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welcome back to harbor unbox for another episode of it's been two months since I've done one of these what do I call this segment again welcome back to harbor unboxed today we're not doing any benchmarking we're just having a look at what's in some boxes that I've had lying around the office it's a regular segment don't need to know what the name is it doesn't know important we're just gonna get into these boxes and and packages and things and see what we've got it's always a bit of fun to show you guys the prices they come in okay so I'm gonna get out my trusty trusty trophy all right so I'm gonna get my trusty knife time for action we'll start with this box right here and we'll see what we've got that is what we've got in there and what are these one of these things called again a graphics card we have a graphics card I haven't seen one of these things for quite some time you anyway in a box I've got some old ones behind me but yeah a new graphics card was not expecting that and this is from asrock there's a new phantom gaming line and this is an RX 580 so you guys are gonna be keen eyes to see the review on this thing because the RX 508 is just a hot item now easily available for purchase and just available great prices anyway on hand we do have the new a0 graphics card the reason why they've sent over the RX 580 at this late in the product cycle I suppose you can say at a time when prices are a little bit absurd still they've sent this over though because they have decided to start making graphics cards they're an exclusive AMD partner when it comes to the graphics cards and they've started a phantom series which is interesting because we already have the gain would phantom series and gain would are an Nvidia partner so not sure how that works but anyway and here is the card reasonably white I know you guys want to know about the price I have absolutely no idea not currently available it is a very white card actually so not a huge cooler but there you go the new asrock rx 580 phantom Edition yeah I would say if it was on sale and available for purchase right now you'd be looking at paying at least $350 u.s. because well that is the cheapest price you can expect to pay for an 8 gigabyte rx 580 right now really meant to sell for again these things that's been so long maybe someone can dig that up in the comment section and let me know what the MSRP is for the rx 580 I kid of course but anyway ok so we just have a single 8 pin power connector nothing too extreme as I said the cooler itself looks pretty basic not an extreme overclocking card it does come factory overclocked I think by about 40 megahertz it's thirteen hundred and forty megahertz as the boost so yeah I think it's about a three percent overclock not a high percent sure on that it's been a long time since I've reviewed and Herricks 580 but anyway there's the new asrock model very late in the product cycle but I suppose if they're gonna start they might as well start now I guess I'll probably review this let me know how keen you guys are for a review on the channel things like thermals would be interesting though like I said it's not a particularly big cooler and it's a very light card so it'll be interesting to see how it does get on when it comes to thermals and I won't spend too much time on that we'll put that aside and we'll go into the next package let's try let's get into this one here just a little satchel type thing here and I don't know what that is ah that's what that is this is something I purchased and it is for use on the channel we used to make more content for the channel I'll just go it's the GoPro Hero 6 black so a little GoPro camera I've got this for doing vlogs not such for the main channel we have our patreon account and we do do behind the scenes videos kind of blog stuff I want to start doing a few more blog stuff for the patrons so I've got this I've tried a few different cameras and I haven't been happy with them so I'm going to give this a go and see if that makes it a bit easier and we have things like Computex coming up and Tim and I'll be travelling together to that event so I want to document that and we'll have a bit of fun along the way so hopefully this will be a practical way of doing that and give the guys that pay us a little bit per month some extra content so that's what that's all about and just quickly for those of you aren't familiar with the GoPro Hero 6 black it is well it's obviously the little camera I paid five hundred thirty dollars Australian for delivered it does things like it'll capture 12 megapixel images at 30 frames per second it does 4k video at 60 frames per second which is quite incredible it'll do a half it'll do 1080p now so full HD at 240 frames per second believe that is correct it doesn't actually say on the box but I'm pretty sure it's 240 frames per second which is pretty insane it has a little touch screen on the back so that's pretty cool it does have a wide angled lens that's a glass lens has advanced wind noise reduction and that uses three microphones so yeah I mean it's the go-to camera for vlog for most action vloggers and stuff well I won't be doing too much action still should be pretty handy for what I do my GH fiber is way too heavy so and I've tried a few little handy cam things and wasn't really wrapped with those so see how this does alright before we started I think hearing muzzle get rid of this one a little bit of space