TBTE WD Reds.
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Ridiculous. The amount of solidstate storage and hard storage in this thing
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is just nuts. And if you listen to that
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description without being able to see it, you probably expect it would be a lot bigger. The amount of storage that
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they fit in this tiny little box is more specifically what I should have said. H
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pretty freaking impressive. And last but not least is honestly their racing rig.
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I don't think you can just buy this thing cuz I'm pretty sure they custom make it every time. But it's got a
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Maximus 8 hero uh Z170 board, dual 980
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Ti Stricks's 6700 K, Corsair SSD, an
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AX1200i power supply from Corsair as well, and one of the sickest chassis
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ever considering it's like in a box
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under a racing seat that has hydraulics on it and you get to play one of the
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most badass RA racing setups I've ever freaking seen. And that's it. That's my
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top three. I know it might have seemed like I cpped out a little bit with that
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last one there, but honestly, it was my favorite system here outside of the
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other two that I showed. The other two were cool for specific reasons, like the
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first one having a badass liquid cooling setup and the second one having a badass
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storage setup, and then that one was a badass gaming setup. Thanks again to
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HyperX for bringing us here to PAX Prime. Uh, check out this little card
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thing in the top corner to check out their YouTube channel and be sure to
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subscribe. They release a lot of really cool gaming stuff. Also, thank you to
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ASUS and Corsair for bringing us here this year. If you want to see products
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that these guys are showing off at the show from all of the brands, check the
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link in the video description down below.