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welcome back to harbor unboxed today we have a couple of boxes on hand I think there's gonna be some pretty cool stuff in these two boxes here we also of course have the garbage bag that I forgot to look at in the last episode we'll finally get some closure you guys will get to find out what's in the garbage bag and this just arrived I actually have no idea what is in it it was in a little plastic bag which I've taken it out of because I the shipping label didn't say what it was so I was a bit intrigued but I haven't opened it up yet new package from Intel so a little suspicious if there's anything that I can't show you guys I'll have to blur it out and we'll have to move on but I don't think there is it was yeah a bit of a weird one so we'll get is that first we can safely assume that it is from Intel unless it's someone just using Intel packaging but we have that and now a standard whitish looking box take a break grab your cup and get ready to see what Intel's been brewing more 8th gen Intel Core processor goodness coming soon well certainly sounds very nice so what have we got in here whoa that's definitely coffee ok fuel up with some robust and bold innovation alright well that's gonna come in handy for all the benchmarking I think I'm gonna have to be doing over the next week or so ok then we've got oh that's a bit disappointing that's my new Intel mug maybe we have to piece it together maybe it's a build build your own mug yeah this hasn't gone well at all looks like it's in four pieces it looks like I've been sent a smashed mug bust out a bit of Tarzan's grip and I'll be able to fix that up no problems looks better from that side there's a bigger chip take it out this side it's probably in the box somewhere okay so that was an interesting little package there from Intel we have some coffee which I'll try that out before the end of the episode we'll give the coffee a go and see if it uh if it'll give me all the energy I need to get through all the benchmarking then we have a little packet of chalk four sticks of chalk not sure how that relates to the whole coffee thing I assume this is something to do with the code name being coffee lake I don't know I don't really know where the chalk falls into that but my kids will be happy to have four new sticks of chalk there's broke one of them getting it open so everything's broken now cool well I think we're just going to move on from this pretty quickly thanks for sending the mug Intel I wish it had it got here in one piece TNT might have been a bit rough on the handling on that one I'm just gonna hmm her coffee smells nice anyway all right let's move this out of the way we'll tackle this box here because I think this is going to be one of the highlights of today's episode so you might as well after the disappointment of that first package get into something which should be guaranteed to be good it says Zee 370 godlike gaming on both sides of the box so if it's anything but I'll probably be disappointed all right let's get into this let's get going now I know Intel had you on the edge of your seat with that coffee gag but what have we got here oh yeah okay MSI z3 70 gaming God like there's a bit of paper in there with some media sample qualification information but all right let's get into it we'll get that out levels the board well I definitely can't read anything off of that because that will definitely be in breach of NDA can't talk about any pricing information or any performance information and that was covered in benchmark figures so what we can talk about is this massive and very awesome looking at 370 motherboard MSI and fantex have got together to give you an LED light strip with your motherboard mmm this looks pretty cool I'll get that in a second the i/o shield looks a bit special it's got two different themed covers red and black or silver and black yeah silver and black and red and black what else we got in here some braided SATA cables that's a bit I've got a red and black braided pair of braided start okay SATA cables as well okay let's check this thing out Wow I'll have to throw up some b-roll of this and give you guys a good look out from all angles cuz it's it's a bit special looking is there anything on the back of it no just a standard looking board on the back oh there are a few heat spreaders behind the erm I guess there'd be the MOSFETs so that's cool talking in the vrm this thing has a two-force twelve looks like an eighteen phase vrm holy moly I'll give you guys a good look at that so I went and quickly did a bit of research just then between that last jump cut because I don't know anything about this board really didn't exactly know it was coming I wasn't expecting it today anyway so on board we have three M two slots and you can see two of them of the 110 milling ones so full-length slots but most of the devices used probably only going to be 80 ml long but anyway 3m doctors with shields and if for some reason that isn't enough with this godlike package you also get so this PCI Express 3/8 x expansion card will allow you to put two more M two drives into your system with this godlike board so that's five M 2 in total you can see you've got the the shields on this as well so yeah I haven't tested how they work these days for the MSI boards but anyway you can opt not to use them if you don't want to they're there anyway it looks really cool so if you want to have just a crap-ton of em not to storage this is the board to do it with by the looks of it so apart from the silly amount of em to storage support and the crazy amount of power phases what else do you get on this board we actually get a silly amount of Gigabit Ethernet as well their heart one not two but three of the killer a 2500 Gigabit LAN controllers and they're also supported via the killer network manager software so yeah that is a lot of gigabit storage it would've been cool to get something like a 10 gigabit solution in there but whatever the yeah I don't know then I just say three that's a lot you also get a killer Wi-Fi adapter on there for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi that uses their AC 50 and 35 controller so yeah that's pretty cool apparently the Wi-Fi can also be used as an access point or a range extender so there's some pretty interesting features there for this board yes are plenty of features is on board they're still doing it's really interesting the way MSI has been doing this I don't really know if I approve or not I'll have to do some thermal testing with this board