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okay I don't normally do pre-built systems I thought this one would be pretty cool this is when we took a look at here from digital storm because sort of an unboxing and overview a little bit of performance but this guy right here although it probably looks like a monitor oh yeah it's so much more than that great this is that part right here wonderful plus it guys does need Celsius s 3 6 from fractal design yeah so but do you know what it does yeah makes things cool yeah cooler hey guys this is Austin and today I am super excited to be doing a video with the one and only NYX you said yo I'm excited man so what are we doing today we're going to review the Celsius s 36 I get that a lot hey what's up sure I could give you some workout tips how's tomorrow sound awesome later Oh the new Celsius as 36 can make almost anything cooler almost so cool I did some research how to unbox things you know that their line of tech tips channel sure came up a lot would suck that's by two damn box of accessories trust me that was just as painful to watch as it was for me to do it so this is the digital storm aura basically this is not your typical AIO okay so this isn't all of one PC and there's nothing new about that we've seen these for a long time from companies like HP I think even Gateway did this way back in the day but digital storm is packing a lot of punch into this unit here so if we just kind of stick this space down here for a second guys don't cringe I promise it's not under any stress here we have got a lot of hardware packed into this open the a lot of you guys thought I was embellishing in my bad unboxing abilities in the Red River video yeah no I just suck alright I'm not even positive that this is the way it comes apart I guess we're going to find out because I want to open the back of the sucker up there we go look it's that so there's an idea of the amount of cooling built into the back of this look at all this ventilation right there and look at all of this crammed into here so here's what makes it are different than a lot of other AO pcs in the past is we have got full-blown desktop components crammed into this ITX motherboard a full-blown GT X 1080 desktop GPU not some sort of a mini card I mean literally if you were to take apart an ITX small form-factor build and shove it into a monitor this is what you get alright so where do we get in the box here looks like we've got some RGB cables there so we've got another fan tip we got another exhaust yeah I'm not sure where this goes stuff we've got a foursome MSI stickers because we do have an MSI board in here we've also got a notebook with all of our information probably something I could have read to first to figure out how to take the damn thing apart set up instructions all your driver did this is pretty neat all of your support information is all put right here as well as your certificate of ownership so this is going to be all of your support more SATA cables here another cold down of some sort our power cable look at that we've got a USB so this is what the usb on the top is for we've got a built-in webcam that so you can put that into the top of the monitor and then you've got a webcam I don't know much aspect about it probably going to be a 1080p that's pretty neat so that's proprietary one thing that's really impressive to me though is the way that they have managed all of these cables in this I mean this would be a nightmare if you tried to take standard cable length and fit this in here I'm not sure you even could so all the cable links on this are custom so everything's nice and neat and airflow is optimal now some of you have been cringing that I put this face down if you like oh my god you don't put a curved panel face down to the Flex but that's where the other thing that impresses me is the build quality this thing has a very rigid metal frame so there is no flex in this when you put it face down if you watch when I put it down there is like no flex in that it is extremely extremely tough and the weight is definitely you know reminiscent of that I don't know how much it weighs but this thing is pretty heavy before we start gaming on this let's just kind of go through the specs real quick it's got an i7 7700 K on an MSI gt70 I Pro carbon mini ITX motherboard where they custom-built a io water cooler specifically for this application so it pulls the air in here and it exhausts it up towards the atmosphere which is perfect through this really thin radiator right here I don't know what the surface area of this rat is so we'll definitely be interested in taking a look at what the temperatures are we've got a blower style GTX 1080 in here not a ti of it at 1080 that's got a riser card so that they can orient this the way they want so again it pulls air in through the back of the panel and exhaust it down I kind of feel like it might have made sense to exhaust it up just like we're doing here because this is going to hit the bottom of your desk and this is going to heat up your space if you've got a keyboard under this I'd be concerned about that they do have this riser card or this riser cable right here so this plugs into the HDMI and it goes right over there so I sense are using this cable I guess I don't see why they couldn't flip this around the other way and then ran the cable internally to make the exhaust make more sense so again I'll be curious to see how that works out we've got another exhaust fan running right here the exhaust air out the top so again why I would have liked to see in the card flipped around so we've got 3-way speakers right here that our rear fire so we'll be interested in how those sound and yeah I guess the only thing I feel that's a little bit lacking and this is the power supply it's only a 450 