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this video at CES 2017 is brought to you by D brand maker of high quality vinyl skins for your devices check them out at the link in the video description alright so we're here in the NSI booth where somebody named Leon si has finally built the computer that I've been asking to be built for like four years four years I've been asking for someone to make a chassis that is legitimately about the size of the PlayStation 4 with exactly the compromises that I asked for now mind you it did take a little while for the technology to catch up because back when I was asking for that we didn't necessarily have MDOT to SSDs in the mainstream so you know they do have the advantage of the ever ever-changing tech industry but this is it this is the Trident 3 what they're calling the world's smallest VR ready gaming pc iguess MSI's desktop division never got the memo from the notebook to division that they actually have a lot of smaller notebooks that are also be are certified but I see what I see their point they mean desktop PC so that's fine so what do you get with this puppy aside from a form factor there's actually pretty darn similar to the PlayStation 4 you also get flexibility because we've seen stuff like this from indie makers like the century case where it was like yeah we have this super slim chassis it was actually taller and you couldn't put it on its side without compromising cooling this one has rubber feet on the bottom so you can pick any orientation you want it has a full spec i/o so you've got headphone microphone type-c USB regular USB and an HDMI port if you're one of those people who has a VR headset you want to be able to plug it in from the front because you unplug it for some reason instead of just having the cable anchored and having it running around to the back of your computer maybe you move it around a lot I don't know how you do that because the lighthouse is kind of screw into your roof I don't know I'm not too worried about why it is exactly that we need that on the front but you also get this this is exactly the layout that I've been asking for fans on one side no internal power supply so they're using a single external brick and does that come at a bit of a cost maybe but your still getting a very good gaming experience so you can get up to an Intel Core i7 7700 you can get up to 32 gigs of DDR 4 dual channel memory you get an MDOT 2 on the back and a two and a half inch SSD kind of behind the video card there and you can fit I mean I've been I've been asking for this chassis ever since the 970 mini from Asus was launched ok so you're able to fit one of these little mini what are these 8 inches long something along those lines the mini cards that go up to a gtx 1070 which is an incredible amount of gaming power in a very small form-factor now this one is only shipping at this time with up to a core i7 and a gtx 1060 but they've told me that sometime in March we can expect a 1070 model to come it looks freaking awesome I can't wait to review it and it actually based on my experience here at the show so far is pretty darn quiet - so thanks for checking out this video on the Trident 3 from MSI their console killer du jour don't miss any of our CES coverage by making sure that you are subscribed to Linus tech tips and I want to take yet another opportunity to give a huge shout out to D brand thanks D brand for allowing us to be here they are the guys that offer the skins for pretty much any device whether it's a phone laptop gaming console game controller they've got a huge variety of different styles and their online picker allows you to choose which ones you want and preview what they're going to look like before you get them not only that they have a promo running right now one dollar shipping worldwide so go pick up yours today at D brand comm slash Linus CES