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fit wits coverage of CES 2018 is brought to you by fantex and cable mock click the links in the description below for more info alright guys I just got back from the NZXT booth and I was expecting to find like maybe a new case or two some new fans something RGB related but no instead I walk in and they show me a motherboard of all things yes NZXT has actually made their very first motherboard which I think no one saw coming especially me and but it looks pretty cool it's the n7 it's the n7 available in black or white and it's an ATX board on the Z 370 chipset so it's if you're not interested in coffee like then this board does not apply to you there was no confirmation on whether or not they try their hand at a name for board later down the line but I'm sure that sort of hinges on how well this board does in the first place so starting off here we've got an all-metal motherboard cover made of steel it's actually sort of an aluminum and steel construction the m2 covers there's two have got two slots on the board those covers are actually made of aluminum the rest is made of steel they're very easy to remove which i think is gonna be great for for modding if you want to do some paint jobs with it it should be very easy to do the the heatsink plates are actually very easily easily swappable on the VRM and the chipset they're actually gonna be selling cover plates heatsink plates separately in different colors including glue glossy blue red or purple if you wanted to just mix and match and and get a bit more thematic with the whole thing the board will support overclocked ddr4 speeds of up to 38 66 megahertz and of course Intel XMP 2.0 we get a 15 digital power phase design using Infineon ICS for clean stable power that's for your CPU DRAM and your PCH chipset we had support for 7.1 channel audio with niche akan gold caps the board supports SLI and crossfire for multi-gpu setups and we also get surface mounted power and reset buttons with a debug led in a very odd location underneath the bottom m2 slot cover so you actually have to remove that in order to see it and it's also sort of close to the PCIe slot above it I should also mention that there are two full sized by 16 PCIe slots on the board but moving on here we have no what looks looks to be no USB 3.1 gen2 header which I found a little disappointing there's also no point or port I should say on the back rear i/o so I thought that was a little odd considering the price point which we're gonna get to in a moment what sets this board apart really is the fact that it integrates seamlessly with cam hue + and grid + actually both those modules module 2 I can't words are built straight onto the board for seamless support so you can control everything via canvas all of your RGB lighting your your your cooling your fans etc as you have to lighting channels for for hue + and 6 independent fan channels for the grid + so that's actually pretty cool the kicker here is the MSRP which is 5 no I'm not 5 $300 that's still pretty steep $2.99 is quite a bit more than the market price I feel for a board with these features however if you are set and sold on NZXT ecosystem then this might be the board for you because it does make it a lot easier and simpler just to have everything natively built into the board you guys let me know what you think though in the comments below of the price of the aesthetics the whole thing very curious to hear you guys's thoughts as always what are you doing go away I'm trying to work here you girls in your your duck face you're fired moving on we also saw verdaguer there at the NZXT Suites they were sweet buddies mainly because they were showing off their RGB chair that is cam supported so it actually sinks with pretty much any cam supported component or device which is pretty cool they actually had a couple different models there they had one with more standard lighting that was not addressable the other one had dozens of addressable LEDs in it both of them looked fantastic of course you can do a bit more with the the effects with the addressable LEDs are you serious right now I hate you I know a couple of the chairs they had on display are actually a part of their existing product stack so you could buy those chairs now they just won't have RGB elements in them they were potentially talking about making those RGB housing units as sort of an upgrade kit that would be sold separately if you wanted to upgrade your existing Brita gear chair later down the line let's say you want some added Flair then you can go ahead and pick those up they did discuss pricing a little bit but nothing was super confirm so I'm gonna leave that out for now you guys can just go ahead and speculate or maybe let me know what you think is a fair price for this stuff down in the comments on the the LED lighting there's some LED lighting and avert agir logo that's casted beneath the wheel base which looks very cool just add sort of a nice premium touch very nice attention to detail there now they did have one prototype there that was fully decked out and while it's still in development they are reporting 24 hours of battery life with one possible solution that's not finalized yet but that's sort of an idea of where they're at right now the battery could be removed from the back actually it's sort of like modular could be removed from the back of the chair and swapped out for a fresh one if you had an extra one I'm not exactly sure if we'll sell that sell those separately I would I would have to imagine that that would be a good idea um or it could be charged while still in use while still you know installed into the chair with a magnetic charging cable this is similar to what we've seen on a lot of Mac books so that you don't accidentally yank the the the cable and damage one of the ports or something like that which of course with a moving chair which is very heavy object I think that's a really great implementation so this is definitely a must for any over-the-top mancave especially if you're going to be using the cam software and integrating seamlessly with that pricing again to be determined but coming later this year so those are all the things from the NZXT and vertigo suites here at CES 2018 guys let me know what you think as always in the comments toss me a like if you enjoyed the video subscribe for more tech stuff coming at you really soon from CES 2018 and I'll see you guys in the next video