Gadgetory

welcome back to harbor unboxed today we have a bit of a change of pace about to go on and get out of here jump in the car and head to the upgrade Australia 5.0 event in Melbourne the event is aimed at PC enthuses interested in hardware and gaming so that kind of falls within my wheelhouse and will no doubt appeal to many of you as well so you get has invited harbor on box to attend the event which is really cool and I'm keen to try and get my hands on one of their fire crudo solid-state hybrid drives so hopefully I can pull that off well I best be on my way I really had no idea what to expect but I have to say the event was very well organised there are a heap of vendors in attendance and there were plenty of prizes up for grabs the best part being that was free for anyone to attend at the door you were given a raffle ticket which put you in the running to win some cool prizes and a drinks chip to keep you hydrated throughout the event all you had to do then was enter and have some fun a number of the vendors did have gaming PC's set up and they were free for anyone to come and try out AMD for example had a rising system surf and running it was packin a Radeon rx 580 and as you might have expected it was playing doom Kingston in collaboration with AOC set up six gaming PC's all of which were networked together for some 3v3 csgo action this looked like a heap of fun I don't think I saw one of these seats empty all night another hot seat was found over at the Pirelli computers booth where they had sup a very cool VR system here we found the vibe hooked up to an incredible-looking lan lead s pc playing project cars adding to the immersion was logitech's g29 driving force racing wheel and boy did it look like a lot of fun there was quite a bit of a queue here to have a go though so I didn't wait around that said though purely computers did have some very nice rigs on display to keep those waiting for the VR action occupied one such system was this insane looking liquid cooled build in the Carbide series air 740 and it certainly had me captivated for some time they also had a really cool open air test bench type system and I have to say I've been tempted to ditch my traditional systems for a setup like this it probably doesn't hurt that looks really nice as well heading over to the Seagate brutha try and score some our drives I came across one of these monstrous ten terabytes iron wolf Pro drives these things are designed for 24/7 operation and an ass device and at over $600 Ozzy for a single Drive I made sure I didn't pull aligners the drive is backed by an extensive five-year warranty and comes with their rescue service as standard pretty cool stuff and I was hinting at an upgrade for my current storage setup then I came across this the fire crew doe true terabyte sshd or solid-state hybrid drive the fire crew two drives blend the newest NAND flash technology with current hard drive technology for a product at Seagate claims delivers five times the speed of standard mechanical drives while retaining the high capacity storage options the good news is I now have one of these things in hand and I don't mean in hand like the b-roll shown here I mean it went from my hand into my bag and is now one of my test systems at home I wasn't the only one to walk away for Seagate hard drive either quite a few drives were given out to those in attendance all people had to do was ask an interesting Seagate related question and they had the chance to walk away with a shine in your hard drive AMD also gave away some Verizon 7 CPUs you'd be pretty happy walking off the street for free and then walking out with one of those galaxies also gave away a gtx 1060 graphics card and there were many other prizes on offer I really enjoyed walking around and checking out the various PC mods as mods had three very epic systems on display I think my favorite of all was this absolutely incredible rocket leg rig interestingly this thing started off life is a cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX case and no I don't see the connection either that said though there is a fantastic time-lapse video of the build over on the odds mods Facebook page so I'll be sure to link that in the video description for those of you who are keen to check it out apart from the incredible custom-made case or it's really more of a display cabinet we have the Isuzu crosshair hero-ji school Triton Zr GB memory AMD risin 1700 X a su Strix Radeon rx 480 and one of those Seagate 2 terabyte fire cruisers not the one I nicked over at the MSI booth I found another Oz mod system this time carved out of a cooler master master case 5 the aim here was to make a compact and sleek build that stands so mission achieved as you would expect we do have RGB lighting here and it's controllable via remote which I hugged for quite some time MSI also had their camo gear laptop on display which looks very out there obviously this is very much a gamer focused product and I'm keen to see what Tim makes of it our friends over at Kuna also had a booth with a couple of their latest NASA devices on display but they didn't have any gaming PC's so opportunity mess there I tried not to hang around their booth too much so it just made me really hungry and I focused more on the desire to eat some fresh food then how impressed I was with their photo station software then huddled up next to qnet we found Seagate so we've come full circle I did find yet another amazing build again BIOS mods the fire CUDA typically the hard drive is one of the few components you really don't want to show off and you build these days that said this build did a pretty good job of making them cool again embedded in the side of a cooler master master case 5 are a Traer of 2 terabyte fire cruder drives and just for good measure in case you didn't realize this was a Seagate sponsored build we have two more fire cruisers in the front just for show here we have a three and a half inch as well as a two and a half inch drive spinning around in a hollowed-out section surrounded by mirrors which made for another cool effect well that wraps up my coverage of the upgrade Australia 5.0 event it was a heap of fun and I'm keen to do it again I was extremely impressed with what was on offer for PC and through this it's well worth attending if you love your PC hardware and of course enjoy gaming finally a big THANK YOU to Seagate for getting me out to the event and providing me with a fire crew sample very keen to check this out shortly I had a great time and I enjoyed the short break from benchmarking I'm your host Steve see you again soon guys