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welcome back to harbor unboxed for another episode of unboxing boxes okay well I'm gonna start with this box here because it was sent in by a patreon member and our patrons always send us fun and exciting stuff so Tucker this first and we'll go from there before I do though I just realized I need my knife one moment please I should also note for those of you who are relatively new to the channel who have subscribed in the last few weeks we do do this unboxing boxes segment once a month usually and it's just a fun somewhat pointless little series we do actually goes for quite some time usually 20 to 40 minutes and I just show you guys what I have incoming or what has arrived recently over the past few weeks that we'll be getting to some of the stuff you're at sea will provide in-depth reviews on some of it we'll use for other reviews or builds and stuff like that yeah it's just to give you guys some insight as to what we're working on and the hard way we have as it sort of comes in and of course we also get some stuff like this from our patreon members which well I don't know let's see what we've got here first seriously heavy not sure if I should even do this but we'll uh we'll see what happens oh it looks like we have some snacks oh boy do we have some snacks looks like we have a lot of Asian snacks this must be the doings of our patreon members Ed's at our Hardy I think okay so ever a big assortment of snacks there for the unboxing process it looks like we have a box attached or a box so it's not just one big box it's a pair of boxes okay this was the heavy part so possibly some liquids in here we may have a another series of drinks our hands that we do okay I'm not going to tip this out because it's gonna make a huge huge mess I think what I'm gonna do is because this episodes already going to be ridiculously long for the hardware I have to look at I couldn't actually fit all of it on the table what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna maybe try one or two of these and then I'm gonna take it all to Tim's place tomorrow morning because we're doing a light we're doing the patreon livestream tomorrow we've got the q and a's and then we're heading the packs for to two to three days so oh uh I'll just sample one or two of these how we put the grass jelly drink I had that last time actually want to give that to Tim so I'll uh I'll put that back in we've got a lot of interesting looking things so I'm yeah sorry for those of you who are interested to see my reaction to all this but we'll probably do on the livestream I think tomorrow so anyway like I said I will try one or two things I might try some of them and I might try the green sands original lime and Apple drink and I'll put the rest away so we'll try that another time we've just got too much hardware to look at but thank you these ads at our Hardy to sending more snacks and drinks there's some seriously interesting stuff you we get to the drinks and food in a moment I think we should start with our first hardware box so I'll just grab anything and we'll see what we got not a hundred percent sure if these two are meant to go together this one is clearly from ek and I think I've ripped all the shipping labels off this one but I think this was also from Nek so we'll start with this and we'll see what we got yes there is ek gear in here so inside we have a CPU block the new ek velocity RGB nickel and plexi block that's pretty good if you guys recall I recently got a whole lot of ek gear which made this beast so if you have missed to that series and you're interested you can go watch that now we have the ek vector RTX 2080 RGB nickel block so to think it's a blacked out block and take a closer look at that in a second and we have I think it's an acrylic version or plexi same sort of deal oh this is a twenty-eight ETI RGB block and that's what the screws are coming from all the spices and stuff they've set those what else have we got here from ek they've set funny agreed by looks of it oh when I am d-block this is another RGB velocity block what socket is that for it looks like it's Barbie I am for the am for based on what it looks like on the front there plus it's probably not big enough blocks to be a TR for block ah awesome so to test awesome back plates that's possible well it wasn't what I was going to say another back plate haha I'll get that in a minute what I want is this so I'm already running out of space to put all the boxes okay so we have their slim 360 millimeter kit so it's basically a starter kit as it says start a liquid cooling kit so you get a three sixty millimeter radiator with three 120 millimeter fans you get a little pump reservoir combo you got a block and then the tubing if you want to get into a water cooling sort of your custom do-it-yourself open-loop stuff these are where I'd recommend just start because you get an idea of how it all works the bits you need we've recommended these in the Q&A s before to people asking where they should start these are really cool so I'm here to get this kit but they provided this kit so I have an easy way to test these r-tx blocks because I want to do that I want to see how they perform what they allow us to do you know expecting miracles but okay nice quiet cool temperatures and testing and this system would be a complete not a nightmare not something I want to do so thank you very much to ek for sending all this gear over I'll actually we don't have a huge we have as much time as we want but I don't know how long you guys are going to want to watch an episode for and this one is going to be probably a for dnews episode but I would think we'll have a look at one of the blocks anyway I might be role for the others so as you can