Gadgetory

so I have been asked time and time again - where'd you get that like test bench thing meaning this thing okay so I have a couple of high speed PC tech stations yes that is what it is called it is called a high speed PC tech station this is a standard size so it is an ATX size top deck tech station I actually have one that's not a top deck tech station at home and on that one the motherboard goes on the bottom and the drives and power supply go on the top it's a lot less convenient I prefer the top deck style so high speed PC noticing that I use their product in my videos all the time actually contacted me and offered to send me their new tech station so I am going to be upgrading my tech station to the top deck tech station which is the same but this is the excel model so that is going to allow me and I need another prop here to install motherboards such as the g1 killer assassin from gigabyte and test things like four-way SLI on my tech station which I was not able to do in the past so high speed PC you tech station B costs anywhere from around 100 bucks to boot up to about $200 for some of the higher-end models but they are incredibly convenient and I have easily gotten my hundred dollars worth out of my old one and I'm sure I will get my zero dollars worth thank you very much high speed PC out of the new one I'm really really excited to try this one out so as you can see there is some assembly required I remember the first time I put one together my first one it actually took me quite a long time to figure it out that was a long time ago that was back when when my core 2 extreme 6800 was a really high-end processor so yeah it's definitely been a while okay remember that was a dual core Extreme Edition like crazy okay so Wow okay the first thing I see is three included fans so these are logis fans they are black and and they do not come with LEDs of any sort which is good because then I probably wouldn't install them what I've gone to or most of my tech station needs is actually me not to a p-series fans because they provide good static air flow through radiators or whatever other coolers I use and they're not loud because I often have the tech station running behind me at work and I don't want anything loud and obnoxious because I'm trying to concentrate on things other than my test PC whirring away in the background so let's have a look at the included parts here all right a lot of people have actually asked me if I made my tech station myself and the answer is no although you probably could it is so much more convenient to buy one of these kits from high-speed pcs that comes with all the little bits and pieces that you need and instructions on how to assemble them moving things like fan guards okay so let's show you guys everything that we got here okay first thing how to get in touch with the missing parts questions or other problems contact us right away we'll do our best to have a solution for you within 24 hours awesome great next we have the instructions so this just comes on you're typically a4 paper it's like a laser printed copy so nothing too sophisticated but there are a fairly small company and there's lots of nice color pictures here that will help you to put together your tech station without too much trouble alright I want to show you guys everything that's included so this is actually here if I show you guys a completed one that might actually make it a little easier to point out what everything is so this piece right here you can see it's actually got ten expansion slot holes on it so this is the replacement for this so it's just gonna be slightly longer than my old one all right these two right here these are the upright posts right here that support the PCI slot covered this harddrive mounting so on the bottom of the tech station down here you can see there are rails to mount a hard drive or two hard drives under the tech station itself alright these are these four posts that keep the two the top and the bottom piece apart and supporting okay we've got motherboard standoffs I love the motherboard standoffs that they use because they're awesome I'm going to show you guys how you install a motherboard on a tech station here so first you take the motherboard off so basically you've just got these little rubber pieces right here that go right over where the holes are and then in order to get it lined up there's a couple that come with little plastic threaded spikes and the reason those threaded spikes are so great is because when you get them positioned push them on its it takes a little bit of fussing to actually lift the motherboard back up which is perfect so holds it in place a little bit but it also doesn't allow it to slide around like this and it keeps everything from shorting out because you're using rubber to isolate the motherboard from everything else so that is what we have in there next we have all of the mounting hardware required to assemble my new top deck tech station so you cut things like L brackets for here we've got these caps right here which go on the tops of your posts we've got various different screws for fastening everything together and finally last but not least we have some fangirls we have the ATX control kit which for motherboards that do not have built-in power and reset switch is is very convenient because you just throw that on the front panel headers and then boom you have a built-in power switch or reset switch power LED hard drive LED and speaker so you can actually buy this separately as well if you don't want a tech station or if you already have a tech station and you just lost yours or something got a nice little neoprene pad here so the neoprene pad is on my own personal tech station right here is mounted on the bottom where it belongs and then I've also supplemented it with some of these non-slip things that I really like as well so just to make sure that my optical drive doesn't move around I don't have one under my power supply because my power supply has enough weight that it's able to not slip on the neoprene pad so the neoprene pad is there this appears to be the bottom piece all right and then with all of the motherboard mounting holes in it as well as lots of labels from where to put stuff is the top piece and I just want to show you guys one last thing before I finish up my unboxing and showcase here and that is the overall build quality in the tech station so in spite of having all of this stuff on the bottom of it then this is actually a relatively light load for this particular one there is no chance of it falling apart at any time even though the way these are supported is with screws so I've been very very happy with my tech station over the last couple of years and big thanks again to high speed PC for sending me an XL AC x1 so I can bring you guys more benchmarking goodness don't forget to subscribe to my detectives from Iran boxing's reviews and other computer videos