NZXT PODCAST - #187 - New H5 Flow and Kraken Elite! (Ft. Jordan)

Episode Date: August 23, 2024

On this week's episode of the NZXT Podcast... We have Jordan, our Sr. Product Marketing Manager, helping us talk about all of our new H5 Flow case and Kraken Elite! Catch the replay at twitch.tv/NZX...T!

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Starting point is 00:00:00 What's good, everyone. Welcome to episode 187 of the NCC podcast, the official podcast of the NCC community. His podcast recorded live every other Friday at 10 a.m. Pacific Santer Time on the official NCC Twitch is available to stream on demand on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud. My name is Mike. It was me, as always, is Ivan. How are you doing, Ivan? I was doing great until I saw the NZXT Chinchilla joined the chat here. You should be in jail right now.
Starting point is 00:00:27 I kind of don't want to do his podcast anymore. Welcome to the NZACC chinchilla. Thank you for joining us. Also, thank you to everyone who tuned in live today. We have a very special podcast. We're going to talk about all about our new cases and our new coolers. Before we get into that, though, I do want to make two quick announcements. Announcement number one is that we have a Gamescom giveaway going on at the moment.
Starting point is 00:00:57 You guys and gals can enter that giveaway, by just going to our social media channels at NZT everywhere you'll see it. We're giving away a new H5 Float case and a new crack and a leak cooler. If you want to just type it, just go nzxte.co slash GC giveaway. And then the second announcement, the super special announcement, is that if you are tuned in live right now, we are going to be, we just actually kicked off a brand new giveaway with our Buddy's FlyQuest.
Starting point is 00:01:31 And that giveaway is going to be for a new H5Flow or H5Flow RGB case. If you're tuned in live, you're going to be the first ones to get access to this giveaway. And if you stick around to the end of the show, you will get a secret word, which will give you a bunch of bonus entries. And because you guys are tuned in live,
Starting point is 00:01:49 I'm going to let you in on a secret. If you tune in or join the FlyQuest Discord server and tune into their Discord AMA next to you Tuesday, I believe. I think it's Tuesday. It's on the Glean form there. You will get another secret word for even more bonus entries. So stick around. You don't want to miss it. You'll get lots of points, lots of tickets for the giveaway. So now that that's out of the way, I do want to introduce our special guest. He was here before, but he's here again to talk about new products. Welcome Jordan to the podcast. How you doing, man?
Starting point is 00:02:24 Doing well, guys. Good to be back. Yeah, it was two months ago? Yes. Two months ago was my first appearance and we're back. Yeah, when we launched the H7, the new H7. Yeah, and the fans and the power supplies, right? I forgot about the power supplies. So for those that don't know you, Jordan, you know, who are you? And what is your role at NZXT? Yeah, Jordan White.
Starting point is 00:02:52 And so what I do at NGXT is I'm a senior product marketing manager. And so what that means I lead our product marketing efforts. Essentially, I'm responsible for end-to-end messaging of our products. And so positioning, messaging, and then making sure it's all getting communicated outwardly, consistently, and getting to all the right places. And so, yeah, that's what I do. You have a very important job here. More important than posting chinchillas on Instagram, right, Mike? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:03:23 That's debatable. Well, how long have you worked at NZT, man? It was three years in March. Wow. Yeah. So coming up on three and a half. What did you do before you joined NZT? So I was at HP before NZT.
Starting point is 00:03:43 And I was also working on product marketing for gaming. So I helped out on the Oman brand. And so I worked on really every single product back then. So laptops, desktops, keyboards, mice, displays. And I did that for about five and a half years. You're marketing over their work because I myself am a, I'm an Omen laptop user.
Starting point is 00:04:07 I love those laptops. They're really nice. Awesome, man. So, like, for those people who are tuned in right now that have absolutely no idea what a product marketing manager does, can you describe what a typical day looks like for you? Yeah, so product marketing is really sitting in between the product team and then the rest of the marketing and creative teams. And so what I do a lot is I work closely with the product manager, learn about their products, understand what they're all about, who is it for, why it was made, what are the features.
