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hey guys welcome back to harbor unboxed now didn't really plan on doing an unboxing boxes episode this week especially with the rise and testing which you're no doubt aware of been a few hiccups there I can't really go into too much detail but basically I got my processor and a motherboard the a seuss version here Friday so I spent all Friday night testing all day Saturday Saturday night and Sunday Sunday night didn't get a whole lot of sleep and part of that was because it wasn't really going to plan and again I can't say too much but basically it wasn't that Zen's bad or anything like that so don't freak out just teething issues new CPU new platform and I I'm hoping I was one of the more unlucky reviewers because I just ran into problem after problem after problem and you know they a lot of them were affecting performance anyway we've sort of sorted all through them now and I'm hoping part of what will solve the issue for me will be in these boxes a new motherboard because I just can't sort out some of the problems on their sous board I've got I don't need two BIOS update I've updated it twice I don't know if they're still something they're working on but anyway can't go into too much detail it's been a nightmare bet we're getting on the right track now so with that I should probably start unboxing some boxes and once I've done that quickly edit this uploader and get back to benchmarking but this is kind of a nice break doing something a bit different than just sitting in the computer running tests scratching my head and trying to work out what's going on alrighty we'll start with this little what am i doing we'll start with this little laser rocket box here looks like it's masruk anyway and we will see what they have for us in this little green package just go here now the box is out of the way unrelated to what we're doing at the moment but we'll be useful very soon in the last episode of unboxing boxes last week I talked about the pentium g 4560 build that I'm doing in the Coolermaster case that got sent last week but was the wrong case so hopefully I've got the right case here this week being a we'll get to that shortly so this is a b250 pro 4 board from asrock I was gonna go with a h1 10 board originally because they are a bit cheaper but I thought since is a new build and whatever I might as well try it one of the be 250 boards since I haven't actually done that yet one hiccup though I may have to stick with the h1 10 board actually because I think the case is micro ATX only and this board is full 80s I didn't actually get this board for the build eggs that wasn't it's only purpose but I thought hey that might be cool to throw on there but it's not gonna happen unless I go with the cooler master case that was sent last week it's getting also confusing I really don't have the energy for this at the moment but yeah that's a pretty cool looking board I'm not actually sure how much it's worth it wouldn't be hugely expensive so anyway I won't spend too much time on this because we have some am floorboards to check out hopefully so I'll just put that aside for now I'll have to find the ad-rock h1 10 micro ATX board which I will end up using in this tier which a lot of you guys were really keen for me to check out the master box light 3 and it was sold out but cool Coolermaster pulled some strings and got it in gigabyte what are they got for me all right this is what you guys are no doubt here for so what do we have here the the a be 350 gaming 3 hmm ok I would be 3-game be 350 gaming 3 is probably better anyway it doesn't matter alright let's have a look that's probably it looks like an RGB cable couple of SATA cables quick connector cable IO shield all right here we go pretty cool-looking budget board that's for sure so we've got their amp up audio it looks like a really nice audio solution on this board some steel reinforced primary and secondary PCIe x 16 slots a bit of cooling on the vrm looks like a decent design there what do we got around here okay a couple of USB threes and nothing too fancy but that's all you sort of expect the SATA ports your bit all over the place so we've got four down here another two up here so not sure they're connected to there'd be another controller probably but anyway pretty cool looking but it looks like we've got on there RGB lighting strips down the side to sort of fancy it up a bit not sure if there's any other RGB lighting but yeah now for the big one for um I believe this is again from asrock and I'm hoping what I need for my new a m4 system that I want to build today is in here indeed it is drum roll please x3 seventies gaming k4 and Oh a bit of a bonus bonus round 370 Taichi what do we have here oh yeah another process up there's no cooler in the box so it's very light but uh yeah we'll have a look at that in a second okay so 2 X 370 boards and I think I'll use this one in the build I used on I used the what is at the crystal series 570 X the Corsair tempered glass case for the KB Lake build and I went with a sort of blue black and white design for that and that system looked awesome a lot of you guys have no real like it so I think for the horizon 7 build I'll use this board and go with a black and red theme for that bill to actually pretty play the black and Red's pretty much whatever on uses but it's kind of fitting for a horizon 7 build even though the boxes gray and orange so let's just have a quick look at these boards I can't talk about performance or specifications really well I definitely can't talk about performance but I can show you the board's off if I can get them out you got the standard asrock postcard people your family will love receiving that when you go on a trip I got a sticker on a CD IO shield some SATA cables end up two screws and some