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MSI Prestige P100 -

MSI are continuing their move into the content creator space with the Prestige P100, a desktop PC designed for content creation, though the specs are so good it can also play any game you throw at it too, and I’ll be testing some out at 5K to see what it can do. Starting with the specs my unit has the 8 core Intel i9-9900K CPU, Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti graphics, 64gb of memory in dual channel, a 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD for Windows and two 2TB hard drives in a 4TB RAID 0 array. The motherboard also has gigabit ethernet, WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 00:42....

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NZXT H510 Elite -

The new NZXT H510 Elite case has got both side and front tempered glass panels, RGB lighting and a clean looking design. We’ll see what else it’s got to offer in this review, and I’ll also be giving one away to a lucky viewer in the video. The H510 Elite is available in a couple of colours, black or white, and I’m showing the white version in this video. The case is made of steel, and unlike previous NZXT cases has a tempered glass panel on the front as well as the side. This mid-tower case is 43cm deep, 46cm...

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Acer Predator Orion 9000 -

The Acer Orion 9000 is a gaming PC with some pretty insane hardware available, in this unit I’ve got an 18 core CPU and two Nvidia 1080Ti’s in SLI, so let’s see what it can do. There’s some pretty crazy hardware in this system, so let’s start there. While it’s available with a 6 core i7-8700K CPU, in mine I’ve got an 18 core i9-7980XE, and it can also be overclocked too for better performance, as we’ll see later. The 8700K model has 4 memory slots with support for up to 64GB in dual channel, while my i9 model has...

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Thermaltake View 71 RGB Case -

today we’re going to take a look at the View 71 case from Thermaltake. I bought this case to build my new Threadripper PC in, so let’s find out what it’s got to offer, what it’s like to build in and some of the problems I had along the way. The View 71 is a black full tower case and is pretty large at 592mm in height, 577mm in depth, and 274mm in width. It’s fairly heavy too due to all that glass, with nothing installed it weighs in at 19.1kg. The case comes with a box of accessories, which...

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Acer Predator Orion 3000 -

The Acer Predator Orion 3000 is a small gaming PC with some pretty powerful specs inside, so let’s take an in depth look and find out what it’s got to offer and see how well it performs in games. The Orion 3000 is available with different hardware configurations, my unit here has a 6 core i7-8700 CPU, Nvidia GTX 1070 graphics, 16GB of DDR4-2666 memory running in dual channel, a 256GB NVMe M.2 SSD and 2TB hard drive. It’s also got gigabit network connectivity, with 802.11ac WiFi and bluetooth. It’s available in a few different configurations, including with GTX 1060...

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