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you you what's going on everyone Jase two cents here and welcome to my continued coverage of Computex 2017 my first year covering copy Tex and boy has it been a culture shock where I talk about some of that guys but this is my last night here in the city I'm actually leaving a little bit early because believe it or not my birthday's in a couple of days and I want to spend it with my family as much as I am enjoying visiting Asia I'd like to spend my birthday with friends of family so yeah but I'm still a little bit jet-lagged and I'm starting to feel really drowsy so if I slow my words I'm not drunk kind of wish I was but I'm not but I'm leaving bright and early tomorrow morning and I only had today to kind of see the rest of what I wanted to see so instead of doing videos on site we just did like a running gun and shot a lot of b-roll and I'm going to kind of show you that as I'm talking about various things today so let's go ahead and kick some things off here we look at in win a couple of things we took a look at their they've got some wooden cases which are pretty neat looking now they're very elegant and when it's always been one of those brands that are all about like function and form but definitely form without sacrificing too much in terms of function but these new cases that are I don't even know kind of wood they are I'm assuming is some kind of a pine it's definitely a plywood of some sort those multiplies to this wood that the green looks very very good I don't know what kind of stain they're using but it's a very light stain it just with the coupled with the white man it looks really really good they also had their case bought on hand which is a computer that you control with both movement and verbal commands and Nick actually stood in the dome thing and was controlling the PC and had to take a picture by using nothing more than just hand gestures in his voice so that was pretty neat to take a look at anyone always has someone like the craziest things to show off but we also checked out what Asus was showing again at the ROG booth because there was some stuff that wasn't on display when we were there yesterday now last night they actually held their keynote Jensen came out and spoke about their collaborative efforts with creating a notebook featuring the new 1080 max-q GPU which is not a full-blown GT x 1080 but it's stronger than like what the mobile series used to be in the past has a much smaller footprint much less TDP or much lower TDP allowing them to have a very slim form factor notebook but also to ace or predator also has the 1080 max Q and their new slim mopitt2 so obviously slim is like the trend right now and with that cooling is actually very very difficult to to maintain so the zephyrus notebook from asus rog it's a really interesting name zephyrus they've got some real like one of their Greek names or what we got Gladius and and Claymore and now Zephyrus so obviously there's a theme there but this notebook it's got some pretty neat features now the keyboard is actually all the way pushed to the edge of the notebook which is actually very nice because then when you're typing it's more like typing on a regular keyboard your palms are a little bit lower and it's very ergonomic when you type on a typical keyboard where your hands are kind of half on the keyboard tray sometimes they can push on to your wrist and cause some numbness I actually experienced that with some notebooks so that was nice to see but also too cooling cooling is a major issue when it comes to gaming notebooks and when you open the lid on the Zephyrus the bottom actually pushes down it's part of the hinge and then it creates a bigger gap for more airflow and then when you close the lid it all seals up so it's a nice little feature there and very nju ingenuitive there's a lot of ingenuity I'm bad at words now speaking of Kult brands like republic of gamers let's go and talk about corsair Corsairs got a couple of really neat things actually that a lot of things on display like you might have already seen on some other channels they've got their concepts lay a lot of what they were showing they're calling concept because they're not available yet there's going to be some tweaking involved before they actually come to market but I'm gonna talk about concepts late real quick it is a very very large chest you so far as for the largest chassis I've seen if not be largest chassis dwarfing my case labs case dwarfing my old obsidian 900 d and possibly even dwarfing the fantasy elite it is a of course a tempered glass case but it's like it's kind of like a double-wide you can actually fit to 480 millimeter radiators in push polls that's already insane side by side and you can still fit a 480 on top which is absolutely crazy they've got these pullout trays where you can the tray slides out on a it's very similar to like a drawer hinge or roller hinge as you find out a drawer or a cabinet so they pull out you can attach your radiators and fans to it and then push it back in so making working on the case and building it out a whole lot easier now it's also a dual system chassis so you can't fit an ITX system in the bottom of it except PCI you riser cards that way you can see the face of your GPU making it look nice and pretty same thing with the main system you can actually rotate and move the PCIe support brackets to either support like a riser card where you see the face of the GPUs or mount them