Gadgetory

my cue to MSI for sending us here to Computex this year and also thank you to Linda calm first up at ZOTAC we have a new Z box mainly designed behind their steam machine that we actually saw at PAX East but now with more customizability in mind with the steam machine it was all one package this one is customizable also instead of the like white and silver design of the old steam machine z box what old is a kind of weird name because it's not even out yet it is now an all black out designed also something to note that LED ring around the power button on the front can actually be turned off in the bios just because you don't want that light there also it's called an en 974 now but I'll have a better name going in the future so I'm not entirely sure what it will be called the pro model will have eight gigs of RAM and 128 gigabyte SSD inside of it but the more bare-bones version will have two two and a half inch drive slots - like a laptop style so dim memory ddr3 slots 1 m2 slot it will come with an i5 Broadwell 5200 u processor and NVIDIA 970 m with three gigabytes of ddr2 fooling to hopefully keep it from throttling in terms of i/o on the front we have an SD card reader a microphone jack a headphone jack and two USB 3.0 ports on the back you have a Wi-Fi antenna for hdmi 2.0 ports 2 gigabit ethernet ports two USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports plus the power plug then we get two graphics cards they have four different versions of the 980ti and I know that's a lot but will go fairly quickly don't you worry about it the first one is the 980ti amp just their standard edition this is only $10 more than the reference card it's a pretty good deal for a triple fan cooler it's the same cooler that we've seen in the past I won't spend too much time on that but the backplate on here is a wraparound so it looks kind of cool and the 980ti doesn't have a backplate by reference so that's actually pretty nice the amp Omega Edition is the same kind of overall cooler no major differences other than the fact that it's two-and-a-half slots and the fans have dual blades on them last but not least of the more standard air coolers is the amp extreme which has more or less the same cooler as the amp Omega but it has lights on the front and lights on the top and then in terms of overclocking it's a freaking beast its base core clock is 1253 with a boost clock of 13 fifty-five at a memory clock of 7210 and then we get to the arctic storm which is probably just as cool as it sounds it has the same wraparound back plate as the previous ones but now it has a kind of cool Arctic II styled Art Deco on it it's really really heavy due to the fact that it's a water cooled or air-cooled card and therefore comes with the support bracket which is not currently shown as they don't have it here but it will enable you to screw it onto the end of the card and then fix it to either the bottom or top of your case to help support it as again it's a really heavy card you don't want it to droop and potentially crack now the Arctic storm doesn't have much of an overclock on it by default now you might have expected more in this realm but they're expecting you to want to overclock this card yourself as it's kind of like a water-cooled hybrid card thingy I don't really necessarily blame them for that all right guys let me know what you think about things in general I know I covered like five things of this booth so just let me know what you think about stuff in the comments down below or on twitter at luke underscore la AFR don't forget to subscribe follow share favorite like dislike any of those things just do all of them although like and dislike is a variable so pick one also thank you to MSI for sending this to you this year we would not be at Computex 2015 without them so they were a huge help in the link in the video description down below that's the bitly link you can see all the products that they launched at Computex this year including Broadwell enabled laptops also thank you to lynda.com lynda.com slash Computex if you go there you can get a 10 day free trial and start learning right now