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so today on my video blog we're going to be having a look at a system that I put together for our friends at Corsair they are actually doing a lot of messaging around the Corsair dream PC these days and what that means is that you can buy brand-name components and build your own brand name PC so to speak so what they're saying sometimes to do it right you have to do it yourself basically they're encouraging users to load up on all the Corsair parts that they can because what that means is that you're going to have good warranty support good quality parts and generally a good functioning system so let's have a look at what we use for our Corsair dream PC first of all I've got the Intel Core i7 975 as well as the Intel extreme series smack over motherboard so that is an excellent base for any dream PC next we have Windows 7 home premium which comes with DirectX 11 it's got Aero snap which I was actually confused on my my windows 7 preview Aero snap means that you or Aero shake sorry means that you shake it and then all the other windows go away or come back sometimes there we go and then Aero snap is where you drag it to the side or to the other side or to the top there so now I'm no longer confused about what all the different Aero things are with Windows 7 anyway we've got the x11 trim support and windows 7 that's good stuff then cooling we have the course our age 50 so this is their fully integrated liquid cooling system and I'm going to show you the real parts in just a second so not going to focus too much on the boxes we have a Corsair solid-state drive also included with the system but the memory box was kind of ugly but there's some memory so we're not going to really show too much of that and then we have the Corsair power supply now something I want you to notice about this box is it says it's got a 5 year warranty that's one of the reasons that Corsair is encouraging users to stick with Corsair and to go with good brand name components for their own dream BC because even though you're not buying this dream PC from a builder you are buying all components that have good aftermarket support so you pick up some Radeon cards from XFX you got lifetime warranty on those you pick up memory from Corsair you got lifetime warranty on that five-year warranty on a Corsair power supply you've got a 3-year warranty on an Intel mother so I mean basically you're getting an extended warranty package three two lifetime years and you don't actually have to buy a pre-integrated PC now let's get this thing open here first of all and there we go so I'm just going to show off what we've got in the dream PC here so here's our corsair triple channel six gig memory kit with the dominator airflow fan here's the corsair h50 CPU cooler and it's actually running quite cool I really like this thing actually and then up here I've got it kind of creatively mounted here is of course there are P 128 SSD it's actually velcroed in there just because I want people to be able to check that out and this machine is going to be at tradeshow so I don't want people ripping them out of the hot swap drives that are in this case so that would be a really bad thing then we've got our 975 processor snack / motherboard and then down in the bottom I've got some lighting on it here I bet the camera is going to go crazy trying to focus on that but there's our HX 1000 modular power supply and I want you to check out a couple of cool features about this case as I mentioned you've got your hot swap drive base so I'm gonna get the cameraman to come around and have a look at the front those are actually empty on mine and she just tripped over all the boxes I put on the ground that's awesome so there's your hot swap and then in terms of other really unique features about this case I guess the biggest one has got to be how water cooling friendly it is first of all you can put a triple rad in the top and a single in the back and see we've got three 120 millimeter blue LED fans up there looking pretty sweet and then the other big one is the cable management I put like no effort into the cable management of this PC however it ends up looking really slick because you've got all these little rubber grommet 'add back pieces where you can route any feasible cable I mean I managed to mount a hard drive there and it looks like it belongs there it's awesome anyway thank you for checking out my blog video on the Corsair dream PC