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my coverage of Computex 2018 is sponsored by EVGA EVGA offers a wide range of products including GPUs cases power supplies motherboards and more to learn how to take your rig to the next level head to EVGA calm alright continuing our Computex coverage here with some private suites up here at the beautiful Taipei Grand Hyatt nope we're not staying here I kind of wish we're hey anyone know where Vidya is can't seem to find in video anyone all right now we're not going to Nvidia today we all know they have nothing new to show we're gonna be going checking out some private suites hear something like fantex Corsair EVGA who else we checking out EK water blocks we're gonna see what kind of new stuff they have check it out nvidia is up the swallow room because everyone knows that GP p was hard to swallow okay that's bad so i've been sitting here for a significant amount of time trying to figure out if that security guard thing there was a mannequin or a real person Brian tells me it's a it's a mannequin because he's standing in a little case I'm not convinced I think he's watching us alright guys we're here at EVGA and they're showing off a new BIOS here that's on when they're extra and I'm dark boards and it's got a built in bio stress test so instead of having to go into Windows and do your prime95 your OC CT or whatever sort of stress test you want to use you can do it right here inside the BIOS so they currently have a 79 80 XC on demonstration using one of their a io coolers and as you can see right now it's running a 79 ATX at 4 mega or 4 gigahertz at one point one volts you can see we're getting 68 C but it also has another function built in where you can actually do an OC overclock Robo overclock basically so it's going to go in there and start to incrementally increase the frequency and the voltage to kind of find where it's sweet you know happy spot is one thing to keep in mind though is it definitely will get warm as you're doing it so you're gonna want to make sure you have adequate cooling so there's an example of that right here the OC robot is going right now it's currently a four point one one point two three and if you look at the temperatures you'll see it's definitely starting to climb that's very indicative obviously the 79 80 X II which is a very very hot chip so we just hit 80 and 81 and this well we just went critically to 90 see but this is kind of nice because it means you can sit here and dial in your overclocks and I'm go ahead and stop it right there as it almost it's 100 see you can definitely dial in your overclocks here in the bios and I asked them if this is indicative of a you know similar experience is what you'll get I'm 95 I was curious about stability in the BIOS for stability in the OS and they're saying that they are showing very very similar results alright so here's a new PSU from EVGA this is what they're calling their super 7 basically it's going to be available in a gold as well as a platinum rating but it's sitting this is a thousand watt PSU and it's sitting right next to one of their 1600 watt PSU you can see obviously the dual transformer in here but they were telling me this transformer here can actually scale up to 1600 watts but what's important about this if you look at the size of it this is actually quite a bit smaller than even a standard 1000 watt you're typically used to seeing in fact here's a representation of what a standard thousand watt power supply would look like currently from EVGA versus this guy here so you can see that through the quality improvement of components and the transformer technology that they're implementing in here they can get a much smaller footprint for a thousand watt PSU so this is good news for those building small form-factor pcs micro ATX pcs where a larger thousand watt what definitely have been maybe a concern in terms of fitment but PSU technology is obviously shrinking and giving you the same efficiency and power rating that you're accustomed saying and then if you're looking for the ultra small form-factor here is an SFX power supply you can see compared to the size of my hand this is actually really small this is a 650 watt standard this effect size power supply from EVGA so not even an SFX L which is typically what you would find in this type of power rating so ya see obviously some exciting stuff coming from EVGA which has definitely been making a splash in the industry over the last few years in terms of their power supply quality so that's definitely one take we're taking a look at once it's available alright one less thing we're gonna look at here this is a new motherboard from EVGA this is the ex 299 micro 2 we actually use this is the same well the micro was the board we use when we did the PDX LAN builds we're Jerry and I did a build off and competed against each other what makes this one different is it's got active cool erm a 14 phase vrm and slightly redesigned wireless module to make it a bit smaller but that makes this a much more friendly for overclocking in a micro ATX format with the actively cooled 14 phase vrm and other than that it's pretty much the same but a very basic very sleek design EVGA is kind of known with their their motherboards like this is the dark x2 99 right here they're kind of known with their boards to not go over the top in terms of flashiness