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hey how's it going Dave 2d here so I've always been a fan of small form-factor pcs I've always have the thing for like tiny pcs just like really powerful computers in these really small form factors and well it's why I continued to use this thing the 2013 Mac Pro I like it because even though it's a 10 core CPU and it's quite powerful it's still really quiet and still super small and even though the GPU is like old and not very powerful the CPU in there is still really capable for doing multi-core stuff which I like I've been trying to find a Windows equivalent I've been searching for a very long time and I think I finally found something that's really close this is a Trident 3 so what makes this thing special is the fact that it's a very very small computer it's 5 and 1/2 liters which is very similar in size to the Mac Pro I'll pull it back and frame again so you can see it in comparison obviously the I mean the shape is completely different but just in terms of volume this is around 5 and 1/2 liters this is around 5 and 1/2 liters now the official volume from MSI's website is four point seven two liters and technically it is because they're measuring the physical space it occupies but if you look at five and a half because I'm including the angular cutaway gap on each side regardless it's a small case and this is the Arctic Edition we make another version that's all black it's like the regular one has a GTX 1060 has a smaller power supply everything else is about the same but because the GPU is weaker than that one I waited for this one to come forward to the video design-wise its angular and boxy I mean some people might love this look I prefer something a little more clean a little more minimal but I like it just because it's small and because it's white and because it has a single RGB light for just know you can play with colors and stuff but overall and some of the design is good just not perfect to me the best thing about this PC is it's five-and-a-half reader size now there's other ITF cases that are also really small the one that comes to mind that's probably the most popular in terms of like small IPS cases is the N case m1 it's a 12-meter case there's another ITX case that's even smaller it's the Dan case a for SFX and that thing is seven litres but it's really difficult to get your hands on it the msi tried in three is five and a half liters it's small you can open it up it's not recommended because there's a sticker that says you shouldn't but when you do you have access to the RAM to CPU and the GPU you can put up to 32 gigs of ram in here there's also upgradable storage but you have to go in underneath there's an m2 stick and there's a two and a half inch SATA drive okay has to be completely honest when msi first sent this thing to me i thought there's a desktop i7 in here does a gtx 1070 in here in a case that's very small this can't go very well it's got to be either super hot or super loud or a combination of the tube it turns out the performance is really strong it's not the fastest thing out there but most triple-a titles you're looking at wicked smooth frame rates on ultra graphics at 1080p and some weaker titles will let you play with good frame rates in 4k but most importantly every single game that I enjoy playing to overwatch and player unknowns battleground those two games run incredibly well in the system I'm able to stay near 120 frames per second with really nice looking graphics we are obviously works well with this because it's gtx 1070 any of the ports up front for easy access if it's going to a home theater setup or something video editing is also really nice on this machine i did my last few videos on this and well i'll be doing this video on this machine as well it's a great performer so the big question is how good is the thermal performance because cooling a pc of this size with this kind of performance is not an easy task and a lot of small form-factor enthusiasts struggle with that whole like did we make it louder and make it cool better or do we keep it quieter and let it run hotter but these guys they did a pretty good job looking at the temperatures the idle and low temperatures are a little warm nothing bad it's definitely in spec of what intel recommends and I'm not seeing any kind of thermal throttling but it does run warm the good thing is that the fans are incredibly quiet when it's idle it's almost silent but even under load this is one of the quietest systems I've used with this kind of performance they're doing this through good automated fan control but if there's one complaint that had about the thermal management I just wish this thing had user controllable fans like I wanna be able to ramp it up and down depending on whatever I'm doing and it doesn't have that so yeah it comes with a mouse and keyboard with controllable RGB lighting it's not my cup of tea but they're actually pretty comfortable to use it's a membrane keyboard feels nice even though it's free I'm not gonna lie it feels better than most membrane keyboards made by big-name accessory makers the mouse feels less awesome but it's not bad it's got a weight adjustable system but either one of these peripherals are just kind of like bonus accessories they're very viable I just wouldn't go competitive MLG with them the AC adapter is big it's 330 watts but it's just how the Trident is able to keep its size the power supply's external and you can always hide it to keep your setup relatively clean the Arctic Edition of the Trident 3 starts at $1500 which is in my opinion a very fair price for what you're getting I mean obviously you can build a regular PC with the gtx 1070 for cheaper than this there's no doubt if you don't care about the size of your case you can get similar performance of this for 1213 hundred bucks it would have better upgrade ability down the line than this but it would be a heck of a lot larger so for em aside stick all the stuff into a five and a half liter case and include a mouse and a keyboard for $1,500 I think it's fair so some final notes I've toured with several small gaming pcs the coarser one is an awesome machine very quiet very well cooled but it's a little big at 12 liters the ACS gr8 series or great I'm not sure how to pronounce it it's a pretty powerful system but the fans are way too loud and though tech makes some small form-factor boxes which are pretty quiet and small even smaller than this thing but they're running lower wattage I 5 CPUs which don't really take advantage of the GPU and they're not as good for video editing which is what I'm trying to do so overall I really like this system if you can tell I have a few complaints about it like I don't love the design I wish the thermal controls were a little better and there is some bloat we're not a ton but if you don't like removing that stuff it is their overall grade system now so most people who pick up something like this or kind of in the market for something like this they would stick it in their media center like under their TV kind of like the console like to replace a ps4 or something I'm one of the weird people that I would use this as my regular PC because I like my PC small and silent and I'm just weird like that but for people that are just in the market for this kind of device this is a good one alright hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs be liked it some of you loved it I'll see you guys next time