Starting point is 00:04:46 And then I take that information and help build it out into a more customer-facing way. And so that ends up leading to the messaging, so the actual copy for the products that goes on the box, on the website, on Amazon. I help brief in the creative teams when we're going to be creating videos, building out the web pages, creating imagery. And so I'm really kind of that intermediary between product and then, you know, creative and the rest of the marketing team to kind of launch and sell and promote our products. Nice. So what that means, from a day-to-day standpoint, it's always different depending on what product is happening and where it's at in the process, right? So some products are super early, and I'm working closely with the product manager on research
Starting point is 00:05:36 and understanding the product and building out the plan. And then other products are closer to launch. And a lot of that is finishing up all the creative assets and the marketing assets, building the websites, and then everywhere in between. just kind of depending on what products are doing. Oh, wow. It sounds like you are doing, like I even said, a lot more important things than what we've been doing,
Starting point is 00:05:58 what we've been up to recently. But I guess the reason for this podcast is because we just launched some new products. So if you want to talk about what we exactly launch. Yeah, absolutely. So we just announced and launched our new H5 Flow, the new and improved H5 Flow, and H5 Flow RGB.
Starting point is 00:06:20 And then we also announced our new Crack and Elite and Crack and Elite RGB. Those will officially be ready for sale in October, like mid to late October, but we announced them as well. So yeah, H5Flow and new Crack and Elite. So before we go into the products themselves and all the features and stuff like that,
Starting point is 00:06:41 since we're kind of on the topic like product managing, stuff like that, what's been like the most like challenging part? of this entire launch, specifically for those that are interested in product managing and stuff like that. Yeah, I think one of the most challenging things, and it's definitely appropriate for this launch as well,
Starting point is 00:07:01 but kind of across all launches is it's consistency, right? It's trying to ensure that the messaging and the consistency we established early on flows all the way through towards the end of the launch. And that's especially important when we're communicating like very technical and feature heavy messages and upgrades, improvements. And so once you start working on a product really, really early on, and you kind of get an understanding of what it is and what it does,
Starting point is 00:07:29 the product will still evolve and develop up until it launches. You'll get new performance data. You'll get the samples. You'll go to actually touch and feel it. There might be some changes because the product is just going to keep improving. And so the challenging thing is to start early and build all. the things you need to do from a marketing standpoint. But then as the product changes and you get ready for launch,
Starting point is 00:07:51 is making sure everything that's going to go live is still consistent and up-to-date and true. And so, I mean, that's with every product marketing gig ever. But I think that's usually the most challenging. And what's the most fun part? You know, why do you love like, you know, doing this? Yeah. I mean, it's all fun.
Starting point is 00:08:13 You're really in the middle of it all. So you're working super early with the product and engineering teams to learn what's going on. So you get to get these first looks at products that are coming down the pipeline that won't launch for another year or more. And so that's really, really fun to kind of get a sneak peek of what's coming. And then also you're with it all the way. And so you get to become a product expert. You get to use the products. You're writing the messaging for the products.
Starting point is 00:08:39 You're helping get everybody educated and trained on the products. And so you really just become a product expert. and you really kind of have to put yourself in the shoes of the customer and figure out why would they care about this? What is it going to do for them? And so all of those things are really fun. And then I think for this one in particular, for the H5 Flow and the Crack and Elite, I mean, cases and coolers is what NZXT does best. You know, it's our bread and butter. And so working on some of these most, you know, popular or iconic products is fun too because you can't wait to see how people receive them.
Starting point is 00:09:14 So I guess you would say we are building on a legacy. Is that true, Jordan? We are building on a legacy. Correct. Yes, I love that tagline because what you said is true, man. Like, NZXT, everyone knows NZT for cases and coolers. Yep. And, you know, we only recently started expanding into other product categories,
Starting point is 00:09:35 even computers, like we've only been making or building computers since, like, 2018-ish or so. But, yeah, like, for the majority of, of the time NZAC has existed. It has been mostly cases and cooler. So like you said, we are trying to build on a legacy here making our best products even better. And I guess it's time to talk about how we did that.
