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welcome back to harbor unboxed last month we produced 23 videos in total covering a wide range of products and topics and this year is the recap are we quickly touching on each and every video adding any notes that I might have while taking a look at a few comments along the way so let's get right into it shall we starting off the month we were halfway through Computex 2017 and on the first of June we covered MSI's upcoming gtx 980ti lightning z a beastly looking graphics card with all the limits removed i've been keen to check this thing out ever since i first laid hands on it and the good news is i should have one in hand very soon for an in-depth review following that video I checked out some very powerful msi damming laptops there are some impressive gaming focused laptops coming out of msi at the moment so that one is well worth checking out also worth checking out our deep cools upcoming open air fans the strange-looking UFO type designers certainly very eye-catching and to my surprise this is one of the more popular videos to come out of our Computex coverage I also learned that Gibby ace always likes his own comments and tech reviews wasn't that impressed with our lack of booth babes in the coverage and then finally lost my finger said this I roll my eyes every time he says acrylic its tempered glass hmm is it is it really moving on I found my favorite PC case to use to this year's competing Strayed show and that was the new cooler master master case H 500 P the new 1/2 model this stunning-looking case is surprisingly affordable at $140 u.s. and packs a para front-mounted 200 millimeter fans behind a unique looking acrylic window based on the comments that followed you guys look to have agree with me so I won't be the only one trying to buy one of these on release day it seems rounding out our Computex coverage I checked out some new and existing MSI pre-built desktop pcs aimed at gamers and then headed over to the Aero cool booth where I hung out and relaxed in the new project 7 gaming chair with my buddy Brian over from tech yesterday after that Tim took over as I flew back from Taiwan and delivered us a review on the Corsair glaive RGB mouse in short Tim liked the mouse felt that the quality was there but wasn't totally sold on the price which was a bit rich for his liking Tim bought me a little more time to get some work done with his movie length review on the samsung galaxy s 8 plus in my opinion Tim covered everything and then some but he insists he had a little bit more he would have liked to include in the video but realized it was getting quite long as it was so included all that extra stuff in there written version over at Tech spot anyway it was mighty long as it was and if you are thinking of getting an SI then be sure to grab a nice beverage as snack and check out Tim's mega in-depth review then it was my turn to produce some content and I decided to do what many of you have been requesting for a long time now and that is to revisit the GTX 780 this was another lengthy video and I invested a huge amount of time making it but in the end I think it was worth it and those of you who watched it seem to really enjoy it I was a bit cheeky in the comment section predicting what the top three comments would be and for a while there I was on the money I think the ordering is shuffled around a bit now anyway but it was still a lot of fun next up we had another review from Tim covering the Moto G 5 and G 5 plus some decent budget smartphones the review wasn't terribly popular we're still sort of diversifying here at however unboxed a lot of you guys seemed you just want GPU and CPU reviews and nothing else but Tim did an excellent job as always and this all serve as a good reference for those things you're buying either model unfortunately this point of the month I was a few days in a suffering from a horrible flu virus thing that I caught on my way back from Taiwan so that was a lot of fun very low on energy at the time I struggled to get much done but I did spit out a few videos on a couple of games one of which was dirt for the first video I did with dirt four was what does it take to play episode and once again we were looking for 60fps at 1080p for how we're of choice to achieve this performance was the pentium g 45 60 and Radeon rx 570 and the comments section was mixed with opinions on the game's visual quality we went from damn I thought this was real life to they're no better than dirt rally in my opinion they are better than the previous installment but not mind-blowing anyway I wasn't done with do it for a few days later I delivered an extensive benchmark video covering 27 GPUs at three resolutions you lot seemed to enjoy those videos and I loved the two to three day grind testing a wide range of hardware that's not sarcasm either I actually do enjoy it that said I did feel like absolute rubbish at the time thanks for that flew but the positive feedback you guys always leave help me soldier on so big thanks for that a few days after the big dirt for benchmark I was still sick but thankfully recovering so I decided to take the time to test a few different hardware configurations in player unknowns battlegrounds and create another what does it take to play episode don't normally do two of these within the one week but when you're sick there's nothing better to do than play games the game itself look like it would be a lot of fun with friends it's not particularly exciting single-player or solo I should say that said though this isn't really my style a game more into the real-time strategy stuff but still yeah looks like it could be fun though there was a lot of camping going on but I guess that's the easiest way to survive till the end moving on back to full fighting strength at this point I decided to check out the new gigabyte or SRX 580 XJ graphics card and what a beauty it was I've had this thing on hand for a while I used for my rx 580 versus 1060 comparison so I thought it was time for an official review admittedly though the timing wasn't great as buying an RX 580 right now is next to impossible thanks to a theory in mining or just cryptocurrency mining in general now and as such pretty much the entire comment section was full of you is complaining about availability how overpriced the rx5 80s are right now and