but it's a really really good-looking board it looks cool but the problem I have is a lot of this sort of stuff is all plastic and so you've got to quite decent-sized heat sinks over the vrm but they're covered in plastic like they're like insulated with plastic so yeah interesting design choice that I'm not sure how much that'll affect affect thermal performance but we will look into that and then it's time this is all plastic around here this thankfully this top that's aluminium so that'll be over the Z 370 chipset and that is connected to a aluminium heat sink so that should work quite well but yeah a lot of this is just plastic it's all just aesthetic for look so all the i/o shield stuff that's all plastic which is fine but yeah over the heat sinks a bit of an odd choice there to go with plastic but anyway otherwise a really promising board anyway hopefully you guys have had a good look at it with the b-roll shots that I've been able to provide I will be using this board to do all my eighth generation Intel testing so that it will be you'll see that review on the 5th of October so so along with the coffee that Intel so graciously provided I'll have to bring my own mug but not a problem I will be using this MSI motherboard for all my 8th generation intel core CPU testing which you'll see on the channel on the 5th of October can't talk about like said price or performance but we can show the boards and yeah that's what I've done here so very cool board can't wait to test it out and then show you guys how it handles later in the well early next month not later this month early next month all right starting the waffle a bit I'll move on get this last one out of the way this last big box then we'll move on to the three packages to my left ooh we have another Gooden here hello Boris said through all Z 370 horas Ultra gaming so basically a gigabyte motherboard it was at 370 board I think because they have actually announced all their motherboards on the gigabyte website so you can hop over there and check them all out this board is there I believe this is probably the second highest tier board or there abouts think the gaming 7 might actually be the top tier board in the series can can't talk about pricing I don't actually know anyway so yeah I have no idea where this would be priced so we'll just quickly take a look at this one show it off to you guys and I think special in the package nope just your standard SATA cables and stuff so yeah that suggests to me I'll be around the $200 mark us but I can't know either and if I did know I couldn't say so wow this is a pretty cool looking board much lighter than the board we just looked at from our MSI ok so I'm not sure this could be a six phase vrm on this one no 100% sure so don't quote me on that but we have triple PCIe x 16 slots only the first one is wired for 16 16 x bandwidth the next one is 8 x and the bottom one is 4 x then we've got three one time slots six SATA ports your 4 dims so it's a good-looking board good audio solution but it's also fairly basic so nothing too over the top it'll be yeah definitely priced I'd say under $200 looking at what's on the board but again time will tell I have to say gigabyte makes some other especially if you like fancy RGB lighting and whatever they make some of the best looking boards or possibly the best-looking boards these days these are two slots here RGB lit LED lit so are the DIMM slots there's a strip along the side here that is as well looks like the i/o cover is as well so yeah gigabyte haven't covered the vrm heat sinks in plastic so that's probably a good choice I'd imagine now but anyway we'll check that out as well nothing on the back and it looks like a pair of m2 slots so yeah good looking board cool little heat sink here hopefully I've thrown up a bit of b-roll for you guys so you're getting a really good look at it one little point of controversy within your 8th gen series I don't know how much you guys have looked into them yet but although they use the socket 1150 one which is the same as what we saw the sky like and cabe you like you cannot use sky sky Lake or cabe you like CPUs on these boards and more importantly which is probably upsetting people the most is that you can't buy an eighth generation CPU and use it on your sixth or seventh generation boards which would be the 100 series or 200 series chipset boards so that's pretty disappointing um as far as I know there's no real reason that Intel couldn't having done you know included our backwards compatibility there they're just trying to sell more motherboards and chipsets well chipsets really but anyway so that's a bit disappointing that yeah if you bought a Zed 170 board a real high-end one for like four or five hundred dollars that you're gonna have to ditch that now if you want to get a new core i7 processor or Core i5 or whatever you may want to get I assume the socket is exactly the same I don't believe I am breaching any terms and conditions by doing this I can't imagine why but and that fits into the socket perfectly probably expect it at would so they do physically fit in it all the locators are exactly the same position and everything so it fits in the socket no worries it'll just be a yeah a BIOS microcode thing where it just probably won't post I have no idea it shouldn't because yeah until I've said that they're not going to support them anyway I'll look into that and we'll see anyway moving on I'm trying not to I'll try to breeze through this quicker than I normally do I've got a bit of a toothache I had a wisdom tooth removed a few days ago so it's still very comfortable oh that was that was a bad choice yep to vacuum that up later did that the wrong way okay what do we have here I'm not sure if I'm allowed to show you those yet so I won't add the risk that I'm not they have been announced and whatnot but we'll leave them alone for now because I don't know and what is this an Intel obtained memory m'd up to 32 gigabyte won't worry about that all right yep we'll keep moving right along getting through this cuz I know you guys who are fans of the series want to know what's in here and soda lies Oh having felt it now I've got a pretty good idea won't waste any time I'll get straight into it so this is another pipe from bang good are you Chinese retailer and what if they sent me a mousepad who would have guessed oh it's quite a nice mousepad there you go a black and sort of grayish whitish mousepad with the world map on it that's pretty cool I better find some details out about it for you okay so on the Bangla website