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my coverage of Computex 2016 is proudly sponsored by fractal design MSI and g.skill alright guys worth the msi booth and it's huge there's all kinds of stuff they have some really cool mods going on over here including a cotton candy machine that's also modded computer it's done by everybody Mike he did a really good job and he tried to give us cotton candy but we had to turn him down because you know sticky hands or whatever I have some really cool mods I'll give you guys a few shots of those pretty sweet but what I want to talk about is some motherboards and some graphics cards so MSI graphics cards I better do this quickly because they keep getting taken out of my hands first let's start with this you know when the 1080 launched and they were like eh at 600 bucks and everyone's like ok let's buy one for $600 and then no one could play this pretty basic gtx 980 but you know what it gets the job done and whereas it might not look as pretty some of the other ones it gets a job that it's not really going to be all that much slower overclocking granted might not be quite as good this one is using the reference PCB pretty basic enclosed shroud design and a blower fan and again should be an MSRP actually of $600 ms i actually has two other versions of the 1080 on display here though this one is a 1080 armor so it's got sort of a black and white aesthetic should match very nicely with some of their crate boards this one does have a custom PCB you might notice from the back it's quite a bit thicker so they've enhanced the power delivery on this one and they've also given it of course a custom cooler and they've even upped the power delivery from the power supply by giving it both a an 8 pin which is stock and an additional 6 pin PCI Express power connectors so that's going to give you a little bit better overclocking compared to the I don't I don't what do we call this reference is this a reference version sure it's a reference I'm going to call that reference from now on anyway this one is what you guys can get right now the armor should be coming out soon this is the gaming X and this features the twin frozer 6 cooler MSI has redesigned this cooler they've made they've actually smaller heat pipes but more of them to put them closer to the GPU die since they are working with a smaller GPU die on this one as compared to say the 980ti or the titan our tight necks I should say it does come with a very nice backplate just like that got the MSI logo on Aaron some you know some some cutouts that's pretty cool six pin an eight pin power delivery for this one as well and it looks like roughly the same PCB as the armor but you do get a back plate and you get that twin further six cooler does feature the same size fans but it also has an RGB LED for the MSI logo and then it has these additional accent points that light up in red so three GTX Tiny's from MSI which one are you most excited about the ones that look pretty or the one that actually costs the MSRP that they told us when the 1080 launched I'm on the fence let's look at these motherboards here actually I want to give you guys a close-up look at the X power gaming titanium lines so right up on top we got the X 99 a X power gaming titanium look look at that nice silvery finish on there is it silver no it's titanium titanium is way better than silver we also have of course support for the newest Broadwell processors so if you guys are getting the 69 50 X and you have a little bit of money left over that's what are you kidding we don't have it you have any money left over about a 6 + 50 X but you could theoretically slot it into this board of course you got front USB type-c that's one of their newest things it's actually a little port over on this side so you can write that directly to your front panel if you don't have that available first all the added bonuses that you would expect from the MSI including the steel-reinforced memory slots as well as PCI e slots even steel-reinforced m dot 2 slots now those damn m dot 2 slot m dot 2 cards I was getting so antsy trying to jump out of your board and break free not anymore not with the steel-reinforced m dot 2 slot anyway if Grodd willy is too rich for your blood let's move down to the z170a xpower gaming titanium again you have the sort of same look and aesthetic you got this little add-on PCB right here that gives you some additional capabilities while overclocking including surface mounted buttons for power and reset as well as some voltage control you can automatically boost your multiplier if you want to directly here if it's works like like I've seen this work in the past you can usually choose 0.1 or full megahertz increments and then you also have some of the steel-reinforced slots right here they didn't do it on the memory but you know memory memories not really all that heavy or anything and then you also have an integrated USB looks like a type seep I'm not a type C but it USB reeport right there that's interesting these boards all gonna have USB 3.1 of course and then finally down here at the z170a empower gaming titanium the empower and the X power are both very similar the empowers just a little bit higher end so you get all the steel-reinforced good stuff right there really huge heatsink over the VRMs there it seems like they're really going for overclocking with this board for sure other than that very same aesthetic look as the other two we just showed you four dimm slots z170 chipset LGA 1151 give yourself a skylake processor and drop it in there here's an interesting little motherboard and I really want your guy's opinion on this one this is the be 150 a matte mortar Arctic so you'll notice they have a white PCB and I've been quite find quite fond of white PC mother motherboards in the past they've even gone so far as to specially request a little white LGA 1150 Prosser socket covers which is kind of cool anyway so apart from the actual aesthetic design of this white PCV and digicam oh it's a p150 chipset so that means you're not going to be able to overclock there's a couple other limitations to it as well but we're told this is going to be a little bit more of a budget motherboard so we're still not sure on the price they're still figuring that out but I'm curious what you guys think is this a compelling motherboard with the be 150 chipset or my opinion was I'd like to see this with a Z 170 in it because I feel like for a nice micro ATX motherboard that looks really nice and clean especially if you're building like a nice overclock system or maybe even water quality or something like that I think that could fit in really well whereas a be 150 granted it could give you a really nice price to performance ratio especially if you're going for something like a 6400 or 6500 but I just don't get as excited when I can't overclock if you know what I mean and here's one other motherboard I want to show you this is a workstation board x99 a so again you're going to have Broadwell support but you're also going to have support for ECC memory which might be a compelling option for you depending on what you're using the board for of course interesting thing about this board is that they've done some clever routing of the PCIe lanes to give you support for 3-way SLI or crossfire as well as you to MDOT sue and SATA Express so you can run those at full speed all at the same time I first thought is they're plx bridge or something in there now that's not really the case there's just eight four four and four which actually adds up to like 38 or something like that even got a couple lanes left over that's super convenient other than that dual Intel Nick's on this board which is pretty cool and just seems like a given to be a viable option for a workstation even looks pretty nice for a works the workstation board it's got some yellow accents on it that's it what do you think Cal yellows cool okay okay one last workstation board this is a C 236 m workstation 10 G and the only reason I'll show you this board they've integrated 10 gigabit Intel NIC out of there and believe it or not 10 gig Nick's are so freaking they generate so much heats you gotta have a beefy beefy heatsink on this that's a bigger heatsink than you need even for the chipset anyway I just want to show you that MSI did a workstation board with an integrated 10 get 10 gigabit NIC kinda want one anyway guys that's all for this video thank you so much for watching I'd like to say one last thank you to my sponsors fractal design MSI and g.skill for centimeter Computex hit the thumbs up button click the sponsored links down in the video description we'll see you in the next video