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welcome back to harbor unbox for another episode of things in boxes getting taken out of boxes and shown to you on camera that seems far too descriptive I we've settled on a name we've done other heap of times now anyway it's the series that inspires so many young kids to become tech youtubers so I'm just wondering do you get to keep all the hardware and how do you ask companies for it do they just send it out I think I'll start a YouTube channel too because I want free stuff well Little Billy it's really quite simple start by reviewing the computer hardware you already have maybe get some gear from your friends and review that as well create some guides or tutorials based on that gear then after that invest about 10,000 ish dollars on extra hardware camera gear lighting and so on then spend about say one or two years working basically for free grinding away creating a video at least every other day and then you'll probably have put yourself in a position to receive some cool free hardware though be aware nothing is really free the hardware will have to be reviewed so there'll be more work and you will have to generate some kind of exposure for said hardware or the manufacturers simply won't send it gotcha I'm just kidding start a YouTube channel with some dumb name like harbor and box fire off a few emails and voila let's get unboxing right so I think first up we'll get rid of this big case box I'll just put all our side there so we don't knock anything off because I haven't got that much desk space and you're not a huge mystery as to what we have here it's a rather large or really a typical sized ATX standard ATX mid tower sized box but it is from Silverstone and this is their premier PM 0-1 and it is the RGB version it looks like we've got I know there's a few different versions here so I don't know if it says on the box which one we've got out and off all the boxes the same they probably are but there's one with a cool kind of looks like a unicorn clap tight design I don't know what we have here doesn't seem to say on the box so at least some of this or this portion of the unboxing boxes will be a surprise are you ready here we go and it's upside down but it's around the right way kind of so it's not a complete fail well it is black and it looks like it's probably the matte black version all right the final unveiling are you ready I know you are here we go all right hopefully this is framed okay on camera if not I'll check out some b-roll anyway we've got double plastic er not one way out well now we've got one layout can you tell it's very cold in Melbourne today okay it's off always one so as you guys can probably tell this has a tempered glass side panel and it is got quite our quite a heavy tint on it so you can't doesn't shop the mess inside the case at things like RGB lighting of course that will shine through quite nicely and yeah basically the stuff you want to highlight will look good so it looks like we do have more more flashes before okay I won't need to go to Jemma today because you know i go to i go to gyms all right so impressive thick tinted panel and we've got a black strip at the bottom which hides sort of the mess at the bottom of the case I think it's also so the RGB looks like we've got like a built-in light strip here sort of makes that effect a bit more impressive I'm going to sit this over here hopefully I don't smash it let's have a look what we've got here so I suppose I should tell you how much the case costs before we get too far into it okay so there are basically two models of this case there's the higher-end RGB version which I have and that is I believe it's about a hundred and thirty US or a hundred eighty dollars Australian and then you can get a non RGB model which comes with fixed colour lights I believe it's either red LEDs or blue LEDs depending on the color you get and that's a bit more affordable with 110 dollars u.s. or I think it might be 160 Australian could be wrong on those pricing but somewhere around there so it's not super expensive but not cheap either so I believe what I have here is the matte black verge virgin version RGB white so now you can set the lighting to whatever color you want so it could be quite a colorful affair but it will also come in a titanium color so I believe that some sort of grayish color and then of course white so yeah and then alternately you can get it in a gloss black I believe or it's a black that's not a matte black so pre-installed upfront we find four no sorry three 140 millimeter RGB fans with a looks like a 140 just a standard sort of fan in the back having a look here I'll chalk up some b-roll and there's a cool built-in RGB sort of white strip along the bottom here that's not something you often see in cases so that's pretty cool it's very custom and then you've got a basement section here for the PSU and all the table a couple of table grommet holes here and there and I imagine the whole back sections opened up there is quite a lot going on around the vacuum let me try and work out and explain what we have so it looks like we have a fan hub here so we've got three fans already plugged into the fan hub so you can put five more into there so it doesn't looks like it's eight and total a couple of velcro cable ties spots here so that's cool we're starting to see them used quite commonly then it looks like this is probably