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have you ever thought to yourself I've got very limited desk space but I simply cannot bear to put my computer on the floor and run ever so slightly longer wires okay so maybe that's not it but whatever the reason giant tower pcs for enthusiasts are going away and these compact gaming machines are becoming more and more common but it seems like everything that I've seen so far has suffered from one flaw or another but maybe it doesn't have to be that way meet the asus rog g20 CB it's the best all-around mini gaming pc i've seen yet and it has RGB lighting dance Tunnel Bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open Internet to Tritonal bear for free check out the link in the video description know it's not quite gaming console sized the Xbox one s is less than half the size but the rog g20 CB manages to pack much more gaming power into it's still very compact footprint it's got a core i7 6700 quad core with hyper-threading 16 gigs of DDR 4 RAM a 512 gig SATA 3 SSD and a one terabyte hard drive for a good balance of speedy and spacious storage and it rocks an NVIDIA GTX 1080 graphics card making it suitable for much more than the intense Full HD gaming that it advertises on the tacky sticker on the front in fact it absolutely chewed through every VR application we could throw at it and made short work of our 4k gaming test suite as well managing 45 to 60 plus fps across the board with most games running at or near max details but that wasn't the most impressive thing about it what blew me away was how quietly it did all of this the g-20 CB is not just whisper quiet when browsing the web it impressed the pants off me while I was running an hour long CPU stress test and doing the same thing in Doom at 4k and remember this is coming from the same quiet Freak who moved his computers into a separate room to get away from fan and pump noise so it turns out that the angled shape of the case and the indent at the bottom are more than just style they're part of an intentional acoustic management strategy the g20 is quiet from a normal sitting position next to it at a desk but significantly louder if you listen from the bottom or the top or the back the entire front of the system other than the slim DD Drive looks like an air intake with a space-age II rog styled grille but it's actually blocked off to keep noise inside the system cool air is drawn up through the bottom by custom blower style fans and exhausted by the rear blower on the video card and through this wide heatsink near the top it works so well that even turning the video card fan up to a hundred percent yielded only an additional 50 megahertz or so on the GPU in Doom at 4k one of the biggest question marks with any pre-built and especially a compact one though is upgradability and the g20 CB is no exception here but if you're willing to break the warranty sticker I was able to upgrade the 16 gigs single channel memory to 32 gigs of dual-channel only removing about 5 screws and if you're willing to dig a little deeper the video card can be swapped asus includes an extra power cable for you for this and unlike its predecessor the CB version has an empty m2 slot under the optical drive that can be used for an nvme SSD so with rumor sites predicting that both AMD and Intel next-generation CPUs will perform marginally better at best and the full stop in the trend towards more power-hungry video cards I don't expect either the motherboard or the weird dual brick external power supply to hold back your gaming experience for a few years at least so in summary the g-20 CB has some unexceptional qualities the terrible lighting control software treats your inputs as mere suggestions the dedicated second power plug for the GPU can be accidentally yanked not that I speak from experience and the included SK Hynix SSD isn't the highest performance I'd seen but at only a $200 premium over throwing all the parts in a card on Newegg and building it yourself for a super small and incredibly quiet gaming computer this one left me very impressed we have teamed up with razer to bring you guys another giveaway one lucky winner will get a Death Adder elite mouse and/or not a keyboard a Kraken v2 and a cloth a cloth and five other lucky winners will get a Kraken pro v2 headset some of the features of the Kraken pro v2 include larger drivers a lightweight frame a headband design for better weight distribution and less clamping force ear cushions that are larger softer and have better sound isolation and you can personalize it to fit due to it being interchangeable it's got a fully retractable unidirectional microphone and most importantly from the time that I've spent with it it is just plain way better than their last headset so there's a definite thumbs up for that you can enter it the link below for a chance to win so thanks for watching guys if you disliked dislike but if you liked then hey hit that like button get subscribed maybe 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