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welcome back guys to have our unboxed for another episode of unboxing boxes I feel like I've been doing one of these every week for a while now we've had plenty of stuff to get through as you feed today we've got five boxes slash packages so we'll get straight into them won't waste any time with any updates or anything straight into it I'll move this one over here and it's pretty obvious what this is I'll give you guys I'll look actually quite excited to get into this and the wet bench so for those of you who don't know this is the Praxis wet bench praxis is a brand of primo chill you guys público de primera chill I believe they're us-based anyway haven't had much to do with them but I first saw this beauty at the upgrade Australia 5.0 event a few weeks ago now those of you who watched that video would have seen what I'm talking about I'll throw some b-roll up for those that didn't but basically I went past the ple Computers booth and I had a very cool looking test bench setup which I comment in the video I very much liked anyway those guys are really cool as it turns out because they reached out to me and said Steve do you want one I've course said yes and they promptly got me one so here we are so inside we have a nice bit of foam with what looks like probably the instruction manual and all the bits for the test fed bench there's a lot of layers okay so as you can see I have the white version I believe it's what white and black this version looks like it's mostly white actually it could be all white it actually matches my the tower 100 bill very nicely not the two are going together or anything here we go I believe to these yeah this is the black so the acrylic pieces are black they would be the side panels and you can mount pumps and things on them and run tubing through them so very cool towards the end of the show I'll probably put this together and show you guys I'll do a separate video anyway on this I think it's very cool but we've got a bit to get through so I won't waste too much time just yet be a big thanks to the guys at ple computers for sending this out for me to use for one of my test systems probably do a risin system or something with this as I understand it in the US you can get this the wet bench in it's like it over a dozen different color options here in Australia right now purely computers I believe the only retailer that are selling the wet bench and they have it in the white black or the red black models and they're selling them for $270 Australian which is pretty pricey for a test bench but because it's such a sort of a custom thing the pricing generally is fairly high on them and it's 185 u.s. anyway so there's not really a huge markup or anything for it being sold in Australia so if you guys are after a really cool test bench that can take advantage of liquid cooling all that sort of stuff probably a lot like what you see on J's $0.02 channel then this would be the thing they get they'll set this up soon we'll take a good look at it so now we'll move on right so this next item I know what's in this so I won't keep you in suspense it is my new samsung s h plus phone and those that follow me on Twitter will probably know quite a few weeks ago I actually got my samsung s H plus this is another one it is a replacement so here we go brand-new replacement s8 plus why do I have a replacement s8 plus well here is my current s8 plus new one T and it has a dirty big chip outside of it or it's more of a part of the screens pretty much missing it has six huge hairline fractures I'll get some b-roll close-ups of that and it's also got a bit of a blow on the back of it as well so yeah for those of you that follow me on Twitter you will see that I got this a few weeks ago and I was mighty impressed super excited I opened up cos I'm not really a phone guy level that stuff to Tim I use my phone for Twitter messaging and phone calls not a whole lot of stuff really I don't spend much time on it mainly because I'm usually at my desktop PC but when I'm out about traveling it is good to have a really good phone especially something of a good camera so you can do those Instagram shots and tweets and whatnot so I wanted to upgrade to this from my note 4 which I don't actually have on me right now but my note 4 I did for two and a half years and I dropped the hell out of that thing properly over that time it had a dozen good Falls no scratches really definitely no cracks it's in perfect working order it's got a couple little bruises around the edges on the on the frame but nothing major it's got one dent in the back of it but because it's a textured plastic backing that's not a problem yeah I'd say the phones in really really good operating condition really liked it loved that phone it served me well but you know the camera and it's not great this is a huge improvement so pick this thing up straight away the phone just feels amazing even though it it's a bit slippery with the glass all around it some kind of like I'd like it to picking up a bar of soap at times it's that bad you can't pin it in here it just wants to slide out the whole time so you can't sort of fit in here and do the you've definitely got to put it on speakerphone so it's something to be aware of and you've got to be really careful picking up because it is a slippery sucker but it does feel incredibly nice very very premium and of course the screen just looks amazing there's no phone really out there that competes with it in terms of its screen performance is great like I said videos photos all fantastic or and great phone and you will if you've watched pretty much any reviews you will have heard reviewers raving about how good it is the problem is it's pretty much the most fragile phone I think it is the most fragile phone to ever be create and that's keeping iPhones in mind as well it makes those things look like tanks even the smallest slightest slip up and you're going to have a bad day with this thing even the slimline cases I've seen people have the sling cases on them drop them from less than the meter and that still shattered the screen so I've got this big bulky thing which I don't even really think will protect it from a decent fall anyway however how I broke mine probably should let you guys know that I had it in my pocket I was sitting in my desk chair and a fairly low setting I would have my backside would have only been about 40 centimeters off the ground and I have carpet so yeah it's fallen out of my pocket because like I said it's like it's on wheels basically when it's in your pocket it just flies out of there it's that slippery there's nothing to slow it down so it's fluid out of my pocket I didn't even hear or feel it coming out of my pocket the first I knew about it was when I hit the ground and I hit my plastic caster wheel before I hit the carpet and it obviously caught the screen right on the edge and it shattered in a big way you can feel the hairline fractures the whole way through the screen when you're swiping and stuff yeah the phone was something four days old and it's an $1,100 at least an $1,100 ozzie phone and yet it lasted me four days tiny fall from forty centimeters onto plastic and it shattered the screen and I was so disappointed and pissed off at the time that I picked it up and I literally decide onto my desk and crack to the back hey I don't know what it hit on my desk I think it was the edge of my keyboard it was just literally like what you just saw then yeah it's pretty pathetic how fragile it is I don't know if any of you guys have hopped over to square trades channel had look at their Galaxy s8 drop test just to show how fragile our phone is their chance was kind of extreme they test a six foot control drop landing on the screen and in the back both times it looked like the thing had been to war and back it was just looked like I had bullet holes all over the over it was just a complete mess and they say it's the most fragile phone they've ever seen I did a bit of googling what I did break it to see if there was any relatively cost-effective ways of replacing it turns out there wasn't but while researching I came across quite a few stories use swords that were quoting repair outlets saying that they're just absolutely loving these things their business is booming they've never seen a new phone released and then such a quick turnaround time but it's large volumes of cracked screens so again they were confirming they're just unbelievably fragile and it's at least starting price I think it's at least 300 Australian dollars to replace the screen I did have insurance online which I pay $15 a month for it was still two hundred and twenty dollars with Telstra so yeah that's fantastic so it cost me two hundred and twenty dollars to get a replacement phone after four days yeah I was already up for more than $200 to replace it so I won't be keeping it pretty much want to get rid of it or replace it with the new LG or something more durable I'll go to speak to Tim work out something that's better but it's really disappointing because otherwise I just love the phone it's so so nice to use it functions really well it just has zero durability rating so yeah very disappointing but I've got my new one now hopefully I'm going to put in a thick case so if you guys have one and know of a good case that I can get because I needed to supply up the week at Computex and right now I'm terrified to pick it up it's just the most impractical thing to have in your life just hopeless so I'm looking forward to getting rid of it and getting something else see I mean the reviews aren't bad on them the reviewers are alright as long as you don't drop it you're good to go but yeah I don't want to phone in my life for any item in my life or have to treat it that carefully because there is going to be a slip-up here and there like I said I've over the two and a half years up my note for probably a dozen slip-ups over that time things happen as they say really I wouldn't recommend this phone I feel cheated buying this it's just it really is rubbish it's that's that fragile it's not practical it's yeah it's not you I mean like I said the camera on it's amazing it's good for what I do but it's completely useless because if I dropped it from here to my desk it would probably shatter the screen there's a high probability of that happening that's not really good enough so I wouldn't recommend anyone get the new Samsung Galaxy s8 plus I'd recommend you avoid it like the plague so a lot of people can be upset that I've said that but yeah I'm going to get rid of mine that's my honest opinion I know Tim will be reviewing one shortly and he'll probably be going over how all great the features are like other reviewers have but he will be noting that it's extremely fragile and just be aware of that if you are going to have one that there's a good chance at some point you're going to break it unless you have a giant case so just to give you an example I mean this I'm not saying this is a fantastic case or anything it's something I just grabbed off eBay because I didn't want to take this anywhere without it being in a case so I've got this big rubberized thing that wraps around and you see how big and bulky and ugly it makes the phone I've never ever understood the point of cases I do not get them why buy a phone that needs one of these to survive just buy a durable phone like my note for that thing is pretty tough to break I gave it I mean I'm not I'm not super careless but I gave it a bit of a hard time I don't treat my phone like it's a precious gem and yeah that's just crap why would you put a sleek nice brand-new phone in something like that so like I said if you guys know of a good case that isn't like this let me because I would like to put this in it lastly I did come across a reddit post which I shouldn't say is funny because it's exactly my experience but only a few days after the phone was released the user jumped on reddit and there's dozens upon dozens probably hundreds upon hundreds of stories like this on the internet now you don't have to dig too far into the Google search results to find tons of people complaining about smashing their Sh screen but like I said mine slipped out of my pocket hit a caster wheel and hit the ground from 40 centimeter drop it was but obviously landed on the edge which is a very very weak fragile point of the phone this user said I love this phone it's exceeded my wildest expectations however I dropped my phone from less than a foot and it has shattered called a couple of phone shops and none of them fix it yet absolutely devastated has anyone else broken their screen and got it fixed and then another guy you know this is only a couple of days like less than a week after release and this user says I cracked my screen - but he already got it replaced he paid one hundred and forty eight dollars us which is about two hundred on Australian which is pretty similar to what I paid to have mine replaced and then you go on there's a few other people in here saying they've cracked their shadow Dez totally destroyed theirs and they're what they all have in common is extremely small drops they're not likely a six foot drop that our square trailer did it's just yeah literally half desk height onto fairly soft surfaces and they're shattering now you a enough whinging about the s8 plus I'll solve that issue by getting rid of mine hopefully in the not too distant future alright still really can you put that test bed together but we'll move on okay let's go are with this box here see what we got in here need something to make me feel better about just wasting three hundred and twenty dollars on a phone I just bought well that's going to do it I love getting a Norris graphics card in the mail and it's the new GTX 1069 gear bits per second model so that's going to cheer me up a bit I think I'll get into that and have a look as you guys know I did pick the R X 480 over the GTX 1060 and I was using the Auris brand rx 580 which is still here it is still floating around so this is the card I picked over the 1069 gierek's for second card I didn't have the Auris version because I obviously just received that so it might be interesting to do for the review a bit of a head-to-head with these two here we go okay so it's a very different design probably should not throw in that boxed anyway okay so I'd say there's a beefier cooler on the RX 5 OD card gigabyte of horse have stepped up their game on the Radeon cards that's pretty impressive this is definitely a more streamline model they're both ok so this one's through actually a three slot cooler whereas the Nvidia card is a true slot cooler so yeah more streamlined more slim and obviously just a single 8-pin connector you've still got that little copper insert in the back the back plates are actually quite similar not the same but similar does cover the whole length of the PC UV so the Auris GTX 1069 gigabits per second model this is selling for 400 us so the 90 beats per second 10 60s which I found to offer really nothing over the 8 gigabits per second models they're selling for quite a hefty premium that isn't really justified when it comes to performance and I don't see the card selling for four hundred and sixty-five dollars of these so yeah very pricey card I believe that makes it a bit more expensive or quite a bit more expensive than this big Oris rx 580 this one does have a I think the core clock out of the box is overclocked by 9% sixteen hundred and forty-five megahertz and I think that results in a boost frequency of 1870 ish I think it's 73 from memory and I think that's again that's about 10 percent overclock so out of the box you could expect at best up to about 10 percent over a stock card not that there is a Founders edition nine cubits a second 10 60 so yeah anyway it's a it's a good-looking card it's nice and slim it should fit into tightest spots in the rx5 a TiVo it is a fraction longer a couple of year longer shorter in the height Department and as I said it's a whole slot you know not that you can have these in SLI or anything like that anyway whereas you can have these in crossfire there you go perhaps a horas comparison between these two in the works yeah we'll see alright time to have a look at what's in this little package ah oh cool did not know this was coming so got some Crucial Ballistix memory here haven't looked at this stuff for quite some time so they are 16 gigabyte keeps each dual-channel 16 GB but kids I believe they've sent these for use with rising platforms but not 100% sure on that I imagine they are though so this is a 3200 kit 3000 kit I said they're both a gigabyte modules pair of a cubit modules in each kit both designed about at one point 3 5 volts okay so the timings for the 3,000 memory of 1516 1635 and for the 3200 memory they are also 15 16 16 35 so this is slightly more premium stuff which probably isn't that surprising looking at the heat spreaders on them and so this is ballistic tactical ballistic ballistics tactical and this would be their elite stuff I believe ballistics elite or something like that I don't recall and for some reason the name isn't on the packet so it's not helping me out at all cabbage has called ballistics I don't know anyway you will see these featured in some builds shortly yeah okay last but probably not least because it's the biggest box we have here is another MSI boxin looks like another laptop which is interesting because inside just sent me a laptop in the last episode wonder if there's sent me the same laptop twice that does happen you'd be surprised how often that happens not from MSI just from companies in general this is a brand new laptop this one that is a rare racing to get a brand-new laptop review sample normally they're all pretty well used by the time they get to us other stealth pro okay well this isn't the same as the one we got last week one last week that's probably giving you somehow reflection isn't it I can just tell the one last week was the Phantom Pro Phantom Pro you probably saw the review of that last night anyway enough waffling okay so this is a similar SPECT machine to the Phantom Pro though it is bigger that was a 14-inch model this is 15.6 still an IPS anti-glare panel full high-def so for high definition so still 1080p it has the 7700 HQ again we've got a geforce gtx 1066 gigabyte so again that's the same graphics card or GPU and then we have a 256gb SSD I believe that's an nvme so it's probably the same as the other one and a one terabyte secondary harddrive and 16 gigabytes of ddr4 so it looks to be very similar just slightly larger come on you can do it there we go Packaging is are also identical holy moly that is a thin laptop this the laptop with it Wow wow that is super nice holy moly so that is a seriously thin gaming laptop so that has a core i7 7700 and a GTX 1060 but it's got what looks like a massive heat sink in it for a quite long there and there so that's probably the GPU side CPU side there also there's ventilation on both sides as well and you can see heat sink things running so they're very multiple heat sinks in this thing by the looks of it at least four possibly five and a heap of connectivity as well this thing looks amazing Wow for such a thin laptop we have three USB type a ports three in this side card reader full-size Ethernet port dual audio jacks are like how far forward they are and then on the other side another USB 3 or maybe that's a USB 2 could be a type 2 it's a type a anyway so that's good for you know wireless mouse or something hdmi displayport no yes that's a display port and a type-c connector so that would be and it's got looks like a thunderbolt support there and your power important the power buttons hidden on the side is that's quite nifty and with some let's peel together the most satisfying part of any expensive purchase here we go you ready you ready satisfying now the moment I touched this nice brush just like I did there brushed aluminium panel it'll never look the same again but in this moment it looks quite spiffy indeed nice flat brushed aluminium panel I'm not really going to want to send this back maybe I can convince them to leave it with me so you guys leave a lot of comments saying I think MSI should leave this with Steve for future testing a lot of those comments I want to see and then that might convince them well it's got like a suede bottom that's very nice I'm really impressed with this thing I think I'm going to have to do a review on it I don't even think I'll Palm it off to Tim I want to check this out I'm actually pretty keen to see how the gaming performance with the 1060 in this thing is compared to our full Fire's desktop that's quite incredible it's got a steelseries keyboard and I just had a look online and it is seventeen point seven millimeters thick so that's incredible it's uh that's quite a bit thinner than the gigabyte error if you've seen that Tim just looked at and he was super impressive that hasn't got the super slim bezel in the bezel still quite slim but it's not a Fiero 15 but ya wouldn't say it's got a large bezel or anything like that yeah I'm going to only go play with this right now I think all right well that about does it for this episode of unboxing boxes I've got 32 gigs of memory from crucial so that will be going in a build you'll be seen that soon I've got the new 9 gigabits per second gtx 1060 the horas brand card and I'll probably review these two together cuz I haven't reviewed this car I did feature it in the massive 27 game comparison but I haven't done like a board partner card review on it so let me know what you guys think do you want to separate reviews or would you like to see these featured in the same review side-by-side I think that could be kind of cool something a bit different then I put that awesome at wet bench test bed I'm going to put that together right now so hopefully you'll see some b-roll of that in this video complete and then when I get back from Computex I don't think I'll have time this week so I've still got to do that Coolermaster build this week as well before I go to competition there's a few other things as well I've put into an RX 570 versus 10 63 gigabyte comparison it'll have probably happened on the weekend anyway a lot of stuff to do I also want to review that I don't know probably at a fit that in this week but I'm going to start testing and using it tonight playing some games I don't see no good it is for the super impressive that I'll probably take this to Computex with me as well as that one because yeah that's very cool yeah and then of course I've got my new phone which I'm going to have to pretty much just try and not drop so see how that goes and then this one I might have to do might actually do a cheeky drop test with it before I mail it back not that it's really necessary don't drop these by any more than about the length of the phone even then I reckon if you stood it on its end like that and let it fall forward under something it would shatter totally pathetic anyway that's kind of a rant a miserable downside of what's usually a light-hearted segment be a big THANK YOU to ple computers for sending out the weight bench can't wait to put together thank you to gigabyte for sending that out but obviously just want to review ha and msi for sending me this laptop they probably want to review as well but they're going to get one because this thing looks cool so that's it for this episode hope you guys enjoyed it hope it wasn't too much ranching and sort of miserable tone but anyway I'm your host Steve I'll see you again soon