see looks very nice love the plexi over the nickel-plated block you see all the fluid if you have some fancy fluids or even just the standard stuff looks pretty good and what would it be that way yeah that's right so if it's sitting that way in your system you see the g-force r-tx up the right way so that's pretty cool of course an inverted case it would be the other way around we've got a little bit on the entir archie x20 atti so you can shop the visit 28 ET i card that you've got I think very nice-looking block keen to give it a go you will see this on the channel soon or test out how well it works so big thank you to ek for setting all this gear over hopefully in the not too distant future I'll be able to show it off to in a Content piece dedicated to cooling and messing around with the RT AK series graphics cards and yet also like to check out these blocks as well I'll probably put this one to use pretty quickly alright well since I have it on the table already we'll start with I've got another one of these yeah there's a third one I'll go look for the third one okay three small boxes this one's heavier than the other two so probably something different pretty sure they're all from Corsair I think one of them has memory so I can fully populate this rig with eight modules instead of four just four modules Kahn was I thinking anyway let's see what they got for us let's just cut the cardboard oh this one I packed it into it beautiful so we have some more ddr4 3000 yep three thousand four eight gigabyte sticks 32gb bucket and is the Vengeance pro stuff in black which is already what we've got in there so we've got four sticks now we'll have eight they argue that it's not entirely necessary about whatever you know we can all say was happy to provide it I'm happy to put it in there and a look a bit nicer so there's that yeah thank you to Corsair for setting that over for a set-piece rig okay these two I think we've got their new SSD spoiler alert I think that's what they're setting anyway I have no idea what else it could be it's too light to be memory unless it's a some old-fashioned naked sticks with no heat spreaders but who does that you have to cut the top of this as well all that for that I'll just check that we've got the same deal in here or you got quite a mess to clean up okay yep mp5 tens that's the new Corsair m dot 2 and it is our proper m dot 2 so they had the MP 500 before this I believe I'm pretty sure I reviewed it was quite some time ago now but these apparently better value better endurance I think it's quite competitive endurance actually with the competition and I believe looking at the box you that would definitely be right it has extremely impressive sequential read and write performance so these things should be blazing fast what do we got here - 960 gigabyte models and I think they sell for about 270 us for a memory I looked them up earlier I well a few days ago and they said they were sending them and I don't know if they're in Australia yet so I don't have that information if I find out I'll put it in a comment below or in the description but yeah really nice fast em not to drive so I won't talking I'm too long because I will be testing these and featuring them and builds on the channel yeah I think it's too much money to say they got a 5 year warranty and pricing and performance seems great so yeah keen to give them a proper whirl for an actual real review later on I'll grab this next one because I also put this on the table a moment ago this is actually a complete mystery to me this one it's a very beaten up creased box I think it's been sitting around for a while now let's open in amazement what do we got what do we have ah it's the new wall mounting kit some stuff it's the new asrock desk mini 310 I think it is the mystery will be solved in a moment ok the astra asrock desk mini series and you know what it does I stand corrected there is the desk mini 310 version so this has the H 310 chipset on it and it is a budget version of the desk mini having said that I have no idea how much it sells for so I'm not actually sure when it will go on sale what is that hey bet your no one under the age of 20 knows what that is we've got power cords SATA cable power adapter what we got here is a 19 volts 6 amps so pretty beefy I think this is limited to 65 watt processors which is what we saw with one of the earlier models you can remove the limits but then it's going to be a bloody loud so I will be providing a review on this in the not-too-distant future I definitely want to review this little guy yeah as you can see tiny tiny little PC got display port HDMI USBs VGA power input on the back mmm type C and type yes so type-c USB and 3.1 presumably on the front two audio jacks you could also talk me out some stuff that isn't done here probably should I open this up to give you a quick look at what lurks inside okay four screws I removed it just slides out as a little like front IO connector there and that's what you're looking at so we have a naked chip here which is the chipset the H 310 chip pair of laptop style sodium modules you can put up to 32 gigabytes so - 16 gigabytes sticks and that will work on this platform obviously the CPU socket you can put any 65 watt as I said earlier 8th gen CPU then I advertised in the ninth gen yet but it should support the ninth gen CPUs not that I recommend putting one of the eight core CPUs on this board yeah that would be heavily throttled it wouldn't blow the board up or go poorly or anything well it did go poorly in the sense that the CPU cooler would be whizzing its little brain off and to be heavily throttled and performance wouldn't be nearly as good as expected but it would work so there is that we've got an MDOT to Wi-Fi slot that is not populated