antennas anyway it's not for that let's get to the board itself okay you know that is a pretty cool-looking AMD motherboard it's got all the bells and whistles - there's purity sound for which I'm sure is as good as the implementation on the Intel board's ultra m2 slot and a second m2 not marked as ultra m2 but I'm sure it's still got plenty of bandwidth for those high-speed nvme drives pair of on-board USB 3.0 headers looks like we've got what is that 10 SATA ports here diagnostic LED display so that's very useful unfortunately though their art looks like there's mounts for them for power and reset like easy to access power reset buttons not hugely useful for general users but on a test bed or whatever they're super handy but anyway not there on this one like the gigabyte board we just saw off a steel-reinforced primary and secondary PCI u x 16 slots and what else a seriously beefy vrm on this board very impressive looking don't know the full specs yet I'm not going to count them right now but anyway it looks good nothing on the backplane black PCB a really really cool looking motherboard this one I'll be very interested to see what the price is for this board because yeah it looks really really nice and if it can come in under these add 270 boards which I think it probably should that be a nice pairing for a risin 7 processor talking of Verizon seven processors let's have a look at what we've got here so they've obviously been using this for testing internally this processor I didn't expect them to send one along but thank you as rock and what do we have here nice a 1700 X got a sticker as well which is good because I have the 1800 X already which I've been using for testing I'll get some close-up b-roll for you guys they'll leave that in next if I bend a Pinole yeah let's not think about that now put that safely up there with that one so yeah I really love that motherboard it's making me think twice now I kind of want to put that in the corsair case it looks cool anyway before I make any decisions let's have a look at what the gaming k4 looks like because the the gaming hey brand is usually pretty good as well alright so this one's as cool as the Taichi okay not a nice static bag I'd say this was the board they were testing with okay well this is an equally impressive motherboard I have to say really nice design the red heat sinks look cool so again for that red and black build it's going to look pretty awesome it has the cinema 3 audio which is the creative audio that's often found on the gaming models but something interesting about this board compared to the Taichi board is the fact that we have oh okay yeah I see what's going on here I thought that was a pair of Ultra M twos up here and another another M 2 here I thought that's bizarre nope I'm wrong there is an M 2 Wi-Fi port there because this board doesn't come yeah it's a Wi-Fi is optional whereas the Thai she has as standard so anyway you can add an M to a Wi-Fi card if you want we also got the ultra m2 and a standard m2 down here it looks like they both take 80 ml long cards modules yeah overall looks like a fairly similar feature set there isn't a third PCIe x 16 slot though it looks like it's only wired for four times on the tai chi board so I mean you're early really gonna need the two anyway and then possibly a one of these x 1 ports for a sound card or something along those lines less SATA ports I'd say this is clearly a cheaper board aimed at not entry level gaming but certainly more entry level than this board but anyway you've got the led diagnostic displace that's good still no quick power on reset buttons on board but that's fine again the good creative audio or at least creative software support audio anyway it'll be using an ALC audio codec no doubt the vrm doesn't look quite as impressive but still substantial not much going on on the back of the board again that's to be expected but yeah overall a cool looking motherboard so now I've got to work out which one's gonna go in this system I'm going to build probably right now once I'm done here so yeah in summary these two are X 370 boards they both use the same flagship chipset though it's just a chip but anyway and now I've just got to work out which one I want to use for my test system I really like this board but I kind of wanted since the Intel systems blue I kind of wanted to make the AMD test system red I know they're only test systems but because I do show them on camera if I wasn't doing the channel and it was just for testing I wouldn't care about because I do show the systems and be cool to have a blue Intel and a red AMD system I think that would be cool I can probably chuck in these sitting and these sitting around for ages suffered through these Pro LED red Corsair fans in and that would look really cool so I might do that actually got three of them got a bit of dust on it I'll have to go fishing for the other one and just quickly have a quick look at this I believe it's the windowed version of the master box light three yeah I was surprised by how many of you guys were really keen for me to use this case I was planning on using it and coolermaster ran out of stock didn't tell me and just sent the master box five and I was going to use that but well it would have actually worked out well with that be 250 board over because that's an ATX board but I was planning on using a mini ITX h100 board originally which is I'll stick to that plan and yeah I thought oh I'll just swap but then when a happy you guys like I really want you to use the master box like three please use that test want to check it out I think it'd be perfect to build and it is cheaper sup makes sense but yeah it was sold out anyway coolermaster pulled some strings and got one to me very quickly so big thanks to them for that and now I can finally show you guys the