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welcome back to our unboxed I am home from Computex that was a fun week over in Taiwan very you actually wasn't too humid to be honest with you this year it was rather cool and nice but certainly warmer than the weather we have here in Victoria at the moment anyway as I said I am back I'm back in the studio I've set everything back up hopefully the audio is working of hit record on the audio recorder hopefully I've done the same on the camera otherwise this is this is gonna be frustrating anyway I'm not going to get up and check everything cuz I'm sure I've got it right I can see the light over there is a red for the audio recorder so we've at least got audio so if all else fails this will be the world's weirdest podcast hey it is an episode of unboxing boxes if you haven't guessed already by the title and the fact that I've got boxes the unboxing on the desk but we're to get into them I've got a couple of things here not a whole lot of stuff really but I know you guys get a bit upset if I don't do one of these every month or so it's probably a month since the last one so yeah I thought I'd see what we got here I actually don't really know what any of this is I have a few ideas what's in here because I actually asked for a care package from PC case gear and those guys er those guys are really nice they always look after me so they've sent something over although they're trolling me either way we've got something in this box not really shorts in this one but we'll probably start with these little packages Iraq and get get these little guys out of the way I've got two little packages here and yeah not really what we're dealing with here so we'll just get into it I haven't got my trusty knife what did I put that thing I hope it's in here yep I've got my knife so we're now in business let's get into this how can I cut into it without destroying what's inside that's only paper it's probably just ripped this but the knife's not really necessary okay so we've got a red box at the top there Sound Blaster g6 I recognize this thing or something very similar to this thing well way back when Matt was still making videos I'm pretty sure he looked at the soundblaster xe5 I was gonna say g5 but I feel like it was a 5 and that was like a where are you going are you doing just go up to it I swear he's moving is that moving anyway yeah a 5 it's a headphone amplifier thing it was moving and this is a high-res gaming deck and USB sound card with headphone amplifier so that's kind of cool I suppose we'll take this out of the box and have a look I might quickly look at pricing information and stuff like that well I'm cutting to some b-roll that future me is no doubt going to do so before we get too far into it for those of you wondering this little guy here is a hundred and fifty dollars us or two hundred and thirty dollars Australian so pretty pricey little item but this is basically that actually I checked this out on unboxing boxes the creative soundblaster x-fi v' there's really nice PCIe sound card got a lot of rave reviews from everyone this is kind of like that in a compact portable form that can do a few extra things yeah I'm not the first person to get one of these they've actually been out for a while now so I suppose creative just sent one over to be featured on unboxing boxes but from all the reviews I've read it has excellent sound quality it's very easy to set up and it works with a whole range of devices so obviously it works with PC or we wouldn't be looking at it but it also works with a range of consoles ps4 namely it also works on the Xbox one but from what I've seen the ps4 setup is easier I don't know I'm a complete console noob I don't use them Tim sort of knows more about consoles and I do because he actually plays on them and it works on things like the Nintendo switch as well but you can also hook it up to your Android phone I believe if you do that it kind of zaps your phone battery a bit well it doesn't work on Apple products but yeah whatever but it works on Android devices so if you want to have some really know audio quality out of your phone for whatever reason you can plug it into this guy for game it has a scout mode has a little button here you can change from a few different modes but scout mode is pretty handy so if you're a PC gamer and your sound card in your laptop or your PC or your integrated audio rather is absolutely garbage then you can use this as a USB sound card and Scout modes pretty handy for hearing footsteps and stuff like that it really amplifiers that's what makes it a lot easier to hear where other players are so it gives you a bit of an advantage there and it does have an individual mic input and then of course your headphone jack and the cool thing about this for using high quality headphones your audiophile grade headphones is that the left and right channels are individually amplified so it really improves audio quality obviously I haven't tested it out yet because I've just taken it out of the box speaking of which what else is in