m2 an m2 slot that's not populated but we do have a little package here that says MDOT to a Wi-Fi kits now these won't be provided this is sold as a bare bone so it'll be a hundred and something dollars probably don't expect much more than that but there is a kit beer for the Wi-Fi so you can adapt you get the module the antenna all that sort of stuff and we also get a kit to mount it to the back of our monitor or something like that or the wall or whatever you want to do but that's that really Sony I'll test it out with a few different CPUs see how performs see what them like you have to use the bots well mostly you would be using the Box cooler the one that comes with the locked CPUs you wouldn't be using an unlocked CPU on this so anyway that's probably enough about that okay couple down let's get another one as ROC motherboard I can see asrock on the top corner oh it's one of their new phantom gaming boards I'm gonna put this okay then you phantom gaming 9z 390 motherboard the big reveal I will quickly take it out and see what it's all about so this board is currently selling for two hundred and seventy dollars u.s. and as far as I can tell it's not available in Australia just yet so I obviously kind of Australian pricing it's quite a nice looking board we won't go through all the accessories and everything we're just doing a a quick and dirty unboxing yes now the reason I wanted to take this out was to see what the vrm configuration was all about because it looks like it's quite beefy but I wasn't sure if that was just a fake deal or not but it actually has doubles on the back and a six double it will be a twelve phase vehicle VRM I haven't fully pulled it apart yet but I believe this is the ir35 2:01 controller in a well it's using six phases from the controller for the vehicle to for the eye GPU and those six phases are doubled using the ir35 nine eight doubles so you end up with twelve power stages they are 40 amp power stages I think the part number is CSD eight seven three five zero so power delivery on this particular board certainly shouldn't be a problem it has the new 2.5 gigabytes per second LAN so I will be testing that out and seeing how well that works presumably it's a little over two times better than what they used to with Gigabit Ethernet and then everything else is fairly standard we've got three m2 ports three PCIe x 16 slots not all of which are wired for eight times bandwidth which is not surprising on this platform primary slots time 16 seconds that looks like times 8 and the thirds that looks like times for bandwidth that is how they're wired 8 SATA ports pennyweight that is my quick and dirty unboxing of this board yeah looks pretty good we'll know more about it very soon because I'm going to be testing a hell of a lot of these motherboards to see how they perform in terms of erm thermals and all that sort of stuff so yeah stay tuned for that one ok it's probably about time I had green sands original lime and Apple drink so I don't really like a lime I don't my small doses I don't mind a lemon and a lime apple like Y twice so I'll see what this does for me actually smells really nice yeah I mean it's not what I was expecting it's actually very tame but yeah quite quite like that's good thank you for that one boo boo cake I'm not sure I'm pronouncing that one correctly let's just see what this is all about that's what we're looking at it's kind of I'll take the rest to share with Tim and put them down there in a safe zone smells pretty good like the drink it's also very tame yeah it just tastes like a really bland cake so a little bit of flavor it's not it's I mean I'm making it sound pretty bad but it's fine actually the taste comes on more after I can taste it a lot more now it's quite nice at least it has for me anyway cool well yeah sorry I didn't do more of that to the patreon member who sent that stuff in but you'll get your money's worth tomorrow I promise I'll be a lot more entertaining with Tim on board all right let's keep moving here because we've been going for a while and I'm no any half way I don't think oops oops oops oops oops oops I totally forgot these were being sent and have been sent okay so firstly I should just apologize - well you go by it and my gigabyte contact because these boards did technically make it in time for the day one coverage and I didn't take them out and have a look at them because I'm an idiot and I completely forgot that they'd sent them and they just ended up in my huge pile of boxes to be unboxed so yeah sorry gigabyte I didn't include these I will make it up to you with some coverage and from what I can tell these are both very good quality motherboards so they should farewell much better than gigabyte has been faring in my varam thermal testing so yeah I expecting pretty big things from these boards so I don't have any pricing information on hand for either board because I totally forgot I had them but I'll quickly take them out I am reasonably familiar that I believe is on these boards in terms of their vrm design okay I'm not 100% sure which one of these boards is the higher-end board would have been good to do some research on these boards if I had I think yeah the master is definitely a more expensive board in the show yep it's a very heavy board this one so I can't see the back side of the board properly I know this board has doublers so this is a 12 core 12 core let me start again this is a 12 phase V core v RM it's a genuine 12 faced so there's a 6 phase controller I think it's using the pro I think is using the ISL 6 9 1 8 3 controller I believe this is an IR controller on the master again 6 phases this one I'm honestly not sure how its configured probably doubled but don't quote me on that I will confirm when I do all the