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hey guys welcome back to harbor unboxed on today's episode of unboxing boxes I again just have two boxes that we'll be unboxing but before we get to that I thought I'd just discuss a few topics and a few things that relate to what we've been doing recently the top of the agenda is the thermal take a riser cable that we looked up last week in the core p3 build we had some problems there and quite a few other people have as well evidently I spoke to thermaltake on Friday and I mentioned the issue and as a few of you actually pointed out in that video the timing was quite coincidental because Thermaltake just announced plans for a new and improved riser cable and they show me that was coming they've shown it off on their YouTube channel so if you're interested check that out but basically they will be getting me two of them and from what I've seen so far they look very very similar to that Leigh only cable that I purchased for one hundred and twenty dollars to solve my problem they just won't be a couple of feet long like that one was so that's good news I think well first of all we've got to see how well they work I look like they'll work well and then the other big big issue is the price so I don't know if they're gonna be able to offer properly shielded cables that are quite durable for the hundred and six hundred twenty us they're asking for their current cables so I mean if they can deliver it for that price or similar to that price then that'd be fantastic but yeah since all the other ones are well north of $100 I'm not sure what to expect really but they said as soon as they get some in they'll send them my way and give me all the appropriate information so you will probably see me playing with the new thermal tape riser cables sometime in the near future on this unboxing segment moving on I've been quite busy over the last few weeks or it's been quite disorganized you haven't really noticed on the channel we've done a pretty good job of getting videos out but at the moment we're we're downstairs in my house and that's where I've built the studio and this it's a six meter by four meter room so it's not huge but it's not small and we've got obviously I've built they shell see which is our backdrop and they're good for storing all our boxes they're quite high they got quite a few meters we've got a hypocrite over here which I might show you but it's not really worth seeing and then my personal computer and the benchmark computer just one of them is sort of crammed down in the corner over here because upstairs where I have my bigger office where I normally do most of my work I'm changing it all because that I basically because I'm doing filming here or a lot more film than I was since I was doing none about a month ago but basically the office was a bit of a mess upstairs i purpose-built it for what I was doing and then as that slowly changed we ripped things out change things and it just became a horrible mess so I've ripped it all apart completely trashed the whole room and I've been rebuilding what will be an alternate set up there which will probably be more of a benchmark set I'd say so when we do those big benchmark videos I'll probably present them up there and when we do more hands-on testing and stuff it'll make more sense to do it up there in the lab I've been feel I filmed how it was the mess so you'll get to see what we came from and I've been filming it as I've been modifying and you know building things nuts not so much you know the hands-on stuff just been showing the stage as quickly as I try to get through it I'm hoping to have it done quite soon but yeah these things can take longer than anticipated so we'll see how we go but probably next month I'll start releasing some footage in the unboxing series of how the office is going and yeah give you guys an update on all that sort of stuff and on that note I do have plans to sort of change the channel ever so slightly not not drastically like the benchmarks will be the same and all the video content will be much the same but just have a more personal approach with the channel so show you guys way more behind the scenes sort of stuff cuz we haven't really done any of that to this point and you guys have been asking us you're asking so and that's a big reason why I've decided to renovate the office upstairs to make it more basically better for that sort of stuff so we can do more hands-on stuff and more behind the scenes stuff so there'll be yeah that'll be sort of one direction that I plan to take the channel in next year so that should be fun and I think that pretty much covers everything for now so we probably should start unboxing some boxes I'll start with this bigger one it's another I had to rip the shipping label off it but it looks like it's another Logitech box all right do we have here it's definitely a Logitech box it looks like it's Logitech snoozy three three seven speakers cool 80 watts I assume that's peak power bluetooth I'm off to do some quick research on these so I can give you some information but before I do that let's take them out of the box and have a look it's quite a small box so I'm not sure how big the speaker system is presumably small on the box yeah it looks like we've got a little controller here they must be the satellite speakers it is a 2.1 system from what I can tell on the box sit that there let's have a lawful we got here that looks like it's a nice small little compact 2.1 system why'd you take I've done plenty of compact two-point ones in the past so we have a little subby here there's four ICS on the back I'd say at least two of them protecting the satellite speakers and there's also a 3.5 millimeter you valeri input which we would probably connect from your PC right I'll move that to the side so here's the controller yeah pretty simple left is lower right is higher I think Bluetooth button for connecting up your phone or tablet or if it's that's pretty cool I like a a lot of these new desktop speakers are taking advantage of bluetooth and with everyone using their smart phone so much now that's very handy and the on/off button so on you've got a headphone jack as well and it looks like there's a reasonable amount of cable there so you should be able to get it to a nice spot on your desk yeah it's pretty cool and then you can turn up the gain on the base a subwoofer here minimum maximum so that's pretty cool very very surprisingly light but I mean it is small and there we go one of these satellite speakers they're wrapped in a it's almost like a sort of a metallic e looking material dark grey not not quite black but yeah although they look pretty cool so there's two of those so yeah there you go the new Logitech z3 three sevens they cost about a hundred dollars