the box so you get an optical cable there is a USB cable so that is micro USB little bag or do not eat well so we've got and then just the instruction manuals and I'll sort of stuff but yeah I'll give this a bit of a go later on and I'll let you guys know what I think of it but yeah pretty pretty cool little device we really liked the e5 so yeah I imagine this is just better because it can do more things okay next up we'll skip that for a moment I'm not sure what that is I'm pretty certain this isn't asrock motherboard I bet you guys are hoping it 2x 570 board it's definitely not going to be an X 570 board because those will still be under NDA but I suspect to give it a shape that it is a motherboard could be a graphics card but yeah why be a graphics card okay the motherboard is it's a gaming seven phantom gaming 7z 390 it's kind of a thin but large surface area box so suppose we'll take a peek inside it's interesting that we're still getting some refreshed zette at 390 motherboards this late in the game I didn't really end up doing all the said 390 verum thermal testing that I would like to because well product releases started happening and I got caught up with other stuff but I still have I think there's about four or five boards I have tested I haven't released that data so yeah if you guys are still interested in more Zed 390 vrm thermal information let me know I suppose I can put that video together and I could probably add this board to it as well so I will get this board out and take a bit of a look I feel like with the recent AMD announcement I didn't want to talk too much about Zen to processors in this video but I feel like with the recent announcement of that series most people would be holding off on building any kind of new PC at this point in time I think we'd be wanting to see what the X 570 boards are like especially since they'll be priced in a similar category to the Z 390 boards and then of course as always processors so I don't know how many of you guys will be keen to buy and 99 or okay at this point in time not saying that those n processors will be better than the 99 or okay but we just don't know at this point so yeah whether you just want to wait or a month but anyway regardless we have this board it was sent to me before Computex but just enough time to check it out before then and obviously I won't have time to test it so yeah I don't know how much interest there'll be and vrm thermal testing for Xen 390 motherboards and the future we already have a bit of data but like I said I've tested a few boards and I haven't given you guys that info anyway this particular board as far as I can tell it is an eight phase-- v core vrm so it takes four signals and it doubles them so yeah that makes it a genuine eight phase-- vrm isn't using the highest quality components though they are technically better than what you'll find on the tai chi though I believe the total current capacity is about the same so it's an eight plus two design it uses the is l69 138 controller so again that's an eight phase-- pwm controller it uses the SI c63 for power Sage's they are 50 amp power stages and then they're doubled using ISL six six one seven a doubles so that's pretty much the vom configuration for this board pretty typical looking aluminium heat sinks nothing too special there and yeah it looks like it's a reasonable vrm but nothing yeah nothing amazing like I said it should be similar to the Tai Chi which is certainly quite good but the board does cost I think at the moment it's selling for a hundred and ninety five dollars u.s. and there's no current prices for Australians because well it's not selling in the Australian market yet so yeah it's going to be around that $200 u.s. mark those sort of boards that will be competing with so that puts it up against the Auris elite and that's I think that's one hundred and seventy-five dollars the elite board and I have to say that board would have a better verum because it has a six phase while it's got a twelve phase but it's six phases that are doubled and it's using higher quality components so yeah this doesn't bring anything too new to the table but yeah overall a decent board it's got some nice features there's 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet all the standard sort of USB stuff you'd expect to find so yeah nothing too over the top but it is a really nice-looking but I do like the new sort of gaming phantom gaming look I think the boards look pretty cool it's got some new sort of RGB lighting features and stuff like that but yeah overall I don't think it's too game-changing at this point in time as it has quite interesting that we are seeing some new Zed 390 motherboards this late but maybe that's Intel giving motherboard manufacturers multiple vendors some incentives to create a bit of excitement around the platform since everyone's getting pretty excited for Zen too so Intel doing what they can I do like how the i/o shields now are coming pre-installed on a lot of these boards I'm not sure who starred that whether it was a sous or gigabyte not sure anyway as rocker doing it now and yeah it looks pretty good okay that's the Zed 390 phantom gaming seven all right we'll get this little package out of the way it's kind of sticky huh that was a shipping label it's probably a white sticky it's the best way to open this without destroying what's inside ah looks like we have a Razer product the basilisk essential I believe that's how it's pronounced I haven't actually looked at this mouse bland or ware of it it's quite a popular mouse at least the original one was well whip it out and take a look quite a neat little box but then it is just a mouse I suppose so there's no need to go too over the top with it what sort of throwing stuff out everywhere okay so it's got a neat braided cable standard green or Razer USB connector on the end and yeah it looks quite similar to the original nice and light yeah it's certainly very comfortable obviously I can't tell you too much about it but I'm just gonna go quickly check a few things out okay well obviously I haven't really plugged it in and done too much with it yet but I have done a little bit of research so I can give you a bit of an overview so it's not just a hey I've taken it out of the box and here it is which is kind of what we do an unboxing boxes and anyway this is well it's an the essential versions are the cheaper more affordable versions of the original products so obviously to sell something cheaper some compromises have to be made in this instance the 16,000 dpi sensor that's been downgraded to a 6400 dpi sensor which for most gamers is fine but it is quite a significant downgrade all the same you're also missing at the DPI button the up and down DPI button so now it's just a single button which means you have to cycle so if you go past the step that you want you have to go through all the steps again so it's a little a little less practical it's kind of annoying if you hit it mid game because then you've got to quickly cycle through to where you would like it to be so up-and-down is handy there so you give up that that's the only button missing though and then only sort of the logo here is backlit so the wheel is no longer lit so yeah I mean if you care about lighting on the mouse I suppose that's a bit of a downgrade there and apparently on the original version you can adjust the wheel tension so it's just fixed on this model and the interchangeable thumb switches and now but are no longer interchangeable so there's a few down grades there and I guess well it depends on how much it costs us to whether or not those down grades can be justified or not and in the Australian market it certainly can't be because it costs the same amount as the original I don't know how that works but yeah this is I think it's $80 Australian and that's how much the original the non-essentials version costs so that kind of makes this product really pointless in our market at least for now it's meant to be about $10 u.s. cheaper I think I couldn't really get any clearer info on that it's five dollars cheaper on Newegg and ten dollars cheaper on Amazon so that's the biggest pricing discrepancy I could find was what we saw in Amazon so yeah kind of a weird one that I don't know if pricing is just got to settle but if it's $10 u.s. less it still makes it pretty competitively priced for what it's competing with but I think I'd rather to spend $10 u.s. more and get the the original one with the better sensor the extra lighting zone the extra button and all that sort of stuff I think for $10 it's probably worth doing but they wait there's more options now so if you want to save you 5 to $10 u.s. then you can and you can get this model here but anyway I'm interested to see what you guys think about this mouse in the comment section below is that noticeably cheaper in your region is that the same price as it appears to be Australia and yeah would you consider buying this over the original or save well anywhere from nothing to $10 okay let me let me know what you guys think in the comment section below so we're not doing super well boxing boxes for this episode we've sort of come across a mouse that I'm not entirely sure why it exists and a motherboard that probably doesn't need to exist either so let's hope there's something exciting in this box can't even get the plastic you do anything exciting okay what do we have here we have some $1 I'm assuming it's a data because it looks very $1 ish xpg that's this their stuff I have a doubter a tiny font on the back so yeah they're they're branding is not very prominent on this but whatever it's their xpg series and it's their spectryx D 60 G ddr4 RGB memory so that's pretty cool I haven't seen this stuff before it looks pretty fancy actually emotive no we didn't say this at Computex I didn't actually head over to the a data booth we didn't have time but it's a 16 gigabyte kit of ddr4 3000 what is the timings probably like sales 16 or something 16 18 18 I will do my best to get some b-roll of this stuff all lit up and doing probably the default rainbow effect so you guys can judge yourselves on whether