 Linus Tech Tips coverage of Computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital. Our trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance, and our trusted retail partner is NCIX.com. Hey guys, we're here at the ECS booth to check out their new machine and domination line of memory of motherboards. Sorry about that. These are Z87 chipset boards, and holy cow, if you look at the domination ones, that is blingin'. Their CPU socket is plated with gold and it just looks pretty awesome. If you're one of those lucky few people that got the limited edition Swift Tech block, that would go so well with that, I can't even begin to explain how well that would go with that. The red color scheme is actually the same. So these two are Z87H3-AX models. They both have an external and internal Thunderbolt port, which is just pretty epic. I'm not entirely sure what you're going to use that internal one for, but you have that option. They both have 6 SATA 3.0 ports, V-check points, tons of fan connectors. They both support quad SLI with 16x PCI Express slots. They're just beast, beast motherboards. All the onboard buttons you could possibly want. Gold plated caps, it looks like, gold plated caps. They also have creative Soundcore 3D, which will apparently help isolate sound in FPS games and other stuff as well. They've got, where was the other thing? Dual killer gigabit LAN ports. Apparently they interviewed some gamers and decided that gamers don't like it when they lag, which is, I guess anyone could have told them that. But they interviewed some gamers, they support team complexity, so they probably interviewed them and they decided that it might be a good idea to throw killer networking on their boards. When we move down to their Z87H3-A2X boards, which are slightly chopped down versions of the previous boards we were just looking at, you lose the dual Thunderbolt, you lose stuff like that, but they're still very, very nice high end boards. You still got 6 SATA 3.0 ports, you still have V-check points, you still have all that kind of stuff. You still have dual gigabit killer LAN, but it's a little bit chopped down, like I just said, not quite all the options you had before. Still tons of onboard buttons, they're still very, very high end boards and they still have the same color scheme. So if you don't need an internal Thunderbolt header and a few other things that are on the insane high end boards, you can still get these ones, still get the color scheme, still get an awesome board and still be happy. We're going to move on in the ECS booth. If you want to see all of our Computex content, be sure to keep watching and we're going to move on. If you're still here at the ECS booth, they have something very, very cool going on that I haven't seen anywhere else here at Computex. They have a Buildlog competition. If you guys know, I run the forum and I love the Buildlog section, that's why we have a Buildlogs awards every single week on our live stream. These things are insane. They have a huge competition. They're giving away a million new Taiwanese dollars to whoever wins this competition. So we're going to do a really, really quick one through of the top five that they have brought here. So what you're supposed to do is go to www.facebook.com slash ECS and vote on which one you think is the best. I haven't had enough time to actually see everything here, so I'm just going to go over some really general stuff. This thing looks absolutely nuts. You can see right angle graphics card with an extension, which is nuts. It's water cooled. You got dominators on there. This thing's insane. He's got some custom cabling going on. He's got custom lights going on. He built the whole freaking thing. This top can drop down to actually, in my opinion, look better, but right now he's trying to show off all the hardware considering he's at ECS. He wants to show off ECS's hardware. It looks absolutely amazing. Down here you've got some triggers. You've got some vandal switches, a LCD panel. This thing's crazy. It's just everything's going on, and it's just an absolute beast. It's apparently called the Orthus. So if we can back up here and check out the next one, this one is very, very different compared to the last one we were looking at. This one's very, very minimalistic. It looks very, very classy. He sleeved his cables to go along with the board. I hope that it's wooden, and this is plexiglass it seems, and just very, very nice. Not the insane performance that we saw in the one previously, but it's just very, very clean cut. It would be very, very nice to have this on your desk. I'm not going to pull this just in case I can break something, but I'm assuming that turns off these two lights, which is just so classy. This would be very, very, very cool to have in your office if you are a businessman, and it seems to be tuned for that style as it has a very small motherboard and not the biggest graphics card ever. Very nice build. When we come down here and we get to your industrial design, very, very heavy metal, sharp, sharp, sharp. It looks very, very nice. Huge radiators there, massive, massive reservoir. Very cool. We come around this side and you see the water-cooled graphics cards, which are just absolutely awesome. Very, very nice sleeving. It looks very, very tight. Not sure where he got that from, but it could be Million Dollar PC because of how nice it looks. It looks like it was all done by him. Very, very nice heat shrink cuts. The whole thing just looks absolutely amazing. Like I said, industrial design. We've got a nice LCD panel up here where he can control different fan speeds and pump speeds and lighting, which is just very, very, very cool. Come down to another one. This is actually two, but it's submitted by one person. Again, industrial design. Aggressive. Looks like a tank. Not like the classy one that we saw previously, but still looks like a tank. You can see he's got some custom painting going on. Looks very military. This one looks just nuts. There's lights going off everywhere. It looks very Gundam. I'm not exactly sure how he did this, but that's very cool. In terms of vexers, it's probably something awesome. Again, I haven't actually interviewed these individual people, so I'm not entirely sure what's going on. Unfortunately, this one's not on, but it's very, very, very cool. Now we're coming to our last one. If I can back up here, but there's people in my way. Hopefully I can get back. This one, again, comes more with the classy style that we saw earlier. Very, very clean. It looks really, really good. There's tons of painting going on. I'm not entirely sure what this is made out of. Feels like metal. Is it metal? Yes, it's aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum. There we go. Very, very nice. Did you cut this all yourself? Yeah, I put it in. That's fantastic. It looks really, really good. I like the minimalistic styles for build logs. The big aggressive ones, well, they're very, very cool. Not necessarily my style. I like the more subtle ones, like the one previously and this one. Like I said previously, you guys can go on facebook.com slash ecs. Vote which one you think is the best. They will get a ton of money, so make sure you go and support which case, which modern case you think is the best. Thanks for watching, and we're going to continue. All right guys, just before we left the ECS booth, I came by their Thunderbolt demonstration. So what they've done here is they put five Thunderbolt drives in here and hooked up a Thunderbolt monitor. All these are linking together. You see all the crazy cables. Hopefully if you're going to do something like this, you can get shorter cables because that's just nuts. The cable management enthusiast in me just cries when he sees this, although the loops are quite nice. I would like shorter cables and tied down. Anyways, it goes out the back here, plugged into this machine, and then this machine is reporting and showing how fast the transfer speeds are going. Now I asked them which drive they were actually reporting this from, and they did not tell me, but it's iOmeter, so I'm assuming it's an overall, but I'm not sure if they're transferring data or doing anything interesting like that. But this just goes to show what you can actually do with Thunderbolt. It's one plug-in, and you're plugging all this stuff in. So say you're a business user. You have a business class notebook or business class system that you're moving around. You can just come home, plunk down your laptop, instantly have all this insane amount of storage and a monitor plugged in with no real problems. Also, with some people like Silverstone hooking up new external graphics card boxes where you can have a graphics card in a box and have it plugged in with Thunderbolt, that's another thing you can do with this and have them all linked together. You can have all your storage, your monitor, and an external graphics card all linked in through one plug, which is very, very clean, and I'm very happy that they have this on display. Thank you for checking out our ECS content. If you want to see all of our content from Computex, make sure to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips.