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Unboxing Boxes #45: Parts for the 2400G Mini-ITX Build, Asrock X299M Extreme4, G.Skill Sniper X

2018-02-23
welcome back to harbor unboxed today we have another episode of unboxing boxes and we have quite a few boxes to get through plenty of things been piling up while I've been focusing on those Raven Ridge ap use so I thought let's take a break from all that benchmarking and unboxing boxes I think we might start with this box here he looks pretty keen ready to go and it is wrapped in the black garbage bag let's say it's just a black shrink wrap thing but we know the good folks over at PC Caskey like to do that so good chance this is something from PC case key I actually hope it is because they've got a few bits I want for a little tiny Raven Ridge build so we'll get into that first we've got a heap of other stuff to check out that we'll start with this looks like a box today a lot of a lot of be quiet dark power pro 11 power supplies come in I don't think they've sent me a heap of platinum power supplies though that would be cool if they did all right kick starting things off we have my new tp-link modem router won't go into that though because I've just bought that for personal use probably won't interest to many of you then we have the Celsius s 24 which is a 240 millimeter all-in-one a liquid cooler from fractal design and I do have a fractal design build coming up probably next week or yeah soon on the channel and this will be part of that build so I won't pull that apart and have a close look at it just now I actually want to focus on something else and it would be what's in this bland looking box and now this is the Chopin and a lot of people call it Chopin but it's actually pronounced a Chopin so whatever but it is an in win Mini ITX case and you probably have guessed I want to do a tiny little Raven Ridge gaming PC with this case I think that would be pretty cool the guys over at PC case Kia or recommended I get the silver model and I have to say it already looks pretty special wow that's a smart looking a little mini ITX case so you can orient this little guy in one of two ways it can lay flat like that which is sort of you know a home theater PC kind of look or you can stand it up like a more traditional sort of desktop PC either way it looks really cool plenty of mesh here on top for airflow plenty on the which would be also the top depending on which way if you stand it up or lay it flat but the tops let's say some rubber feet at the bottom which could also be the side I'm just confusing myself with all this but anyway we have some nice aluminium silver trim the whole way around the edge there which looks fantastic I think it looks a bit fancier a bit more eye-catching than the black trim but either way you can get it in black or silver depending on which one you prefer those of you wondering this thing costs one hundred and ten dollars ozzie and you can get a PC case key for that price I'm not sure about us pricing I wasn't really able to find it for sale in the US so not sure what's going on with availability there whether it's just out of stock at the moment or they're not currently selling it in the US so as you might have guessed being as tall or thick as it is you can't actually fit a discreet graphics card in this thing so it's more of well I suppose before the Raven Ridge AP use came along it's probably more of a mini office type PC but now that you can put a 2,400 year or a 2200 G in this thing you should better get some pretty decent gaming especially in your eSports type titles also included in the hundred and ten dollar asking price is a bronze rated power supply 150 watt output so that should be more than enough for even the Raven Ridge with the Vega 11 integrated graphics your 2400 G so yeah very candid about building this and see what kind of performance you can get maybe make up a console killer kind of hate that term but anyway and for those of you that might want to overclock your Raven Ridge apu in this case you are limited to a cooler that is 43 centimeters tall so that's the maximum height you have there on the CPU cooler and with the system empty because it is a common it's a basically a steel chassis steel frame with steel door panels and then it is wrapped in the aluminium trim to give it a bit of a fancy look anyway you guys will see much more of this little guy in a video soon when I do do that mini APU build all right next up I think we'll get rid of this little bag here see what's in this guy this is actually also from PC case get I've been spoiling me this way let's have a look at what else they've sent over okay not really have many ideas just yet ah this is a very nice they are spoiling me indeed while I'll be using probably this here so this is an 8 gigabyte kit - 4 gigabyte DIMMs it's ddr4 3000 and the guys at PC case care told me this works a treat with the new Raven Ridge AP use and it's also quite cost-effective certainly more so than the 16 gigabyte kit that they've also sent along quite nice of them so they're both CL 16 kits with for the primary timing 1618 1838 at one point three five volts so these guys come in the gray black which you can see here and here or you can get them in red black which is kind of cool for you your AMD themed builds as well but it is the T Force dark ddr4 memory also as a gaming in the name of course yeah apparently this worked really well with the array from Ridge AP use so that's what I'll be doing in the in Wind Chopin I'll be sticking the a gigabyte kit in there but you could also get 16 gigabytes if you had money to burn so yeah again thank you to PC case key for sending along all this memory I will put it to good use uh will just randomly pick one from over here got a random box alright let's have a look will open this one together it's always a bit of fun if I can cut all the tape off you guys ready hmm I'll admit that wasn't our the most exciting we've got more memory here come on Wow Wow that is a bit fancy so it looks like we have the new g.skill sniper X ddr4 3600 wow I'm actually really keen to try that with the Raven Ridge ap use certainly not cost-effective but yeah be interesting to see if it will run at 3,600 on those things and what kind of performance we get out of the graphics so we have a 16 gigabyte kit so 2 8 gigabyte sticks and that is CL 1919 1939 at one