MSI PC Components Suite with Alex Chang - Linus Tech Tips 2013
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·2013-05-07
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Welcome to Linus Tech Tips at CES 2013. Our trip to the show this year is
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Here in the MSI suite, we've got what was I thought was a pretty cool little
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demo. You have a bit of a history of the MSI Twin Frozer series cooler. So, this
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is the Twin Frozer. It looks like a dog, quite frankly. Sorry, man. Twin Frozer 2
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added looks. It added more dense fins and it well performed a little better.
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Okay. Twin Frozer 3 adds propeller blades. So, here we're actually
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improving the performance of the cooler over the previous generation products in
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addition to again looking better. And Twin Frozer 4, Alex from MSI is joining
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us. Why don't you tell us what you guys added with Twin Frozer 4, which is the
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current generation Twin Frozer. Turn frozer 4 actually a slightly different
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design on the shroud a little bit more aggressive but the biggest change was we
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added a the dust removal technology
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which is allows the fans to spin backwards on system startup and the
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biggest thing is is that every generation of tin frozer we keep adding
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something to the design of the graphics card to improve and in reality if you're
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buying a twin frozer series graphics cards uh you're not paying for anything
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extra like a special technology whatever we just keep adding something to it from
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a previous generation. Okay. So, tell us about this system over here. So, this
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features MSI technology inside it. This is an ITX gaming machine. What the heck
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is this thing? Uh, this is actually done by one of our partners, I by Power. This
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is the Revolt chassis. It's a mini ITX
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based system. Very small as you can see, very compact. The system is standing
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upright, but you can also set it, you can send it on its side. And it's got a
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fullsize GTX 680 graphics card inside of
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it. um along with a custom um you can
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actually see that right there. Yeah, you can actually see it. It uses a uh PCIe
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bridge to have the graphics card mounted on the side. That's very very cool. So I
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want to give you an angle of the back of it here sort of. So you can see that the
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motherboard and the graphics card are mounted in sort of a sort of a strange
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way. So they've designed this chassis to be used with a bridge and it you pretty
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much can't install a graphics card in it without that then I suppose. Yes. Very
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cool. Okay. Okay. And what's that other system you've got over there past the
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MSI mechanical keyboards? Oh, the MSI
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mechanical keyboards. But this is the um uh Cooler Master half XP uh case. More
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meant for like, you know, open bench kind of uh testing. But the inside we
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have our Z77 Empower motherboard as well
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as a GTX 680 Lightning graphics card and
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also the Vexier Empower Edition memory
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kit. And uh of interest is that all these three components match color-wise.
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They're all black in sync with yellow accents and um very clean system setup.
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I mean this is if you were building Empire based Z77 empower based uh
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system. This is how you would want to set it up. Yeah, this looks this looks
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gorgeous actually. I'm going to tweet that right now. So next we're going to
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do the MSI system section of their booth. Now I did make a slight mistake.
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Uh we're not going to see systems just yet. We're going to wrap up with a few
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motherboards on the component side, then we'll move over to systems. It's going to be a separate video. So, what do you
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guys got here? We've got a Z77 ITX. We've got a Value Z77 board that has
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Thunderbolt on board. And tell us about this guy right here in the middle. This
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is actually a Z77, not Z77, this is actually X79, sorry,
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gaming motherboard. This is going to be the X79A GD45
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gaming. The name actually might not be gaming when it's announced, but for the
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time being, it's it's being called gaming. It's a refresh of the X79
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platform in advance of a new processor that's coming out towards the middle of
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this year, 2013. And not that you can give us any details on that, right? No,
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not that I can give you any details, but you can use your imagination as to what
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the next version of the code name for uh socket 2011 CPU is concerned. but it is
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a new color scheme and it is going to be one of several refresh boards that we
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will have for the X89 chipset. Okay, so guys, don't forget don't miss any of our
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