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welcome back to harbor box for another episode of unboxing I unbox computer hardware in a therapeutic way not really sure where I was going with that intro sorry about that I've got to be the head of myself first package already opened we have a few packages here but just jumping right into it and what oh yes okay so this has been heavily requested on Twitter quite a few of you guys have direct message me asking me to check out this thing so what is this thing you'll ask well it has an interesting looking power cable and a little yellow packet right so in this yellow packet is a laptop thing it's a this one is a mini PCI Express HDMI version and what this does is basically this allows you to turn pretty much any laptop particularly in this case one with a mini PCI Express slot typically used for Wi-Fi dongles and things like that but if you're lucky you might even have a spare line it allows you to use an external door desktop GPU your typical district' discrete graphics card with your laptop so that's very very interesting indeed as keV would say aha so basically what it allows you to do is like I said you plug a discrete we've got one we've we've got a gtx 1070 so it goes our that away you pop your graphics card in it much like you would in any other PCI Express slot and it sits like that on your desk next to your laptop this then plugs into the mini PCI Express slot so you're going to have to take the bottom of your laptop off usually there might if you're lucky you might have like a little module that you can get in rather have to take the whole base of the laptop off but you could modify your laptop because this does need to be plugged in quite conveniently so when you get home you just plug that in part your graphics card and then you have the full power of this baby driving your laptop so it improves gaming out of sight so there's not a whole lot to this kit basically you have the HDMI cable at one end mini PCI Express Ella that obviously goes in your laptop cell below then to power it you have two choices I'll just take this out actually probably add some b-roll here to make what I'm explaining a bit easier you know there's a 12-volt DC input so you can use a laptop style external power bridge if you have one of those obviously it will need to deliver enough power to power your graphics card but a graphics card on its own doesn't consume a huge amount of power I will do a separate video on this where I explain all things in much more detail once I've done the appropriate research but the cheapest probably easiest way would be to use this connector that comes with it that goes to your mother earth so your standard ATX power supply so just any spare ATX power supply you can probably get like a 400 watt model for next to nothing so that's just a jump start it and then you will have a four pin power input here possibly the CPU for pin would go into that to power the graphics card then you will need to plug which I'm what I thought this kit came with that cable but it doesn't seem to you'll need to run a PCI Express power cable out and into the graphics card and yeah it's pretty sure this kit came with that I bought it off eBay so no doubts missing some bits yeah so that's how that works and then yeah you will go from so I've got a laptop with a pretty gutsy core i3 processor it works really well but you have to use the core i3 processors integrated HD graphics and as you guys know that runs like rubbish so pretty powerful laptop that tarp play games basically things like rocket League and all that a way out of its league so adding something even like a gtx 1050 $100 u.s. graphics card would make the laptop a whole lot more useful at least when you're at home and it's not a portable practical solution but if you've got a decent laptop like what i have and you don't want to go and spend thousands of dollars on a new laptop or $500 on the razor the bolt being wear doesn't even come with a graphics card or anything like that so this is a cheap cost-effective way of taking you grab your laptop the couldn't game and tuning its 110 game so I won't go into too much more detail at this I'll do a bit more research a bit more tinkering cuz I'm obviously never used one before see how well it works and if it is indeed worth the $55 u.s. $55 Australian delivered sorry I paid for this but of course you strive to bring a graphics card and the power supply and it looks like there's a few more cables required for us to look into whether that was meant to come with the cables or not alright moving on still haven't got over the flu yet killing near this thing but anyway we're getting there a lot better than I was last week hopefully next week will be a new week for me I'll be back to full power now this throttling business okay get that out of the way we'll go with this box what do we have here ah these are interesting okay okay pair of steel series headsets so that's interesting I have really looked at any of their products or headsets a long time I believe they're called the Arctic Octus five and after seven I'm sure if I'm pronouncing that wrong you guys will let me know in the comment section now let's have a look at with a look at the five first pretty funky looking box their box artwork actually it's very funky looking on the inside as well pretty pretty cool alright well right away I've got to say these feel very very premium and look very nice as well well this is I say this every time I get a nice new headset but yeah these do feel great they've got like a really really nice feeling rubberized material on the me ear cups