this is called the large-sized world map and it is 900 millimeters long by 400 millimeters deep and it is just 2 millimeters thick so it is very thin but I also like that it's actually not that thick because it the transition from the desk to the pad isn't that extreme I suppose and it also means that it's not extremely expensive it's only $12 u.s. for this mouse pad or $15 Aussie so yeah for a huge mousepad this when it feels I mean it's got stitched edging which looks to be pretty good quality stitching it feels good I am definitely gonna replace my current mousepad with this and give it a go and see how well it lasts and how it wears and stuff like that but I mean $15 e this is an awesome mousepad in my opinion certainly it's rubberized backing yeah it seems really good pretty blown away by that well I don't really have much else to say about that but uh there's the rubber back on it yeah that's if you're looking for a great big Mouse pepper I don't want to spend forty or fifty dollars or whatever they're trying to charge for almost one meter size my ass pads these days I recommend grabbing one of these I'm not exactly sure how much it is with shipping I don't think it'd be terrible terribly expensive but yeah $15 dollars or $12 US for that mouse pad that is an awesome value by I'll Chuck a link to the banggood sale page in the description below so if you guys want to get one go for it but yeah my initial impression I can't really think of anything bad to say about it but I'll give it a go alright wrapping your SEPA sewed up hopefully it haven't been too long we will check out what's in this box and that'll do us okay it looks like a bluetooth speaker hello giant I think that's the retailer sent it let's see so it is the W King X 6 of course bluetooth speaker let's check it out okay looks and feels pretty good stay okay so in the package you get a USB two micro USB cable that will be to charge it doesn't actually come with a charger so you'll need to use your phone charger or whatever but everyone these days has about a dozen of those and a 3.5 mm audio jack if you want to hook it up to whatever device you're playing your music from to the speaker without using the bluetooth portion of the Bluetooth speaker and it looks like you have a neat little breathable carry case here so easy it is to get into that okay that was pretty easy even for me so the owner you can carry it around it's fairly well protected you can check that in your bag or whatever so it's got like a sort of steel mesh construction around we believe would be the speaker part it's a rubberized bottom and top so it'll take a full pretty well I would say and then you've got some controls on the front here so volume up and down play pause looks like the call button or something like that five volt into charge looks like we have the 3.5 mm jack and then the power button there so does it have any charge bluetooth mode okay I've still got my Samsung phone the Galaxy s8 I haven't got rid of that yet so I'll use that for this test let's go bluetooth scanning okay has available devices x6 hitting the pair button Harrod welcome to use we'll play some laking and spy on it yeah okay the audio quality isn't bad I wouldn't rave about it the bass and stuffs decent seems to have a lot of background hissing when a playing of the music so right now it's completely silent if I play a song did you guys hear that I don't know how well that came through but yeah as the musics playing it's got a really quite a loud hissing to it so yeah on the plus side it is only fifty dollars u.s. or I think it's about sixty six Australian dollars it works out to be if you buy it through the I think to the alley giant retailer so that's not too bad I mean the speakers that we often look at like the UE boom and stuff like that they're like two hundred and two hundred and fifty Australian so for the price it's not bad so you depending on how picky you are the sound quality's okay if you're listening to it from a distance or you've got in a room or whatever that hissing sound probably won't be as noticeable opposed to just holding in your hand and sitting this far from the sound source so yeah keep that in mind I don't know how long the battery lasts because obviously I just took out of the box and I'm using whatever charge came with it so that's another important thing to consider I'll have to look into that I don't know if they make any claims on their website I did read some Amazon reviews just briefly then it has there's a hundred eight Amazon reviews at the moment and eighty-eight percent of them are five-star reviews so people who have bought this for the $50 u.s. or whatever are very happy with it there were about five or six reviews from people who had had it for a couple of weeks now and they said it no longer holds charge so once it go a few weeks old it stops holding charge so I don't know if that's going to happen or not but I will give this a good work and I'll use it quite regularly and we'll see if it's still holding charge and a few weeks on but I think value for money it's probably assuming that it has a reasonably decent run time and it does hold its charge months down the track and I think for $50 us it's probably a pretty decent buy because like I said I'm coming from most of the Bluetooth speakers but I've sort of gone around here hiding all over the place they're $200 plus so 466 Ozzy I'd say it's not too bad but if you guys know of any really good value Bluetooth speakers feel free to let me know about them in the comments below and I'll try and get my hands on them all right so I think that's going to do it for this one the painkillers are starting to wear off and I can feel the giant hole in the back of my mouth so on this episode we get to check out the new msi godlike Z 370 the Auris gaming ultra that's a slick looking Bordeaux pits as affordable as I think it will be that won't be as affordable actually that'll yeah that'll just be expensive like I think it'll be but it is a very cool board really can attest that when I test the CPUs that I think I have just here hopefully and whilst you but the Bluetooth speaker which we just looked at I got my coffee over here and I'll take care of in a moment and yeah oh we got the mousepad mousepad I'll provide a link for this thing in the video description so anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this episode I hope I performed just as well as I normally do with plenty of drugs in my system and I'll go top-up on some coffee cheese yeah that's holding on really well see you next time guys