and just give you features which is you know in terms of stability and build quality which is what you really come to expect out to EVGA motherboards alright guys we are way over 2 EK water blocks we're showing quite a few new products but everything in here is pretty much new so this is the new wave monoblock just kind of an example of you know obviously we've got some hard to be implementation in there but they've changed the way that they fluid is actually going to flow through the block new CPU block right here which is obviously much larger more surface area this is on a rise end system right here but you can see compared to the original block designs much much larger this is an example of one of their new a iOS which is basically a full custom loop the DDC style pump radiator everything preassemble here is one of the new velocity blocks which we're going to be showing you right here as you can see there's definitely an RGB theme but trust me guys this this gets good and you'll see it in a second so these are the new thread Ripper blocks right here we do my best I can to show you considering the light is currently glowing the fluid goes down through the intake of the block but then it separates and goes to different directions and then meets back at the top and the reason why they did that is they found that there with the die size of the tr4 and thread ripper that they needed to split the flow rather than going across the die that way you can heat both of the elements inside of the core equally so they were able to get better thermal obviously dissipation at that with that type of design here is what the Intel and more mainstream block looks like but this is the new velocity series so if you've ever held a EK water block in the past were built with it you remember they had those flow plates that were built in this is obviously all completely redesigned here's an example of one of the plates right here the heat plates that are built into the new philosophies blog so definitely a whole new kind of a revamp designed from the ground up one of the things that was really popular last year we took a look at was their fluid gaming series remember the 240 240 G aluminum water cooling kits where every part was aluminum including the GPU block CPU block fittings radiator to combat galvanic corrosion but I also give you a very cost effective entry point into water cooling if you've never experienced it and you want more than an AIO but what they're showing here are a lot of the expansion pieces that we've we're told where we give me coming so you could expand your loop add more GPUs here's your fittings obviously you have several different block designs as you can see right here but what they're also showing is some new covers these are milled and anodized covers showing you just how good that this can look but at a price point that more people can actually afford so just an example of some of the custom designs they put on their fluid gaming so we got sort of a plexi clear obviously we've got a design on one of the asset awls and then over here this is an example when their fluid gaming pre-built gaming system okay so maybe RGB is not your thing well ek special projects would probably be for you this is just an example of what happens when the owner of the company Eddy himself is also very passionate about woodworking these are custom covers that have been made for water blocks GPU blocks and as you can see this is very very classy they have three different types of wood here dark walnut selenium walnut and had a Duke fan oak I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce it but as you can see the grain is very very classy looking why am I even showing this because this is all custom made to order you have to order the pieces and then they will make it so if you are you know working for a company that sells water cooling parts you would have to buy all of these pieces custom made which is not cheap but where would I use something like this well you guys know I'm doing the post Malone build and you guys have been wondering where that's at I have the chassis now in the States it is in my possession when I get back and we did the custom wood guitar head like I wanted to do in that custom or that video where we talked about options with that case but my concern was the only wood in that case is going to be that guitar head on the back of the well now you guys can see the gears in my head returning we just found a way to incorporate more wood into this build bringing it to a whole new level in terms of classy so yeah if you guys like the I the very sleek and very high-end premium look of a wood element where you're gonna definitely see a lot more of it now in that build so here's an in 1s chassis they have on display here obviously utilizing all of the RGB RGB fans RGB blocks RGB reservoir RGB well Ram you name it RGB is present alright so here it is guys you've probably heard by now quite a few times about the new fan Tex evolve ex so this is basically a successor to be very popular but a little bit controversial airflow version of the evolve last year so I did a build in it and as you guys saw it did suffer some temperature issues in terms of water cooling but this isn't it this is addressing all of those issues so it's going to start with a front panel you can how well picks up on cameras you can see it's much