there on the outside of them it feels really cool then you've got sort of a soft sporty feeling cushion it's got feels like got memory foam in it and then an adjustable band here on some metal clips again more of that soft rubber all up in here well they are super comfortable retractable mic it bends to where you want it quite well retracts nice and easily but I like a barely hear myself if they are insulate the ears very well they lay flat on your desk that's really good what have we got in the accessory bin even the cables themselves are very impressive little micro USB so we've got a micro USB to 3.5 mm audio jack so you can use them as an analog headset or you can plug them into this controller which looks like it would sit on your desk and wing in this as I go as I always do with the unboxing boxes series so if you don't want to use your sound card or whatever you have in your system you can get rid of that and you can plug this straight into this little nifty controller so a nifty little controller volume control theirselves an inline thing but rather than have it somewhere clipped on to you or whatever you can just sit that on your desks off you little where the headsets like a so you get them around the right way so it's fairly long you can set that controller quite a way away from you if you have it something like that on your desks off your keyboard was here volume control knob they're pretty easy to get to and then that USB cable has got to be metre and a half-ish long and that will go to your pc the other cool thing about these is you've got these obviously these custom nice cables they look really good but if you go to a LAN or a mate's place or something and if you get this cable you will still be able to use the headset because it has a 3.5 mm audio jack here as well so all you need to do is get a 3.5 mm audio jack male-to-male and you can plug it from here to your sound card and you're good to go or if you know down the track you happen to be a bit clumsy and lose this cable it doesn't mean the whole headsets written off or you have to pay some extreme fee to get this replaced you can just get a cheap 3.5 Mill audio jack here we go plug that in there obviously have a longer one in this but then goes TAC on card and they still work you won't you'll lose obviously the USB 7.1 you know virtual sound feature or whatever what do you guys don't really care for that anyway yeah I really like this and the custom cables look very nice very cool indeed and just the headset overall feels really nice all right before wasting too much more time I should probably check out the more expensive headset and then just go over a few key features of each I might give them a quick test source here we go okay so again funky packaging nice-looking stuff oh wow and this is the next level version so I believe this is a wild headset I do love a wireless headset actually to be fair I pretty much like any wireless peripheral okay so we've still got a heap of cable so it probably does wide and Wireless so here is our USB wireless receiver for the headset and you can also plug lining and line out to that so you can use this with without having to use it wirelessly so for example he would plug that into there and then that into there and now there are wide headset it also has a USB cable so you can go directly to your PC without having to use the wireless module at all so there's plenty of options here for how you want to connect it to your PC so there it's as a while a white headset you've also got a 3.5 mm audio jack so you can plug it in that way and just use your analog audio Sony actually just have that as well yes so I didn't cover that so both of these headsets have on ear cup volume control and the ability to mute the mic and then of course they've always have that retractable microphone that works and looks quite good well I don't know how well it works it haven't tested it but given how nice these are I can't imagine it's terrible this has a nice band the whole way around and then a steel headband so super durable feels very similar to this headset slightly heavy heavier and say possibly only slightly heavier but it fits on your head really nice you're not going to throw that off an attached room too easily and again that folds flat so they both hold flat on the desk I can see that all the swivels and things like that they're all made out of steel so they're not going to snap very easily well then I've got a snap it all basically so yeah very high quality premium headset again the memory foams in these which feels awesome and the breathable ear cups so you won't get too sweaty and you've got that really rubberized material on the outside of the ear cups as well thing I like about them as well they're not a fingerprint magnet at all like so when you're picking them up there's nothing worse than having a gloss headset because they just look terrible so a few quick details these Bose headsets are available in black or white obviously I've got the black version so you can get them in white also and they have quite impressive drivers in them so they're both got neodymium forty millimeter drivers in each ear cup and these are apparently their s1 drivers that's what skills here is call them and they're the same drivers they feature in their $300 headsets so they're supposed to be quite impressive so good to see they're offering them in these though these aren't super cheap so yeah these ones the actus fives they are $100 u.s. or a hundred and seventy dollars Aussie but they feel like they're worth every bit of it obviously have still got a test to see how good they sound but yeah quality