case building it let you know I think of it why why am i struggling to get everything out of box listen to me sulking about having a benchmark horizon boohoo well it's very nice and light what a cool little compact case not quite sure that's coming from but anyway magnetic dust filter just hanging around on the roof of the case I'm sure it's got an obvious home once we get inside don't have while you guys can see it it must go on the outside I assume should go there without looking at the manual seems obvious to me know what I was doing on top of the case but anyway we've it's back in its home so don't know how well you guys can see in there but perfect sized case for what I want to do it's also really cheap as well I think it's only for $50 Aussie so really nice quality case for that price it's got a the top panel connectivity pair USB 3.0 type-a ports you've got a pair of 3.5 meal audio jacks power button tiny reset button and a hard drive activity light no doubt the power button is backlit also probably in a blue or something like that and then around the back it comes with a pre 120 millimeter fan installed power supply goes on the top but not really a big problem for a small case it looks like we've got what one two three four PCI or four expansion slots if you wanted to try and squeeze jewel GPUs in or something this is what I plan to stick in there just quickly I won't drag this out too long it's a cute little h1 ten board it's actually almost like a mini ITX board but not quite and it will go in there something like that look something like that check the G 4560 on their stock Intel Box cooler and either something like the gtx 1050 or the RX 470 one of those pricing tiers and you've got yourself an awesome new budget system that's very very capable at 1080p and can even dabble at 1440p but leave all information for another day right so wrapping this up so I can get back on with testing horizon which I am excited to do even though there have been some hiccups along the way I haven't lost my enthusiasm yeah we start we got to check out two awesome X 370 boards and a cool be 350 board and a be 250 board it's a bit confusing isn't it since there be 250 Intel be 350 AMD but anyway whatever I'm rattling on to cool X 370 boards now I have to sit here and try and work out which one I'm going to put in this build I'm sort of still leaning towards this one but anyway I do like this one though I'll work it out and yet for those of you hanging for the rise in testing which is coming up in a few days as I'm sure you're aware I won't be able to do the kind of in-depth benchmark video that I would have liked because I'm sort of I've gone from having almost a full week to test to now a day because then I've got to edit it and do everything else so to be disappointing but I do plan there'll be four games tested in the day one review along with some applications as well at premiere and Excel and all that sort of stuff so there'll be and I will be testing against a huge amount of processors so they'll be this the Sandy Bridge 2500 K and 2600 K there'll be some Ivy Bridge as well and then there'll be some Broadway lis though I don't know if I'll get my 6100 K today I've that's another whole story the 6800 k will be there the haswell-e 5960 x will be there then you've got the skylake core i5 and core i7 like processors and the k be like equivalent which is essentially the same processor faster at the box anyway they'll all be included so they'll be plenty of processors just not as many tests as I would have wanted because I just don't have time to do all the conductor all the testing but we're looking at things like thermals power consumption overclocking and all that sort of good stuff as well so it'll be more of a general review and then I'm hoping by Monday the next week I'll have a big 12 or 13 game comparison rise and taking on the Intel stuff so that'll actually be really interesting it'll be a good gaming benchmark and see how it slots in there and also just finally before I get out of here some exciting news for you guys I will be doing a full horizon 7 giveaway complete box all the bits inside and that'll be an international giveaway worldwide giveaway and that will be in partnership with Thermaltake and msi so that's really cool those companies have come together to help me build an awesome system to give to you guys it'll be a custom water-cooled hard pipe system using a risin 7 processor hopefully something like the 1800 X obviously a really cool MSI motherboard MSI graphics card then you know I think we have that nice new tempered glass thermal tape case again with the hard pipe custom liquid cooling by yours truly power supply and all that sort of stuff so that's gonna be an amazing system and yeah all of you guys can enter to win that there'll be much more details coming up probably next week on that I'm going to build I'm going to show you all the parts first then I'm gonna do a video much like I do with the format for the tower 900 and the Corp III then I'm going to build the whole system and show you the process and how it comes together and then we'll probably do some benchmarking and all that and then there'll be a video that explains how you can enter to win then you guys just have to enter hopefully you win and yeah that should be really exciting really cool first time I've done a full system giveaway on the channel so looking forward to it and yeah big thanks to Thermaltake and msi for making that happen anyway that's all for this one I hope you guys enjoyed my sort of last minute hodge podge slap together unboxing video but yeah it was a bit of fun I enjoyed checking out the new boards anyway guys I'm gonna get back to benchmark or at least building my system which I'll probably film and show you guys I'm your host Steve I'll catch you guys next time