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welcome to Linus tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is powered by Corsair maker of quality pc components and peripherals our trusted storage partner is seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is linksys in an Tek sweet they've got some cases and some case fans and power supplies and my voice is totally totally gone by now we're pretty far into the show I've done a lot of talking so we're going to start with the fans so they've actually updated their fan line this is the true quiet pro right here this one I've looked at before it's extremely quiet truly and it's really nothing new this is the true quiet LED 120-millimeter so this guy right here as for LEDs looks kind of cool it's not quite as sophisticated as the true quiet pro so you can see it doesn't have that moving outer frame so you don't have those larger blades but it is sort of a less expensive option and as far as LED fans go it's kind of hard to find high-quality ones and this would fill in that gap this guy right here don't worry they don't sound like that I got something cottenham plates this one right here is the true quiet UFO so it comes in a variety of colors and what's cool about them is that it's actually not a colored piece of plastic they are all clear plastic but once you actually power them up they have colored LEDs that make them glow the way that they do they have these extremely gorgeous silicon isolating mounts here in the corner you can see how soft and supple and delicious those are no kind of you know okay this has gotten awkward we're going to move along next let's move over to power supplies here I'll say nothing so you don't have to hold that there so one of the show pieces here is the high current pro 1300 platinum now they've got sort of a bunch of their other stuff high current pro 1000 platinum which we've looked up just outstanding they're high current gamer series high current platinum series but this guy if you know anything about power supplies if you've ever read a review on Johnny guru you'll know how impressive it is when I show you guys a how clean the internals are you know you can't see any sort of mess no wires I mean we're all the wires inside this thing right now check this out fully modular power supply Oh see link which actually allows you to link up two of these things for a total of 2.6 kilowatts of power just for the lulz right in case you needed that flip this over here flip this over here don't hold on it's not the impressive part yet Pam check that out when have you ever seen traces that clean on the bottom of a power supply so antex whole thing about this guy is this is state-of-the-art manufacturing has all the features that you could possibly want because of the 80 plus platinum certification that means it's basically up to ninety five percent efficiency in places where they use 230 volt power and just yeah awesome manufacturing on that one so let's move on to this guy p280 white with a twist windowed twist to be specific so I've got a couple looks like they put the demo back together wrong there's two mismatched thumbscrews you're going to end up with these ones with the plastic coating on the outside not the other kind that I have here so what they've done with the black one is they are the with the light one rather is they've added a window they have kept the noise isolating material the 270 degree opening door and they've left black on the case as an accent so you still have the removable fan filter not a whole lot has changed from the p280 just the color scheme has kind of that storm trooper look that people seem to really really like and the side panel holy crap we finally have an antec p something ate something serious case with a side window I've been asking for this for years years I've been asking for this and they finally done it and to keep in line with their philosophy of quiet computing on the p2p x8x series of cases they've gone with instead of just a regular window they've gone with the clean look no rivets no no holes drilled so they're using a 3m adhesive to adhere the window to the side panel and they're actually this is all acrylic so it goes the entire the entire length and width of the panel so what that means is it adds some rigidity it adds an additional layer for sound dampening and it just adds some sort of overall heft to the case that it otherwise wouldn't have other than that we've got a bone stock p28 e looks really sharp with the white and black color scheme but it is time to move on to the next thing so this one we're going to play a little game the game is called guess how much this costs so in terms of features this case over here is I'm going to move over this way this case right here is the GX 700 so in terms of the actual features it's very similar to the M 1100 here which is a military green styled 1100 basically where they've changed the top fans to duel 120 so that it can accommodate a radiator so this guy right here has a bunch of really cool stuff c'mon part you got front USB 3 front USB to you got fan control with three positions built-in under lekha sort of added a missile release sort of system here it accommodates a top 240 millimeter radiator these are kind of neat check this out so it's actually got little clips in the front that are not just for looks these will actually lock your optical bay into place just by sliding it in here's something cool as well so guys remember we're playing the poop I guess how much it costs game and I want you to post what you think before I actually finish solid pieces of metal so the front panel is actually metal not only on the five and a quarter inch base but also this piece right here that attaches with four from four thumbscrews where you can access the fan filter even this badge right here is metal and you can easily pop it off and replace it with something else if you want let's go ahead and open this case up so other than that it looks sort of pretty pretty standard I guess seven expansion slots rear 120 millimeter fan sorry let me get out your way diesel have a look at that go ahead pop this side panel off so you got a rear fan mount it actually