wise they certainly look like a headset that would cost that much and then the wireless version is it's actually pretty good value in the u.s. it's only $150 u.s. in Australia that's two hundred and sixty dollars so quite pricey down under so if I get a chance I'll have a bit more of a look at them towards the end of the episode but we've got a few more things to get through so I won't spend 20 minutes on the headset let's jump into these which are clearly both Nass products I'll put this one down here okay so those of you who haven't guessed this is from serology and yeah definitely an app in this box a big knife come on I'm getting awake okay des 1517 plus so one of the big boys and this is a brand new model okay this is a serious-looking Nass this one I know Nass devices are particularly popular with you guys because as most of you are quite tech savvy and PC and thoose and like to mess around with stuff if you were going to have a file server or storage whatever you just make your own using something like FreeNAS or just Windows so I get that that's why I don't really review many of these on the channel but I have to say I really do like these Nass devices especially now that I'm doing stuff like tools of video work and editing in that I don't really have time to be messing around FreeNAS and stuff like that I mean it's not terribly difficult but just things like you know maintenance and all that sort of stuff and upgrade just a bit more time consuming a bit more stuffing around and what really makes sense with these and what makes them practical is that you don't need to be a computer expert to have one and that's obviously who they're targeting which is again why I don't really review them on the channel because most of you guys know exactly what you're doing with PC hardware not that interested in a friendly little box for storing your data but I found it useful for me because when I'm at somewhere like Computex for example and I need someone locally like my wife or someone at home to access data off this or do something for me they can do it without a problem you don't need a degree in computer science to work it out and I mean that's who there are targeted at so basically small companies that don't want to pay for IT so and have an IT department I just want to get one of these take out of the box put the CD in they still have an optical drive or just type in fine Synology comm and it walks through the most easy setup ever basically anyone can set this up it's pretty much one of the easiest bits of software and kit to use and that's why there were so much because they spend a lot of time developing the software so it's not so much the hard way you're paying for the hardware in this particular model is quite good and we'll get to that now so as I said this is a Synology dis station it's the 1517 plus model and has five three and a half inch drive three five and a half inch drive bays kind of bit slow at the moment power button they're everything but basically inside you get a quad-core Atom processor runs at 2.4 gigahertz no boost on that particular model 2 megabytes of level 2 cache no level 3 cache and it's a 15 watt TDP processor so you can leave this running 24/7 and it's not pretty much of a dent in your power bill basically the hard drives inside will be consuming more power than the hardware itself or the operating Hardware around the back you will find four rj45 Gigabit Ethernet ports and they can all be used together with link aggregation single client will only get a hundred megabytes per second throughput even with the link aggregation but it just means multiple users can be hammering the unit once and be getting close to maximum throughput it looks like in total we have four USB 3.0 ports throughout the back one on the front and then you'll notice some eSATA ports and these can be used to connect to external expansion unit so you can take it well if you use 10 terabyte 10 terabyte hard drives you'll have 50 terabytes of storage with this model and I think you could probably add another hundred terabytes or so with external storage devices so yeah plenty of storage there and then you'll notice here we have a PCI Express expansion slot and Synology this doesn't come as standard I don't believe they've sent this long as a bonus there m2 d-17 and basically what this is is a PCI Express half-height adapter card plug that in and it will allow you to insert to MDOT to SSDs I believe of the nvme variety and they basically use basically act as high-speed cash drive so you can cash cash cash the data on the five hard drive so stuff that's being accessed heavily will come through really quick though to take advantage of that you will really want ten base or ten gigabit ethernet rather than the one gigabit so interesting you really need a card that offers the cash or the cash you really need a card that offers the caching ability as well as upgraded networking and finally for those of you wondering it is $700 us for this model so it's a top tier sort of small to medium business targeted model would be a very premium for home users bidding like 700 dollars us and that translates to about a thousand and sixty-five dollars Australian so yeah I'm keen this won't be as I said you guys really aren't interested in this I get that the video or the if I reviewed this other channel wouldn't get that many of you so I'm not going to bother might be something I do in the future but this will be going up on text spot so you'll see that I'm textbook within the next few weeks or so okay well I'm banging on about maths devices might as well get this guy out of the way so this