well I can't really blame them Tim let back into action with another smartphone review looking at the mi6 and affordable flagship smartphone Tim was impressed with the performance display battery life and zoom camera he wasn't overly impressed with the slippery designer thick bells and lack of a headphone jack that was certainly a big no-no then next up it was time for a 31 minute long unboxing bosses episode with yours truly it had been about a month since the last episode and those of you who really enjoy this series we're getting a bit Restless based on what I was seeing in my inbox hopefully the weight was worth it though and thankfully I did have a heap of interesting stuff so quite a few products to check out in that one the SteelSeries arcticus headsets were a pleasant surprise as was gigabytes RX 560 graphics card when my youngest daughter Tesla made a quick appearance in the video as she modelled the SteelSeries headsets for me after receiving that gigabyte rx 560 graphics card I knew it was time to settle in for a long benchmark session and compare it head-to-head with the GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti while I was doing that at at least one I wasn't running benchmark passes that is I was researching and putting together another top 5 best video looking at the gtx 1070 graphics cards I had a lot more fun than I expected with that one and it must have shown because the video was really well received so much so that I'm going to make that a regular series then it was time for the main course the epic rx 560 vs. gtx 1050 showdown in total i through 30 games of these GPUs in an effort to determine which one is best for you as expected the results were mixed AMD winning some well in video 1 some others if you're in the market for a brand new GPU and we have around $100 to spend I recommend checking that comparison out there are also some funny comments in that video as well cliff was concerned with my well-being after testing so many games nice guy cliff Vladimir hates miners for an hour also thinks I'm going mad and need to take some time off he suggests Megalodon hunting I'll have to Google a few charters see what I can find putting the prehistoric fishing trip on hold I decided to check out something that's no doubt considerably more expensive Intel's new corex lineup although it was a bit late to the party I ended up getting my hands on the core i9 1700 X I 778 20x and i7 and 7800 X still not 100% sure how I feel about the 6 core and 8 core models yet a bit more testing will have to be done this month and of course we are still waiting for NBS thread Ripper but yeah for now the general consensus is that the core X platform is expensive hot power-hungry confusing and we're still yet to see the most extreme parts which are even more expensive and no doubt hotter and hungrier as I tried to cool off after testing the core X series Tim took over for an unboxing boxes episode and watch the entire thing like a complete amateur you'd think it was his first time ever hosting the series wait it was well then I guess we can cut him a bit of slack and overall I think it was still a very enjoyable episode so check it out if you haven't already then he summed it up pretty well this was an unboxing unboxed boxes episode and indeed it was while Tim was making our more lighthearted content look difficult I was tackling a truly difficult task keeping intel's new 10 core core I 9 7 100x cool when overclocked in the end it took a custom liquid cooled cooler to get the job done we managed a stable 4.7 gigahertz overclock with low temps around 70 degrees not bad for what it is but also by no means practical either we receive plenty of comments on that video well over 600 in fact Nick weighed in to note how much better the hardware unbox videos look now when compared to earlier this year I have to credit Tim with helping out there a few tweaks to my existing so that went a long way most of the comments were bashing Intel's new external on platform and it was hard to argue with most of them so I didn't there were also some nice comments complimenting our work and a few negative ones as well I liked this comment from obvious longtime viewer Navin your reviews are vague and not in-depth I don't think your videos are good enough for a person to decide whether to purchase anything less on the fancy stuff and up more the depth of the product review well Navin thank you I'll certainly keep that in mind for future videos I did point out the fact that that particular video wasn't a review but whatever then capping off a busy month we looked at in Syria mining in the form of a benchmark video of course I wasn't particularly motivated or excited to do this one but with so many of the regular hub viewers requesting it I felt I'd better make it happen that said though I have to admit for the most part the feedback was a bit disappointing on this one I mean I expect that not every video is going to please everyone but hope though is that if a product or topic doesn't interest a certain person that just skip it I mean we do create multiple videos per week so skipping one shouldn't be a big deal and almost all of them do take a serious amount of time and effort to create also I have to admit I personally wasn't that interested in cryptocurrency mining and I'd probably rather it didn't exist the benchmark results though did interest me and it was interesting to see how the various GPUs compared in this unusual workload anyway that brings us to the end of June and what happened last month and we look set for yet another busy month and I can't wait to see what new hardware we discover along the way oh yeah we also hit 100,000 subscribers last month as well that's probably worth mentioning coming up I have a couple of really big benchmark videos planned and some of them should be a bit different from the usual head-to-head stuff so be sure to keep an eye out for those gems also got some really exciting stuff planned as well so it's going to be another great month here at harbor unboxed that's going to do it for this one if you like this video then please take a moment to help sentient the like button subscribe if you haven't already and make sure you hit that little notification be able to put yourself in contention to make that all-important first comment I'm your host Steve see you again soon guys