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today I'm gonna take you guys on a little journey behind the scenes to an tech event hosted by Corsair this is down in Sydney so I live in the Gold Coast so I believe it's like almost a thousand kilometres away down south takes about an hour and a half on the plane and before I do I'm gonna quickly show you what's going on behind the scenes here so we've recently just finished doing the APU review for the 2200 G and the 2400 G there are nice little solutions for the money and you guys wanted to see how high these things could overclock so now I've got the 2200 G on the testbench it's got the frieze of the 33 from Arctic this is a really good budget cooler I tested this against a couple of others coolers in a comparison I'll put the link for you guys if you want to see that and this one pretty much won out that comparison at least in value for money in my opinion so we've got that on the test bench and we're overclocking the rising both on the CPU and the a GPU side and you can see here at 30 degrees it's really hot where we're at so summertime no aircon just yet but it's not gonna stop me from getting these results done so I'm running the final test now this is the fire strike benchmark I've got the single channel memory there which you guys also requested and we're gonna be getting that video done very soon but in the meantime I've got no time left to spare I've got to get out of here get my backpack ready and catch a fly so I just got now into the air B&B and it's about an hour until the event begins and for some reason in Melbourne and Sydney I always find air Bambi's are a lot cheaper than places like a go to for example so this is awesome I go this place we're pretty cheap but I'm gonna head there now and also want to ask Corsair about the cryptocurrency mining and if that's affected them as a company so two-fold purpose for this event today but let's head there check out some new products and then get an interview so I just go to the event of course it is really good here and the sad news is though is I kind of got clicked baited because their new headset the HSC 60 and they're going to show it in the product sample presentation but they don't actually have the sample on hand so they do have some other samples here but the problem is is I got click beta 2 coming into this event and then I click betas you guys so it's like a round-robin of click bait at the moment what the joke is on Corsair because I skip lunch and there's free food here so I'm going to indulge myself and then we'll talk about some of the other products here as well so going through the list of products on display of this event was some of the products we've already seen on the channel to begin with that was the h1 15 inh 150 I Pro which are their new water coolers featuring RGB and Maglev fans they also have the brand new obsidian 500 D which looked really good in the flesh and finally is able to fit courses own 280 Miller ad who would have ever thought that Corsair can now fit their own coolers in their cases but also on display with some pretty cool new products the k 68 RGB which is a waterproof keyboard which also features RGB backlighting and Cherry MX red switches they also have the K 63 gaming lap board which is for those people who want to sit on their couch and play games but still have a comfortable setup so you can insert your own keyboard and use your own mouse with this setup and they also had to couple with this the K 63 keyboard which is a wireless design so they've now got a cherry MX wireless keyboard to add to their lineup but also if you guys like the Corsair t1 racing chair but you thought it was too small and you say for instance 6 foot 4 or over you're just a really big guy in general they now have the t2 racing road warrior so this accommodates people of a larger stature and it sort of alleviates that problem that the t1 had what was for guys like me who are like 5 foot 10 so great solution there for people who are bigger and want a bigger chair but also besides that they had the mm 1,000 miles pad you guys might have seen this at Computex last year when I did a video for Corsair was a concept that they had at the time where this mouse pad could wirelessly charge your phone via a technology called Qi charging now if your phone's older if it's just a budget option phone and doesn't support wireless charging and they do have a USB attachment device that will then charge your phone once you plug that into the phone and you'll then be able to wirelessly charge your phone just like if you had the technology to begin with but they also have their dark core Pro RGB mouse as well this mouse was the wireless mouse that will be charged from the mousepad to but also it has the option to be wired so this can go along with the MM 1000 as a combo for wireless and you don't have to worry about battery life too and then lastly on display was the spec Omega Alpha their new case which has tempered glass and also accompanying lighting at the front they had this in three different flavors black silver and red two of which had red LED fans and the other had white that was a silver version so now the event finished it was awesome and I am joined by the one the only Chris Smith email here at the Corsair event but there's some big tough questions we look at the products they were nice everyone wants to know is crypto currencies affecting Corsair as a company that makes cases power supplies and coolers because if people can't buy the brand-new graphics cards then how they gonna build it whole new PC isn't that sort of taking away from that ability to build that new PC and it's not affecting Corsair in any way yeah I mean if you're looking at power supplies as far as most of course there's offerings we're offering in the upper range so we're offering things like the ax 1600 i platinum that was just launched recently you know really good quality we're offering you know a lot of the goals and and above kind of levels so you know we're not seeing I guess too much of a deep because people are buying our power supplies no matter what because of the quality that they offer so whether you're building you know a crypto mining PC or whether you're building a PC triple SLI whether it be a second hand graphics card or a new one often people are going for course there anyway because you get that that reliability that you don't necessarily get