or not you think it looks anything good yeah it looks like itll are a lot of it will light up so it should look pretty spectacular from the top and the sides but yeah hopefully it looked good yeah I I'll have to see when I make the b-roll and eventually edit it into this video but it looks like the effect will be quite in your face so if you like very flamboyant memory and then maybe this will be the stuff for you anyway we'll move along well you want hang around on the RGB memory for truline alright the last box here is the biggest box and I kind of can see what's in you know one of the things anyway I don't think this is I think there's just one thing Oh a PC case key airbags make a bit more of a bang not for that okay that looks interesting what else we got in here that looks interesting Oh plenty of PC case key have delivered of the woods okay we'll start with the ducky keyboard this is the ducky one too many what have I got here the speeds which is cool and yeah we haven't we don't really do keyboard reviews on how our box but I have looked at some ducky keyboards in the past and I've actually used ducky keyboards in the past they are exceptionally high quality very much enjoyed the ones I've used in the past and this guy is a cute little ducky keyboard so that is the key to pull hard well my kids are gonna want that thing but there's no way I'm letting them use it so as far as I know PC case key are the only retailer in Australia to sell this particular model so I've got some sort of special deal with ducky or no one else has brought them in yet but yeah if you want one of these you have to go through PC case key and it is 150 dollars ozzie I did have a look on Amazon and Newegg it's not available there so I don't know if you can get it in the US or if you can where you have to get it so no idea on that one so this particular model comes with the Cherry MX speed switch is it's actually the Cherry MX RGB so it's their RGB switches designed specifically for RGB lighting but you can also get it with the more traditional black we've got black blue red and brown I think that's all of them you can also get them with a red silent switch so yeah the speed one that's not you're not super loud but yeah they're make they sell up mechanical keys it's a really solid feeling little keyboard this thing to be pretty awesome for gaming actually so we've got a custom sort of fancy looking ducky spacebar key cap then we've got some yellowish keycaps we can see we've already got the enter key that you can change that back to the black one if you want there's a few different profiles there and your up/down keys and then a couple of yeah fancy keys anyway and the cool thing about this actually that was one thing the mouse didn't have that was a downer on the mouth that doesn't have a detachable USB cable so if you end up damaging the USB cable or whatever that kind of rights the mouse stuff unless you're pretty handy with with wiring oh that's just dude no all right the hard way so we just have a USB type-c to a standard type a connector and there's your cable so you can change that to a braided cable or a different color cable if you would like to otherwise yeah this rubberized cable will do the job perfectly fine yeah it's a really awesome little keyboard the only thing I have to have with keyboards is like a wrist rest so you can probably use like a gel pad wrist rest or something for this I suppose the point is to be really compact so having a big wrist rest hanging off it kind of defeats the purpose on that one but yeah it's a it's a really nice keyboard quality seems to be very good I'm keen to give this a bit of a whirl later but I feel like this will be pretty popular amongst gamers it actually would have been really handy to take two Computex actually this is what I might take the Computex next year because it's really good to type on and perfect for those little desks you get in hotels so yeah anyway I'll give it a test later on and I'll let you guys know in the comments what I want to think about it oh there's a there's a key cap changer included a little ducky one so that's nice okay next thing on our list is the be quiet dark rock slim again I couldn't find this on sale in the US it is a pretty new cooler yeah it is pretty new it's only a few months old I think at this point so there are plenty of reviews on it if you're interested and from what I can see it performs very well and it's extremely quiet so that's good it's $89 Australian I got a PC case key probably should plug them since they sent it to me but yeah no idea because it wasn't on Amazon or new egg hey wait we'll take a quick look at it and then we'll move on so it says clearly on the box 180 what the TDP and apparently it can dissipate or I can handle CPU Raider with a hundred eighty watt TDP with making just like I think it was twenty three point six maybe anyway it's around twenty three decibels which is basically silent you're not going to figure that over anything else in your system so that's pretty impressive because one hundred eighty watt TDP yeah it'll