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following up from PAX West we saw this snowblind panel at the Intel booth this is by iBUYPOWER and it was sort of a prototype it's still a prototype but this is a slightly evolved version of what we saw a few weeks ago the idea here today is to talk more about how it works what's actually in the panel and how Iowa Power has been building this thing to see if it's feasible for production because before we didn't really talk about the technical details so what we have here is an NZXT Noctis 450 case it's a white and black case so the white and black is chosen specifically because of its high contrast and that's something we did talk about it packs the PAC system at the Intel booth had well the components inside were different it was a white motherboard video card there actually was one and had a reflective back and everything was pretty much white and black finish so that helps with the contrast but we're still getting a really good picture here on this panel and part of that is because the inclusion of a light guide so this LCD is now backed behind it with a light guide which in our b-roll and photos and things you'll see it's kind of like a dot pattern on the display and in person you can pretty much see right through that you don't even really pick it up I can see it a bit from this viewing angle but dead-on it's pretty much invisible the cameras pick it up well so you'll see that in the cameras into the shots but that's the light guide that helps some with the contrast with making these black colors a harder black so there's less of a gradient there and the panel itself up here you'll notice if you saw our previous video this is the thicker part now previously it was down here and that's basically where some of the PCB and stuff like that's melted the cable connects up here and previously was in the bottom part of that is just because well I guess from cable management perspective it's pretty clean to route through here down through the back of the case and then where it's going but also viewing angles so you and angles obviously matter with displays as for the cable itself it routes through as I said behind the back plugs into the bottom into into an expansion slot so i/o powers made a custom enclosure for a PCB that's just sending the cable the signal back to the motherboard right now because there's no video cards in the system and the file that is playing here is actually just a video file like none before and that's playing an Intel movie which is on the host system or I guess the host system right here that's the panelist can is on itself so that's the panel this is the snowblind I think that covers a bit more of what's going on in terms of production manufacturing things like that this side panel was a one-off made by NZXT so they took a panel for probably a novice 450 punched a hole in it and you get this wider window so the Knox's 450 has a smaller window than this this is a 5 by 4 display 1280 by 1024 and then they punched a hole to fit that and for feasibility it's basically just a matter of is there interest in the market and what does it cost to make because the manufacturing feasibility has been handled and I would power things that's actually possible to make so if you're interested I guess leave comments below let them know maybe let them know what you'd be willing to spend extra on something like this because that's the main question at this point otherwise it just becomes something like the H tau or something where vendors have it at booths because it's still useful for that I suppose so leave the description below for more information as always patreon like the postal video thanks for watching I'll see you all next time