comes with three fans so to 140 s in the top and one 120 in the back inside you find the big CPU cut out you've got sort of the typical antec toolless sliders for your drives so there's five of those included they mount either a three and a half or two and a half inch drive ATX compatibility sort of yeah but what about what you'd expect for a gaming case so you know very messy very cooling the price for this thing is 59fifty think about that for a minute hold on let the process the price is 59fifty so antec is going after people who want a feature-rich case and are willing to compromise on things like how heavy it is and how much it costs antec has on displaying their sweet not just cases power supplies and all the stuff that we know them for but also the antec mobile products lineup so we're going to start with the pulse this is something that's quite new it comes in a wide variety of different colors in fact what we have here in front of me isn't anywhere near how many are available it comes in at 149 this is a Bluetooth 3.0 headset these are they are using leather for the top headband and one thing I'd like to know is that in spite of the plastic design and construction up here they've actually added more padding on the top headband then I'm typically used to seeing and that coupled with the fact that it is extremely light makes it comfortable even though i was actually i had to wait for my meeting for a little while so i just put them on just for the lulz to see to see how long to see how long it would take before they'd get uncomfortable and i didn't actually have any issues with them whereas i often even on my parrot Zeke's I find them to be uncomfortable after about 15 minutes or so on the side you've got volume control as well as your pairing button and you've got sorry what was the size of the drivers in this one now they're working on okay so you've got a pass through using 3.5 mil as well as a charging cable here so this is neat because when you're on an airline and you can't use wireless you can use it with a 3.5 mil Jack and this will give you about six hours of battery life so there's your button for taking calls and this is pretty much what it looks like once you put it on I think this is my color you know I'm an autumn or you know whatever the terminology is for that moving right along we've got the SP 1 i've talked about this before basically it's kind of like a jam box but more better in sort of yeah every possible way much better sound quality this right here has no name and doesn't exist for all you guys know here is the the pairing button on the back power in as well as a 3.5 millimeter input and this thing is just ridiculous i love it they've put much larger much higher quality drivers and is more of a proof of concept that the factory can produce this than anything else and before we leave here I'm totally going to ask to leave with it but I'm probably going to get shot down so love to have something like that this is great for traveling with whereas this is the thing that you could actually legitimately put in your living room and use as just a random sort of Bluetooth speaker moving over here we've talked about the ISO we've talked about the DBS now let's take this from you this is the game so this is kind of like the ISO except that you're not tied to the headphones that it comes with so this allows you to take any headphone or headset and use it as a bluetooth headphone or headset very cool stuff so you got tracks get volume up and down as well as the ability to take calls and hang up calls it lasts for about six hours on battery and it comes with free earbuds although the thing that I'm more interested in inside this box is definitely this guy because it gives you the flexibility to use the equipment that you're more comfortable with versus having to deal with some kind of a built-in solution so you have the earbuds you know you like you know you prefer them then go ahead and stick with this next I'd like to move over into the enttec mobile products charging products so these are we've seen these before everyone's seen these before but these ones are a little bit unique I mean antex background is power supplies so these have all of the industrial protections that they're typically accustomed to including with a computer power supply you've got over voltage protection overheat protection over current protection and unlike again so it comes down to that true power message that they keep throwing at the power supplies it comes down to actually delivering the face you know the amperage that they claim as well as the capacity that they claim with these things so this guy right here is able to charge up to four devices simultaneously and has two amps of output so that means that you can actually charge your devices much faster diesel in particular has a galaxy note 2 and he's found that the charging rates with one amp devices are absolutely anemic compared to what he's able to achieve with a 2 amp device so this guy right here is only two ports but is also capable of two amps this guy right here is just a car charger so you know you've got all those protections that are included with it I mean another thing that antec brought up to us is they have a much more intelligent sort of design than we've seen what sort of though the cheapo OEM ones for example it'll automatically turn off if you have a cable plugged in but nothing we plugged into the other end not all of them do that it'll stop charging your device once it detects that it's actually full so that puts less strain on your battery and it reduces the risk of any kind of an electrical problem because if a device is off and it's not going to cause a problem so this is the power up 3000 so this is going to charge your iPhone twice and this is the power up six thousand which is going to charge your iPhone 4 times you can see for size actually I should probably be doing an iphone comparison if I'm going to bring up an iphone while I talk about something that's a mobile product and iPhone related so it's about that thing I think that pretty much wraps it up don't miss any of our CES 2013 coverage don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips you