 Our coverage of CES 2018 is brought to you by FreshBooks, the cloud-based accounting solution for small businesses and freelancers. You can check them out at freshbooks.com slash Linus CES. So we're coming to you from the MSI suite where they've got... is it a booth? I don't know what this is. It doesn't matter. The point is there's some cool stuff in here. First and foremost, they've got a new version of their Trident gaming desktop that is a lot heavier than the old one. Oh, is he gonna drop it? Is he not gonna drop it? The point is the hardware has not changed a ton, so you're still gonna get a Core i7 processor, but this time it's 8th gen for up to six cores, and they've done up to a GTX 1080 graphics card in this tiny form factor now. So all that weight, that is a whole lot of heat, St. Cliff. You ready? Here you go, bud. Also behind me, they've got a new monitor. So MSI has been doing monitors for a little while, but they're really getting serious about it now. This is the Optix MPG 27CQ. It's a 1440p 144 Hertz FreeSync gaming display. It's got a VA panel, so you get those nice deep blacks and 3001 contrast ratio. It's got two HDMI 2.0 ins and a DisplayPort 1.2, and most importantly, RGB lighting. So MSI has been working with partners like Corsair, SteelSeries, and Cooler Master to enable you to synchronize the RGB lighting on the monitor with your peripherals or even with your computer, but there's some special integration with SteelSeries. So using SteelSeries Engine's GameSense, you can actually use the lights here for something that's not completely stupid, because I don't think anyone was asking for RGB lighting around the outside of what they're trying to focus on. No, no. But with GameSense in supported games, which includes games like Counter-Strike, Minecraft, and Dota with PUBG coming, it allows you to actually configure these not just in terms of brightness and color, but to reflect things that are happening in game. So you could have your right side change color according to your health, your left side change according to your ammo, and the middle one could maybe light up with brighter and brighter colors, or it could flash every time you get a headshot. Pretty cool stuff. Another innovation in this monitor, something that shocks me that we haven't seen before, is the ability to change on-screen menu items not just with the joystick at the back, but also through a software application. So everything from throwing a cheater crosshair in the middle of your monitor, to adjusting the brightness, to even changing your input, can now be done through MSI's software. So this one's gonna come at around 400 to 450 bucks with an Nvidia G-Sync version planned in the future, though I would expect that one to cost a couple hundred dollars more because......dem Nvidia licensing costs. Oh, one more cool feature is that with all this lighting stuff, you can actually synchronize across multiple systems if you're into that sort of thing, or even that cool laptop over there that actually has the lighting on the back. So this way, if you got a whole team of people playing, you could like have them all flash red and then turn off, like as they die and stuff. That's cool. So thanks again to FreshBooks for allowing us to be here at CES 2018. If you guys aren't familiar with FreshBooks, wow, you must not watch our channel a lot, but basically it's a cloud-based accounting solution for freelancers and small business owners. It allows you to quickly and easily send invoices, track your expenses, track your hours. It allows you to do all these things on the go. They've got great iOS and Android apps, and they've got fantastic 24-7 customer service that you talk to a real person through. It's like amazing. There's no phone tree, no callbacks, no nothing. They just help you out with your stuff, and you can try it out for free at freshbooks.com slash linusces. And then, yeah, I think that's pretty much it. Why not do it? So thanks for watching, guys. If you disliked this video, you can do that. But if you liked it, hit like, get subscribed so you don't miss any of our CES content. And you can check out where to buy the stuff we linked. No, not at all, because the monitor's not coming until later, and this is not coming until super later. So yeah.