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this video of CES 2019 coverage is brought to you by fantex all right we're at the fan tech suite they have a lot of good stuff today this is the luxe - beautiful case it actually incorporates several elements and kind of borrows some design features from the existing luxe and the Primo dual system chassis so you can see here we've actually got I believe that's an ATX port or maybe it's a ATX you can actually fit ueb motherboards and here no problem and you also have room for a mini ITX board down there so dual system there's a lot of flexibility a lot of options here you can actually mount to four 80s and to 360 rads in here at the same time it's absolutely ludicrous you can see here the whole system has been custom water-cooled you actually have options for vertically mounting both GPUs if you want to and I love the fact that they're both triple slots so it actually puts the card a little bit further away from the glass panel beautiful tempered glass panel I believe it's held in place with some magnets as well as the option to screw it down I should also mention this is a prototype case so if you guys have any feedback feel free to drop it in the comments I'm sure I'm sure fan ticks will read all of them we also have some really nice mesh here it's actually a fabric mesh that we actually saw it Computex earlier last year this is really nice material it actually helps with air permeation the air flow can actually penetrate this a lot better than a conventional mesh design with that plastic material so you get full aluminum construction on the outside and if we go around here look at this like this is the nicest right side of a system I've ever seen you've got ample ventilation and dust filtration for any fans or radiators that you mount right here definitely a good place to put some RGB fans now look at this generous window tempered glass 4-3-3 mounted SSDs two and a half inch drives again this is definitely a reason to get some RGB SSDs in here looks really nice you also have ventilation of course for your power supply worth noting that you can fit up to two power supplies in here of course since it is a dual system chassis and of course fantex already has their own line of power supplies that can split you can use a single power supply to drive two systems at once or you can just put two of their power supplies in here for added redundancy or additional power you can expect this case to arrive sometime around q2 maybe towards the end of that and the original lux was around 170 bucks us you can probably expect the price to be somewhere within that range we've also got some metallic gear cases here these are brand-new we got the Neogene the Neo air and the Neo silent pretty much similar cases internally actually exactly the same internal layout but they all serve a different purpose externally for example the Neo G has a lovely tempered glass front panel and side panel they all feature tempered glass side panels but this one actually has a tempered glass front panel with their sort of iconic design there looks very nice and over here you've got the Neo air fully mesh so this is obviously gonna be really good for for performance airflow maybe your sticking some hotter running components in here this might be the case to get out of the three and then of course the Neo silence if you're just going for pure quietness and you're trying to hit that acoustic profile strong then go with this it's a little bit closed off here but still obviously we've got ventilation on the the sides and the top of course you're just gonna have a quieter sound profile they're over here metallic gear now has fans and a variety of flavors all three of these sections are available in 120 or 140 varieties over here you have the sky Ron 120 and 140 pretty pretty standard no no fancy frills probably going to be a little bit cheaper than your standard fan because there's no RGB if you want to step on up to the big boys you've got the digital RGB sky runs 120 140 as well and then you've got regular RGB still looks very nice and very colourful I should also mention they're all PWM fans and they all have black cables which is important to me so you guys remember the Eclipse P 600 s that we took a gander at during Computex last year it was sort of in a prototype phase then it's ready now it should be ready to ship in like a couple weeks or so this is actually talking up to be one of my favorite cases we'll be doing a build in this exact chassis in our hotel suite later this week so stay tuned for that very exciting stuff a lot of flexibility here as well typical fantex you've got these panels tooless magnetic removable love it so you can optimize it for airflow or performance and you've got that nice fabric mesh once again to let more air pass through than your conventional plastic mesh is very minimal like lighting here you've got a white LED on the power button that's pretty much it I kind of like it I'm digging it you also got a tempered glass side panel with lovely magnet and inside you can see this the AC the anthracite gray they've actually continued the color not just on the inside but all right not just on the outside but on the inside as well and then tons of room for activities it does come with two 140s at the front and another one forty at the back all typical great fantex quality fans there and this is again the same interior layout that you'd find with the evolve X which is a slightly higher end case it's got RGB and all that stuff but this definitely gets the job done the other thing that they didn't have at Computex was with other other colors so you just saw that the gray went over there black and white looks really nice as well and you can just sort of see if you come over here just like the different use case scenarios you can use with this chassis how they have kind of a server if they kind of have a server set up here with all the drives you can fit tons of mechanical storage in here and obviously the other one we just looked at was more of a gaming centric system so the possibilities are seemingly endless and of course just like the evolved X you've got room