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CES 2017 coverage is brought to you by MSI and the new Z 270 chipset and by EVGA our trusted graphics card partner what's up guys Jase to censor and welcome to my hotel room I decided to go ahead and kind of do a recap of the things we checked out recently here at CES 2017 now we're going to talk about three different companies today we're going to talk about Corsair new keyboard they're launching and some other things we're going to mention kind of briefly a soos and some of those e 270 lineup stuff some new panels and some other things they've got coming out here in 2017 and when we took a look for the first time at digital storm another boutique system builder that is kind of worth talking about so we're gonna kick things off here with Corsair and the k95 platinum keyboard one of the things that customers didn't like about the k70 and k95 RGB was the removal of the U a built-in USB hub but I'm happy to say that that has made a comeback now on the k95 platinum it does have a USB pass-through it's got a couple of things on them that are pretty neat it's got a reversible wrist rest some people like it more smooth design some people like it to be a little bit more bumpy whatever your flavor is now it's magnetically mounted to the wrist rest itself and you can flip the pad over depending on the type of feel that you want I'm also really happy to see that they incorporated a wire channel underneath the keyboard plate so that you can keep the headphone cord out of the way of your mouse and other things on your desk so it makes more sense to come out right in front of you then rather than trying to snake it around your keyboard and stay out of the way of your mouse so that's a nice neat feature to see keeping in line with the RGB all the things we now have new edition RGB vengeance Ram that is controllable through Corsair link which is kind of a big deal so now you can control the patterns both so you can synchronize the RAM together per channel or you can break them out independently and have them all do different things but anything Corsair Lee could do with your cooler and other RGB control devices from Corsairs lineup can now also carry over to the RAM itself so you can have kind of a unified thing going if you want one thing I wasn't expecting to see though was a Corsair branded gaming chair and of course it sticks with the race car theme I'd like to see someone kind of tackle the idea of a gaming chair that was more ergonomic than just being racecar inspired I think the race car theme has been done to death I think it's a little late to try and get into the whole race car scene or the race car inspired chairs this late in the game I would have liked to have seen something a little bit more innovative now this chair is being manufactured and designed in-house by Corsair it's not being outsourced to another company already making chairs it's an all steel construction there's an embossed logo on the headrest rather than being a stitch logo so you're not going to be wearing out the stitching it stitched on the back it's a very nice design but I'm personally done with the whole racing chair thing so I'd liked I would have really liked to have seen them go with some sort of a different design now let's go ahead and talk about a suits for a minute here admittedly I have not spent a lot of time covering asu's products in the past but that's all going to change in fact I've got the new Z 270 Maximus 9 formula motherboard at home I've had it since the launch and I will be doing a build in that but it's really nice because it's got an integrated ek water block on the vrm and it also doubles as a heatsink so if you're not running water through it it's perfectly fine as a heatsink as it ships but if you decide you want to incorporate it into a custom water loop you have the quality of ek water blocks built into the motherboard which is really nice to see Asus also debuted a z2 70 motherboard with a fully integrated CPU and vrm block so there's one block that will actively cool the entire CPU region of the motherboard the block has integrated water flow monitoring so you can see what the actual water flow is it can set alarms to warn you that the flow has dropped below a certain threshold that you can set as the user making sure that your if your pump fails you're going to know it it also has implicit the true Delta differences between how hot the liquid is getting as it moves through your CPU block but it also has leak detection which is something that's nice to see because so many people are afraid of leaking when it comes to the idea of water coin and you can actually set auto shutdown so if it's detected a leak you're not going to destroy your system now this particular motherboard is not designed to be used with an air cooler it ships with everything that you see here so you are going to want to make sure you're integrating this into a custom water loop if you're going to be using this motherboard I was also very excited to see in person though for the first time the new asus 144 hertz g-sync 4k panel so I've always said I did not adopt 4k personally because I wanted the high refresh rate to go with the resolution and we are there now with 144 Hertz panel and since it takes so much horsepower to push a hundred and forty-four frames per second the g-sync module will actually be extremely functional and noticeable giving you very consistent frame rates but one thing that's kind of interesting to note on this though is it actually has two DisplayPort 1.4 ports and an HDMI 2.0 in the back which typically you don't see on g-sync panels you would just see a single input so I'm really excited to see how all of that kind of plays out now I also went over to digital storm and took a look at what they had to offer and I was really excited to finally get to see in person something they had actually debuted last year at Computex which is now getting a generational refresh and that is their aura gaming monitor actually to be fair it's not even really just a monitor it's an all-in-one gaming PC and it even supports water cooling so you've got a 34 inch ultra wide panel that has a full-size founder's Edition 1080 in it as well as Broadwell e60 950 X you can spec it up that high anyway if you want to and you have the coin to go along with it and an a IO water-cooled CPU cooler in there all squished in to a panel and they're telling me that thermals are actually not much of an issue so it's kind of like an iMac but actually worth buying of course as a buyer you could spec this out however you want and the pricing starts at around $2,000 obviously at that price point it's not going to be broad well II 69 50 X but you can scale it up to kind of as big as you want to be I believe you could even put a Titan X Pascal in there if you wanted but that's imagine the amount of desk bass that actually clears up if you put everything into the monitor itself and you don't have a big tower PC taking up any space on your desk I think that's actually a really cool thing you're going to start seeing more pre-built systems on the channel as we move forward when it comes to review because not everyone is comfortable building their own computer as much as I try to make everyone comfortable with DIY that's just not always the case you're going to be seeing more of this kind of stuff also as we move forward and of course if you want a system that pulls out all the stops you have the event in three which is just a complete lead in house design chassis everything is handled in-house are not just sourcing case and building in it it's got so much thought out in there in fact on the back of this system though because it's fully water-cooled instead of having two run up and down the back of the system or trying to plumb them up through the front they actually have a custom-designed ek water block or water passageway we'll call it that's built into the backside of the motherboard tray that droughts all the water part needs to go I'm sitting here asking myself why the heck didn't I think about that and have something like that made for skunk works so you can see that this is the level of enthusiasm digital storm is bringing to the market made as a enthusiast brand built by enthusiasts for enthusiasts and you really can't deny that if you've ever looked at pre-built systems digital storm has probably come up in your search somewhere so anyway that's what we took a look at today guys thanks for watching my CES coverage here we've got a few more things coming your way and I can't wait to show you some of the showroom floor stuff I'm exhausted but this is so much fun once again a huge thank you to my sponsors for bringing me here this year MSI and EVGA who without them this coverage would not have been possible anyway guys thanks for watching and as always I'll see you in the next one