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- tech tips coverage of Computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCI XCOM guys here we are the Computex 2013 coverage just keeps coming this time we've got the carbide series err 540 from corsair this is as you may or may not have figured out at this point already an air cooling optimized case and my joke to these guys was well well then you went and put a liquid cooler in it so just because it's optimal for air cooling doesn't mean that you can't also liquid cool the thing so check this out the main difference between the air 540 and pretty much any other case out there is this direct path that airflow is going to have from the front of the case so there's like a few inches there to the graphics cards themselves there are no harddrive cages there are no other random obstacles nothing like that so you can put up to four graphics cards in this case because it does have eight PCI expansion slots so that's a standard ATX chassis also they include pretty darn good fans so you've seen their airflow series fans they include an OEM version of the airflow series fans much like what we see included with the H 100 I where it's sort of a no rubber grommet version so these rubber grommets here as well as the interchangeable color rings they're missing those but other than that they are very similar to a f1 40s so you get three of those with the case two in the front and one in the back now hard drive cages you've only got a couple there down here at the bottom but it makes up for it in let's go ahead and switch sides here here that is not awkward at all there we go but you make up for it with SSD mounts so you can mount up to four SSDs in this tool-free cage right here above the power supply you can mount two five and a quarter inch Bay's over here and you see all this cable mess that's the other thing that makes this case very unique is that almost well really nothing other than the bare minimum essentials that you have to run over to the other side is going to be interfering with the airflow of the case I mean if the power supply the drives is all in a completely separate compartment other than those hard drives which really aren't going to be a problem because they're down way down at the bottom now you can mount to five and a quarter inch devices right here so you can see how those come through at the front you've also got super speed USB 3 aswell headphone and microphone ports power and reset switches and I mentioned before that just because it's air cooling optimize doesn't mean you can't liquid cool the thing so check this out you pull off the top by the way that is a very very loose mesh optimal for as you may or may not have guessed airflow and up here on the top you can see where they've got an H 100 I mounted you could also mount an H 110 so it accepts up to a 240 millimeter radiator but wait there's more even with long graphics card so there's GTX 670 s in there now this front piece can be taken off as well this is a magnetic fan filter which hopefully I can figure out how to get off here but ah there we go okay magnetic fan filter so you can do either the two 140 millimeter fans that come with the case or three 120 millimeter fans and you can mount either of them at the same time in push-pull meaning that this is one liquid cooling friendly case in spite of the fact that it is air cooling optimized now I realized I must have bumped the power cord or something because the system wasn't on showing off all of its sexy Corsair glory before so if I can just find that power switch there we go so now you can see the illuminated h100 I the color matching SP series fans as well as their add on individually sleeved power supply cables the illuminated Dominator platinum Ram and of course these LED strips are powered by Corsair link so remember guys Corsair components not only make your PC perform better they make it look better too and Corsair did not actually pay me to say that dude not now and this case might not really look familiar to you this is the carbide Series 330 R but once we open it up inside it will probably look familiar because it's based on the same design as the 300 R so let's start with what's different from the outside it has a power switch which is a new innovation in Corsair cases they've never done this before they always relied on the user to actually have lightning strike their house and power on their computer by pure chance so this is just a huge step forward in convenience and innovation I love this that's another dollar by the way guys that's two dollars right there so on the inside you can see this is a more noise dampened silence optimized case so we've got a silent panel right here we've got the same dual fan intakes right here but check this out this little duct course are actually found by adding this little piece of plastic it helped these two front fans fight with each other less over the airflow allowed them to draw more fresh air from the outside and in their testing they found that it improves graphics card temperatures by two to three degrees so it's amazing how those little tweets can make all the difference in the world now up here at the top we find flexibility so check this out you remove this noise dampener right there but if you do not necessarily want the utmost in noise dampening and you would instead prefer to have a little bit more performance out of your case you can remove it and you can install two 120 millimeter or two 140 millimeter fans including room for radiators so it can accept in each 100 I or an H 110 without any difficulty whatsoever the side panel is your usual fare for silence optimized cases with noise dampening material on the inside gives it a nice heft to it as well and other than that the internals haven't really changed much so what's this for it's for someone who wants the flexibility of high airflow or silence and someone who doesn't necessarily want to pony up for the Obsidian 550d and as a traditionally memory company of course Corsair has a memory product to announce this is the Vengeance pro series optimized for Intel's fourth generation Core i5 and core i7 processors code-named has well these memory modules are also optimized much like other vengence products to look good so they are launching in four different colors there's gold which you can see rotating on the little pedestal in there as well as blue red and silver so these are going to go with your motherboard pretty much no matter which brand you go with so this gold one was specifically developed for a Seuss's new gold motherboards now vengence pro is not just for looks check this out over here they've got the highest speed production memory kit running here right now this is a DDR I mean it runs at 3.2 gigahertz CL 11 so check this out right there they've got it running right now so remember guys DRAM frequency is half of the actual frequency do oh you can't see it oh so you try that one more time are you going to be able to see it or should I just they should just take my word for it oh yes fine and of course there's a memory product to announce as well this is and of course there's a memory product to announce as well this is the Vengeance Pro Series which is actually won a couple of awards already including the best PC memory brand silver Award for Corsair from VR zone and what they've done here is they've updated their vengeance line for Intel's fourth generation Core Series processors code-named has well so these are going to offer perfect compatibility with has well not only in terms of actually functioning but also in terms of looks even a Seuss's new Gold Series z87 motherboards are going to have a perfect corsair memory module to go with them they come in gold blue red and silver and they are not just about looks guys so we've got a demo system over here that has another map another memory award that they've won here from tweak town and this system is running ddr3 3.2 gigahertz CL 11 this is running at the stock speed of this module making it the fastest production memory kit out there so compared to something like Dominator Platinum's which is traditionally the the super high-end Corsair memory what's the point of this well it's a simpler module optimized for overclocking you can expect when you buy something like a vengence pro memory kit you're not only getting exactly what you see on the box but probably a little performance headroom there as well next up we've got the K 70 so this keyboard this keyboard and this keyboard are all the same except very different they're very similar to the K 60 except for a couple of changes so number one is you've got these individually backlit keys that you can also set up to have whichever one's on or off that you want much like the K 95 next is these are mechanical keys now so on the K sixty one of the complaints was that these keys were using rubber dome switches no longer last but not least these look a lot cooler than the red rubber contoured keys that were on the K 60 so remember guys the point of the shaped contour here is that it allows you to easily find your way back to WASD and easily differentiate your keys numbers 1 to 6 but not only that Corsair has expanded the options not only in terms of color so there's silver black and gunmetal but also they have expanded the options in terms of color so you've got red key switches as well as blue keys which is oh yes of course they're still very firmly believes that the red switch is optimal for responsiveness and gaming applications but there are people out there like me who like gaming keyboards but also actually do a lot more typing than gaming so if you're one of those guys a blue switch keyboard or yes a brown switch keyboard my personal favorite might be a fantastic option last but not least there's the K 95 which isn't a new announcement by any stretch of the imagination but what we can say about it is that you should be able to actually buy one unlike when we covered this at CES so just as a reminder this is a fully mechanical keyboard that also has the individually backlit feature so you can decide on whatever pattern you want for the keys and this one is still in Cherry MX red we're going to wrap up the Corsair Suite here with a couple of Mouse products so the m-40 I'm already very familiar with this is very similar to the m65 except for a couple of changes that I really feel like don't make this mouse any worse than the m65 in spite of it being a lower end product in the product stack so number one is now that logo at the back is illuminated ok score one from forty number two is that it doesn't have a sniper button I've never used a sniper button in my life then again I'm not a sniper so if those snipers out there could tell me that I'm totally wrong then cool that's fine too but we still have back and forward buttons that are perfectly positioned for people like me if you like a little bit of a claw grip the materials are still excellent so you've got that high mass scroll wheel as well as fully programmable buttons on the fly dpi adjustments check this out so they've removed the aluminum chassis that illumine bottom that makes up the mouse this this really doesn't feel like a problem for me because it gives you the option of an even lighter weight when you remove all the yes they still have adjustable weights on this mouse so it's got your large slippy pads it's got a 4000 dpi sensor now which is an optical sensor which a lot of gamers are finding they prefer these days compared to laser and I actually can't find something wrong with this such that I wouldn't wholeheartedly recommend the m-40 very impressive product next up is the m30 which borrows the same chassis as the lm3 so this was part of the Raptor gaming takeover now you can see the changes that they've made here are mostly in terms of improving performance so they've gone with from a 2400 dpi sensor to a 4000 dpi sensor as well as a couple of cosmetic and ergonomic I'd say evolutionary changes nothing revolutionary here so the shape is the same but they've changed this side grip from a ribbed texture to something that's more of a I don't know what you doc to GaN texture hexagon texture sure whatever we want to call that so one way or another it's functional for picking up the mouse they've also changed the finish of it I personally find glassy mice drive me crazy maybe it's just me who doesn't wash his hands but you get grease all over your mouse and then other people use it and then they get sick because you have all kinds of diseases it's a real problem so they've upgraded that to a soft touched finish they've also added an illuminated Corsair logo which looks way better than I mean come on is that a logo Raptor - gaming comm it's a good thing Corsairs taking care of this now still got the illuminated scroll wheel as well as a nice accented little red finished piece here so guys don't miss any of our Computex 2013 coverage I hope you've enjoyed our tour of the Corsair suite remember our trip to the show is powered by Western Digital as well as Corsair Vengeance gaming peripherals and NCIX comm and as always guys don't forget to subscribe I said that right right yeah can I have another dollar thank you