point 35 volts Wow ok let's have a have a closer look at these guys cuz this this is new memory I haven't seen this stuff before so their new sniper X memory it comes in one of three flavors I suppose so we have the I think they call this urban camo it's like your sort of concrete looking camo your greys and a bit of black in there it actually looks pretty cool that'll look good on a lot of motherboards so here's quickly the new sniper x-series comes in one of three themes so you've got your classic camo which is pretty much the same as this but it's your green so your jungle forest type themed ones and then this is the urban camo which is the concrete jungle type look I suppose and then there's a third option called digital camo so yeah your matrix type theme I suppose it's yeah it's sort of a yellowy greeny kind of yeah it looks kind of cool I think of the three of them probably the classic camo looks a bit odd they say these are targeted at case modders not so much enthusiasts Sofia making a jungle type theme I suppose the classic camo would be pretty cool with that but I yeah I don't know about that I think they probably they might have seen better sales if they had I've done like you know a black and red camo for your AMD type build and maybe a blue and black sort of camo for Intel bills green seems a bit out of place I don't know yeah that's very niche therefore even the modders I would have thought but anyway there are three options to choose those three options to choose from it's what I'm trying to say and I think they are the urban camo V the concrete jungle that I have here looks pretty cool I think that'll suit most motherboards quite nicely and then you do have the silver strip there and then the rest of the heat spread is black but you won't see most of that anyway very keen to put these in a build soon and show them off all right I think we'll get this big yellow box out of the light and it's very heavy very heavy so well see what is in here alright there's not too much excitement to see just yet this is heavy oh wow mmm okay that looks pretty good and this also looks interesting yep I've got everything alright looks like here we have asrock delivering the goods the x2 99m extreme 4th I've heard about this board I don't believe it's on their website at least at the time we're filming this and it's definitely not on sale yet at least at the present point in time so I suppose we should probably open this up and have a closer look ok so a pretty plain looking IO shield nothing too fancy there I think this probably is not necessarily to complement but they released an X 399 micro ATX motherboard recently that was very impressive I will be featuring that to build soon but this is the X 299 version of that board I suppose excuse me this knife is not cable tie rated almost got it there we go okay so a compact X 299 motherboard not quite as compact as the Mini ITX version that we put in this bill here if you can see that that was my crazy micro ATX mini ITX tail build this is micro ATX but yeah so not that small but the advantage of it being a micro ATX rather mini ITX is that you get these standard memory modules instead of the laptop stuff you get two authors what we got here we got two PCI Express x 16 slots that are wired for x 16 bandwidth then we were a third one at the bottom here which is a full length slot but it's only wired for for Thomas bandwidth by the look of it we've got eight SATA ports on board we have two ultra m2 ports so the the extra 99 board had three but of course you do get more PCI Express Lanes on that particular platform it's good we have true 8 pin power inputs so you can feed in plenty of power for overclocking those core i9 CPUs that tend to run quite hot looks like we have a very impressive erm have no details about that but yeah details to follow the heatsink here isn't actually cooling anything directly it's just connected via a heat pipe off this one here so that isn't coming in contact with anything there via rooms or the top you know the vom components 5 fan headers absolutely nothing on the back of the board so I think this is meant to be a cost-effective micro ATX x-29 motherboard so it looks very good keen to give that a go I don't know what build will put that in no doubt something will come up in the not-too-distant future but your no pricing information at this point because as I'm filming this it's yet to go on sale and asrock haven't even released any official information about it there you go we have it so it exists and you'll probably be able to buy it quite soon ok another product that's yet to go on sale is the I think this is let's have a look the desk mini so it's a mini PC that's probably designed to sit on your desk so desk mini not a mini desk makes perfect sense while that logic though I'm surprised that B box wasn't called the VESA mount mini or something like that or maybe this should be called the bumblebee box yeah anyway okay so this particular model I've just got a little sticky here telling me hopefully everything I need to know it has a gtx 1060 that's an MX M card in there and it is a zed 370 our version on the motherboard so said 370 chipset so that's very interesting so it's a coffee like desk mini so we've already seen the KB Lake models using the be 250 chips that I think it was I have to look that up but yeah I think so you wouldn't be over you wouldn't have been able to overclock on the previous model whereas this model you should be able to to some degree though I imagine cooling may be an issue I think I'll provide a full review on this shortly so included in the package we get a very large power brick now it says 19 volts at 11 and a half amps it doesn't say the output but that would be about 220 watts so 220 watts oh yeah you should be outta with the GTX 1060 there should be a bit of overclocking Headroom there anyway that'll all come in the review and then here is the unit itself so I can get it out without dropping everything ok so a very compact little PC even smaller than the Chopin case that we just looked up so there's the Chopin and there is the desk in E so yeah the desk Mini is quite a bit smaller and you can put I assume 8700 K in there or at least an 8700 with a gtx 1060 so that's gonna actually smoke this though I probably smokes it in terms of costs as well being this is much more expensive the bare-bones model with the