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for far too long the console form-factor has been solely occupied by well consoles but I say no more this right here is exactly what I have been asking for for literally years so you can watch me gushing about it at CES here but can it live up to my expectations well I hope so I hope we'll have a new living room King today the msi trident 3 synergy is the amazing software that lets you share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers check it out now at the link in the video description the Trident 3 comes in slightly bigger than the ps4 at 4.7 1 liters though in fairness the ps4 also has an internal power supply and much smaller than the original ex bone so it easily fits under an arm and it comes with a cloth bag so you don't have to worry about scratches if you want to cart it around to a friend's house or to a LAN party it does have a mild case of the gamer aesthetic but the only really i grabbing aspect of the industrial design IMO is the RGB light on the front and in fairness to msi i think trump signed an executive order or something saying that all gaming computers need RGB lighting so is it really their fault io is strong on the front you'll find two USB Taipei's a USB C audio ports and if you're into that sort of thing a second HDMI out for VR then around the back you'll have another 5 USB ports Gigabit LAN microphone lining it out DVI DisplayPort and a whopping 4 HDMI ports though it should be noted one of them is for the VR link at the front one of them is for your monitor and the other two are the input for the VR link at the front and off the motherboard itself which most people won't want to use the specs of the sigh trident 3 prove that the days of mini pcs being only suitable for productivity are over with its core i7 and gtx 1070 this thing should be able to crush games at 1080p or 1440 though as we've seen time and time again when powerful components get crammed into a small case thermals can quickly become an issue so we booted up i-264 and set the CPU off to the races at normal room temperature the Trident 3 did get a little hot with the CPU peaking at 92 degrees Celsius but to its credit it never thermal throttled or had to down clock so with the powerful core i7 that's in there the Trident 3 could survive video rendering sessions or crunching cosmology equations as long as you're not doing it 24/7 the GPU cooling is even more impressive during the firm arc GPU stress test the powerful gtx 1070 version didn't even sweat reaching a max temperature of 72 degrees Celsius and remarkably the Trident 3 was able to maintain these temperatures while remaining virtually silent so good on you MSI this doesn't tell us if it's actually performing up to snuff though so to test if the smaller case is an issue we set up an identically SPECT test bench and ran it alongside it and from these tests we saw virtually no difference between the Trident 3 and our open-air bench with all our results being within what I'd consider margin of error let's talk about expandability now typically not a strong point for these tiny pcs and the motherboard is as expected non-standard meaning that you're stuck with this basic platform for good there is also some good news though the CPU GPU and ram can all be easily swapped with only the storage requiring a complete disassembly in order to get at it should be noted though if you're going to upgrade the GPU your options will be somewhat limited so for the 1060 version of the Trident 3 you will also have to upgrade the power supply to the more powerful 330 watt version if you want to put in a graphics card that sucks more juice though if you have the 1070 version which comes with that power supply you might even be able to put in a hypothetical future graphics card and enjoy a nice FPS boost the included keyboard and mouse look a little over the top as do many gaming peripherals these days again I think there was an order but they are actually surprisingly functional the mouse is comfortable in the hand moves smoothly and accurately and even has adjustable weights and while the keyboard isn't mechanical it was actually good enough to fool John into thinking it was using Cherry MX browns not quite sure how that happened but I was also comfortable typing on it at the very least so good on MSI for bundling peripherals that we don't need to immediately throw in the trap recycling if I had to nitpick a bit it does come with a lot of pre-installed bloatware most of it is at least gaming related or gaming version but it's still annoying for a freshly booted computer to prompt me to register for several things that I didn't ask for and I don't care about as for the inclusion of Norton well I'm sure you all know how I feel about that though maybe if they included like a gaming version of Norton it could just have one button uninstall bottom line though is it worth it for the msi Trident 3s compact size you'll be spending around $200 more than you would on an identical expect full-size pre-built desktop that would be easier to upgrade in the future and unless you're very unlucky would have better cooling with that being said unless you're a single dude in college putting a full-sized gaming desktop in your living room probably won't fly making the trine 3 a great way to get non cinematic frame rates on your big-screen it definitely gets a recommendation from me do you like anime no really though do you really like anime then checkout crunchyroll they offer the most current episodes of new shows straight from Japan like Dragon Ball super and twin star exorcists and all of the content on their site is professionally subtitled our link gives you a whole month a free anime completely without abs and then if you decide gee I sure enjoy the many benefits of premium membership like 1080p streaming getting new episodes of shows straight from Japan within an hour of their premiere and being able to stream to a variety of devices like your phone 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