traditionally they actually have a lot of cable management in mind with this as well where the system on the bottom or the ITX system is still hiding away the wires where unfortunately one of the things I didn't like about the van tech Seeley was the ITX system where the second system was sort of an afterthought and a cable management was really difficult to maintain with the second system in there now unlike the fantex elite when this chassis is empty it weighs about 40 pounds whereas the chassis for the fantex elite it's around 70 pounds I think it's like 72 pounds empty absolutely insane on how heavy some of these jessee's can get the one we're looking at here that was fully built out though with these push-pull giant rads side-by-side tons of liters of fluid dual systems was actually 125 pounds that guys I'm sorry I don't know what that is in kilos but the tempered glass side panel doors swing open they're on a really nice hinge you can just lift it off and there's obviously way more than enough room then anybody would ever need to build a regular system so be prepared to pack a lot of components in there to fill this out and not have it and feel feel just completely empty and like an echo chamber because it just won't look good unless you're filling this up with radiators and tubing and reservoirs and RGB and all kinds of crap now something else I was really eager to take a look at at Corsair was their new lineup of open-loop water cooling parts now they've actually cleaned up with aqua computer for their blocks and there's also a reservoir which initially concerned me because aqua computer made in germany is a very premium product that has a price tag that definitely represents the level of premium is some of the most expensive water cooling parts you can buy but they use nothing but like tempered glass on there on the GPU covers their reservoirs or glass so they definitely an amazing quality to them but also an amazing price tag now of course there assures me their pricing is going to be competitive but the GPU block is a full cover it looks good it's kind of a nice heavy weight to it but that's because obviously it is a copper nickel plated block with a glass faceplate on it so no plexi it's actually glass and it's very very weighty and then a brushed aluminum backplate which is mostly aesthetics I don't see anywhere wood actually touches the GPU to transfer any sort of heat to the plate giving you a greater surface area so it's definitely more of an aesthetic backplate but it looks really nice now the fittings and stuff they're still tweaking part of the problem is the Corsair sail logo which they have on the fittings are gold and it kind of clashes with the black fittings which is maybe not such a bad thing though because bits power has been putting gold logos on their black fittings for years and people still buy them I still get them there's no real clash there but they are telling me there's kind of tweaking with some of the logo designs until they get something they really like an honorable mention product that Corsair was actually showing off is their k68 keyboard now it's a it's a lower-end keyboard in their case series which is still kind of like their top tier series of keyboards but the k68 is actually featuring water resistance now it is still a mechanical key but it does not have RGB lighting it's a static lighting of different lighting modes obviously but it's not an RGB product but you obviously have cherry mechanical switches in there but the water resistance is kind of nice to have a display where they were just kind of showing water being continuously poured and dripped on top of this keyboard and it wasn't shorting out or having any problems whatsoever so now you can kind of play games or eat at your desk and not have to worry about tipping a cup over inside your keyboard and shorting it out that pretty much wraps up my coverage here for Computex 2017 guy pipe a is an amazing City Asia so far what I've seen of Taiwan is absolutely phenomenal the culture here that people are so nice and my god you would think that they'd be all crashing into each other with all these scooters and taxis and stuff but now they've got a system here and it seems to work for them man where some of these taxi rides literally I felt like putting up my hands and just yelling we as we were going because it was like a roller coaster ride but I just got to say you can expect to see me here in Computex again this was a phenomenal experience that I definitely do not want to pass up and I'd like to extend my stay a little bit more next time but part of the problem is that my birthday is always going to fall on the same week as Computex but I've had an absolute blast for the last five days checking out what Taipei has to offer and guys a huge thank you to your support watching these videos I know there's lots of channels putting up content and it means a lot to me that you guys keep coming back to see what it's like from my perspective so I'm going to go guys again one last shout out a huge thank you to EB GA my sole sponsor sponsoring all of my coverage here and sending us up and getting us out here in flying Nick and I to Taipei halfway around the world to bring you guys this coverage so again thanks to all of you thanks to EVGA and we will see you next year at Computex 2018 that's not but you'll see me again before that it's just I will give that Computex till then I'm tired I'm going to go now 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