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for the past few years MSI has really

been pushing the limits of how much

power can be crammed into a small case

and cooled properly with their Trident

lineup now after making some truly small

systems MSI has given us the Trident X a

much larger version but also a darn

powerful one rocking a core I 999

hundred K and an RT X 2080

so let's crack it open and see if the

machine itself holds up to its

impressive spec sheet and today's video

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from a distance the tried necks is a

good-looking machine

I appreciate the smaller size although

it is unfortunate that it can't be

placed on its side like previous Trident

models for integration into a home

theater setup after getting closer to

the tried necks though things get a

little less convincing like the front

USB ports and their lettering is in red

but then moving around to the GPU it has

green accents come on you guys how did

you not just swap these stickers for red

ones and moving over to the other side

things get even grimmer now I appreciate

that there is a tempered glass panel

here but how did this gap pass

inspection and behind it isn't even

painted also the CPU airflow cutout is

kind of wobbly and then back over to the

front these two RGB lights don't match

why is this light in the middle so much

brighter than the ones around it and why

is the base such a different color why

does this power button feel so mediocre

and why do I have to point all of these

things out now the tempered glass panel

can be swapped out for a metal one and

this is actually how the tribe necks

comes out of the box so it solves the

Tesla ask panel gap issue and also means

that you won't have to worry about your

side panel getting shattered when you're

going to a lens so the bottom line is

really this honestly the tribe mix is

not a bad looking machine at all

everything that I complained about was a

little icky picky

detail it's just the kind of thing that

the Corsair one would have done right

and I hope that MSI can fix these

problems in the future since none of

them are particularly big ones and

there's a lot of good stuff here so back

to the good stuff specs rocking an

NVIDIA r-tx 2080 core I $9.99 hundred K

32 gigs of RAM this thing is no slouch

and normally this is where I would say

but can they keep it cool in a case this

small the thing is though honestly I'm

not concerned because the design is

really solid first let's take a look at

the graphics card well okay it's just

that it's a full sized desktop graphics

card with a nice beefy cooler and lots

of access to fresh air

this also means that upgrading the GPU

in the future is relatively simple just

take the side panel and top panel off

undo a few more screws which might be

the hardest part since one of ours came

factory chowder's and you're good for

the next gen as for CPU cooling once

again before even testing it there are

no concerns here this heatsink is

massive and breathes in nice fresh air

and the motherboard that's included is

standard actually before we even get to

the performance I should talk about the

insides a little bit more

I do wish that MSI had given the outside

the same kind of attention to detail

that they did here despite cramming so

much Hardware in MSI has still somehow

allowed all of it to be easily accessed

upgraded repaired and with great cable

managing to boot need to upgrade the

storage well there's two two and a half

inch bays right here and the second one

even already has the power cabling done

for you making an upgrade pretty much

trivial need to change out the m-dot to

drive well just open the other side

panel to reveal this easily accessible

and extremely high performance Samsung

Drive the power supply is also a

standard modular affair either in 650

watts in this version or 454 the

twenty-seventh equipped model and

replacing it is entirely possible with

the only real bummer for upgradability

being the RAM which is underneath the

CPU heatsink now this does have the

benefit of providing the RAM with a

little bit of cooling but the real

reason they did this is probably just

that the standard 120 millimeter fan fit

best this way and removing the cooler is

actually still a pretty simple operation

it's just the only blemish that we could

find on an otherwise really

well-thought-out

internal layout so then performance as

expected under a full synthetic load ri9

9900 k8 core processor has no trouble

staying cool with temperatures peaking

at just around 80 degrees fantastic and

it stays well above base clock settling

in around 4.3 gigahertz sustained that's

even better than the corsair one and

that one was liquid cooled the GPU also

doesn't disappoint topping out at 60

and degrees and boosting to a sustained

eighteen seventy-five megahertz and

that's after half an hour of the 3dmark

portroyal benchmark these are really

strong numbers and even more

impressively it does this while

remaining very quiet like okay it isn't

quite Corsair one quiet that thing is

really quiet even under full load though

I was hard pressed to hear the tribe

necks over the HVAC in our office and I

doubt it's gonna be annoying to anyone

even if it's sitting next to you on your

desk like this one is running a

benchmark right now my mic is right here

so all this adds up to then the tribe

necks giving us well the expected

desktop levels of performance you want a

game expect heaps of frames you want to

render a video well don't expect it to

take very long basically you're getting

bombed Hardware in a smaller case and

you don't have to worry about building

it yourself which I guess brings us to

the make or break of any pre-built

computer the price since at the end of

the day hardware is hardware and there's

nothing particularly special about

what's going on in here now our

recommended config comes in at 2500 US

dollars which is a pretty good price

especially when you compare it to the

Corsair one but it's still actually

about $500 more expensive than building

it yourself which also gives you a

little more flexibility and could result

in you ending up with a system that

looks more to your liking so the answer

is as usual if you want to build a

computer yourself yeah you should you

should do that but if you don't want to

build a computer yourself maybe try

anyway it's pretty fun it's not actually

that hard oh no no no this way ha ha ha

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