Gadgetory

so we've been featuring a lot of small cases lately on Linus tech tips and we've gotten a lot of frustration from the community for not showing off larger designs more often and you know what we heard you so we got in touch with main gear who partnered with HP to bring us this the omen X the rotated cuboid whose HP rendition we first checked out back at CES in January at $599 for the case alone that version may have tilted some of you but if price is a non concern for you well you'd be looking at the mad baller main gear version that sports a mad baller price tag to match anyway I mean go big or go home am i right cooller masters 25th anniversary edition cosmos 2 features a unique dual curved tempered glass side panel check it out now at the link below so let's take it from the top the almanacs has a gigantic package I mean when it first arrived that is the first thing that you will notice but that's a good thing when you consider the omen X's weight at over 50 pounds it is certainly something that you will think twice before moving especially if you've got to go up and down the stairs like we had to but who says big can't be beautiful the HP version is nice but what a job main gear did on this one done up with a gorgeous coat of blue automotive paints and some other tweaks so we've got the main gear logo in place of the omen logo on the front panel that sports individually addressable quadrants of RGB lighting on the right we've got our front i/o including two USB type-c ports and down below we've got a DVD burner ok well in fairness it can be equipped with a blu-ray drive if you want but main gear wisely assumed that we wouldn't care if they put a piece of new car scented blue cardboard in there anyway around the back we've got our rear i/o which thankfully reveals an off-the-shelf motherboard from a soos and not a proprietary HP omen board as well as our power supply and huh what's this screw here well let's just remove it and now press this button and whoa that side panel just opened like a car door very cool and looking even deeper inside oh yeah we are GB now boys sorry I got carried away there anyway in here we find one of our three cooling zones and here the motherboard and GPUs live alongside a 120 millimeter radiator front with our reservoir and a 240 millimeter radiator up top pulling exhausts duty we can't help at this point but to tear up a little bit gazing upon the gorgeous hard line tubing job main gear has painstakingly done for this unit it includes a whopping 75 chrome fittings and no bends apparently this helps prevent damage in shipping our blocks are running in parallel in our loop and all of them contain a delightful pastel blue coolant reminiscent of delicious liquefied Smurfs but if you look closely you'll see that our loop actually extends into the bottom chamber to where the Corsair ax 1200 I is housed it's a little tough to access but down there you'll actually find a third radiator to complete the cooling system I mean this thing packs some serious cooling capacity all right there - what's in the third chamber drive bays for days well for drive bays anyway for four days but they're cool ones all four are hot swappable with locking mechanisms and cloth pull tabs that let you slide out trays big enough to accommodate up to three and a half inch hard drives while we did report though at CES that The Omen ex would support you dot two drives ours doesn't this isn't the end of the world for and now there's a ton of selection in you dot two drives but we are looking forward to seeing future configurations with that option nudge-nudge so with all of that together we've got a ba AF machine that should be more than capable of handling high-end work like 3d rendering and video editing all the way down to more pedestrian tasks like 4k gaming which I can't believe I just said starting off then with our gaming tests we can see that right off the bat main gears factory overclocked has given them quite a bit of headroom over the stock configuration so it's not all for show then and I imagine if you wanted to really sit down and grind out the voltage tweaks for an unreasonably long period of trial and error you could probably push both the 69 50 X CPU and the 10 80 TI GPUs even further but that's a little outside the scope of a normal system review but with that said maybe we'll get a chance to take a closer look at an omen X in the future maybe after thread Ripper anyway this is an expensive system but this is main gear so you have to expect it these guys hand build every unit they send out the door and hand overclocked them to I mean during the course of this video our motherboard actually developed a fault and they flew the guy who built the system to make the repair for us and well they won't necessarily do that for every end user it does show a level of commitment that we've never seen before even towards us from a system builder and it also highlights something very important that we brought up in our recent review of the digital storm bolt X and that is that hard line tubing is a pain and a half to maintain even if it looks stunning and this one is one stunning series of tubes that artistry and support though like I said doesn't come cheap and as configured we are sitting at ten and a half thousand US dollars even our balls-to-the-wall test bench parts cost less than half of that so then just like the bull techs The Omen X isn't for an enthusiast who likes to get their hands dirty but rather it's for someone who wants a unique looking rig with an utterly one-of-a-kind water cooling setup that compromises are nothing without the hassle and with full support if something goes wrong is it for you well that depends just how much of a baller you are and also how cube-shaped you like your balls want to learn something check out Skillshare it's an online learning community for creators with more than 15,000 classes in design business technology and more anyone can take a class try a project or even teach a class themselves Premium Membership begins at around ten bucks a month and gives you unlimited access to learning from anywhere you can download the mobile app on Android or iPhone and tap into classes even when you're offline and they've got all kinds of stuff that would even be applicable to our business like video editing classes with Adobe Premiere the first 200 viewers that's you click the link in the video description you'll get a two month free trial whoo so thanks for watching guys is this video suck you know what to do but it was awesome hit that like button get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy the system we featured in the video description also down there we have our merch store which has cool t-shirts like this one as well as our community forum which you should totally join to go talk tech