for a mini ITX system up there as well you probably want to pop this top panel off because we've got an AO that could stand to breathe a little bit but options tons and tons of options and of course black black is classic everyone loves black the interesting thing about the black one is that it's gonna be the only color that's offered as an option to have a completely closed off side panel so no glass no frills you don't care about the inside or what it looks like anyway you just want it to be silent because all of these cases will feature the nice sound damping material at least on the right side but if you get the fully closed off side panel in black you'll it'll be even quieter that way fantex also has new water blocks for the RT x series these are launching next week when you see this video it's probably right around the corner you can see they've gone with a lot more acrylic that's just to illuminate the block overall of course you've got that RGB lighting that gets that gets sort of diffused over that acrylic surface it's really nice and then they've got these mirrored finishes just kind of rounding things out it's a nice contrast I really like the way that they're looking so far you can see that these are actually four third party GPUs so we've got one for the RT X xx atti Strix from Asus and we also have one for the 2080 ti extreme from gigabyte bear in mind that these cards will already ship with their own back plates and these these water blocks will be compatible with those third-party back plates so you don't need to buy and you're one that being said let's say you're going for a founders edition r-tx 20 80 TI they have blocks for those two and back plates so you can see that looks really nice I should also mention that these all feature a bigger fin surface area and they're going to be overall more efficient and better at cooling your GPUs under any kind of load and here we have the biggest motherboard I've ever seen this is this is the Asus Dominus with socket P that Asus and Intel been showing off lately but it's it's absolutely massive and the interesting about this board is that when Asus made it they didn't really think about what cases would be able to fit it and so they actually contacted fantex and said hey we think that your case the end to a lead is probably the only case right now that could fit this gargantuan motherboard and as far as we can all tell they're right the elite is the only case that have reasonably fits this this oversized board Asus claims it to be EB form factor but it's not they're lying it's actually a little bit taller a little bit wider than a standard board of that form factor but additionally Asus also had some issues trying to cool their own board particularly the VRM so you've got I don't know almost 40 MOSFETs and chokes just going across here at the very top of the board that the original Asus cooler just wasn't it wasn't cutting it so fan ticks came in once again with their vrm water block and for the CPU and temperatures are looking much much better now this will actually be sold in a kit so it's almost you know kind of goes without saying if you're gonna buy a board like this you're gonna want some extreme cooling solution and obviously there's different schools of thought do you want to water cool a system that's intended to be reliable and also very expensive that's ultimately going to be a decision for the for the end-user but if you are looking for absolute performance this is a pretty good place to start so overall I mean big picture here you've got this ridiculous board that fits perfectly in the m2 elite with a fan text cooling system that can handle the crazy amount of heat that this thing's pumping out and you've got the revolt Pro to actually power everything efficiently and effectively so it's kind of an all-in-one eco system if you will if you're trying to run this this platform with this board alright MSI they were showing off their brand new GS 75 stealth laptop guys are probably already familiar with the GS 65 stealth the original is a 15 inch this is now a 17 inch and it's been given the r-tx treatment so the demo they were showing off actually featured an RT X 2080 max Q now obviously the max Q has more stringent power limitations and clock speed isn't quite as high but it is still a super powerful GPU that's miraculously been squeezed into this really thin form factor the screen is still 1920 by 1080 resolution but you are still getting 144 Hertz MSI is also really proud of a cooling solution that they have in here they're cooler boost Trinity Plus actually features three fans and seven built-in copper heat pipes which is supposed to do a great job of keeping thermals in check there's also a back panel underneath the laptop that pops off revealing 3m dot two slots so they're all very accessible if you want to swap them out upgrade later down the line they're also touting 192 kilohertz 24-bit audio so very high res it's got Dynaudio speakers with a passive radiator built-in the trackpad has been made 35 percent whiter so we've got a lot more room to spare there when you're not using a mouse of course and they also advertise more than 10 multi-finger gestures just to make life a little bit easier you could eight hours of battery life still that's from productivity of course with white web browsing and Word documents and stuff like that if you're gaming it's gonna be a different story they didn't actually advertised how long you have if you're in the middle of a firefight additionally we don't know the price of course it's gonna be a pretty penny it is their flagship model in that thin and light series however we can expect it just around the corner at the end of this month here in January so keep your eyes peeled for that alright so at the Corsair suite now and they had a lot of cool stuff the first thing I checked out was their new line of RGB Dominator platinum ddr4 memory it's available all the way up to 48 hundred megahertz which is blazing fast these Ram sticks look great they're sort of a matte black very stealthy looking but the lighting is blending is super bright and the reason why is because they've done something