 So I get asked all the time which system should I buy, where should I buy it from, what graphics card would you recommend for this game. And this video is sort of meant to be a couple of things. It's going to be the answer to a lot of those questions. And it's also going to be a bit of an introduction to a gaming system that NCIX has. Probably most of you know I work at NCIX, a computer store here in Canada. And this is a gaming system that NCIX is going to be releasing for back to school because as you know, students only focus on their studies when they go off to university. That's the only thing they do. They never use their computers for gaming. Never happens. Okay, so what I have running here is a Furmark. So this is just to test and I've done a lot of features on the MSI Cyclone series of coolers. But we're just going to... okay, first I want the cameraman to come over here and just get close to this computer. Just get close, we're listening to it so you don't have to worry about what you're pointing at. I have a novice cameraman today so... The point is this computer is very, very quiet even under a full gaming load. So it's using a fractal design to find R3 case. That means you've got a front door on the case here which has a nice kind of a brushed matte finish on it. Inside we've got a DVD writer, we've got room for another optical drive. The R3 is slightly revised so it has kind of these cool 5.25 inch bay covers that have a little hinge here so you can just lock them in just like that. You've got a couple of removable fan filters on the front. So it's populated by default with one 120mm fan. And when we open up the inside you'll see that NCIX installs the 3.5 inch drive behind the fan so that it gets optimal cooling. You've got all your sound dampening materials here behind the door. Just want to have a quick look at that. So the Define R3 is basically like the Define R2 which I unboxed quite some time ago when it was first released in North America. So let's run around here and have a look at the back of the system. So it has a 550 watt power supply. It's powered by an MSI motherboard which features USB 3.0 and you can't see it but on the inside it actually has SATA 6 gigabit per second too. So...not two as well. So that means that you've got all of the latest technologies on this particular system. And why don't we open it up and have a look at the inside. So the target price of this system is going to be about $899 Canadian. And what that means is that you get a dual core processor. It's only going to be a Core i3 but as most people know when you're gaming at high resolution, HD resolutions, usually the CPU is not the bottleneck and it usually comes down to the GPU. So that's why we focused more on putting a very very powerful graphics card in here and building the system around that. Now this is an SLI ready motherboard. So it's going to be also available in a higher end configuration where you're going to add one more GTX 460, upgrade the power supply a little bit to make sure that it's SLI compliant as well as throwing in a quad core. So that will be kind of like a deluxe package. Anyway so on the inside you see we've got a standard ATX motherboard, 4 gigs of Kingston RAM, we've got the dual core i3 processor. Even come close, even with the side panel off, I want you to listen to the system. It's still quite quiet. So even when you're gaming you don't have to worry about excess noise. And you can see the GPU runs at a cool 62 degrees, peaking at 66 even with the case closed. And never goes over about 76% fan speed. So even if we turn off afterburner, so let's do that. And the cameraman's phone is going off here so there he turned it off. Good work. Okay so when we turn off afterburner you're going to see it's actually going to get quite a bit quieter still. And as I mentioned before we have the hard drive so it's a 1 terabyte hard drive. No I believe it's a 500 gig hard drive. No it is a 1 terabyte hard drive by default installed down here at the bottom. You can actually install up to 8 hard drives in this case. So with all of the expansion options on the board you've got 6 SATA 2 ports, 2 SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports. So you're probably going to use one of those for your DVD or Blu-ray drive. And then you can have up to 6 hard drives supported directly off the motherboard. Go ahead and look at the motherboard. Don't worry about looking at me all the time. So you can see now that we've turned off the 3D application, the system is darn near silent even with the side panel off. And you can actually get the NCIX technicians to make some changes for you too. You can get additional fans installed because the Define R3 does support an additional 120 millimeter or 140 mil fan on the side blowing onto your graphics cards. You can see that it's covered with a noise dampening material by default but you can just take that right out. You can actually put an additional 2 120 or 140s in the top and then you can put an additional 120 millimeter fan in the front. So if you don't care about the silent aspect, you can actually make this case all about the cooling performance instead. Now speaking of fan filters, you've got an additional 120 millimeter on the bottom. That one's filtered. And then the power supply uses a 120 millimeter fan on the bottom of the power supply. And you can see that's pulling air through a filtered fan hole right on the bottom of the case. Again, more fan filters, more case airflow and it makes sure your power supply stays nice and cool. So this is a system that we're pretty proud of for $899. So check it out. I think this is the first time I've ever really done a video on something that NCIX does on PCs even though that's been a big part of my job for about two years. I get a lot of questions too on my blog about what exactly is my job. Well, that's one of the things I do. I am responsible for making sure our PC configurations are up to date, well engineered and well thought out and that you get sort of the right config for the money. So thanks for checking out my video blog and I hope you've enjoyed this little feature on the silent aspects of this particular NCIX PC. One other thing I wanted to mention really quick, I talked about the noise dampening material inside the case, but I want the cameraman to kind of demonstrate just how much of an impact it has. So this is at idle. So this is if you're just editing Word documents or actually doing schoolwork, you know, on the internet or whatever. So hopefully the camera's microphone is close enough to the back here that you can hear some noise coming out the back of the case. And then I want the, hold on, don't move yet, but on my mark I want the cameraman to move the camera away and just kind of sit it next to the side panel where there's noise dampening material. So what I'm hoping is that on the YouTube video you'll be able to tell that that's quite a bit quieter and we might as well have a look at the front panel connectors too, which we didn't look at before. So you got headphones, microphone, USB, eSATA, power, and then inside here hidden is a little reset switch.