handle pretty high-end processes you should be able to deal with something like the 99er okay without a problem you can see that the base plate on it is quite small so it's designed to for you Rison and then your Intel processor that will take sky like X that'll do twenty sixty six socket processors won't do TR for not surprising because yeah that's not gonna go well on a TR four socket but yeah the point is its slim as the name suggests so you will have clearance with your memory actually I can probably give a demonstration with this motherboard I'm not sure how good it's going to be so it goes on like that you can imagine they'll be a fan and you can see how much clearer there is there to those four dimm slots so yeah the name of the game with this one is cool quiet and very compatible and you can put a fan on both sides the fin design on that side looks very cool no pun intended so you get a silent wings three fan so it's got the interesting looking fan blades meant to be super quiet and based on the specs it will be so you can also put another 120 millimeter fan on the other side too so you can have it a push-pull configuration that will enhance performance if you want to do that but obviously you have to buy another fan if that's what you want to do I also really like this brushed aluminum top cover that's really nice gives it a really clean look and it'll look great in your case and of course it does cover the top of the heat pipes which can be quite ugly so yeah it's cool partner looks nice I quite like it of course I really like the anodized black fence crit II mean looking cooler this one and I'm actually pretty keen to see outperform as I when PC case Keys head they've got this new cool alright yeah said I'll take a look at that because I'm keen to start doing some air cooler testing and all they want liquid cooler testing we've done a little bit of it in the past not a whole lot and yeah I thought it'd be something we could start adding to the mix of things that we do so if you guys are interested start seeing some air cooler tests from us on Intel and AMD processors then yeah let me know in the comments section below and that's something we can start doing but anyway that is that is that will move on to the next item okay now this next one is quite interesting I've read mixed reviews about these things I didn't actually ask the guys at PC case Q what their experience has been like with these I probably should have done that but they are I offered to send it over what okay wait wait click the trigger again yeah they offered to send it over to take a look at 4 unboxing boxes and I'm pretty intrigued so this is the x3 hurricane it's what Canlis air system basically you can recharge it I don't know how many times it's like 400 or something so that's the battery inside and when you pull trigger it blasts air out so you can use it to clean your system it's basically like a compressed air can but you can use it over and over again so it'll save you a lot of money and a lot of wasted cans I suppose I should talk about the price it is a hundred and fifty dollars u.s. so yeah you'll have to use a lot of cans of compressed air to make your money back not a stupid amount if you're using them fairly regularly it'll should pay for itself but it is 240 Australian dollars so yeah it's quite pricey for Aussie viewers you can get a pretty impressive air compressor for two hundred and forty dollars and if you're just cleaning out computer cases and whatnot well yeah that'll probably do a better job to be honest with you I haven't really read the manual on the fittings but they're not super easy to attach just let me see if I'm doing this wrong okay there's no manual on how to attach the fittings so it should be pretty self-explanatory you would have thought okay well I can get that one on there but that's pretty close how much okay it's pretty loud okay so right away I can tell you it's nowhere near as strong as an air compressor so I'll have to give it a proper go obviously and try and dust out a dusty system so after try and find one of those first but on initial impressions it seems pretty weak for 250 ozzie I have to be honest with you guys I'd be expecting something much much more powerful than this thing a cheap $50 air compressed like the real cheap nasty ones you get from hardware stores they don't know how reliable they're I bought I think I've bought two of them over time and I've still got them they are significantly more impressive in well blowing air out of them so yeah I I'm not sold on this $250 and all that does is it just sort of blows air that's it you can't really pump up balls with it you can't pump up tyres as far as I'm aware you certainly wouldn't need something like this with an air compressor because well the air pressure is just so great that yeah it blows everything apart if you if you're basically needing to scrub something it's going to be need to be much more substantial on one of these but anyway yeah initial impressions not super impressed so yeah like I said I'll give it a go and see what it's