bigger I can actually get my hand in here into the side it's got a bigger gap right here it sits away from the the fan filter a little bit to allow a little bit more airflow but on the top you can see they've also expanded the grill across the entire well most of the top of the panel whereas before I had the small slits now it has a much larger opening as well as the the grill is not quite as fine if you look on the side too you can see we've got some redesigned hardware cages and a vertical GPU mount so they've definitely done a lot in terms of not just fixing the airflow but also adding some additional features as well this case also natively supports nine SSDs and 10 hard drives all at the same time and then they've got these doors that sort of fold away so that cable management's kind of an afterthought you don't have to worry about cable management when it comes to these especially when you have this many this much storage cable management definitely becomes something to be concerned about so the front panel RGB is actually contact based so when you take off the front panel aid the lights shut off as well and then you can access your your fan filter your obviously your front fans and you can see the RGB right here on that front aluminium piece fan tax has also been working on expanding their water cooling lines so this is an example of a water cooling loop it's pretty much all fantex products so GPU block CPU and this really nice different not a circular reservoir but is a DDC pump and a reservoir integrated into one but as you can see this is a rectangular design so this is actually mounted to the front fans you can see we've got some sort of a pearlescent fluid going around in there but this is also featuring the fan Tech's fittings so fantex is also definitely making an impact in the water cooling scene so here's a prototype they're showing off this is the fan Tech's piece 600's it's a very raw format right now but what's interesting about this one here is it's got a focus on silence so you can see we've got some some foam material here on the front panel to kind of cut down on some of the sound and reverb reverb and what's different about this one though is it is using a fabric based fan filter so very different from the typical metal mesh that you're used to seeing the side here is a tempered glass side panel but what I also want you to notice is how there are these rubber seals on here so when you close the door this seals off not only you know airflow but also any kind of sound leak that could come through the glass one of the nice things about tempered glass is that it's shiny and it's very very clear the sad part is you can't seal it off very well with the chassis but as you can see it's on a hinge as well as the backside is also on a hinge so you can see a lot of cable management built in typical SSD trays on the back a segmented bottom section for your power supply and then on the top also a removable panel for top case airflow if you want it otherwise it's closed off presumably with the same sort of a foam sound isolator that way you can go with a silent build if that's your choice now you can't come to Computex to not talk about Corsair so this is a new chassis they're showing it's an EM ATX chassis this is the 280 X which is a part of the crystal series you've got 3 tempered glass panels on the top of the front and the side and it comes in a couple of different variants so you have the RGB variant which will include two of the light loop fans on the front obviously they've got this one expanded with the RGB strips on the side of course we've got some of the RGB memory in there but showing off an SL I can figure out there with two founders edition cards of course their vengeance RGB memory and one of their a iOS but this is a very sleek design it's it definitely carries over from their err series the dual chambers so the power supply is actually over here on this side this is actually ventilation and then it's you got your power buttons over here on the right and then you can see that it pulls in air through these gaps on the side of the glass and gaps right here same thing with ventilation on the top you have a gap right here on the side gap on this side and as well as the back and the front for it to exhaust air if you have top fans and then on the back you can see you have your typical exhaust so this is actually the 280x from Corsair tell me what you guys think na TX a small form-factor are definitely making a comeback and this is what Corsair thinks that should look like other than that there's as much RGB as you can one we argue be here more RGB here big wall to RGB orgy be there more you'd be there the more you'd be there oh look or you'll be over there here we have an RGB control panel known as IQ some more you be there when it comes to the RAM yep you guessed it a whole lot more RGB and you can look into the peripherals as you can see more RGB so that was sort of a quick look here at the RGB view I mean the Corsair booth at Computex 2018 anyway guys that's a wrap for us here with our first person perspective walkthrough of Computex obviously doing the private suites here at the Grand Hyatt anyway guys thanks for watching and a huge thank you to our sponsor EVGA for making this trip possible we're gonna get out of here we will see you guys back in the States and as always thanks for watching