for me so we got a big big garbage bag thinking you know it doesn't go all the way through thought that was a hole in it but it's just one layer all right ah that's some motherboards here by the looks of it a lot of gigabyte motherboards and something something in that but it's fairly weighty care about three boards in total fold that away so I don't lose any fingers by accident okay why don't we go here this one's a bit crushed in well it looks okay alright so I haven't actually covered any h3 70 motherboards on the channel I've had a few centers by MSI a few sent over by asrock and now a few by gigabyte yeah I do plan on looking at these boards at some point on the channel I haven't really rushed into them because we did cover the B 360 boards on when they were released and did a bit of interesting testing there but overall I've been pretty disappointed with the budget boards we've waited forever in a day for because they're not really as cheap as they need to be because we've had said 370 boards out for so long a lot of them are work their way down towards $100 some even go on sale quite often $400 us so paying $80 for a locked B 360 board that's like 10 times worse in terms of quality and features and that sort of stuff it's just not worth it I don't see the point really so that's a bit disappointing and then you've got the h3 70 boards which are in a really awkward position in my opinion because well as you see with this board here they cost the same amount as these EDD 370 versions and they're not really any better and instead they're massively inferior in the sense that you can't overclock at all on them memory or the CPU so yeah I mean even if you don't want to overclock I still don't see the point because you're not really saving anything your muscles by the board that I have a clock we're not gonna have a clock and it will be a more sort after board down the track so if you want to sell your system it's going to be much easier to sell a system with a Zed 370 board than an H 370 board so ya don't really want to be too negative about this because it's not really gigabytes fault and the gaming 3 model that I have here is an extremely nice motherboard as you're about to see it's a really high-quality H 370 board it's got plenty of great features it's a really really nice board great vrm great audio plenty of features all the good stuff you'd expect on the high end boards the problem is and this isn't just gigabyte but this is a $140 u.s. board $140 u.s. you can get the z3 70 model for the same price and again this isn't just gigabyte doing this it's all intel's board partners because that's how intel prices the platform that's just how it works out so you don't you're not gonna find any decent h3 ten boards for well under what you pay for is at 370 they're all much the same so yeah it kind of puts their board partners in an awkward position because they've got to try and now sell these boards so yeah as I said this is $140 u.s. or 220 Australian dollars and you can buy the gigabyte Xen 370 or ultra gaming which is a board I have and it's a fantastic board that's 145 dollars u.s. so it's five dollars more than this and well this does have a few extra features or maybe a few better quality features overall a much the same you're definitely not going to notice the difference and the Zen 370 horas ultra gaming will hold its value better and be more desirable on the second-hand market that's something you care about but it'll also allow you to use if you buy like a core i7 8700 the non K model or later run that with faster memory or at least overclock the memory so yeah a nice board here I just don't really see the point so let me know in the comments section below what you guys think am I missing something am I missing the point of these boards if so please let me know because I would like to cover them I just don't really see the point so having said all that we have another h3 separate report this one though does make a bit more sense at least because is a mini ITX board and there aren't that many mini ITX is at 370 motherboards so this is the gigabyte H 370 and Wi-Fi and I believe it is currently selling for $130 us which makes it about two hundred and ten dollars Australian and it's a pretty cool little board as you can see the only potential hiccup here is again at the Zed 370 models as I said there aren't that many of them but asrock are selling their Zed 370 MITx AC it is on sale right now as I speak at new egg for one hundred and fifteen dollars u.s. so that makes it $15 u.s. cheaper than this and when it's not on sale it's $30 u.s. so you can get the asrock 370 board may not be I think they're pretty similar in terms of features to be honest with you but another comparison I could make any way is the gigabyte Z 370 and Wi-Fi which is their mini ITX said 370 version and that costs one hundred and fifty dollars u.s. so it's $20 more than this but again you get an unlocked board so you can use any CPU well you can overclock the K models on the Z 370 version of this board and only cost you $20 more to do so so it's not exactly a huge price premium and the Zed 370 board does offer two extra USB 3.0 ports and sort of a heat spreader thing for the m2 slot so not a big change not a big difference there for your $20 but obviously the big deal is the chipset there being out overclock with a Zed 370 but this board still does make sense it has its purposes for 130 dollars u.s. it's a really well equipped H 370 