proper tearing down of the board and having a good look at what's on them but this does have a pair of 8 pin power inputs whereas this has an 8 plus 4 but anyway they're both really good looking motherboards this one has the master let's put that one down safely so this one it looks like they're making an effort to make finned heat sinks at least from this side you think okay that'll work better than just a block of aluminium however if you flip it around we actually have a proper finned heat sink on the back how well that's going to work is anyone's guess we'll have to test it it's not exactly gonna get a huge amount of airflow cuz first of all under a bit of plastic and the air has to get through these slots here to go through all those so hmm well that is assuming that the air flow is coming from whatever you have on the CPU socket of course if you have case fans blowing here into these they should work a little bit better of course the air slides to exit the fin stack anyway that's all stuff we will test and work out down the track yeah really solid looking board overall it's got a gigantic backplate if you need one of those it has thermal pads that are removing heat from the back of the vrm area on the board so that could help with vrm thermals okay enough about that I will do a lot of in-depth testing on these boards and hopefully you'll see on their Channel quite shortly oh yeah sorry to gigabyte for forgetting about your really awesome looking boards here because these bonds do look really high-quality ok next box rip through this this is one of those boxes that is so well packed it's quite challenging to get into actually sure what's in this but whatever it is it's well protected still no ID this is what I'm looking at at the moment the hell is that ahaha that's what that is that box went down with a serious thud but ok nothing's broken and it was just a empty box it was just a heavy empty box okay so we're not gonna bother taking this one apart because it's just late to the party as I said in my it was my day one I think it was my day one coverage of the RT x 2070 that I was going to be receiving a founders Edition card late and I would take out of the box test power thermals bass performance or the performers that this producers test all that kind of stuff and I'm gonna pass this on a Tim so I'll do that tonight hopefully have time after this video then I will take it to Tim tomorrow and he has some other tests and things lined up for this so yeah that's that yeah might bother opening it you guys I've already seen at this point it's a bit late to the party on that one so that's what was in that box moving along I might do that down here come on you're too heavy not to cooperate ah I think I know what this is those of you who are familiar with this brand will probably already have recognized the logo but we have not featured this brand on the channel before I've actually never ever seen one of their products before so I just rip to the box bad start we unbox this box three times so you got your money's worth out of that one and we'll do this the second time hopefully this one goes at all smoothly that way so for those of you sitting there in suspense what does it see what have you got what is it freaking out like that it's chill it is the streak um I hope I'm saying that right street streaked um da2 so it's a case that's a really really really cool case Hansen it's a very small cap stuff's going everywhere it's it's a very small case farming you will have seen smaller cases especially given that it is a mini ITX case I mean it is still very small but yeah I've seen smaller mini ITX cases this particular mini ITX case apart from looking truly awesome very slick support some seriously nice hardware so you can see what I meant about slick it is a full aluminium case chassis externally it is all aluminium in fact there's pretty much no plastic to speak of that from maybe the button but even the surrounding it's all over me so we've got a type see on the front and that is about it so around the back here we have the i/o area where you put in your own obviously all your motherboards IO stuff piece a piece a pair a pair of expansion slots for a full-size well pretty long back that 20 this will fit in there I believe will better get that in there yeah you can put a dual slot card in there then the power supply is obviously internal because we've got the three prong connector there I think you can fit I was gonna say full-size which is actually technically correct you can fit ATX form factor PS using here but they can't be I think over 14 centimetres long so specs real quickly Mini ITX motherboards that's that's what support so you can't go any bigger with micro ATX or anything like that the maximum CPU cooler height assuming that you go for an air cooler would be 145 cent millimetres 145 millimeters and then it supports a dual slot graphics card up to 330 millimetres long which to be honest covers most of them as for liquid cooling if you're not using an air cooler you can go a 120 or 280 or well from 120 240 or 280 millimeter radiators so that's pretty amazing in a case that big and then as I said earlier the PSU support extends to ATX but of course you can get the SF s FX compact power supplies in there all that kind of stuff so yeah nice compact case I'm not gonna open it up and show you the inside I will be testing this or I'll be doing a build with this on the channel soon so yeah I'm really excited to see how this performs oh and just lastly it comes in the black that you can see here or silver it weighs 3.9 kilos empty so about that 3.9 almost 4 kilograms and it has no RGB lighting to speak of which they're very proud of so it's a sleek discreet but elegant looking case so no no fancy flashy RGB of