watt so that means we can't really upgrade our graphics card to a 1080i or anything like that because this simply isn't going to be enough so that's a little bit unfortunate oh then storage we've got a 500 gigabyte Western Digital blue SSD and a one terabyte 7200 rpm mechanical Drive underneath that motorcycles so let's go ahead and start with performance because I spent the last couple of hours playing around this doing some benchmarking doing some temperature tests and we'll start with the CPU now I am actually pretty impressed with the temperatures that the really small AI oh and I have no idea what actual size that radiator is it doesn't seem like the same amount of surface area as a 120 but then again it thicker it's definitely proprietary to this build but it seems to be doing the job because the 7700 K although a warm CPU by nature is being kept around the mid-60s while running things like Cinebench back to back back trying to get the thing nice and warm and even when you run something like 806 before it sticks right around the upper 70s to low 80s depending on the type of test that you're running now that's perfectly acceptable in my opinion given the size of the cooler and the form factor that we're dealing with here but I think given the fact that this is all crammed into a monitor makes those temperatures perfectly acceptable now the GPU on the other hand that's a little bit of a different story I don't know if it's because of the orientation like I mentioned I think it should be exhausting the air ups to be a little more natural and have a riser card designed for that no the PCI Express port is on the side facing the motherboard but they still could have come up with some sort of device I think to reroute it because I don't know if it's fighting the natural radiation of heat or heat wanting to rise but our temperatures will reach whatever we put them at so if I put the fan curve up and then even increase the temperature target to something like 92 we will reach 92 C even right now while we are doing heaven benchmark on loop it is sitting at 84 C because that is the default target temperature and even if I increase the fan speed it doesn't do a whole lot to reduce it below that temperature which the founders card can do now this is a blower style carbon at the plastic shroud I don't think it's a vapor chamber style cooler on the MSI blower cooler as like you would find on the Nvidia card so I think a future test I want to do is to put in my Founders 1080 and see if I get improved temperatures let's go and talk about the panel because that's obviously we're going to spend all your time looking it doesn't matter what's crammed in the back of it you're looking at the front of it if the 34 inch ultra wide 20 1 by 9 aspect ratio PST it's not an LED it's not an IPS it's an LCD TFT now the colors are not as vibrant or popping as much as a TN panel but they definitely don't look bad I mean they might have a slight washed out look to them which means you might want to add a little bit of saturation to it but it's not going to give you the color accuracy of something like an IPS panel so this is this is definitely not going to be the best solution for content creators but it's a pretty good solution for people who have limited space now it's also not necessarily the best panel for gamers either because it has no G sync or freesync technology built into it it's a 60 Hertz refresh rate with a 14 milliseconds response time so it's not the fastest panel and yeah it's I think it's a really good middle ground because I think the issue with the panel is if they went with something like a predator panel or something like the AC panels or even the new ones at 144 Hertz or even 200 Hertz and I think the price would be way too high I think it does a really good job of walking the line of being kind of a jack-of-all-trades it's good at gaming it's good at content creating the temperatures are decent like I mention with the GPU that could be better but the temperatures are decent and it doesn't have a huge footprint if you have room for that for a 34 inch ultra wide on your desk but you don't have enough room for a tower well here you go now the only drawback though to this band is it's definitely got some tilt adjustment on tilt right now but it's got tilt adjustment but it doesn't have height adjustment and it doesn't have swivel and the legs are actually made out of very sturdy I think this is steel something I'm disappointed about though is that the stand doesn't have any sort of height adjustment given effect it's so low to the desk it gives kind of an awkward viewing angle where you're looking down at your panel and it just doesn't feel right I like to get my panels up right around I level with wherever the surfaces that I'm sitting at so right now I would have wanted the panel to be right about here at the top of the panel anyway rather than right here that way I'm looking straight on so it doesn't have swivel or height adjustment which are two things I would've liked to have seen anyway guys time to go thanks for watching today's video about the digital storm aura all-in-one PC I think it does a really good job at speaking to a very broad spectrum of potential buyers and you guys can sound off in the comments below and let me know what you guys think about this and maybe we'll do a video about upgrading this in the future have I said it's advertised as being upgradeable huge thank you to digital storm for sending this out you guys can find the link to them down below or just head to digital storm comm and also tell what you guys think about the new set this is the first video we officially filmed in the workshop here and I like the feel this feels more right tell me what you guys think down below and as always I will see you in the next one