board that will go well in a compact Mini ITX system so I do see this model in particular making sense and then finally gigabyte has again sent over there X 299 or s gaming 7 pro motherboard which is a really awesome x-29 on board I've already unboxed this on unboxing boxes in the past but it didn't have the full retail package so gigabyte has now sent along another board with the full retail package so I won't go over this again because you've already seen this particular board on unboxing boxes it's a really good board and might be a bit of a tough sell these days because we know that the 2nd gen thread Ripper CPUs are coming and the Red River is already arguably better value than the X 299 platform the scar like X CPUs but anyway that's a comparison for a future video oh and before we move on what do we have here so I can drink bottle ok cool we have a red really shiny cool-looking red gigabyte probably an aluminium flask drink bowl thing teeny tiny packet of do not eat so we'll get that out of there give that a rinse out later and give it a go but yeah thank you for that gigabyte that'll keep me hydrated during those extreme benchmarking sessions alright next up we've got another little satchel thing we'll find out what is in there gamers Nexus oh ah Steve from gamers Nexus has sent over a little care package we've got some gamers GN stickers that's pretty cool after find somewhere to put those and what else we got in here we have awesome one of one of these for a while Bayern GNT showing I put that on well I don't like to wear t-shirts on the on the channel but I think this is working out quite nicely and I have to say I do really appreciate and love my GN t-shirt so thank you very much to the guys over at gamers Nexus for sending that and I should just point out that Steve sent this over and didn't say that I had to feature on the channel or I think it was just er a thank-you that he'd sent along so thank you and I'm more than happy to our unbox any gamers Nexus products and feature them on the channel all right let's swiftly move along to this next package actually we might try this one first I think I know what's in this this is another thing that I ordered I think doesn't actually sound a label what it is but I have a sneaky suspicion now I bought two of these it looks like only a single one has arrived so fast hopefully haven't messed up my order but this is the road reporter Mike and as I mentioned earlier we are going to Computex soon Tim and I so I bought one for Tim and one for me and it is their interview online so that's pretty cool we'll better do some really cool interviews and talk about products on the showroom floor with this Mike yeah not much more to say about that for now I have ordered two so hopefully the other ones on the way I'll give that a play a bit later today if I get time and see how well it works well ok yeah this one this is ok so what we have here is the new creative soundblaster cave thuringer plus and this is a product more bags do not eat this is a product that Tim and I could very much use so once a month we do our patron lives let me try that again once a month we do our patron livestream and that's been going quite well the patrons seem to be enjoying it we've had one or two hiccups with audio but this will solve those so we had one episode of the sound card in the laptop were using heavily compress the audio it didn't come out very well at all but this will solve that the k3 plus so just quickly this is a USB powered recording and streaming mixer it does sound effects processing all that kind of stuff so all you do is plug it into your laptop or whatever see you streaming from via the USB that will power it all and it'll send all the data as well so one cable takes care of everything some other cool features about the k3 is it does provide 48 volt phantom power and that is to drive things like condenser microphones and they'll give you a nice clear studio grade recording quality the k3 also has a pair of XLR TRS inputs so you can plug your high-quality studio-grade mics into those and they will support pretty much all microphones that use that connection and there's also a built-in microphone amplifier and there's just a heap of other features like you have this different reverb mode so I think I believe there's nine modes where's the box usually that here you go yes it's got nine adjustable reverb effects using the reverb engine so doing how well that works but I'm really keen to give that a shot you can adjust bass treble like I said there's all kinds of sound effects there are plenty of connectivity options you can do a lot with this but obviously I haven't tried it out yet so I am very keen to see what the audio quality is like and Tim and I will use it on this month's live stream the patron at live stream so the patrons hopefully will enjoy the audio quality this month and for those of you wondering it is a hundred and thirty dollars us and it's not currently on sale in Australia so don't have Australian pricing as yet okay one last I think and we have the biggest box to get through and I'm not sure what is in this one Wow it looks like we have a lot of knocked-over packages yep that went poorly okay well it was probably the worst way I could have gone about doing that but it's done now okay so recently I put together a build inside the in win at Chopin it was a Raven Ridge build and I initially did with the cry rig c7 and I wasn't really happy with thermal performance