Gadgetory

all right kids the extreme rig challenge is back and this time they're stepping it up a little bit classy style there we go so instead of a backpack we get a briefcase and instead of a piece of paper that I printed out out of my email actually I have that too I get this black envelope plus follow the instructions shall we set up your camera we got a Brandon over there no problems open the box the first thing you'll see is a black envelope mine was on the outside of the box that's okay extreme rigged challenge 2017 the top system builders in the world twelve of them are competing to see which seven are going to attend PAX East so you guys are going to have to vote to see which of them is going to be unveiling their rigs in March so you can follow on social media by using hashtag rig challenge sweepstakes and you can enter the sweepstakes over at rig challenge intel.com what exactly could you win while they're giving away an HTC vive and you can vote I believe once a day it is you'll find the full terms in the video description you can also win one of the amazing rings so how let's have a look at what's in ER Oh first up is an all-access pass to packed East Clow includes airfare hotel and conference so fun fact about these all-access passes I tried to use one for tax prime with the last until ring challenge you have still have to go to the ticket counter you don't just put this on and try and walk through the door don't let you in that was fun next up we've got a t-shirt these are always large why do they assume that nerds are large I wear a medium that's okay I'll give it to Luke and he'll be happy he doesn't like paying for clothes anyway and next up we've got some very interesting stuff here a lot of very safe protective foam and that's awkward it's over here ah maybe I shouldn't have thrown around this this doodad here before we before we got started so we've got a core i7 7700 okay this is intel's flagship named stream processor so this puppy's clocked at 4.2 gigahertz and she'll boost higher than that with a fully unlock multiplier for overclocking basically you put this in any z2 70 board you throw a nice cooler honor and it's pretty much off to the races it also has upgraded support for a wider range of ddr4 dual channel frequencies and pretty much all you need to know about it it's about as fast as it gets for gaming today this one's interesting though this is one that I haven't seen before this is intel's SSD 600 teeth so intel finally has an m dot to nvme SSD they were one of the first ones out the door with PCI Express and you got two SSDs targeted towards consumers and they follow it up with MDOT too so they sent over their one terabyte capacity one so this will be a great upgrade for a desktop or a notebook whatever it is that you need to have a ton of wicked fast storage inside and I'm actually really looking forward to putting this puppy through the paces in the next little bit super tiny so it uses the N dot to interface right there and the nvme protocol over the indata interface for reduced latency and improve performance you can learn more about the whole m dot two nvme AHCI quagmire right over there and figure out how to know if your system would be compatible with a 600 p but in the meantime the priority is the extremely challenged so follow hashtag rig challenge sweepstakes on social media and head over to the link in the video description to start voting vote early vote often for a chance to win an HTC vive or one of the rigs