is Q Knapp's brand new TS four or five 3b and again this is a small to medium business class math device so very premium for home users but this would actually suit home users probably a lot better than this one would because of the features so I'll just grab it out so basically this guy here is the jack-of-all-trades there isn't much this thing can't do it's basically an all-in-one nass solution whatever that means making things up as I go all right so on the front here we have a USB 3 type-a port but the most interesting part is we do have a Type C and both of these are used for the quick access function so you can there's a few ways this works you can plug storage in like an external hard drive hit that button and it will quickly copy everything off the drive to a designated folder on the nests so that's great for quickly dumping photos I think photographer you can also use the SD card slot just to you so if you take your SD card out drop it in there to have to jump on the computer anything just hit that button and it'll put it all in a folder that you've selected so that's nice and convenient also alternatively with a cable which isn't provided so if you have a type C cable you can even use the the type a if you have a basically a cable that can go from here to the USB port on your your notebook or your desktop or whatever you can use this as a - so direct-attached storage so if you take it somewhere where there's no network or for whatever reason the networks down or something along those lines you can still access your data on here quickly and conveniently using a USB cable and that's something you can't do with this guy for example something else really interesting about this model is the front panel how it opens and closes which I'll show you in a moment basically most devices have what you'll see here on the Synology where the drives are all exposed and you can just pop them in and out like that these ones are lockable but yeah that's the more traditional style so knowledge is more mainstream home oriented and asteroids they do have a front panel that goes over but that uses rubber grommets to pop in and out and it's quite difficult to get back on once you pull it off so that's a bit annoying it's not super quick convenient whereas this is there's a little lock on the side here wants you to push that down and unlocks it and you just that's it and now you can just pull the drives there and just push this little clip down drives come out and they are also toolless as well so you just pop the drive in pop that back in and you're good to go slide that in later so and then this just slides back on and then this just slides back on so easy it is actually really easy if you're not a bloody bonehead alright flipping around the back we do find some interesting things here we have a pair of HDMI outputs and they do support 4k displays so that's really cool you can utilize some software that and if you our home user which you wouldn't really be buying this model for being a home user but you could watch 4k movies or any type of content using those there's also audio out and then you can use the USB s to connect up keyboard and mouse pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports power input so it does have an external power brick and that is a massive 120 millimeter fan which is quite large for a full banner especially a compact one I mean this is a 4 Bay that's the fireface you can see there's quite a large difference in size performance wise this is still very snappy it's got a quad core Celeron basic SOC and that operates at a base frequency of 1.5 gigahertz which is quite low but it can boost up as high as 2.3 gigahertz so it should be still quite snappy the other cool thing about this model is like the expensive Synology here this one also has a PCI Express expansion slot and Tunip have some really awesome options they sort of one-up Synology that you can go with a card much like the one I just showed you that supports a pair of nvme SSDs and it also has a 10 Gigabit Ethernet port as well so that's a huge upgrade for this model I think that's I think it's 206 dollars u.s. so it is quite pricey don't quote me on that it's somewhere around 200 ish dollars but there's four versions of it as well at stagger down and price that have varied feature sets and just finally I would like to note that this model comes with either 4 gigabytes or 8 gigabytes of memory out of the box and I strongly recommend anyone interested in this model forget about the 8 gigabyte version because it cost an absolute arm and a leg they're charging something like a hundred and seventy dollar US premium for another 4 gigabytes of memory and we know 4 gigabytes memory only costs about $40 u.s. for laptop style memory so your mat it's very easy to upgrade you don't void your warranty upgrading the memory in this model so yeah I would and it's expandable to 16 gigabytes so yeah don't buy the eight gigabyte model is basically what I'm getting at there okay final package what do we have here some bubble wrap some pink bubble whoo-hoo-hoo okay yes just the one all right would it be an unboxing boxes episode without a graphics card so a couple of them is excited about rx 560 but yeah I've been trying to get one of these for a long time the RX 560 has been a rare commodity probably more so now that the AMD GPUs are all being snapped up by miners I have a video that sort of touches on that later in the week I'm done quite a few of you asked me to do a mining benchmark video so I've looked into doing that anyway this I want for another video that I'm even more excited about and that is the updated rx 560 vs. GT x 1050 and I'll throw on the 1050 Ti and basically that's a look at which is the best value 100 dollar GPU obviously these will be all out of stock right now you won't go to buy one for hundred dollars but that's going to change before long I mean we've seen these mining booms before they are called mining booms for a reason so things will settle down hopefully before too long and you'll be able to buy one of these though I don't recommend you buy this particular version sorry about that gigabyte nothing wrong with the gigabyte card mind you it's just this is a full gigabyte version and they start about $140 u.s. when they are in stock and yeah massive waste of money do not buy the four gigabyte versions get the two gigabyte cards don't listen to anyone that says all two gigabytes that's not enough for 1080p gaming in 2017 that won't be enough in 2018 and beyond bla bla bla bla bla completely ignore them a full gigabyte card is a complete and utter waste of money the GPU itself doesn't have anywhere near the power to utilize a full gigabyte vram buffer so save yourself a heap of money and get the two gigabyte card $400 it's very important with these lower NT cards that you do buy the cars that are priced at the MSRP because even paying a $20.00 premium for something like this is just a huge waste of money you're not going to see that translate into other performance so your base model rx 460 RX 5 60s rather same same true for the 60b a base-model rx5 60s base model GTX 10 50s and 1050 t is all the way don't buy premium cars I don't believe there is a Norris version of this card anyway so no extreme rx 560 that would be absolutely stupid but yeah I'll have a quick look at the card see although this is the full gigabyte model that I recommend you don't buy the exact same card is available with two gigabytes of vram and it sells or will be selling for $100 u.s. not 140 this guy sells for but even at 120 dollars I still wouldn't recommend paying $20 us for this car because there's really no situation where it's going to provide you better performance it just as I said the GPU simply doesn't have the horsepower to utilize that much memory so complete waste of money there yeah Compaq nice little card looks like gigabytes gone pretty heavy on the cooling for an hour X 560 you got looks like - really big a jewel length eight millimeter heat pipe I believe so and it is it's only a single heat pipe but it is an eight millimeter copper heat pipe that looks like it snakes through the entire length of the card and the cooler spans the whole length of the card takes up all two slots as well so dual slot cooler yeah I think that should run rather cool get the most out of the rx 560 of the rx 500 series we obviously have the rx 550 which we've looked at and that's I think that's priced at 70 or 70 or $80 us and that's pretty poor value at that price it really needs to be about $50 u.s. but that is a completely new bit of silicon in the rx 550 the rx 560 is the same silicon as the rx 460 but it's fully unlocked so you do get 1024 SPU's or cause with the RX 560 so that's about a 14% upgrade over the 460 so you should expect around about a 10% boost in performance that would probably be a bit more than that because those calls are clocked six percent higher as well so more cores clocked higher so it should be a good bit faster than the rx 460 which is good because the rx 460 if I'm honest - pretty much sucked the rx far the RX force 7g is what I'm coming from struggling big time here haha that was really exceptionally good value and then the 460 was just a massive letdown but anyway the second I finish filming here I'm going to run upstairs Chuck this in the test system and get benchmarking I've already spent the last few days benchmarking there ten fifty and the ten fifty TI I've done that in 30 games so it's gonna be a big benchmark video and I've basically it's all at 1080p and I've customized all the presets for them so basically it'll be a combination of medium to high at 10 P with these cards for targeting around 60 FPS so realistic settings realistic resolution and realistic graphics cards so yeah it'll be a good comparison it's a bit of a shame you can't buy these right now because it makes the comparison a little less meaningful but as I said before long these will return to the MSRP s you better buy them again and my comparison will be useful to you just notice my shotgun Mike had swiveled around was pretty much aiming at the ceiling so I hope you're them too terrible for this episode really struggling guys I'm going to end it there not the most exciting unboxing episode so hopefully yeah hopefully it wasn't too bad hopefully I can edit it and make it a bit more entertaining B I got some new hardware really keen to test this out got a few nasty devices there that'll be reviewed on Tech's spot some really cool headphones I not going to test them out for this episode I just don't have the energy if I'm honest but I'll probably give them a test and show them in an upcoming episode because yeah they do look good at least report back on them anyway because they definitely look well worth testing very very good build quality high looking high quality looking headset so yeah I'll test them out yeah I'm going to leave it on that long guys thanks for watching hopefully I'll be back to full fighting form in a few more days it's been about 10 days with this bloody flu so yeah hopefully I can fully beat it soon and get back to creating some content but I've got quite a few interesting upcoming videos in the works so stay tuned I'm you know you Steve see again soon guys you