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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here continuing my coverage of Computex 2017 now we're at the EVGA suite and yesterday I put out a video talking about the kingpin edition gtx 980ti that's not all they have to show now here is the new for the win 3 hybrid so as you can see right here it's basically the exact same PCB you'd find on a for the win 3 card only it is water-cooled with an all-in-one water cooling loop it's actually based on an ASA tech design and then this is a cooling plate underneath here that touches things like BRM and memory is cooled by an active fan but if you're in a custom water cooling like I am that might not be enough for you well in that case they've got the 41 3 hydro copper this is a full cover water block it is nickel plated it's got some LEDs on the front LEDs on the back as well as multiple ports and this is shipping obviously pre-installed now you can buy it separate if you want to to put it on a for the win 3 card but if you want to buy it preassembled you can do that as well but if you really want that high-end gaming experience then you definitely need to check out the GTX 1030 now unless you've been living underneath the rock you probably heard by now that intel has launched its new X 299 platform as well as its new CPUs and with that brings some new motherboards now what I'm holding in my hand right here is a kind of an early sample here of the new flagship motherboard from EVGA the X 299 dark it's kind of it's sort of like a throwback motherboard if you will it's got a lot of design cues not only from its popular classified series but also from the x79 dark which was a very popular motherboard in that era so we've got a fan here on the front and that's not only responsible for cooling the chipset it also cools to m2 sockets that are underneath this heat shield and then we have an exhaust port right here on the IO side something else you might have noticed too is we have a built-in IO shield so no longer just to deal with a little metal piece of the click into your case it's integrated on the back right here so that's kind of nice we also have four dimm slots instead of eight and the reason for that is this motherboard actually has overclocking first and foremost in its design philosophy so usually when you have less memory dims you can actually get better over clocks so they've made a sacrifice here down to four dims to appease to it being a more overclocking designed motherboard something else you might have noticed here and you've heard me complain about this in the past is this isn't a ATX motherboard so it obviously means it's wider than a standard ATX but the problem is they usually would have 24 pin and USB 3.0 right angle connectors so they've recessed these critical components here like the 24 pin the USB 3.0 and the Supplemental PCIe 6 pin right here so that you can have a greater likelihood of compatibility with different cases we've still got surface mounted controls here which is very common but we also have as you can see now to read out codes right here because this can now switch between two different things it can show you your temperature which you already see now your socket temperature but it can also show you real-time voltage on what's happening with your CPU making this a perfect motherboard for overclocking and bench testing now at the X 299 dark doesn't appease to you we've got the new for the wind K right here and as you can see we've actually got for the first time in EVGA motherboard history RGB lighting built-in so we've got some right here on the top of the i/o we've got some here where kind of audio traces are our chipset as well as our vrm now obviously takes a lot of design cue from the new 1080i cooler shrouds something new the EVGA showing off this year are two new sfx form-factor power supplies we've got a 650 and a 750 g3 s now sfx power supplies aren't new but it's very hard to find a high power output s FX power supply so if you were trying to do like a high-end graphics card and an ultra small form-factor power or build finding a power supply to give you enough power we've been difficult so now we've got two new options here on the market from EVGA all right something else I want to show you here is the new SC 15 laptop from EVGA now we've taken a look at the SC 17 I did an unboxing of that I'll be doing a full review of that as well but we looked at CES this year a 15-inch model what here it is right here this is pretty much ready to make come to market I'll have a release date yet that will be updated as we move forward but it's got a GTX 1060 in it which is perfect for the 1080p 120 Hertz g-sync panel we've got an i7 7700 HQ CPU with a 256 gigabyte nvme SSD as well as a one terabyte storage so it's pretty beefy given the fact that it's only a 15-inch laptop it seems like a lot of companies are really concerned with 17-inch so it's nice to see an option there now something else we've also got on here the for the first time in EVGA laptops history which admittedly is in a very long history but it's got a RGB keyboard on there with four different zones where you can actually change the colors of the backlighting on the keyboard something that the SC 17 its flagship model doesn't have obviously that's not everything that have on display here at Computex we've already taken a look at the for the 1-3 the SP 2 is very similar but that's just some of the new stuff they have to show so once again huge thank you to EVGA for sponsoring our trip our coverage this year of Computex 2017 head to ebj com to check out everything they've got to offer and stay tuned for what's new this year is my first time in Computex and yeah I plan on getting lost and all of that tech goodness don't go anywhere