with all the other brands as you know as far as all the other stuff goes I work mainly in marketing not so much in sales but but you know we don't see too much of a dip and everything else you know lucky said there's there's a lot of 580 s that are sold out around the around the trap some retailers they're telling me they're backordered till all the way back into 2017 like mid to late 2017 but I think for us you know we're selling on our cue and link connective you know we're selling a lot of our new fans and we're putting a lot of performance stuff into like a h1 105 IOH 150 ISO we're still trying to innovate and people are upgrading because of the innovations rather than us just providing these little iterations of 1% performance gains it's more about how can we revolutionize the market through R&D and provide something that people want to buy no matter what so basically looks like Coursera as a company is positioned really to ride out a storm just four main PC builders who want to build a new PC and need everything else in between because you've got the other products there that you charging mouse pads that are coming out for example you've got the laptop there's a lot of other products that have seemed like they're balancing out plus you've got those power supplies which I'm pretty sure those 1500 watts and even the 1600 Watts they'd be back ordered by now right and look all says philosophy in the end is is kind of iron D is greater than everything else you know you've seen us bring out the first kind of mechanical keyboards back in 2014 you know with their partnership with Chery you've seen us work really hard in a queue and Lync integration to be able to integrate your power supplies your LED pump caps and everything all into one system and you've seen that where their cue with the keyboard mouse mouse pad headset can be all synced up all the lighting together whether it's an equaliser or whether it's something just like a rainbow RGB vomit you know so so you know using like the words that you said weathering through a storm I think that in the end courses I was able to survive because of the really solid iron D and the really solid relationships we build with you know not just our media but also connecting with the gamers and the end users to ask them hey what do you guys actually want out of a product all right mr. mammoth thanks for coming out and taking your time out here to answer some questions here today if you guys have any questions for Chris in the comments section just ask away and he'll be sure to respond and it's an awesome time this event was a really good event thank you so much for bringing me out here but make sure you guys stay tuned thanks for joining us today because Brian will be taking a look out later some of the products that he's showing you so it's now the next day and I just got back into the studio and the event was awesome went really smooth I hope you guys enjoyed some of the footage but I found out in the meantime that the new AP used from AMD they're not sold during them anymore they're using thermal paste in between the die and the heat spreader and if you guys have followed the channel for a while you know how I feel about that I would rather personally pay a few dollars more on top of the product cost and have it soldered and just think it's a much better way especially if you want to overclock but in this case it is a budget option especially the $99 APU so generally when the companies use the thermal paste over the sole during at least from all these sources of spoke to inside the business and we're going to name any names but everyone I spoke to says it's to cut costs because the soldering technique is actually very complex they've got to use different materials and they've got to use it in sort of like an exact science and so it does add costs to the final product but anyway I made a survey on Twitter where I want to hear you guys as opinions if you just go on Twitter up with the link in the description you can just vote and let me know your thoughts and opinions as to which you think is the best outcome because I think in this case as much as it annoys me that they're using thermal paste it is on a budget entry level product as we pose to Intel if we look at their ten core for example there's practically no excuse to use thermal paste on a 70 900 X at least when it costs a thousand bucks so that's just my thoughts and opinions there but as well as that we now have some more testing to do in the next video so I'm glad I found out about this before I did the overclocking video because now with the 2400 G I can deal with that and give you guys some before-and-after results how much better overclocking can we get on air but also the temperatures before and after too so look forward to giving you as those tests they should be coming very soon but also another thing on my mind as well was I spoke to a few other youtubers down in Sydney and there's this thing going around like I had this happen to me last year and now it's happening again to me and it's where a viewers just aren't getting my videos notified in their sub boxes so I don't know what's going on there it seems to only happen to channels that are under a million subscribers so it's like it's just a little bit unfair because trying so hard to get the channel up and to give you guys better content but if people who sub to the channel can't even see my videos to begin with then that's sort of like it's just a real downer like makes me feel sad because I'm just working my butt off here trying to get content out for you guys and yeah people aren't even seeing the vids so if that's happening to you as well let me know in the description below but a solution for that in the meantime is again to head on to Twitter and every time I videos are posted the link to the video is posted on Twitter as well so that but with all that aside I hope you guys enjoyed today's vlog and video and I look forward to giving you guys some more awesome content as well as that the new x79 I know it's a little bit old now the x79 board but the one-and board from Aliexpress rocked up as well so look forward to getting a video on that and there's still that backlog there but that's getting plowed through now the new Studios done I can just get a video out almost everyday for you guys so I'll catch you in another tech video very soon don't forget to hit that like button peace out for now bye