Aziz that's pretty cheap really presuming you're assuming rather they sound quite good there the whole system's rated at 40 watt RMS so that's pretty decent I mean yeah it's definitely gonna your neighbors or know about if you crank them up the two satellites feature three inch convex dome drivers eight watt RMS each and then the subwoofer has a five and a quarter inch front firing dome driver so there you go the new Logitech desktop speakers that are reasonably priced and they support bluetooth so you may see a review on them shortly the next and last box cool you guys a lot well some of you guys will like this anyway we have gigabytes gtx 1050 TI graphics card and we have gigabytes 1050 graphics card so that is the 2 gigabyte model so that's the standard memory and the full gigabyte 1050 Ti and they're both the g1 gaming model so we'll take them out of the box and have a bit of a look at them previously I've had the base model MSI they're just yeah the OSI models the 1050 and 1050 Ti from MSI which is what we used in our original review and they're tiny little cards but they work quite well and there they both meet the MSRP but these g1 gaming cards should be yes there are a bit more substantial so again apart from the graphics card there's nothing else in the package so what did I open here that's that this is the tii model so there you go the g1 gaming 1050 tii it that this does have a 6 pin connector so I haven't used a 1050 graphics card with an external PCIe connector power connector so that's cool and it also has a full-length backplate so I know although you guys will like that as well so that's pretty cool for a budget card hopefully the price reflects that it's still a budget card and it looks like wow there's three HDMI outputs yep three HDMI outputs and a single DisplayPort and Angel link DVI port I can get the cover off it so hopefully you guys can see that might add some b-roll over it will see yeah so I mean the cooler on it is way way bigger than what's on the MSI card so I would assume or expect this thing to run very very cool I'll definitely be reviewing this card a probably next week I'll get around to doing that and we'll see if there if the 1050 model is the same obviously it has got 1050 GPU and only 2 GB of ddr2 memory or gddr5 memory looking very similar very similar indeed the camera battery just went flat so hopefully not too much of that got cut out at a bit of a problem with that last week I did about four tags or something because I had the mic preamp went flat and the mic went flat camera went flat and bloody batteries do something about them anyway where was I that's right I was talking about the vanilla 1050 g1 gaming - you go background scale and it looks like again you get three HDMI outputs one display for one jewel link DVI port full backplate on the card it looks like the same exact same cooler you get another 6 pin PCI II power input looks like the same fan setup fan shroud LED lights the whole lot so that's a pretty serious graphics card what's the MSRP on the 1050 again I think it's 110 dollars u.s. so I'll have a quick look at pricing now and let you guys know what I find so yeah this card is 205 dollars ozzie or a hundred and forty US and I have to say that's pretty pricey for a vanilla 1050 I'm not yeah I US availability is not great at the moment so that $30 over the MSRP may come down as availability picks up but yeah time over 140 US for this card mmm expensive and the 1050 Ti to know how to say this it's currently a 170 US which is as many of you guys know Rx 4:17 money so again not sure about that one or two hundred and forty-five ozzie so they are good looking cards but yeah that's quite a premium to pay over this model which should deliver pretty similar performance so this one is the again this is the 1050 2 gigabyte model and this is the to you by gigabyte model so this one you're paying 110 for this one you're paying 130 US for yeah so hopefully this one's worth it maybe at overclocks better better performance I don't know based on what we've seen from Pascal with the 1060 there 1070 the 1080 and so on that yeah adding more power important stuff doesn't really help you squeeze much more performance out so I don't think it's gonna justify that kind of percentage increase in price but we'll find out that's what the reviews for so we've got two graphics card reviews which will probably be coming up next week sit there you go probably do a logitech speaker review because they look quite interesting and quite reasonably priced I think I've done a huge amount of research yet almost available but $100 Aussie for a system of that quality seems pretty good to me and yeah this week on the channel I have an interesting video I hope it is interesting anyway basically it's a look at PCI Express performance using high end graphics cards looking at the third generation second generation of first generation PCIe specifications or revisions so you obviously have I think it's four gigs for the first revision eight gigs for the second revision and 16 gigabytes per second for the third revision in the past we found that doesn't make much difference to performance but I recently been updating all my CPU results in the wake of the new upcoming AMD and Intel processors in late December probably January and I was testing the old Sandy Bridge stuff and noticed it was quite a bit slower than I was expecting with graphics cards such as the Titan XP in relation to skylake and whatnot like quite a lot slower and part of that was to do with the PCIe bandwidth or at least I thought I did you'll have to watch the video to find out but not a huge amount of testing but it's kind of interesting yeah and that's what's coming this week also I'll probably get up a review of samsung's new 960 Evo SSD and I won't just provide benchmark numbers in graphs that I'll actually do some some screen capture stuff using an external device to show like compare it to maybe like the crucial MX 300 and even a hard drive show the system booting up loading things like a dope premiere a couple of games and stuff so that should be pretty interesting as well and then I should probably get a review on that Western Digital WD blue one terabyte SSD as well so I don't know whether that'll be later this week or I'll squeeze that into next week we'll see I think that's about everything for this week anyway and then there's some cool stuff coming of the week after I finally get around to doing that and yeah hopefully on next week's episode as well I'll show you some footage of the office and what I'm doing and up there so that should be pretty interesting I think you guys will like that and that about wraps this one up I'm your host Steve thanks for watching guys and I will see you throughout the week with more exciting content bye