really cool with the actual LEDs the diodes themselves that you see on a regular LED strip there's a bunch of stuff going on around each of those diodes it's got a lens it's got a housing it's physically soldered to the strip itself of course they're actually did away with all of that and just took the diode and surface-mounted it to the substrate so you can actually fit a ton of diodes into a very small space this gives you a lot of flexibility also because there's not any soldering material it's a lot more power efficient so you're actually using less power for brighter light and richer color having the diodes in this way also allows you more granularity when changing between colors so you can do things like color temperature changes with a lot more precision than accuracy now of course there hasn't actually crammed hundreds of diodes into each of these RAM sticks rather they're starting off small so each stick currently only has 12 diodes in it but the long-term plan is to eventually implement this crazy clustered densely packed amount of diodes into not just Ram sticks but water blocks headsets keyboards and the list goes on I mean if you know of course they are you know they're probably gonna slap this technology on everything they can this is the Corsair one Pro I 180 this thing is an absolute powerhouse it's of course in the same sort of chassis that we've seen the original Corsair one in very slim very portable we've got an ml 140 pro fan that's gonna push air completely through the entire chassis you can hit all the components evenly and the main specs we have here include an Intel Core I 999 20k that's right we're actually on the X 299 platform it's rocking an ass rock X 299 II ITX ac custom motherboard along with get this a geforce r-tx 28 ET i do claw both the CPU and the GPU are fixed with Corsairs in-house liquid cooling solution for ultimate cooling potential you also get a quad channel 32 gig kit of Corsair Vengeance som ddr4 2666 960 gig nvme and to drive two terabytes mechanical storage and one of course tears SF 750 watt power supplies no word on pricing but it's probably gonna cost more than your car of course there's also showing off their harpoon RGB wireless mouse it's not a high-end Mouse it's not super expensive it's a $50 wireless mouse and it was the first thing that they showed me when I walked in here the real special feature about this product the wireless technology that's built into it horse tears calling it their slipstream technology and it's capable of delivering half a millisecond of point-to-point latency which is extremely fast for wireless it uses a dual band connection so it's actually sending twice the amount of signal in a fraction of the time most other wireless solutions are capable of this also gives it an extremely good signal range of up to 33 feet built-in is the intelligent frequency shift or ifs which basically shifts Wireless channels on-the-fly so you always have a stable and reliable connection the mouse can house its own dongle which you obviously take out and put into your system via a USB port you can actually connect an additional slipstream device to that single dongle in the future they're gonna be releasing a headset that uses the slipstream technology that's actually really exciting because you're gonna get pretty much Wired level audio quality with your microphone but it'll be completely tether free because the amount of data that you're sending over a microphone is gonna be a lot larger those dongles will be slightly bigger that being said they'll also be able to support up to four slipstream devices as opposed to two like with the harpooner GB Wireless so we're at Thermaltake now this is the level 20 RGB gaming table I should be focusing on the table - sauce is doing a great job demonstrating how to use a table it's motorized so if you look over here you do have fully manual operation look at that this is a huge table - it can support pretty much all of thermal takes really big cases great weight capacity you pretty much see if there's RGB rope lighting that goes across the entire perimeter of the table looks really good comes included with the mousepad or a desk mat I should say it's really a desk size mousepad stitched edging very high quality so you notice that as wifey sauce is going about changing different characters and overwatch the table lighting as well as the lighting in the chassis is all in sync next up we have memory Thermaltake makes memory now what is happening what universe are we in so this is the first time Thermaltake has ever made ddr4 memory or any kind of memory for that matter this is their water Ram RGB liquid cooled memory it actually comes included with an addressable RGB waterblock starting off they're gonna be available in 16 or 32 gig capacities at speeds up to 32 hundred megahertz that's going to increase over time very minimalistic design completely blacked out so the way you actually install this is you put all the sticks in first where's my finger you install the sticks first and then you mount the block to the sticks because there's two threads two threaded holes in each of these RAM sticks so you can essentially bolt the water block down as for RGB connectivity you can see that there is actually sort of a Weiss player that comes off here it's not very long which I like and then from there you can choose if you want to connect this to your motherboard directly or q1 a thermal takes own RGB controllers what's also interesting about these kits is that even the 16 gigabyte kit is gonna come with four dimm sticks so two of them are gonna be real 8 gig sticks and then there will be 2 dummy sticks as well so you still get this fully populated look obviously the 32 gig kit will come with for actual 8 gig games alright so we're at the gigabyte suite and they're showing off their brand new Oris monitor model number a d2 7qd it's actually the first monitor that gigabytes ever come to market with which is pretty exciting and actually the specs are are damn good we've got 144 Hertz 27 inch IPS 2560 by 1440 with free sync one millisecond response time HDR DCI p3 as opposed to a lot of the monitors in this class are actually Adobe srgb so get a bit wider of a color space there there's also a lot more to this monitor than just specs it's fairly unique in the sense with a ton of features that we'll cover now I'll start with the cheesiest feature first which is their tactical game assistant also known as cheating you can see here I'm playing csgo and there's a reticle the reticle is actually not in the game it's it's part of the monitors firmware that you can toggle on and off you can even change what the reticle looks like you could make it a happy face or whatever that way you can get all the 360 noscopes and impress your friends assuming they don't know you're cheating the other thing you can do is pop up an overlay everything's hot keyable as well so you can make it whatever hot keys you want this is again all part of the monitors firmware so you're not having to run a separate app on your system bogging things down and it doesn't matter what game you're playing this overlay will stay over whatever application you're trying to monitor because the game doesn't even know it's there essentially it's all Hardware based in that sense you can see here it just looks like a regular app on your system and it's very expansive there's a ton of options here you don't have to fiddle around with an annoying joystick on the monitor itself got general settings Oh anc active noise canceling built into the monitor so this isn't so that you can't hear keyboard clicks and and other outside noises from your friends or whoever you're gaming with it's so that they can't hear you so it's actually for the friends that you're playing with or let's say you're a streamer and you're clacking away you know what your viewers to hear all of that ambient noise it's actually really effective they did the demo using some really crappy earbuds like $10 earbuds essentially showing that it works with any kind of grade of headphones or audio source that you're using and with the active noise-cancelling and enabled I could not hear the the blasting music or the massive keyboard clacking that the demonstrator is actually doing literally less than a foot away from his mic it was really impressive at the same time I could hear his voice crystal-clear I've actually never really experienced any kind of A&C technology like this before at least in a demo form especially integrated into a monitor I think it's one of the most unique features about this panel that really sets it apart from other panels in its class and also the build quality of the panel itself is probably top of the line it beats out my predator X 30 for the entire base and the stand itself is metallic there's like hardly any plastic on the panel it just feels heavy it feels like a really good solid panel they also have a feature called aim stabilizer which my high-level understanding is that it Jex a black frame at various intervals depending on what your frame rate is to trick your eyes into seeing a smoother image so when you're firing and you're looking at bullet holes going all over the walls you can actually see exactly where those bullet holes are going a lot sharper with that feature enabled they actually showed me a demo with the blur Busters motion test here with the feature on and off and I could definitely notice a difference it's it's objectively better with the aim stabilizer enabled now just to reiterate this is a free sync panel I did ask gigabyte if they had plans to release a g-sync model in the future and they kind of gave me one of those like wink-wink nudge-nudge nods and stuff so I guess that's a yes as far as pricing we don't know yet but we won't have to wait much longer till we find out because this panel launches at the end of this month so keep your eyes peeled for that video cards still a gigabyte they have a bunch of r-tx 2060s here so you get that full suite of r-tx technology and some pretty decent performance if you guys watch my review you know that the founders edition card that I tested was pretty much on par performance while - a gtx 1070 TI and 1070 is right now can't be had for less than $400 so if this can actually launch at it's rated MSRP of 349 it's actually a pretty good deal IMO let's take a look at some of these cards here they've got four of them on display starting with the r-tx 2060 mini ITX OC six gigabyte card actually all these cards are featuring six gigs of GD v or six memory and this is a nice little mini card if you've got a small form-factor case they're gonna be selling I believe an external GPU dock specifically for this card in the near future so the only look out for that this one has your standard 8 pin PCIe connector and looks like standard rear i/o as well there are no actual specs on any of these placards so I can't really tell you much about about those but we can just take a look at the physical differences of these four cards as the r-tx 2060 windforce OC 6 gigabyte model gots a dual fan heatsink design here this is actually a longer card than the non windforce card you can see by about an inch and a half perhaps which means you're gonna get better cooling potentially a nice backplate this one looks a bit more rugged still plastic I believe but you know these are supposed to be on the cheaper side of things so really targeting the masses and then finally we have the RT X 2060 gaming OC 6 gigabyte this is probably the top-end model in the RT X 2060 line from gigabyte for now still only an 8 pin you do get upgraded to a metallic backplate because you're fancy like that and I believe there there is probably some RGB lighting under that gigabyte logo right there triple fan design triple fan design very large card again really not sure about pricing here obviously it's probably gonna scale up starting from the Mini going up to the wind force but you can't expect these cards to arrive sometime mid-january that's at this money so it's like in a week well that's CES day one guys that's gonna be a wrap for now thanks so much for watching and a special thanks to fantex for sponsoring this video it's been a long day you guys have never done to see us before quite exhausting so now it's time to relax and have some peace and quiet