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awesomesauce networks coverage of CES 2016 is brought to you by need for seat go to need for seat USA comp for the ultimate gaming chair experience for your desk in office and Corsair they make good products and you should buy them what's up guys we are here back at CES 2016 at the msi booth we're taking a look at the msi vortex now this caught my eye immediately when i walked in this is essentially a built pc it is preassembled but there are a few tricks up its sleeve that make it stand out from any other pre-built system that you might see first of all it's rocking some incredible hardware there's actually two models that are become available sometime in q1 or q2 including two gtx 960 s in sli or you can get the model of two gtx 980 s in sli those are desktop GPUs this is not mobile these are full-fledged unthought old untampered with full fledged desktop video cards and you get a gtx i'm sorry and you get a core i7 6700 k skylake cpu which is overclockable I'm pretty sure that's for the flagship version I don't know if it's gonna be a core i5 for the for the gtx 960 sli model but you are gonna have some heavy-duty overclocking capacity here all powered by a 450 watt gold rated 80 plus power supply which is which is quite impressive actually now there's a couple things that make this a vortex including the cooling system so there's actually a kind of a revolving blade up at the top here a spinning vortex fan if you will that actually intakes air from the bottom exhausted out the top now essentially what you have is the heatsink going through the entire middle part of the case from the top to the bottom which kind of serves as a spine that all the other components are connected to so you've got a card here another card here and your CPU as far as storage and memory capacities you actually get either I think it's 16 or 32 gigs depending on the the tier of model as well as 2m 2 slots for nvme SSDs and of course I think one of those maybe even two of those are already populated with with storage ready to go for either of those models but all together a really cool system if we take a look at the back we've got a couple ports here we've got three USB 3 ports always nice to have as well as two HDMI these are 1.4 so no 2.0 quite yet we also have two killer Ethernet ports you can kind of share bandwidth with those very high speed very reliable and we've also got two mini displayport and two Thunderbolt three ports for just a plethora of connectivity options here and just I just want to take a moment to appreciate the aesthetic of this and all the design that's probably gone into this this brilliant piece of art that really is kind of cool also you see some lighting strips as far as the aesthetic goes these are RGB interchangeable you can change it to pretty much any color you want the only thing you can't change is the red MSI logo that is their staple trademark so you can't really touch that but all together are really cool and promising little unit from MSI and I'm covering the exhaust right here I don't want this thing to blow up but you can also see there's like 4k stuff going on in the background this thing is 4k and V are ready especially with two GTX 980 s in there so more good things to see from MSI let's go ahead and go over there too because we're not done at this booth yet so stay tuned alright guys were over here at the msi motherboards the motherboard section msi has been really stepping up their motherboard game lately I must say they're still kicking kicking the out of out of noobs with their crate gaming Edition motherboard this is the 3 X it's a new z170a board from their line it looks like a really nice premium board but it's actually not too expensive so really great if you're gonna hop on that black and white color scheme for your system don't want to focus too much on that though because there's actually more exciting stuff over here such as the gaming Pro carbon now this is also a z170 board z170a as MSI is deeming it but it's got some really nice blacked out features here everything everything is pretty much blacked out from the from the DIMM slots to the the PCI Express although you do get some nice metallic armor on both the PCIe by 16 slots and and just a really nice carbon fiber finish actually everywhere as the name might suggest you get carbon finish on the heat sinks for the vrm as well as the chipset and it's just kind of a nice minim minimalistic design I really like how they've gone with a blackout version here just to have it match with a lot more things on the rear here you've got a bunch of different ports including USB 3.1 type a and type C so you get both of those connectors as we start to see a lot more Type C devices grow in popularity so that's really nice to see and lastly we've got the x99 a god-like gaming carbon so if you guys remember last CES MSI came out with another like motherboard that looked much different than this one it was black and red and it had RGB lighting which kind of killed it for everyone because no matter what color you changed the LEDs to you were still stuck with the red that's that was plastered all over the heat sinks and motherboard etc so what they've done here is they've really listened to user feedback and they've gone with again a really nice black out color theme here pretty much everything is black except for some silver accents on the the heatsink chipset the godlike branding over the over the rear i/o and you've got again metallic armor over the PCIe slots all the PCIe slots as well as the the ddr4 dimm slots as well all together a really nice set up here from MSI in terms of motherboards some of the nicest looking motherboards I've seen here at CES so far so stay tuned for more coverage note we're not done we're gonna go over there there's more there's more over there let's go see it what is that what is that before I go I want to give a huge shout out to both of my sponsors for CES 2016 need for seat offers 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