it was quite loud and I was just really disappointed overall so I then switched and made a couple of small modifications to the Wraith stealth box cooler and found that while temperatures were a little worse the operating volume was significantly better and I much preferred that option then in that second video heaps of you for asking me to check out the new AM for version of nock to his low profile cooler and that is the l9a so I reached out to knock door and said can you send out the l9a they said absolutely would you like to look at some other stuff I told them I do a little unboxing boxes segment and yeah they they sent me everything they make I think well that's pretty nice little presentation there so this is the cooler that I want to put inside the Chopin and I will shortly and see how that cools the horizon 520 400 G so should be interesting but there it is there that was what I was after and thank you very much to knock for for sending that along also along for the ride we have the L 12s let's have a quick look at that so this is another low profile cooler it's not low enough to go inside the Chopin it will suit other sort of mini ITX builds slightly bigger ones with discrete graphics cards and whatnot so that's another good cooler that we'll be able to check out in a future build and we also have the owl 9 x 65 se another AM for cooler and I'll give you guys a quick look at that I don't think this will fit in the Chopin either but boy if it did it would work really well maybe I ought to make some modifications to the case to squeeze this in so that might be something pretty cool to do for a future video let me know if you guys want to see some get the Dremel out and do a few mods and see if we can do something pretty cool with that then we have all the new chrome axe accessories to go over some of the bigger coolers like you know the D 15s the D 15 all that sort of stuff I do have those coolers somewhere in the office okay so we've got basically that is to make it look well too black sort of cover so if you've got if black works with your build that would be good this is a black with green highlights that looks pretty fancy so we got those too but another one here what's this one this one's white so if you're doing a white build that will look good oh and sorry I should just note that the I just looked at the picture here the green ones you actually have a multitude of colors it looks like half a dozen at different colored strips that can be inserted to give you different color highlights this yellow green white black so that is B black on black blue and red so plenty different color options there then we have what looks like you 12s yes--you 12s series so again same deal and we got the white and probably possibly something yep right in front of me black so that's pretty cool have to test all those out then it looks like we have some of their premium n ff12 fans yes nice black fans I like that and again you can change the little silicon anti-vibration pads that go in the corners of the fans so you've got the same range of colors there and it looks like they've sent a long we've got one two three four fans so we've got four fans ten we have an assortment of tables so let's just sort them into Califf categories well I'm gonna have no shortage of cables fan cables and things for future bill so just have a quick look at the blue ones here all very nice so these are four pin fan extension cables and they're blue and we've got them in red white yellow green black and blue and the second box just has splitter cables so off a single fan header you can run two fans and again they come with all the various colors so that's pretty cool and I'll be definitely using these in a future build if you have any questions about any of these Noctua accessories just ask him down the comments section below and I'll answer them I'll test a few of these things out after this episode of unboxing boxes and again you'll see a lot of this stuff in future builds we do on the channel okay last package is a tube so let's see what is in the tube I have a pretty good idea of what's in here and who sent it I reckon a lot of you guys will recognize this it is the mod map from gamers Nexus so not only do I have the t-shirt I have the mat to go with it so pretty stoked about all that well smell that mod matte goodness check out that thing that is huge the Americans say it's four foot by two foot whatever that means I have to leave it sit for a while so it D curls itself well it really is a nice grippy surface alright so this is a GM Park so let's get serious and a bit technical for a moment because that's always call for when you're talking about anything gene related so the mod map is primarily used for modding things as the name would suggest so or if you want to tear down a graphics card like I will do with this guy when we review it you can put it down here and when you pull it all apart you can lay out where the screws went in the graphics card so you know where they go back into it's also obviously an anti-static mat so it won't damage any electrical components when you put it down on the mat so that's very good and while you don't mind me saying but gamers Nexus has been particularly ballsy with the creation of their mod mat because there they're stating correct thermal paste application now that's a hot topic to touch on that one there and while I agree with the methods they have displayed here I don't know if I'd be as bold to I have included that on the map but it's great they have now when I do my builds and I use a an approved official GN method of applying paste I can point to the mod mat and say well and it's hard to argue with that you've got a little section down here for working out what format M to drive you have whether it's a you know a 20 to 80 or a 20 to 60 you just place it down there and if it fits in that well you know what you've got so that's pretty cool and then we've got the this must be the the science studio inspired PSU wiring diagrams there so Greg probably has one of these now in the first two every time he builds a PC so that's that's good I'll pay attention to that and then you might be wondering what this little clip here is in the bottom right hand corner well I know Steve he's a very serious character and he likes his facts and his figures and getting the truth getting the bottom of things and doing everything correctly and that's what we love about him but from time to time he does let his hair down and although he won't admit it publicly he loves RGB lighting just loves it behind closed doors you can't shut him up about how much he loves RGB lighting so just subtle he's included this little device here little power cord you connect this to your power outlet and you've got two headers here which you can connect an RGB light strip to and that just gives the mod mat a bit of bullying lights up the work area I think this has been designed in collaboration with Corsair I think it's dubbed the light bus that'll just run across you can put one at the bottom and one at the top of the mat to really just set it off so that's a nice feature they're not including the light strips with the mod map that's an optional extra so they do include this header cell sort of sucks you anything I would like to have the RGB white strips to just set my own mod mat off but anyway that's what that's all about no need to ask any more about that I don't know what this thing's for so we won't worry about that yeah so that's what that's about I'm probably going to water the optional extra light bars because you know I love my RGB just like Steve all us Steve's do oh yeah but that is the mod map it's really thick I think it's four millimeters thick you can feel it it's a premium product it's quite weighty about four pounds I believe you've got your ruler at the bottom there's some strange measurement at the bottom above that you've got millimeters and centimeters which makes sense and yeah and Oh Steve as I said does a lot of technical in-depth testing they're always refining their test methods and that's what we really respect and love about gamers Nexus they're always trying to find the best way to do things part of the mod matters as I said you can put your graphics card there and keep track of where all the screws go but you can also use it for measuring out of the box thermals for example you just you can get your heat sinks and you can put them on the anti-static mat and you can grab you again yep just as I thought degrees Celsius so basically the mod map just allows you to do all the kind of professional in-depth testing that you see it gamers Nexus so you can replicate that at home you can do you add the box thermal testing your tear downs you can correct people on their thermal paste application that's an important one you'll never blow up your SSD by using the wrong cable and yeah it's just it's great has everything I love it so big big THANK YOU to Steve for sending this over along with the t-shirt love them both dearly and I will be using the mod map for all our projects going forward and just wrapping up this sponsor spot for gamers Nexus if you would like to own your own mod mat then head over to the gamers Nexus store use referral code harbour unboxed is superior to get 10% off and that is going to wrap this little bit up obviously that was all just a bit silly and not serious again Steve just sent this over as a present he said you didn't have to show this off on the channel or he actually sniff stressed not to show it off on the channel I didn't have to after seeing this he probably is gonna wish that he made me sign an NDA where I couldn't show it off on the channel but anyway thanks Steve appreciate your for sending this over and it is really a high-quality impressive bit of kit and I am keen to do some tear downs and stuff I will be tearing down the Azeroth graphics card on the mod map now so keen to give it a go doing all that sort of stuff and I'll work out what that blue bracelet is for I'll get on to Steve and ask him a few questions anyway thank you Steve for sending this over I do appreciate it very cool stuff and well that concludes another episode of unboxing boxes I've remembered the name of the series so we're back on track a great little motherboard I think that one does make sense let me know what you guys think about H 370 boards that cost as much or more than quite a few Z 370 boards and then we have the Azeroth graphics card let me know if you can to see a review on this and what you'd like me to focus on obviously pricing makes that one a bit iffy I'll be doing some vlogging for the patrons I'll be staying hydrated while I do it and next month's livestream should sound pretty good so that is going to do it for this episode of unboxing boxes thanks for watching thanks to gamers Nexus for sending over the cool gear and that concludes this episode I'm your host Steve and I'll catch you again next time