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alright guys so I'm here at the Masters overclocking arena from msi i'm here at the Welcome booth right now I'm actually sort of co-hosting this event so I'm not just arriving right now but I'm just going to show you guys sort of some of the stuff going on here this is at the pole position a las vegas raceway so anyone who comes to the event can also sign up i believe to do some go-karting and then they can also check out the live overclocking over there so we got some swag we have vibrating hand grenades just bizarre and then we also have some dog tags and whatnot so there's a little sign so I'm going to head in and we're going to check out some of the new products that emphasize showing off apparently there's also a buffet coming out so I'm gonna have to check that out in a little bit all right here we go so this is the video card table so there's some stuff here that we're already familiar with we've bought the and 460 gtx hawk which as you guys probably know was one of the Bert well I believe it was the first gtx460 to achieve a 1 gigahertz overclock on air it's been quite a popular product over its life cycle we've also got a few things here that our brand new so this is one that I've never seen before this is a gtx 580 lightning so i'll have a look at the overall specs here it has a 16 phase pwm design that is one of the most critical aspects for an overclocking card it also has two 8-pin pci express connectors and it is capable of running and up to three wait probably for way too but up to 3-way SLI configurations because it does have to sli bridges we've also got voltage readout points here on the top of the part and it looks like we're using a let's see how many heat pipes is that on the stock cooler this is a twin frozer three design stock cooler with dual 92 millimeter fans and it looks like we've got one two three four five geet pipes directly over the GPU there so that's a pretty cool one we've also got a radeon 6850 and see 970 so the 6850 is using their ever popular cyclone cooler and then this one right here so this is a 69 70 lightning so this uses an 18 phase PWM design two gigs of memory just like a normal 69 70 and what else have they done a year to make this card custom well I can see a couple of things right off the bat the dual BIOS switch well it's been moved I guess we've also got the voltage readout points as well as the dual eight pin power connectors we saw on the gtx 580 and last but not least we have gold plated connectors for our dual mini displayport hdmi and dual DVI connectors I didn't notice fat on the gtx 580 lightning but you can see that that one has gold plated displayport hdmi and dual h and dual DVI as well so let's move belong here we're going to have a look i'll be doing unboxings of all of these motherboards over the next couple weeks but we've got some age 67 boards so these are supporting Intel's latest core i3 and core i5 while they support core i7 as well but I probably wouldn't be putting a core i7 on an age 67 board because if you're buying a core i7 I would definitely recommend spending a couple extra bucks to get a case series processor and the age 67 chipset does not support a multiplier changing so you really shouldn't use a case series processor in it these are the boards that I'm more interested in these are their p67 boards so we're moving from the lowest end so this is AC series board meaning it only has single graphics up to their lowest end g-series board so this is a great value board that has the board for oh there's a lot of noise there right now okay well hopefully I can drown it out have support for dual sli and crossfire in 8 X 8 X mode let's move on along so the GD 65 is an upgraded version of the GD 55 so it actually uses the same PCB same number of power phases there's just a couple key differences so you can see there are some spots on this board where there are things that appear to be well missing so let's show you what this one has it has more say 26 gigabit per second ports it also has let's see what else what else is changed oh it has dual eSATA ports on the back whereas the 55 board does not and I recall seeing more changes when i did my unboxing but i think it's all yeah there we go we got v checkpoints here at the top where is here we only have solder points for them so those are a couple of the key changes that they've made on the 65 version looked like this one is actually mislabeled this is has the same label in front of it as that one but this is a p67 a GD 80 so this one's supporting up the freeway SLI and crossfire you've also got a supplementary power connector here in order to have full support for all those GPUs it does have more power phases using a oh man it looks like a 10 plus three phase power design but I'm actually not a hundred percent sure one thing you know for sure it is is that it is using dr. Moss and their military class two concepts what else do we have on this one we've got statistics gigabit we've got Wow six USB 3.0 ports on the back panel so that's pretty exciting thing to see as well as look at that two more additional front panel USB 3.0 ports so we got a TV we got the racetrack back there that's a pretty cool thing to be able to check out I know a lot of the guys who are here for the event are also racing here we've got a little test bench set up we've also got their big bang xpower motherboard which is actually the one that I use in my own system i'm a big fan of this board really like it i've got a 980x extreme edition processor in mind and this this is new this one I haven't seen before this is a non standard layout board so you can see it's actually a little bit wider than a normal ATX board and it's also a little bit longer because normally there'd be one slot here and then we've got one two three four five six seven eight eight pci express 16x physical slots now these aren't going to all run at 16 x band width i believe this one i'll have to follow up for you guys when I do an unboxing of this board and find out how they've managed to achieve this many PCI Express slots on a p67 motherboard because remember that board is only natively going to support a single 16 X or dual 8x at a single four x pci express slots let's see what other kinds of features we've got so we do have a supplementary pcie 6 pin power connector dual 8-pin cpu power connectors for that LGA 1155 cpu we've got one two three four five six seven eight 10 11 12 13 14 15 looks like a 16 plus 2 phase power design and then we've got support for dual-channel ddr3 memory we've got some dip switches up here which I'm not actually sure what those are for may be there for over voltage or something like that I can't even begin to speculate until I have some actual specs in front of me here oh and looks like that's a 24 phase power design my bad there might actually be other stuff buried in there alright we've got our 24-pin connector in its ideal location we've got voltage checkpoints we've got four pci SATA 36 gigabit per second ports we've got support for up to four front USB 3 ports and eight additional USB 3 ports on the back panel of the board although I mean really I can talk about all the stuff all the other things all I want but the reality of it is like check this out aight pcie 16x slot so you're going to need a special case to house this particular motherboard but we're going to get some pretty good performance out of the core i7 2600 k or any future processors with a motherboard like this so I'm also going to take you guys sort of a little bit further in you can check out the all the liquid nitrogen that is on hand for this overclocking event as well as some of the cool camera setups that we're using to see all of these febrile using to actually broadcast live to a live audience for this shot for this event you've got our control booth over here we have live score updates so we actually already finished the super PI 32m portion of the competition and now all of the teams are about half an hour into the 3dmark11 competition right now looks like team pier isn't it is in the lead at this moment but it was actually a team i believe it was team over the edge that took the super pie 32 million portion of the competition let me just have a look at the scores really quick here I had 26 257 yes I believe that they were the winners for that one so remember the super PI 32m is actually only forty percent of the total score and 3dmark11 is sixty percent of the total score here's the command center other command center where I'm doing my live broadcast and right now my partner in crime regime cronin SI is I interviewing a couple of days and I think that pretty much covers everything I want to destroy you guys here I'll just take you around to have a look at some of the tables where these guys are overclocking in real time right now so you've got an msi gtx 580 running with and in the side big bang xpower and an intel core i7 980x extreme edition processor right now they're playing around with their temperatures to make sure that they're getting the optimal balance between the lowest possible temperatures and not going down too low so that they run into any instability or cold bug issues let's see i thought i had someone over here do is upload toward games his lot in order to bring the temperatures up a little bit you can see everything is getting pretty bosses over here it's kind of cruise around and see what else is going down I think I think one of the teams over here actually had some volt mods on their gtx580 so this is one of the crazier looking setups I don't want to get in the way here so yeah please do step in front of me if you need to last thing I want to do is disrupt these guys as they maintain the delicate balance that is required for this kind of overclocking so they're trying to get into windows right now it looks like got paper towels all over so that's ghetto fabulous of course that you can see the liquid nitrogen oh that is boiling away there under the immense heat load that is an overclocked intel core i7 980x though thank you for checking out my video don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips and i'm going to have more coverage coming to you guys from CES 2011 here you