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Corsair welcome to our CES 2020 tour I am Demetri and I will not forget our
sponsors this time huge thanks to Phanteks thermaltake be quiet and razer
for making our ces 2020 trip possible alright so the first thing we're gonna
check out here at Corsair is something that Corsair calls concept Orion Orion
damnit the Oreo cookie right here concept Orion so in front of me here is
a Corsair 465X enclosure with as you can see this beautiful light show these
capellix LEDs that have been installed here and this is just a little
showcase to see what is going to be possible in the future so if you guys
recall Corsair release capellix LEDs and these are really tiny LEDs that are
super bright they have extremely high density of the LEDs and each individual
capellix LED is addressable it can be controlled through the software and they
have applied it on a film that goes on top of this tempered glass and since it
has this beautiful lamination it shines in a 360-degree view so not only is your
shining towards you so you can see them but it's also shining inside the case
so actually does have this beautiful illumination on the inside as well
well the showcasing here is 150 LEDs that applied in total this is something
that actually will be rolling out in 2020 really excited to see how Corsair
does the implementation that is retail and not just in this constant format
because you can do all types of cool things in terms of lighting effects
through IQ of course so everything will be connected and you can customize
lighting not just on the interior of the case using fans and LED strips but this
is a really really interesting and unique way to customize the actual
exterior Wow ok that's beautiful oh we will get to the new air cooler from
Corsair as Eber is preparing some sexy b-roll I want to first talk to you guys
about the new k95 platinum XT keyboard when we first arrived here I was like no
I don't really want to cover it but there are actually a few important
differences that come with the new platinum XT so you guys know course here
owns el gato and what they when the XD keyboard is actually
integrated a legato functionality onto the G Keys they do come with extra set
of key caps that they call the S keys that are blue therefore if you do pre
program those G keys to something else that you do on the stream deck therefore
you have that visual indicator on the actual keyboard as well this is the
first time Corsa is rolling out black pbt key caps they have had white PV T
key caps on their previous models they are live a little bit more coarse I'm
not a huge fan of the actual font like there's some inconsistencies and the
thickness of like certain letters the price is the same $199 as the original
k95 platinum and this whole backwards compatibility is a good thing because if
you own the original king that if I platinum you still will be able to
utilize the G keys for stream deck in case you use that functionality it still
comes with a palm rest attaches to the bottom but the main difference are
actually the switches so they're still using MX cherry but MX cherry has gone
through a different manufacturing process with the new facility in Germany
so instead of having our traditional 50 million keystrokes the new materials and
the new manufacturing process gives us double that so a hundred million
keystrokes on MX cherry red brown and speed switches and this is the first
time they're actually incorporating blue switches on such a high end keyboard but
the new process does not apply here still 50 million keystrokes and I find
it really odd that people still want blue switches on something something
like it but whatever stream that functionality on the G Keys $199 and the
last piece of the puzzle is the actual stream that software so in the software
itself you have the keyboard indicator you can just drag-and-drop certain
functionalities on it with an OSD on screen display to give you a little
visual to see what each of those s Keys does so guys I actually stopped by
something really cool now if you recall in 2011 Corsair launched a very first
air cooler and it was called the 850 now it's currently unavailable and they've
been out of the air cooler game for a really long time but they're back in
2020 kicking things off with the a500 now this air cooler is actually designed
to compete against the Noctua DH15 or the D15 as well as they'd be quiet
dark Pro Series the beefier coolers that are available in the market right now
and it's priced at 9 and dollars okay good that's good good
now one of the interesting things about this cooler is that corsair actually did
an anti Corsair move by not implementing any shape or form of RGB lighting which
is actually pretty cool because this is just a standalone straight up air cooler
with no lighting cables or anything that you have to worry about is simply a
simple installation plug in your fan headers or your fan cables and you're
good to go now in terms of compatibility what the
a500 supports both Intel and aim for platforms unfortunately no threaded for
support so if you are looking for a Corsair cooler you might as well just
get an air cooler or an Holden would look at cooler for threaded for
solutions TDP is rated for 250 watts which is kind of on because threaded /
CPUs are well under that range so yeah what's a little assistance what are you
doing here alright so check this out this is the most interesting thing about
the a500 and it's a whole installation process now every single time when I'm
working with either not to a cooler or be quiet cooler I end up cutting my
fingers just because when I'm installing fans on both sides the fins just in
contact with my skin I end up like with a lot of cuts which definitely is
frustrating so what Corsair did is they I've
actually implemented something called a slide and fan mount mechanism so
essentially you can just use a slide and type and slide those two fans easily and
each fan brackets do come with 12 step increments so what happens is if you
have a memory module that's slightly higher you could use these fan markets
to offset and that way it'll be easily compatible with say I don't know if it's
a g.skill memory kit or a corsair dominator memory kit now the included
fans are these standard ml 120 Mangala fans they're not 140 millimeters which
is an interesting choice because that makes sense because the fan bracket does
take a lot of space which is why they had to accommodate a 120 min or a fan
compared to whatnot - it does with the D 15 that offers 140 millimeter fan
configurations you could also swap these fans with your fans of choice and yeah
it just uses a standard screwin mechanism just like that so the included
backplate is made out of steel with rubber padding once you have the
backplate on you just have to install the retention brackets it's very similar
to what you could do with a knot to a cooler and what happens is if you want
to install or secure those two attention brackets you just
remove this top front mesh design that's completely made out of an aluminum
Corsair also does include a screwdriver so if you want a Corsair screwdriver
this is a great way to get your hands on one
so overall installation seems very straightforward really good job Corsair
now out of the box Corsair does apply a pre-tournament solution on the base and
they also include a high-performance XDM 50 thermal compound now let's quickly
talk about the heat pipe configuration Corsair decided to stick with four on
each side so six millimeters on the outside eight millimeters on the inside
and they did this to make it a lot more efficient when it comes to cooling now
from what I've been told performance is actually just on par with
what you get with non troppo as well as be quite cooler so I'm really curious to
test out the performance of this cooler the a500 from Corsair in specific let me
know what you guys think in the comments that's it so so the included back so the
included backplate is so all right so that is all from Corsair thanks much for
watching do you guys want us through you that keyboards I know Eva was excited
about it will definitely be reviewing that cooler it looks pretty awesome
although it's quite beefy but thanks so much for watching make sure to check out
with other CES content I'll see you guys in next