an RGB controller yeah no look that is an RGB controller there so there's a switch here to turn the RGB lights on and off and I believe this can then be hooked into your motherboard so if you have like aura lighting or you know the the asrock RGB lighting stuff or MSI's mystic lighting that could hook into that and then using your motherboard through the software you can control the fans RGB lighting as well as the strip so you'll see we've got at least the three fans and the front hooked into it and we have the is there an RGB strip in the top yeah so there's an RGB strip preinstalled customer Demi strip in the bottom and the top so that it's going to give an amazing lighting effect especially behind that tinted glass window and they both plug into here as well and it looks like it's possible to plug at least two more RGB type devices into that it is powered by a SATA power cable that's the fan the fan control the fan hub so start a power cable we'll Parador and that is awesome to see I hate us when there's four pin molex connectors so yeah start a power awesome and then off this fan hub it can be PWM controlled via the motherboard there's a four pin fan header which will go to the motherboards that can control the whole hub so that's pretty cool so yeah it's looking like sort of money it's very well equipped a lot of really nice features and the LED light strips are really impressive I'm actually a lot of planning on doing a build in this but it's really cool so we might have to do something like that in the near future something unique about the RGB stuff with this case is the fact that they have got these really cool-looking fan grilles and now what is RGB lit on this case so the fans behind them are clear so the RGB all the light emitted from them will go through the fan and give you that cool RGB family yeah they're something a bit different there's quite a few different things about this case Silversun are definitely trying to sort of set their cases out from the sea of RGB tempered glass cases how exist on the market all right big case out of the way time to get into a few more of these smaller more manageable boxes we'll start with this one from as rock because as rock always sort of serve up some very cool and exciting products most likely motherboards but you never know okay there's a FedEx box which feels like it has another box in it so we are actually unboxing boxes to be unboxed on this episode of unboxing boxes as advertised oh well we have a very cool box here yep got one of them I've still got the gigabyte x-29 or is gaining nine sitting down here in the box have another chance to look at that yet got to clear a few things have getting to be out of hand so we'll take a look at the x3 99 fatality gaming board in a minute we have another board here I think you know another box now well they're both AMD motherboards but they could not be more opposite ends of the motherboards spectrum all right we have a little a320 m-pro for and that is obviously designed mostly take advantage of the new Verizon 3 CPUs the r3 1200 and 1300 X and that will definitely be priced under $100 u.s. so we'll check that in a second and then we have this guy in a bit of tape all right I daresay most of you are probably wanting to have a quick look at this board so we'll do that I won't spend too long on it if we did just look at the Tai Chi board which is sitting right there as a matter of fact and I know this board is very similar themed slightly differently so I won't even bother taking me out of the foam I'll chuck up some b-roll of it so you guys can get a better look so in terms of features this is pretty much what we've seen from the Tai Chi is essentially the exact same board like I says just seemed a bit different you look a bit differently the main things to my knowledge that they've changed or rather added is it now has creative Sound Blaster cinema 3 audio support so you get the creative software and let's do a few fancy audio related things and probably one of the bigger upgrades especially if you're doing like a workstation build or something which is a little ironic since this is the gaming version and this really isn't a gaming feature is 10 Gigabit Ethernet definitely more of a workstation productivity PC type thing than gaming and you also still keep the two Intel do you give it network controllers as well with this board so there'll be three rj45 connectors on the i/o panel but yeah I mean it's a bit silly putting gaming in the word for NEX 399 board but I get why they do it because they'll no doubt they still many gamers with deep pockets looking for a cool motherboard and yet this is a very cool one so anyway you get all the other stuff to three ultra m2 ports before PCI Express times 16 slot so it looks like again the second and fourth slot are only wide four eight times bandwidth eight SATA port so you got to eight games of course take advantage of the quad channel memory 11 phase vrm and because this does have the 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution and the suppose the slightly better audio it is around $100 more than the Taichi I think this board is for 40 US and you're paying about 340 us for the tyshee that works out to be about 694 this board in Australia or 564 taichi so yeah basically if you want 10 times the internet internet 10 times the network throughput over the Taichi then you want this it is cheaper than buying a