NCIX Tech Fair Booth Review 3 - AMD Kingston Corsair BenQ
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to the AMD booth they've got a couple pretty cool show deals you can
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get an x3 processor for only 50 bucks which is pretty crazy actually i need
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slick to come over here and check this out oh that's too bad it looks like they
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moved our light for some reason but we're actually running this whole ifinity setup off of
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an ncix pc that's running an 80 a Radeon
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6950 graphics card so let's move back around to the front AMD's booth is
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actually pretty darn cool because they have not only an ultimate ifinity gaming
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system going on here where you can play i think this is the game that plays for
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you if you set it to the uh easy enough difficulty level
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which is handy because you know not everyone's great at video games but they
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also have a bit of a museum thing going on so they've got an old ati Radeon
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graphics card from before the acquisition and then they're showing how
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far AMD has taken that Radeon technology
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to the point where now with a single card you can power three 1080p monitors
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in directx x11 games no big deal they've also got a little museum of a wide
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variety of past and present AMD processors going back all the way to the
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days when AMD and Intel actually shared the same socket technology
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pretty cool stuff welcome to the kingston booth you know i
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at antec one of our guys from antec just showed up and was like yeah so my
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systems are all over the place but i'm not even attending the tech fair but you
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can actually find a ton of antec exposure pretty much everywhere they've got the aztec cooler 920 and tech high
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current pro 850 power supply as well as a p280 case going on on the kingston
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booth here however we're going to stay a little bit more focused on kingston so
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kingston as you guys may or may not know is
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world number one in terms of memory products they are enormous they make
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more memory than anybody else everything from sodims
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to value RAM to performance hyperx gaming memory
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they pretty much do it now they've also more recently gotten into ssds they have
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once again a wide variety of ssds from their sanford SSD now v-plus series
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which is more value-oriented all the way up to their premium sandforce hyperx so
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these are using higher speed nand flash even though it's with the same
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controller to achieve faster reads and write schemes samsung is also enormous
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when it comes to usb flash however i say samsung because what i meant to say was
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kingston however it looks like they haven't managed to actually put any usb thumb
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drives at their booth but i mean you've probably seen a kingston thumb drive at
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some point in time and as a special show deal you can get an 8 gig kingston data
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traveler for only 99 cents although those may be sold out at this time
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because that was a pretty popular one earlier on in the day so over here we
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have the kingston SSD and kingston memory powered system
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this is the new hyperx 3k which is a more value-oriented edition of the
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hyperx it performs the same but the endurance of the flash is a little bit
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lower but it still comes with a three-year warranty and it's still
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according to continuous operation sort of mean methods of calculating it should
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last for years and years and years so it's a pretty safe bet and there we've
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got some hyperx ddr3 going on in there as well
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welcome to the Corsair booth we've got a wide variety of stuff here strangely
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they don't have any RAM or usb flash even though they're very well known for
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those products not much in the way of SSD corsairs booth is focused around
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their newer additions to their lineup so that is cases
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peripherals and cooling so right here we've got the k90 and the k60 these are
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mechanical gaming keyboards optimized for mmo gaming as well as FPS gaming
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respectively personally my favorite is the k90 of those two because it has a
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blue backlight on it as well as programmable macro keys here they've
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also got their h100 cooler and i can't say enough good things about this
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honestly in my opinion every pre-done liquid cooling unit should be dual fan
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like this because that's where they start to really distance themselves from
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air cooling in terms of overclocking the single fan ones are a little bit better
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than air sometimes or they're competitive with air but these dual fan
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ones especially once you start cranking up the voltage really pull away
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next we've got there m90 and m60 so these are mmo and FPS
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oriented products to go along with the keyboards themselves so this one has a
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ton of different buttons again optimized for mmo slick is for some reason
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removing buttons from the keyboard over there and then next we've got the m60
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which has the sniper button which reduces the sensitivity when you're
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zoomed in so that you can more easily go for the optical headshot i have no idea
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how many people have put this on today so it might be like covered in lights
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and stuff but hopefully not you know Corsair applies a lice repellent spray
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to the insides of oh no i'm just kidding they don't do that but this is a usb headset that features
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will be 7.1 virtual personally i'm not much of a virtual surround guy and i
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would go with the vengeance 1300 with the high-end sound card personally
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however it's great that they have both options available whether you want a usb
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headset or an analog headset for case they have the obsidian 550d
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this is the first case Corsair has really done that is optimized for silent
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computing so it has noise dampening foam here as well as on the inside of the
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side panels and you can also see that instead of having lots of ventilation
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and mesh it uses closed panels in order to block a lot of the noise so there's
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still room for ventilation you can see there's vent holes here
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uh you can't really see this from wait are they on that side no they're not on
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that side they're on this side there you go vent holes here slick was confused um
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that allow you to still get the cooling you need however i wouldn't necessarily
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put you know a six core and dual gtx 690s in here this is more for your
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mid-range performance gaming system that you want to keep nice and quiet you
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don't have to keep it silent though you can take these off take off the magnetic
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removable easy clean fan filter here and you can actually install more fans on
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the top and more fans on the side if you want to get the most cooling performance
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possible out of your Corsair case
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welcome to the benq booth this will be the last booth in this round of video
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tours they have a couple of really cool products at their booth they have the
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2420 tx which as you guys may or may not
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know is pretty much my choice when it comes to
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3d vision 2 light boost capable displays
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so this one just had a Windows update pop up but they've got batman arkham
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city running on here right now with 3d vision one glasses remember light boost
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is compatible as long as you have a compatible monitor with either 3d vision
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1 or 3d vision 2 glasses now they also have their gp2 and the gp2
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is awesome this is a pico projector that is capable of using a battery backup in
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fact there is a deal at the show for 4.99 you get the gp2 projector with the
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battery backup which is an amazing deal the gp2 is capable of outputting up to
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720p video and it fits um if you have
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really big pockets like you know cargo pants from the 90s then you could
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totally put a gp2 in your pocket it is led backlit which means you pretty much
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never have to replace the lamp which makes it very convenient i did a video
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about the gp2 as well has a huge huge array of input options including an
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iphone dock that you can use to play videos that are stored on your iphone or
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even over the network as well as HDMI input and don't forget to subscribe to Linus
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