course you can put that sort of stuff in it if you want that might upset them but you can do that if you want to okay unless I've lost some boxes under all the boxes that have unboxed we've got 2 left so we're doing pretty good here I think start with this little one here see what's what we've got I have a feeling I'm gonna regret that I mean it'll be ok but given what I think this product is that was not wise not wise at all yeah that was actually pretty stupid this is a 14 terabyte a bear recruiter pro hard drive and for those of you at home watching that's not the way to unbox a 14 terabyte hard drive so yeah be a bit more careful with them but anyway the shock resistance will survive that benchmark that I just did now but yeah part of the fact this is a 14 terabyte Barracuda Pro hard drive I don't have too much more to tell you right now I will be testing it out and featuring it in a few builds yeah it's a mighty big harddrive great for backing up all our videos which is what I will be actually using it for is backing up all our archiving all our older videos for those of you wondering it's 550 US for this particular model no idea what it's worth in Australia because I don't believe it's landed here yet the iron wolf pro version that's 900 Australian so yeah it's probably going to be somewhere around that possibly not quite as expensive but we'll see we'll see so that's that almost a failed unboxing of a really big expensive hard drive potentially last I'll do a quick look around after I unbox this one because I have a feeling there's a few things laying about ah another brands that we haven't featured on the channel before I haven't looked at their products a very long time ago this is scythe scythe I think it is hopefully I'm pronouncing that correctly the scythe ninja five these guys were well-known in me or they still are well-known in the air cooling business and they reached out and said we want to send over some air coolers for you to check out and here is one such cooler huh so pretty cool screwdriver they're mounting gear to my knowledge this works on every single current and most of the past platforms with the exception of thread Ripper so note here to TR 4 rather TR 2 is thunder 4 to no TR for support but it is as you probably guessed from the box I rather large air cooler sort of a squarish design and you will fasten it to the socket or the mounting here by going through the screwdriver this custom-made long screwdriver so yeah installation should be pretty easy it's a very small base when I say very small it's perfectly fine for a m4 your coffee like CPUs and all that kind of stuff just won't work with thread Ripper mostly because there's no mounting gear for it to work with thread Ripper but if it could mount to the socket it wouldn't be ideal because it's not offering 100% coverage got a pair of 120 millimeter fans like I so they've got some vibration pads in the corner so you can mount them in a push-pull configuration on the heatsink in terms of pricing again no idea what this is worth in Australia someone knows where it is or who if anyone is selling it any retailers are selling Australia just let me know in the comment section below and I'll update the description but it's about $60 u.s. which is fairly typical for a large air cooler to be honest and it looks like it has got two four six so that twelve so it's six I suppose you could say dual heat pipes there's b12 going up amongst all the fins anyway three in each corner it's quite weighty I think it's about 1.2 kilos memory compatibility should be okay but that's something you've obviously got these cut outs along the sides here which help you get above some taller memory sticks so that improves compatibility and as far as I'm aware these two 120 millimeter fans are ready to spin quite slowly I think up to 800 rpm there spec sheet says so yeah that's quite slow yes there's 800 rpm on this little manual here but it's a big heat sink so you don't really need super layout fans so anyway that's that's that one is that is that everything already done them I must be missing something I think that's everything I think I might have forgotten to bring a few boxes in here but we can do another episode in a few weeks so those of you who have been here pounding me to another episode of unboxing boxes you might get you might get one in the next few weeks so you'll get to possibly in the same month so we'll see how we go but anyway I have to really get moving on this one I've got a quickly at this video get it up for you guys to watch by the time you're watching this I'll be at Tim's place we would have already done our patreon livestream that's happening tomorrow which it will have like I said will have happened for some filming this in advance because I'm in a hurry and then we're heading to pax so we're gonna be covering the show probably doing two videos at PAX we're doing a patreon meetup so having some drinks with the patreon members that should be good might take some of these all and yes pretty much everything for this episode there'll be loads more benchmarks and in-depth testing and things happening on the channel so don't worry about that massive Zee 390 vrm thermal comparison and I also want to look at something power limits or boards if they're really low end boards do have power limits or not because there's not really any concrete information on that at the moment so I want to dig into that and see what's going on there and of course he had the 19-hundred caper forms on those lower end boards anyway that is going to do it for this one I hope you enjoyed this extremely rushed episode of unboxing boxes and to power through everything but I've given my reasons as to why that was ok hope you enjoyed I'm your host Steve see you next time