standalone 10 Gigabit Ethernet expansion card so yeah anyway no doubt a very cool board and I'll be featuring that on the channel soon in a few videos on to the little guy so I have looked up the price of this board and I obviously haven't tested it or even used it yet I just took out of the box just a second ago but I already sort of have mixed feelings about it and the reason for that is because I don't really like the a320 boards to begin with because I am a PC enthuses like many of you and I do like to do things like overclock and that's why I like the r3 1200 because it's 20 dollars cheaper than 1300 X you can save 20 bucks overclock it to at least to 1300 X level of refinement generally quite a bit more and you can do that at all no additional costs while saving $20 with this board the 3900 X possibly makes more sense that I'll have to do that testing it's at least similar in terms of value this is about the only reason why you would buy a 1300 export is if you bought a cheaper a320 that you couldn't overclock with so you wanted to get the extra performance by getting these CPU with the higher clock multiplier out of the box the issue is you can buy be 350 boards starting for around $60 definitely $70 will get you a good be 350 board this board here I believe right now is selling for $65 us and it isn't it for it is an on sale in Australia yet but you can it'll be at least $100 Aussie so $65 us for an a320 board and you can get be 350 both starting at $60 so are you I don't know I don't I don't know I can't think of a reason why you would buy this board as well it's going to hate me for saying that because I just suck me the board and say hey check it out on box and I'm like I don't know where you buy it but yeah it does have four dimm slots which the cheaper boards I start like $40 now and I think for actually no that could be wrong maybe $50 yeah don't rush out and try and buy one for 40 I think they're $50 u.s. there they definitely no more than that and you can get I think as rocker offering the a320 em HDV and the a320 em d GS and then just the a320 em and all those boards are $50 I believe so $15 US cheaper miss board they do only have two DIMM slots this has four so it does have more flexible memory support but then again you get four dims for I think it's about $10 more and you get a be 350 board so I guess the easiest way to look at it is you can buy Rison three 1300 X plus this board to just under $200 u.s. and you plug it in it just works for like for basically the same price or even slightly cheaper let's say the same price you can get a be 350 board with the 1200 change one sitting in the bias and achieve greater performance so as a PC enthusiast this doesn't make any sense but I could see why some people might fire have I ranted enough and sort of destroyed this board enough do you think just move on let's just move on apologies as Rach yeah send me one of the cheap boards and other will build with that alright let's see if I can be a bit more positive about this forward there they are X 399 board though is awesome awesome very cool workstation board are so getting back to what we have here whatever we have here it's a white FedEx bag but some I think I think is chair this one open didn't even leave my black knife get out of here you ready step over there that's the back of the box creative sound card it's actually very cool one I don't believe this is available in Australia yet Brian over at echo city a review but not that long ago absolutely loves it he's a bit of an audio buff they off camera battery just went flat where was I yes right so Brian over tech yes said he did a review on this quite some time ago now over a month ago he got an early sample that creative offered me one around the same time but I passed because I'm not yeah not big into the sound card stuff not my area of expertise but I let Brian take care of that one and it turns out it's actually an extremely good sound card he absolutely loved it and yes since then it's pretty much got rave reviews across the internet so if you're looking for a sound card this may be one to get now better this is a sound card I know what you're thinking and yes it does have loads of RGB wiring so you can check that check box it's a it's an RGB Bonanza quite a cute little neatly wrapped static bag there maximum static bag points looks like you have to tear it open it's that tightly packed okay so for those of you who are think sound cards are boring and unnecessary and yadda-yadda well have you seen a sound card that looks like this and just wait because once you plug this in I'll definitely throw some b-roll up of this plug-in because it is a very impressive looking song card but of course sound cards aren't about flashy lights and looking pretty they're about delivering really nice crisp audio and apparently that's exactly what this does so for those of you sitting there wondering why it's oh well it does support 32-bit 384 kilohertz playback and it does that using the ESS is 1916 k2m saver solution so yeah it's a very impressive a couple of things that Brian has focused on or at least what really impressed him about it was things like the crosstalk there was just no leak there didn't the left and right channels didn't merge or blend or you know as I said leak at all it was the lowest crosstalk he's ever seen from a sound card solution so he was absolutely blown away by that he found things like bass and a lot sort of stuff to just be awesome through it and whenever it comes to audio stuff I usually follow what Brian says you haven't set me wrong yet so I will be plugging anything later today and seeing how it sounds and also be testing the mic inputs and stuff like those well doing a bit of recording with it be a pretty cool sound card of course for such it is an extremely premium sound card it is rather expensive I don't have official Australian pricing though it is available on eBay for two hundred and forty dollars Australians so yeah quite pricey and it's about $150 u.s. but if you like high quality audio and this will smoke whatever onboard audio you can get even on the very best motherboards before I wrap this up there is one more thing on a touch arose realize I don't even know if I've told you guys what it's called I've talked about the price and a few features random unboxing anyway it is the sound blaster a 5a e5 and it is creatives first ever sound card to feature what they call xampp technology and that is a custom-designed discreet headphone amplifier each channel is individually amplified allowing it to deliver as well in creatives words pristine audio quality but as I said Brian found very little crosstalk or virtually none to speak of and was full in a way by the audio quality so there you go a quick little look at it I'm going to plug it in later and check it out I don't know if I'll review it because like I said I'm not really a serious audiophile like brian is that I totally take his word he knows his stuff when it comes to audio and this sort of stuff really excites him the only drawback I see with this product is the fact that I think and don't quote me on this I will have to confirm it do a bit of research they think for the RGB lighting to work because it is all fire vault stuff you need to plug in a 4 pin molex connector which is a bit I mean if you have to have an external power try to use side of these days guys and the 4 pin marks cables suck but anyway apart from that yeah good looking see on card of course you don't have to have the RGB lighting on some people may prefer not to and yet on a final note the RGB lighting can be tied in to your mother boards you know MSI mystic wiring a sous or and light sort of stuff we have two boxes left let's get into them okay they're very heavy unusually heavy oh yeah huh it's about time seriously I've been left out in the cold for so long now I don't know if you guys can see it but it's about time I've been I tweeted out the other day that I want to do a 30 game benchmark looking at Vega 56 and the 64 cards I was expecting the receive soon looks like soon is now and I'm going to get benchmarking very very shortly all right so let's see what we got here anyway I don't actually know what aimed at offense okay so no clues so far as to what is in here but it is an AMD a Radeon RX Vega graphics card of some description hopefully it's not another 56 card okay I believe I've honestly have no idea which way or okay the whole thing just falls apart you guys have seen guys unbox these you know how it works I didn't actually watch any of themselves too busy trying to catch up that's cool feel like I'm a bit late to the party on the whole unboxing Vega though there's stuff in here something there okay okay I hope that's not a Vega 56 card Vega 64 all right that's very very exciting very exciting late to the party but still very excited to get testing that AMD and there are creative packaging these days and I put this all back together stay oh okay there you go back together let's put that aside alright final package final package what are we at like 30 minutes okay actually since this one's open the way it has I'll share it with you guys the first first look at what we have the money shot as its officially referred to now are you ready brace yourselves huh another radio rx Vega box what do we have in this one Oh alpha wolf aah hoo I wasn't sure if I was getting one of these I don't think there are many of these in the country at the moment even now a week sort of well kind of a week after release okay so this is another fall apart and everything goes everywhere style box very practical I like it I know it's not actually I take the basket sir it's a hey we just open like a box box you ready okay there we go ah that was mad exciting a little bit and I'm far from the first person who ever Wow well oh look I get another thing cool which I didn't put the other one around there you go - giant acrylic block things alright alright I've got some tests we do here what is in these is just like a power adapter or something oh wow that's cool I feel some b-roll that I honestly didn't watch a single Rx of a your unboxing so I have no idea what others got with it but here like sort of we got with our strawberry part here is a Vega die so that's basically Vega 64 they're the full silicon Vega 56 will be the same and then to HBM stacks so that's that's super cool I wonder I finally want to go back into this one enough is there anything in this one oh there is awesome I got to yeah when I win they're actually slightly different hmm well no that's all about anyway you guys are probably seen any iced tea we've seen all this before from 40 other reviewers but whatever it's new to me finally finally wow that is an awesome looking graphics card sorry cool well I'm out of here see you guys I think I benchmark you you