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would it really be packs if we didn't do like top five gaming desktop set the intel booth the answer is yes yes it would but this is good too so we're gonna start with a system that was done up by our buds over at BS mods now he's got to include those guys because their systems are always so gorgeous so in this case get it case they started with the case labs sm8 they got the just primed version so that they could put their trademark automotive grade finish on this puppy I mean what do they not put a beautiful automotive grade finish on in terms of specs that has some beautiful Hardware so we got a core i7 59 60 X that's of course supporting quad channel ddr for which we have 32 gigs of from corsair those are Dominator Platinum's but they've done a lot of little subtle customizations here those black strips on the top of the Dominator Platinum's the removal of the white shroud on the x 99 deluxe motherboard to make this look absolutely gorgeous and a monochrome black and white and grey color scheme we've got dual GTX 980 s water cooled by EK water blocks along with the CTU with that sick looking mayim fluid inside but this machine is really all about the SSDs and there are a lot of SSDs in here we've got to 750 series SSDs plug directly into PCI Express slots down there we have a third plugged into a suit says hyper kit coming off the motherboard there and plugging in with the cable and then mounted on like a showcase pedestal stand and then as if that wasn't enough the entire front of the case is full of four more sata3 SSDs I mean I guess that's you know that 730 series has been you know fended off the mass storage duties now as if they you know one point whatever that is two terabytes of PCI Express SSD wasn't enough what an overkill bill but absolutely gorgeous number two you don't have song that you know I'm always singing I like little builds they make me feel so good well this one is a little tiny machine that makes me feel pretty good i'm calling it the lake fantastic fiber or something it doesn't have a real name but exotic pc did it up for the show they're actually trialing a new finish for the outside of the case you'd hardly even recognized that this is a corsair air 240 because they went they put like automotive blue paint on it then like some hydro something dip to bring out this sort of faux carbon fiber blue and silver finish and then they clear coated it to give it shine and durability looks absolutely fantastic but of course none of that would be meaningful if it didn't have the horses under the hood and it does we've got a maximus 8 gene motherboard so that's an N ATX board in there with a core i7 6700 k processor of course that supports ddr4 memory so we got 32 gigs of course there dominator platinum ddr4 and these gpus they fit in there just barely you can actually see if you look closely the window is bowing from the manifold thing sitting over top of both graphics cards that puts parallel water flow through them so they didn't get them in there even if it was a bit of a tight fan of course this is always a nice finishing touch for me I mean mounting your SSD in a dried sled is so like you know to thousands it's 2015 mounted to the window loving it nice touch number three we've got the main gear force and this is a boat as like you know cosmic bowling as I think you can pretty much get with a computer although as a fan of the UV lighting effects myself I have to say they've Prague taking a pretty novel approach here so they've actually mixed LED lighting for the green with blue LEDs so they've got green LEDs around the fans with these thermaltake fans as well as illuminating the front panel and then they've got blue LED strips on the inside to illuminate the UV reactive green fluid so you don't really see the blue as more than just kind of like an under glow to the foreground popping out green lighting effect I think it looks absolutely fantastic as you can clearly tell its custom water-cooled win a really really neat way so they've got two pumps in the bottom let's split the flow between the CPU and the GPUs and then bring it all back together right at the reservoir that screws right onto the top of the dual pump unit and as always it's got the horses under the hood so it's azzie 170 deluxe for masseuse with a core i7 6700 k we've got dual GTX 980 TI s it's got an ax 1200 I power supply you might hardly recognize it but this is a corsair 900d case and then this is one of the few machines at the show that features ah yes there it is the Intel 750 series SSD but in the 1.2 terabyte variety I mean I guess that's kind of cool I got one of my rig so you know whatever I'm not that impressed but they've definitely blown me away with the looks of this machine because as much as it might be that like you know gamer over-the-top bling some of us are into that sort of thing so yeah so it's time for system number four and this one is an absolute beauty it's actually in the intel booth because it's running an early build of karma incarnation one like a moral choice point and click adventure game but we're here for the hardware anyway so we're going to focus on this puppy cybertron has put this beast of a machine and it's just gorgeous aluminum and glass enclosure from in wind that has all the fix let me check this out it's got front USB type-c i love that and it's going to touch them to the button that I've accidentally touched and turned off the game before when I was trying to reposition to shoot this video and of course it's got the goods inside so we've got a core i7 6700 k water cooled by EK water blocks and then we've also got dual GTX Titan blacks we've got 32 gigs of ddr4 memory from crucial we've got an EVGA power supply of some sort it's like buried in there in this very uniquely laid out interior that has like a triple 120 millimeter radiator in the back and then it's got like another fan here and then all the water cooling tubing which is hard pipe by the way looks beautiful is like stealthily run up here and run between all the components got another dual 120 millimeter radiator and the fronts got two more in takes on the bottom and the thing is cooled to the absolute nine then of course it's got yes there it is an Intel 750 series 400 gig PCI Express SSD down there all on an asus maximus eight ranger man i love this like just slightly lit but very dark like contrast he almost like comic book ii looking color scheme they got going on here just beautiful system number five is something you don't see from us very often this is a tier one pre-built machine i mean those suck right now this one looks pretty darn interesting to me this is the acer predator and while the look might be quite polarizing it calls it the armadillo but i think it looks more like a the front of a tank tread or something they've done a few things that are kind of cool here so in your front with your front i oh you got your SD card reader your headphone microphone jacks to us p3 and boom what's that headphone holder yeah that's right headphone holder right in the front of the case uh okay fine that's kind of bizarre ah you've got your optical drive just in case you still have one of those that's pretty cool pop this baby down you got a hot swap either three and a half inch or two and a half inch sled so you can go ahead and do a hard drive upgrade pretty easily should you so desire we're just going to leave that now this is where things get really interesting on this one it is almost impossible to get open without instructions but of course I managed it in fact one of the people showing people around at the intel booth was like yep i straight up don't know how to get that out because it is kind of weird in terms of its construction it's like a normal acer case inside see just like very normal case construction and then it's actually got like a gigantic body kit on it or something the hardware inside is looking pretty good though so we've got a core i7 6700 k we've got a customs e170 micro ATX motherboard so it's a acer acer special in there we've got a gtx 970 it's a very short looks like OEM only sku with a blower design which is very nice for cooling we've got I don't know 16 or 32 gigs of ddr4 memory and we've got a very strange hard drive configuration for terabyte sigue drive and a 3 terabyte WD green so i guess the four terabytes seagate is the boot drive well whatever you'll be able to get into a variety of different configurations i would recommend one with an SSD and then get a storage drive as well those are good but boot off your st and that's very interesting to see Acer's take on the gaming desktop up close and in person so I think that's pretty much it guys thanks for checking out our top five gaming desktops at the intel booth here at PAX Prime 2015 don't miss any of our pax prime coverage because it's all freaking awesome I haven't actually watched any of it yet cuz like Luke did it and I haven't watched it yet but I'm sure it's awesome he does a good job oh and one thing I missed it's got a turbo button bringing back the 486 days yeah