what it's really like but I would only use it for sort of light stuff anyway like I said I'll test it out and I'll get back to you guys but for the money yeah what do we got here so what is this oh okay so this looks to be a data vac so this is a bit more impressive I think so this guy here runs off mains power so not as portable but likely to be significantly more powerful so although this one isn't cordless it is significantly better in terms of pricing you can get it for just 83 dollars u.s. or 170 dollars Australian I don't know 70 dollars Australian is still a bit pricey like I said you can get a decent entry level type air compressor deal like one of the bigger air compressors is obviously not as portable as this but they're about well you can easily get them for $100 so there's $70 cheaper than this and again you can blow up balls tires run power tools off them if you want to air tools all that sort of stuff so these are really just for pumping out air well see how well let's see how well this one works okay so right away I can tell you this is miles better than this miles better it's also I would say it's a lot easier on your ears as well this thing has a high-pitched squeal to it kind of like 10,000 laptops trying to render a video whereas this is just kind of like a vacuum cleaner or a powerful vacuum cleaner so yeah and it pumps out significantly more air this will actually clean out a case quite well don't offer to rival an air compressor air compressors a kind of overkill really for cleaning out dust that's what I use anyway and they are quite good but yeah this would definitely get the job done and it's certainly more portable than an air compressor of course if you've got a hose from your air compressor and it's nearby then I suppose that's very portable because it's just up a hose and you can get in places whereas this is a bit more bulky and cumbersome to get into places and blow air out of but yeah are these two products of initial impressions there's no way I'd be buying this for over this even if it was half the price I don't think I'd waste my time with it like I said I'll still give it a go and see what it can do but yeah not impressed this thing looks like it will actually clean your PC out reasonably well and not waste your time so that's good but yeah you sort of have to weigh up what you want if you just want something that can blow large volumes of air then sure this this is pretty good at doing that buy that certainly seems to be but if you want something that's a bit more versatile you can use it for yeah blowing up bowls tires running any kind of air tools things like that then I'd probably just get yourself an air compressor because it will be cheaper and yeah if you have that on your back deck or wherever it's pretty handy because personally I wouldn't use this inside anyway you're not going to get a computer and blast all the dust out inside because then you've just moved it from one place to somewhere else inside so that's not particularly useful so you'd be taking this outside anyway so you're gonna need somewhere to plug it in so not not massively more convenient than an air compressor but anyway I've probably waffled on enough about things that blow air and yeah that's that's my initial impressions on these I don't mind this one I think this one is a is somewhat useful and of course it comes with your static wrist band so you why well static discharge so you won't damage any components on your PCs and whatnot you don't get that with an air compressor at least not typically but yeah this isn't a wireless to respond so yeah anyway that brings us to the end of this episode of unboxing boxes wasn't the most exciting episode we've ever done but yeah hopefully the if you're looking at getting either one of these hopefully that helped I yeah avoid that one get this one or look at an air compressor if you need to do other things with it if you want any more details or my thoughts and that kind of stuff yeah happy to answer them in the comment section below let me know if you want to see us start doing a lot of in-depth testing on air coolers and liquid coolers because we can we can do that let me know if you want to see all that extra Zedd 390 vrm stuff I can throw a video together they're a bit time youichi when you're put together but I can do that like I said I've done a lot of the testing but yeah there's still a bit time we shereena put together keen to play with the ducky that looks like an awesome little keyboard I'm going to make sure my kids don't take that one cuz yeah they'd love that and yeah that's gonna do it for this one I have some awesome benchmarks coming up so don't worry I have been very very very busy benchmarking so I think in about two days from now there'll be some evidence of that I've got a really really cool video planned and they'll just be the usual content from us and then we'll be getting into all the new products but anyway that's gonna do it for this one thank you for watching I'm your host Steve like subscribe do all that stuff I'll see you again next time you