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so I get asked all the time which system should I buy where should I buy it from what graphics card would you recommend for this game and this video is sort of meant to be a couple of things it's going to be the answer to a lot of those questions and it's also going to be a bit of an introduction to to a gaming system that NCIX says probably most of you know I work at NCIX the computer store here in Canada and this is a gaming system that NCIX is going to be releasing for back to school because as you know students only focus on their studies when they go off to university that's the only thing they do they never use their computers for gaming never happens okay so what I have running here is furmark so this is just a test on and I've done a lot of features on the MSI cyclone series of coolers but we're just going okay first I want the cameraman to come over here and just get close to this computer just get close we're listening to it so you don't have to worry about what you're pointing it I have a novice cameraman today so on the point is this computer is very very quiet even under a full gaming load so it's using a fractal design define our three case that means you've got a front door on the case here which has a nice kind of a brushed matte finish on it inside we've got a DVD writer we've got room for another optical drive the r3 is slightly revised so it has kind of these cool five and a quarter inch Bay covers that have a little little hinge here so you can just lock them in just like that you've got a couple of removable fan filters on the front so it's populated by default with 11 20 millimeter fan and when we open up the inside you'll see that NCIX installs the three and a half inch drive behind the fans so that it gets optimal cooling you've got all your sound dampening materials here behind the door just want to have a quick look at that so the define our three is basically like the define our to which i unboxed quite some time ago and it was first released in north america so let's run around here and have a look at the back of the system so it has a 550 watt power supply it's powered by an MSI motherboard which features USB 3.0 and you can't see it but on the inside it actually has SATA 6 gigabit per second to so not too as well so that means that you've got all of the latest technologies on this particular system and why don't we open it up and have a look at the inside so the target price of the system is going to be about 899 Canadian and what that means is that you get a dual-core processor it's only going to be a core i3 but as most people know when you're gaming at high resolution HD resolutions usually the CPU is not the bottleneck and it usually comes down to the GPU so that's why we focused more on putting a very very powerful graphics card in here and building the system around that now this is an sli ready motherboard so it's going to be also available in a higher-end configuration where you're going to add one more gtx 460 upgrade the power supply a little bit to make sure that it's sli compliant as well as throwing in a quad core so that'll be kind of like a deluxe package anyway so on the inside you see we've got a standard ATX motherboard for gigs of kingston ram we've got the dual core i3 processor even come close even with the side panel off i want you to listen to the system it's still quite quiet so even when you're gaming you don't have to worry about excess noise and you can see the GPU runs out of cool 62 degrees peaking at 66 even with the case closed and never goes over about seventy six percent fan speeds so even if we turn off after burner so let's do that and cameraman za phone is going off here so there he turned it off good work okay so when we turn off after Runa you're going to see it's actually going to get quite a bit quieter still and as I mentioned before we have the hard drive so it's a one terabyte hard drive no I believe it's a 500 gig hard drive no it is a one terabyte hard drive by default install down here at the bottom you can actually install up to eight hard drives in this case so with all of the expansion options on the board you've got six theta 2 ports to say 236 gigabit per second ports so you're probably going to use one of those for your DVD or blu-ray drive and then you can have up to six hard drive supported directly off the motherboard go ahead and look at the motherboard don't worry about looking at me all the time so you can see now that we've turned off we've turned off the 3d application the system is darn near silent even with the side panel off and you can actually get the NCIX technicians to make some changes for you to you can get additional fans installed because the are three does support an additional 120 millimeter or 140 mm fan on the side blowing onto your graphics cards you can see that it's covered with a noise dampening material by default but you can just take that right out you can actually put an additional 2 120 or 140 s in the top and then you can put an additional 120 millimeter fan in the front so if you don't care about the silent aspect you can actually make this case all about the cooling performance instead now speaking of fan filters you've got an additional 120 millimeter on the bottom that one's filtered and then the power supply uses a 120-millimeter fan on the bottom of the power supply and you can see that's pulling air through a filtered fan hole right on the bottom of the case again more fan filters more case airflow and it make sure your power supply stays nice and cool so this is a system that we're pretty proud of for 899 so check it out I think this is the first time I've ever really done a video on something that NCIX does on PCs even though that's been a big part of my job for about two years so I get a lot of questions to on my blog about what exactly is my job well that's one of the things I do I responsible for making sure our PC configurations are up to date well engineered and well thought out and that you get sort of the right config for the money so thanks for checking out my video blog and I hope you've enjoyed this little feature on the silent aspects of this particular NCIX pc one other thing I wanted to mention really quick I talked about the noise dampening material inside the case but I want the cameraman to kind of demonstrate just how much of an impact it has so this is that Idol so this is if you're just editing Word documents are actually doing schoolwork you know on the internet or whatever so hopefully the cameras microphone is close enough to the back here that you can hear some noise coming out the back of the case and then I want the hold on don't move yet but on my mark I want the cameraman to move the camera away and just kind of sit it next to the side panel where there's noise dampening material so what I'm hoping is that on the YouTube video you'll be able to tell that that's quite a bit quieter and we might as well have a look at the front panel connectors to which we didn't look at before so you got headphones microphone USB e-sata power and then inside here hidden is a little reset switch