b250 chipset with the 1060 that was almost I think it was around $800 us and that doesn't include ddr4 memory doesn't include the processor and it doesn't include any storage so it is a bare bone you get the motherboard and the graphics card it looks like you do get a cooler we'll have a quick look inside actually and see what's in this guy okay so I'll throw up some b-roll to give you guys a better look but that's roughly what's inside so that would be your GTX 1060 under that and that will be your coffee like CPU under there it looks like for my particular review sample asrock has kindly provided some ddr4 memory and they've also provided a CPU wow that's pretty awesome they've included a core i7 8700 in there so that is going to be very cool for testing well I can't wait to get to this so we have an 80 core i7 8700 so I'm not sure if it supports the K models or not it might be limited to 65 watts will I'm gonna have some fun testing that that's for sure but anyway that will be on the channel very soon so as you can see that does have the stock Intel Box cooler there's plenty of ventilation there's plenty of ventilation in the lid so getting airflow in there shouldn't be too much for a problem but it is the stock box cooler which is pretty crummy not sure if there's many aftermarket solutions you can get though that are better that fit in that area so yeah I'll have to look into that and it has a pair of eight gigabyte ddr4 2400 memory modules so 16 gigabytes of ddr4 2400 looks like you got plenty of USB 3 HDMI output you've got display output H to my output looks like mini DisplayPort Gigabit LAN and then the DC power input for the power brick so very sleek and I see your type C and USB 3 at the front with an audio jacket yeah sleek nice-looking little system there so that's gonna be very interesting to compare that to what we can do with the Raven Ridge apu obviously this has more power and costs more so yeah it'll be interesting to see how those two stack up over roll all right okay we'll get the very blunt and pathetic knife back out because we have another box and it's quite heavy for what it is you would expect this to be a relatively light box but it's quite a few kilos of weight in this thing that makes sense why is a power supply I've opened it backwards and upside down today there you go the fractal design Edison M 750 watt 80 plus gold certified power supply now this unit here does weigh well the box has 3.1 kilos that's why it was quite heavy but it is a semi modular power supply so the 24 pin power and probably the 8 pin power fixed into place but the peripheral and PCIe power cables modular it comes with a five-year warranty the unit itself is 160 millimeters long and yeah that's about it for now I will be featuring this in a build with the the all-in-one from fractal design that we looked at at the start off briefly talked about saw unbox just the box not the product anyway we'll do the same with this let's move on in here we have a very well I don't know what we have in here we have a very light box from Corsair getting a bit ahead of myself there ah yes very good okay what we have here are three controllers yes perfect that's yes that's what I mean after three LED controllers for the you can't really see MIT I have a whole stack of ml 120 and 140 fans there and I can't control the LED function or any of them because the commander controller doesn't allow that you need to plug this into the commander anyway I have three of these now so I have a very awesome Corsair build coming up shortly and I will be using these in that build second last box what do we have yeah I think a variety of things by the look of it all right here we go no that's just like one big lump okay we have a pair of 128 gigabyte nvme SSDs so therefore a build then we have a whole heap of ddr4 memory a lot of ddr4 memory in this episode ray from rich comes out and everyone goes crazy for ddr4 memory so we have a 16 gigabyte kit of 2666 memory here we have a 16 gigabyte kit of ddr4 3000 memory here and we have a 2666 kit again 16 gigabytes so loads of memory now one of these kits I think it's this kit here the fancy looking stuff with the aura sync LED lights I'm giving this away on the channel we're doing another four channel giveaway with two full pcs I won't be building one of them this time I'm taking the easy way out just giving away a component and I thought 16 you give ddr4 3000 that's a pretty sweet prize so this will be given away assume details will be coming in another video soon so you can enter to win this 2 pcs and there are a few other components as well so very cool but that well actually is one more thing one more thing almost at the end of this episode we have the these were very popular at Computex last year they are the game storm MF 120 frameless fans and I haven't actually seen these or but I've seen them at Computex but I haven't got them since then so it's been quite some time since we did see them at Computex and deep cool said we have a special version of these fans we would like to send you just for you that's a present I was like sure I like presents who doesn't send them along so I'm not sure what to expect here Oh that is cool we have to provide some b-roll of that so here are the frameless fans from deep cool with their aluminium frame and on these ones that says harbor unbox and I believe that is LED backlit RGB LED backlit so I'm gonna have to plug those in I'll throw up some b-roll of them plugged in so you can see how they look but thank you very much deep cool these are awesome well okay so I get three of them that's that's very nice indeed I'm gonna have to put them up somewhere and then there's the controller the MF control so the fans plug in there and you can control that just as the name suggests awesome well thank you again deep cool I'm very keen to plug these in hopefully you guys know what they look like and hopefully they looked very impressive well that's going to do it for this episode of unboxing boxes memory edition hope you guys enjoyed unboxing all the new hardware some very exciting new products some yet to be even really officially announced products like the asrock motherboard and the desk mini pc case very exciting stuff and i have plenty of work ahead of me if I didn't already thanks for watching guys see you next time
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