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here we are at the XFX booth this is going to be the start of our second round of booth showcases they have a whole bunch of really cool stuff on demo including like this funky music so XOX is best known for their video parts they need a little bit of a switcheroo a couple generations ago where they used to do g-force cards where now they're focused entirely on radeon card so they have brought their years of experience designing and manufacturing graphics cards as well as the sweet coolers that go with them sorry spike says it's a little low and two over to the radeon side so they have on an immense variety of different cards including reference cards cards with non-reference coolers overclocked version of sup their cards so if you're going to go with a graphics card for the radeon side actually it's hard to make a better choice in XFX because not only do they build the cards incredibly well they have one of the best warranties in the biz because as well just to say they got these carbs are the only things that they do this I don't know if you guys have seen this episode on my NCIX tech tip channel but I actually showcase this guy right here this is their triple monitor stand which is capable of mounting up to 3 24 inch monitors either in landscape or portrait mode or most balls to the walls eyefinity setup that you can get without spending a fortune on a custom solution like the Samsung MDT series last but not least we have a fairly new addition to axe FX is lino so this is their pro series power supplies they actually have power supplies ranging from 80 plus bronze all the way up to their limited edition 1000 watt 80 plus platinum 1001 and if you guys are following my personal rig upgrades on my line is tech tips channel you'll probably already know that I'm actually customs leaving one of those with individually sleeved cables and that is what I have opted to use for a couple of reasons number one is that it has the best efficiency on the market and number two is their hybrid silent fan switch all you got to do is flip that switch and you're fed on your power supply doesn't even turn on until you hit about 500 Watts load which means it's one hundred percent silent unless you're in like a max load gaming scenario we're here at the abhi food where they have a variety of different professional types of products so check this out these are designed to basically clip to a shirt pocket or to the inside of a notebook or even like on your pants pocket you can see on sporting one right now these are meant to replace your long bulky cables that have the potential to you know get broken or lost more easily these you can clip somewhere keep them safe they're one hundred percent durable and they're not long so that's uh that's a dummy so that's not going to fit in there at all but that's not really the point the point is that it will fit in a real one and then there's also a variety of other things so you've got USB a to mini as well as USB a to a micro bead we've also got a couple other products so this is their notebook stand which is made out of highlight highlight thank you which folds up like this and then you can reassemble it like that BAM and finally last but not least they've got a line I've had cases that actually uses a composite aluminum on the back so it feels like you're actually still holding an ipad and they're compatible with the Smart Cover so you just clip your smart cover on here and then you are pretty much completely protected as far as your iPad goes we also have one more product here and will charge inflation haha portable charging station so this actually sits here listen to hear this activates the hub you can charge up to three devices at one time that's 15 watts of power cable charging of iPad iPhone Blackberry or any other p to anything that's USB charger awesome there you go and you keep that in a handy little carrying pouch here so that you don't lose anything if you're traveling the world all the time cable right here good stuff here we are at the MSI booth where the main focus is military class 3 so the military class 3 concept basically revolves around using the highest quality most stable possible components to design their cards and their mother board so him military class 3 doesn't actually refer to someone there are other concepts such as and it's doesn't balance unless you have a graphics card on here we go such as their twin foes or three coolers so right here we have their gtx 580 although they do have next generation products coming with their custom coolers so the advantage of a twin frozr cooler is that rather than a reference design which will usually load around 75 to 80 degrees twin frozr coolers can keep even high-end graphics cards at around 55 degrees under load so while you do have a little bit more exhaustive heat in your system you get significantly better temperatures on your graphics card which is great if you're going to overclock your video card on the motherboard side msi has a whole lineup of products including everything from basic g41 lga775 legacy stuff all the way up to the very latest LGA 2011 and LGA 1155 motherboard platform so there haha 77 motherboard is actually the main focus of the booth here today and it's a feature called OC genie now I've demoed OC genie on my channels before but I'm going to summarize it really quick for you o see Jeanie actually overclock some tunes full system for optimal performance with the push of one button and what's really neat about the new OC Genie on z77 is the fact that you can customize your OC Genie profile so say for example if you were assistant builder like NCIX you can design a system to low CG need to be even more aggressive on that particular system you give it to the end user and you say hey you want to overclock your system to the max just press this button and it's already also completely set up for you you want to turn off the overclock you want to save a little bit on the power consumption whatever else press the button turn it off no big deal will be fun there z77 a GD 65 which in my experience is actually one of the easiest z77 words to work with in terms of overclocking and in terms of bios navigation with their click BIOS to welcome to the ocz technology booth you can see they got there ocz logo going on here so ocz used to be mostly known for memory products they are now no longer involved in system memory however they've gotten into SSDs in a big way so this was actually my suggestion yeah i'm going to take full credit for it i'm getting like the stink eye over there but was totally my idea my suggestion was that in order to demo the value of an SSD they bring two identical systems and we're not even talking high performance systems i mean these are Dells but it's not a custom NCIX pc by any stretch of the imagination no matter what kind of a pc you're using whether it's a netbook or an extreme gaming machine you will see a huge benefit from an SSD now you can do the usual boot up demo but I think we've all seen that before what I want to focus on is the general responsiveness of a using an SSD so you guys at this time don't know which of these systems has a regular laptop hard drive and which of them has an SSD but I bet you know now look how long it takes to launch windows media player versus this one bear in mind guys too these are fresh installs on these machines with nothing running in the background okay that one was pretty close let's go find something else that hasn't been opened before Oh windows media center that's a good one the more you load up these machines with various applications and antivirus running in the background and all that kind of nonsense the more pronounced this difference is going to become and I'm going to have to find a way to keep talking here while we wait for this hard drive machine to finally launch Windows Media Center these are two brand new machines i have not tampered with them in any way we're not even talking Photoshop we're not talking complicated applications windows media center takes like five times longer to launch on a hard drive then it does on an SSD so if you guys didn't already know yes this is the one with the ocz vertex 4 and if you do happen to attend the show you can get one for only one 2799 this is the highest performing SSD on the market it is pretty much right up there tied for that performance crown right now and at this price it is the best performance per dollar per gig that you can buy welcome to the PS vita booth here at the NCAA this is actually my first time hands-on with the PSP so it uses a knife their feet by 540 for screen that is almost 1080p so it's pretty darn close this is their full replacement for the PSP so it is their latest generation handheld gaming platform and I got to say even launch titles look absolutely fantastic it has dual analog sticks which means that you can you can play your games the way you're accustomed to whether it's moving with the left and camera with the right or whether the game dev screws up and doesn't do it that way you will be able to operate your games the way that you're accustomed you've also got a d-pad as well as your full PlayStation controls and based on help complete the control set is on here I wouldn't be that surprised if Sony decided to you know make ps1 games or something available on an arcade in the past cuz i can tell you these graphics are more comfortable to ps2 then send them to ps1 that's for sure in terms of the overall build quality it's not a nice nice overall feel to it without being too heavy you've got eleanor buttons here so you don't have quite as many folder button sighs you might be used to on a sony product however this is pretty cool it has a touchpad on the back which the game devs are free to use in any way they want so you can program it to be like r2 r3 l2 l3 for example in soccer you can aim where you want to do a free-kick at the goal according to where you press on the back pad so there's all kinds of neat stuff like that let's just have a look have words the other golf games going on here so let's press X to take the shot yeah yeah okay I currently I didn't take the shot okay I'm taking that shot there we go sorry I'm not much of a console by here guys I get confused easily oh it's right in the water excellent so that pretty much wraps up this round two of vendor booths don't forget to check us out at the NCIX tech fair and don't forget to subscribe to Linus and NCI executives