Starting point is 00:10:02 But before we do that, Mike, I want you to show everyone who is tuned in live here on Twitch.tv. combe slash NZXT the launch video. Let's hype them up, Mike. Yeah. That's why one of my favorite product launches so far, or product videos we've done so far. Fun fact about that video,
Starting point is 00:10:54 the music is actually Jordan beatboxing. The whole thing. The whole thing. It's like whenever I watch it, I'm going, bam, p pavam, but yeah,
Starting point is 00:11:07 so H5 flow, H5 flow RGB and cracking elite. Let's start with the cases. Jordan. Yeah. Tell us about the new H5 flow case. The new H5 flow. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:23 So what you'll see is kind of a continuation of this evolved design language that was happening with the H7. So you see the removal of those feet and you have, you know, the very clean lines that go all the way down. You have that new ultra-fine mesh for the front side top panels that's all optimized for airflow. and so it has kind of a new cleaner look that looks very much like the H7. But in terms of what's really special about the H5 is the angled bottom fan is no more that we had for the last generation. And instead, we've made the PSU shroud perforated. So it's a whole mesh PSU shroud with an angled bottom. And so when you mount up to 220 millimeter fans on that PSU shroud,
Starting point is 00:12:12 you're able to bring an air from the bottom and the sides to help get direct GPU airflow. So that's kind of the bigger things. It's been completely redesigned and optimized for performance and airflow. And I think for me, like, the first time I saw this case, I had the same reaction, like from the first time I saw the new H7, which I just thought like, man, where are the feet?
Starting point is 00:12:38 Yeah. That's the other thing, too, is I don't know, Mike, if you show the rear of the case or you get a better angle. But yeah, there's no more feet now. It's kind of like an optical illusion because if you look at it from the rear of the back, it looks like the case is just sitting flush on the desk there. But in reality, there's perforation there that's sucking air in. And then where the PSU shroud is, it's kind of like indented, I guess,
Starting point is 00:13:10 we're air is sucking in as well. So really optimized for Airflow despite not having the feet, which is cool. I love the look of it. Mike, can you show the features and specs of the case so we can just rattle them off, please? I'll show right here. Go for it, Mike.
Starting point is 00:13:30 I want to test your reading skills. Here you go. Sorry, I just want to make sure that our cameras aren't over it. Yeah, so basically this new H5 float's pretty dope. Like Jordan said, there's a new PSU shot. It's actually like the mesh is all around. So you can see it in the, there's it right here in the front. And the back as well and the top.
Starting point is 00:13:51 So it's pretty much mesh is all around this place. So Airfo definitely is a priority in this case. I can support 360 millimeters in the front. And if you have the H5 float RGB, actually comes with an F-360 RG core single frame fan. So that's pretty dope. It can do 240 on the top, I believe. Yep, 240 on the top.
Starting point is 00:14:15 And it comes with also one of our new 120 millimeter fans. Just to make sure that I keep some, you know, good airflow and exhaust coming out. And the table manager in the back is actually really nice. Let me see if I can. I don't know if you guys would see it really well. But coolest entry, which is nice. You just have these two screws right here. and it's just really simple cable management.
Starting point is 00:14:45 You can see all the little wires that you can do, the zip ties, all the stuff. It also comes with everything as well. So it's really, really nice. I think that's pretty much it on most of these specs. Am I missing anything, Jordan? No, I don't think so. I think some of the other things that are really cool
Starting point is 00:15:03 about the H5 from a comparison standpoint over the generations is that it's essentially the same size, but it's actually slightly different. So it's only a millimeter taller and then two millimeters thinner. And then it's actually, let's see, 16 millimeters shallower. So it actually has reduced in size slightly while being a millimeter taller, which is really cool. We were able to do that, but still have it support up now with the 360 rad in the front.
Starting point is 00:15:38 it holds two 140s up top. It holds a 240 radiator up top, but then you can hold two 140 fans up top as well. Speaking of fans, now that we remove the toilet fan, we're you're supposed to pee in this thing. The toilet fan is no more. Yeah. So, you know, on a serious note, Jordan,
Starting point is 00:16:03 like you're pointing out the differences between the H5, the new H5 and the old H5, and one of the top questions, not really questions, but comments we're getting about this, is like, you know, where's the toilet fan? Because people really love that angled fan from the previous H5. Yeah. And we say toilet fan, but with affection and love. With love, yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:29 Coined by Gamer's Nexus. Yeah, and so yeah, that fan, it was designed to blow air, into the GPU. Now that fan is gone, but it's gone because now there's space there for two fans on the bottom. So it's going to, and the cooling now is actually right underneath the GPU,
Starting point is 00:16:55 so it will cool your GPU better. Yep. Yeah, and if you think about it, you're able to bring in air from a larger area because of that mess PSU shroud. Instead of just having one fan angled, pulling in air from that way, you're able to have two directly below the GPU sucking in air from a lot more space.
Starting point is 00:17:16 And so just overall, you're just going to get more airflow. And performance-wise, Jordan, how does this case perform compared to the previous version? Better, better, for sure. I was talking to the product management team, and it's a four-degree, like if it's a full GPU-wise system, it's a four degree difference, which is pretty significant. So performs a lot better. Wow, four degrees is actually really crazy. Just in general, going from like 30 to like 26, like idle or like 60 to 56 is huge on load.
Starting point is 00:17:53 That's huge. Yeah. Yeah. So, yep. The most important question that I'm sure is on everyone's mind. How much do these cases cost, Jordan? Yeah, so no change in price from the H5 flow from two years ago, so that's 9499. And then the H5 flow RGB is $12499, which is $5 more than in the previous one.
Starting point is 00:18:19 Yeah, but it comes as a single free fan, which is really nice. It does. Yep, exactly. The price is nice. Yeah. All right, let's get into the Crackens now. So Cracken Elite and Cracken Elite RGB. Tell us, Jordan, what's up with these new crackens?
Starting point is 00:18:40 Yeah, new crackens are awesome. I mean, these things are back and better than ever before, really all around. And so both from a performance standpoint and a visual standpoint, they are completely improved. And so the big thing for us this year is we've actually cut. custom designed our own AIO pump. And it's called the NXD Termine Pump. We worked with Cool IT and partnered with them to develop it. And it's totally custom and proprietary to us.
Starting point is 00:19:15 And so that's big because that's a huge performance improvement. And once we kind of get into the details and the numbers, we'll talk through it. But that's big. The next thing is it now has a bigger and better LCD. And so it's now 2.72 inches, which It doesn't sound like a lot, but it's huge. Like when you see this thing in real life, you'll realize how big the screen actually is. And it's now an IPS display as well.
Starting point is 00:19:38 That's a higher quality panel. So it's going to be more accurate and vivid. And then it has 640 by 640 resolution, 60 hearse refresh rate. Another new thing is it's encircled by an RGB LED ring. And so that gives just another layer of personalization to the Cracken Elite. What else? And so from a fan standpoint, it has the new fans. And so for the non-RGB version, it has our new static pressure fans that we just launched a few months ago.
Starting point is 00:20:08 For the RGB version, it has our new RGB core single frame fans, which I think just makes it look so clean. When you just have that single unit across the top, clean lines, and it just looks awesome. It does look awesome. And Mike, I just slacked you a video that we posted on social media of close. up look at this pump if you want to pull it up to show people. Ignore, ignore the tubes. We were actually testing something with those things. They're a little wonky looking.
Starting point is 00:20:41 But just look at the pump. It's definitely way bigger than the previous gen. The first time I saw it, I couldn't believe how big it was. It reminded me of Tony Stark's chest, to be honest. I was just mind-blown by how big this thing was. And the other noticeable difference like Jordan mentioned is the RGB ring that's surrounding the pump. But the one thing that Jordan didn't mention that I also want to highlight, probably my favorite feature from Disney Cracken is the fact that you don't see the cable going over the motherboard anymore.
Starting point is 00:21:21 It really triggered me whenever I would see like a build, and then you see like that cable just going over the motherboard. Like you can't even, you can't even tell. Where is the cable actually? Oh, is it here? I can't even. I don't even know where the cable is. It plugs into the radiator.
Starting point is 00:21:38 Actually, I have one right here. I don't know how one we can go see it. Oh, it plugs into the radiator. Oh, wait, that's so cool. So first off, I mean, this pump cap is just huge. It's massive. And then, yeah, on the on the radiator hub, in between the hoses, that's where the connect.
Starting point is 00:21:55 is. Oh, that's so nice. Yeah. Wait, actually that that that does change it a lot because for those that you know, I don't know if I could show you know, maybe I could find like a I'll try to find like a crack in. Oh yeah, it is perfect. So this is the old one you see like it plugs in straight into here. So what would happen is when you install the crack in like this, the cables would just be on top and it would be really messy to cablemen manage for a lot of people. But now that's gone. So it's going to be a lot cleaner.
Starting point is 00:22:30 Yeah, that's actually, I did not even realize that. That's awesome. Well, now this cracking is really sick. Yeah. And I mean, there's just, there's so much we could talk about here. So even more, the, there's a new, new rubber tubing with a new braided sleeve. There's still that single breakout cable sets. You just have that one breakout coming from that radiator hub we were just talking about.
Starting point is 00:22:58 and that breaks out into all the cables you need. So it makes it super streamlined and simple to install. It's got your tool-free mounting brackets for the CPU sockets, all the latest Intel and AMD. The cold plate is actually new as well. It has a split-flow cold plate that's been optimized to make maximum contact with Intel CPUs. It also has pre-applied high-performance thermal paste.
Starting point is 00:23:24 And another big difference is it has an embedded controller. So the previous Cracken elites came with a controller, but this one, the controller is actually embedded. And what that really means is that just the eight-pin connector coming from the breakout cable set, that's what you would use to plug in fans. And so then you don't have to have a separate controller just for the Cracken Elite.
Starting point is 00:23:48 The number one question we're getting about these new Crackens on social media, Jordan, is do these perform better than the previous crackens. And the answer is yes, but I want you to just break down the numbers, man. Like how much better do these perform than the previous crackens? Definitely. Yeah, let's break down the numbers.
Starting point is 00:24:10 And then we could also dive a little bit into some of the details on the pump as well. But from a performance standpoint, we did a bunch of internal testing. And so what we did is we compared them to their predecessors in both an intel and an AMD environment. And what we were measuring for is thermal resistance. And thermal resistance measures how effectively it transfers heat from the CPU. And so a lower thermal resistance means it cools better.
Starting point is 00:24:39 And so what we're looking for is a percentage of thermal resistance difference from the previous generations. So for Intel, the Cracken Elite 240RGB, the new one compared to the one from last year, saw a 10.8% improvement, which is massive. So if you're seeing on social or just in any of our communications, we're talking about a 10% boost to cooling. And that's what this is referring to, is that 240 RGB generation over generation. It's 10.8% improvement.
Starting point is 00:25:16 Should it just say 11%. Yeah. Yeah, nearly, almost 11%. Yeah, exactly. And then for the 280 R2%. It's a 6.9% improvement, which is still solid. And then the 360 RGB is a 5.1%. And so those are the performance numbers for Intel.
Starting point is 00:25:36 Big improvements across the board. For AMD, still really strong. So the 240 is a 6.9% improvement. The 280 is a 6.2. And then the 360 is a 7.9. So huge performance numbers. And yeah. It's awesome.
Starting point is 00:25:56 Dang. I kind of already talked about the new features, but side by side to the previous crackings, what are the other differences people will notice right away? Sure. So just kind of going down the list, the main ones are from the screen standpoint. It's bigger. The old one was 2.36 inches. This one is 2.72.
Starting point is 00:26:19 It's an IPS display, which is just a higher quality panel. It also has a little bit wider viewing angles and better color. And then it has the ring. And so those are kind of differences from like the cap screen standpoint. Then new pump, turbine pump. It also has our new fans and new rubber tubing with braided sleeves. It has that radiator hub breakout cable position that we were talking. talking about earlier so you kind of get more more cable management kind of tucking that away it has that embedded
Starting point is 00:26:59 rgb and fan controller from coming from the breakout cable and those are the those are the main differences side by side i mean i'm looking at this cracking and i'm like i'm i'm actually stunned by how much of a pervert we made from the old crackin when this was only a year ago almost less than a year ago when we released this to like now um i just had like two questions i don't know if you exactly know but i i i already talked about the cold plate and is there a difference from like what we'd had was like the circular cold plate to like now it's kind of like a square is there really a difference or is that like is there like some sort of scientific reason for it yeah so what what i understand about the cold plate is it's a split flow cold plate which means that it um sorry if you can hear my dog go
Starting point is 00:27:52 and crazy in the background, but it's a split-flow cold plate so that actually distributes the coolant flat across the surface quicker and more efficient. And in terms of the actual shape of it, it was designed to help make maximum contact with the Intel 700 socket. And so I don't know all the details of exactly why, but essentially the cold plate is just, it's shaped in a certain way that when it comes into contact with the Intel socket, it's just going to be a lot more flush. And when it's more flush, you're going to be more efficient
Starting point is 00:28:26 and you're going to then have better performance and improvements across the board. I guess if you think about it, it makes sense because it's now shaped like a CPU. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Like, it actually fits the actual physical CPU itself because it just fits right there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:43 I wonder if you could put more thermal paste on it now. More paste? Well, it's pre-applied. Pre-applied. You'd always apply more, Jordan. Let's see. You can always have more. Oh, and then, you know, since we're, you know, I will go a little bit more into it.
Starting point is 00:28:59 For those that are listening right now, we'll go more until what we can do with Cam later down the road once these are out. But, Jordan, do you have, like, a little, like, spiel on what we can do with these crackings of Cam? Like, I know you talked about the RGV ring and stuff like that. Is there anything else that we can do with them? For sure. So for Cam.
Starting point is 00:29:17 in terms of screen content, the classic stuff that we're always being able to do. So you got your GIFs, you got your custom images, you got your audio visualizer. You can sync it up with different websites and integrate it. And so you can syncing up with Spotify and show what you're now playing. You can show Google photos, YouTube videos, and other kind of custom website integrations.
Starting point is 00:29:42 And then from an infographic standpoint for your real-time performance and, you know, temperatures and stats. You can do that from a single way. You can have dual infographics. You can even have triple infographics. And then you can layer those on top of jiffs or images as well. You can do clock faces. You can carousel mode and cycle through different screen content.
Starting point is 00:30:09 So that's from like just a screen by itself. And then the cool thing that's new about this one is that RGB ring. And so you can completely customize the ring alone and do all these different lighting effects, you know, breathing, static, wave. Or you can sync it up to what's on your screen. And so no matter what's on your screen, the ring around it will mirror those colors and those effects to kind of get a more cohesive look. Sorry, no, that's the coolest thing about the ring, in my opinion. Mike, if you want to pull up that video that we showed earlier that I sent you, like if you look closely, the RGB on the display is actually sinking with the ring itself.
Starting point is 00:30:53 And the first time, I didn't really notice, but what? I was kind of mesmerized looking at this thing. Oh, yeah, the blues with the blue, the greens with the green, the yellow and orange are with each other. What? That's so cool. Yeah. Like Jordan mentioned, too, there's new infographic modes.
Starting point is 00:31:09 like the it's really noticeable when our default images there you'll see there's there's three temps on there and like mike said we are going to be doing a podcast i believe in two weeks with amanda from the camp team going over all these new cam modes and giving you guys a first look at everything you can do with with these new crackins sorry one other cool thing and Amanda will be able to go deep on it. But if you're connected to the embedded controller or the control hub, like your fans are, as well as your Crack and Elite,
Starting point is 00:31:48 you're going to be able to sync all those fans up as well. So you're going to be able to sync the RGB with your ring and your screen and your fans and kind of just have a huge cohesive system-wide lighting effect, which will be awesome. That's pretty sick. Yeah. And I think a lot of these screen contents
Starting point is 00:32:08 stuff we're talking about, obviously not the ring, but a lot of the screen content stuff is going to be for even the existing Crackin elites. You know, it's simply like a software update. And Athene Prendimi in the chat here is asking, please tell me you can do only solid colors with it. And the answer is yes, you can pick whatever colors you want. You can even, there's even been a few people on social media that I've asked, can turn it off?
Starting point is 00:32:35 I'm like, yeah, you don't have to have this thing on. You can have it off if you want. It's up to you. You can customize it however you want. So whether you want one color or all the colors or on or off, whatever, you can do it. Yeah, I actually have mine because I don't, when I game, I don't want like a bunch of lights flashing my eye. I actually have mine on like a fixed purple because I just love, you know, obviously NCC purple, but it makes it less, like, distracting for me.
Starting point is 00:33:07 So it's literally just a fixed color does not change. It just stays like that. It's awesome. And Jordan, what is the warranty on these crackens? Warranty is six years. Correction, an industry leading six years. Industry leading six years. And all right.
Starting point is 00:33:29 Do we want to dive deeper into the pump? Oh, yeah, sure. If you have more, I got some nerd. engineering stuff to talk about if we want to dive in. Yeah, so kind of the, to sum up, what's so great about the turbine pump is it was custom designed to basically do two things, is to increase the flow rate of the coolant and also make sure that that flow rate has a high pressure, head pressure, or just, you know, the pressure of the coolant itself. And so all the design features were,
Starting point is 00:34:06 were built around those two things. And so what that means that you have a higher flow rate and you keep the pressure throughout the entire system, that means you're going to have more efficiency, reliability, lower noise.
Starting point is 00:34:18 And so I have a few cool things to talk through here about what makes the pump so awesome is from a design standpoint, it's a dual chamber designed pump. And so that means that the hot and cold coolants are separate.
Starting point is 00:34:34 And what's great about that is you don't have have hot coolant impacting the pump mechanism. So you're separating them. So you're not having any hot coolant interfering with what's happening on the coolant. On the cool, coolant side. And then the, it's called the volute, which is essentially like the cone that the fluid enters into.
Starting point is 00:34:54 It was designed to make sure that it maintains velocity the entire way, which also makes sure that it increases the flow rate and the pressure. And then it's a little bit more about the, the pressure side. And so when you have high pressure coolant, that means it's going to be flowing more fluidly throughout the entire system. And so when it's cooling more fluidly, your temperatures are going to be maintained when they're under heavy loads. Because if your pressure drops, that means the cooling flow is going to be restricted, which means you're not going to have as good enough cooling. And a lot of these benefits kind of compound on each other. So when you
Starting point is 00:35:32 have high flow rates, high head pressure, that means you're going to be more efficient. and when you're more efficient, your pump's going to last longer because it's not going to have to work as hard. It's going to reduce system noise because it's not going to have to work extra hard to compensate for less flow rate and pressure, and it's going to be more reliable. So I know that was a lot, but essentially higher flow rates, higher head pressure means better performance. And it doesn't matter which way you install this in your case. it will be installed wrong according to the internet. So tubes on top, tubes on bottom, radiator in front, top, rear bottom doesn't matter. Like someone's going to tell you it's wrong.
Starting point is 00:36:15 But the reason I mentioned that is because it's not that it doesn't matter, but most people are not going to notice like any difference whatsoever. And like we mentioned earlier, these things are backed by a six-year warranty. So let's say something does happen to it. you know, you're backed by a pretty good warranty there. So my advice, honestly, is don't worry about the orientation that much. It's not that big of a deal, in my opinion. I basically like to install it the way I think is going to look best inside the case.
Starting point is 00:36:51 But sometimes people will see that and they'll just tell me, hey, you shouldn't install it the other way because you'll see a 1% increase in performance or whatever. And I'm like, I really don't really care about that 1%. like nothing's going to happen. I also want to show Jules that she sent over some two videos real quick. So this first one
Starting point is 00:37:10 is that yes, the Cracky can't play Doom which is insane. Also the IPS display on this Cracken is insane. Like it's so smooth. I'm actually really stunned to how smooth it is.
Starting point is 00:37:30 And then he just sent over this other video to show, show off the RGB sync. So you kind of see how the colors are all matched up and everything like that. Is that amazing? Wow. This crack is actually insane, guys. Thank you, Jules, by the way.
Starting point is 00:37:53 Jordan, what's the price of these new Crackens? So from a pricing standpoint, the Cracken Elite 240 is 23999. The Cracken Elite 360 is 29499. Oh, I guess we should mention that there's not a Cracken Elite 280. So you have the 240 and the 360 for Crack and Elite non-RGB, and then you have 240, 280 and 360 for RGB. And the reason behind that was just the two-80s weren't, the non-RGB 280s just weren't very popular. And so it made more sense to kind of remove them as a skew option and just keep them 240, 360, non-RGB.
Starting point is 00:38:35 and then 240, 280, 360, RGB. I have a theory on that, by the way. Let's hear it. And I don't know if this is correct or not. This is just my own personal theory. I feel like with coolers and cases as well, people, I feel like they either go big or go small. Like, they don't really like the in-between stuff for the most part.
Starting point is 00:39:00 So I don't know if that's the reason why the 280 is not as popular as the 240. or a 360. But I think it kind of makes sense, because if you have a, let's say you want a big case with a lot of hardware, you're going to want to put a big radiator in there, right? You're not going to want to put a small one,
Starting point is 00:39:17 and you're not going to want to put in a medium-sized one. And if you have a small one, a small case, you're kind of stuck to a small radiator. You can't really put a medium-sized or a big one. So I don't know. That's just kind of my theory. I don't know if I'm right or wrong, but...
Starting point is 00:39:34 I think it's a good... I think it's a good theory. And then I think you add on to that that RGB is usually more popular as well. And so I think it just made more sense to not offer a non-RGB 280 option. I think it makes sense too because if you don't like want RGB, at least you have the ability to like if you're like, you know, a year or two down the road. You're like, you know, I do kind of want to add some RGB into it. You have the ability to.
Starting point is 00:39:57 But if you have just the plane 280, you can't do anything. You're just stuck without it. So I guess it makes sense too. you might as well just splurge it just a little extra if the case they want the RGB it's not that much more expensive from the non-RGB yet's 320 or 31999 for the 360 RGB and defer to 360 it's a 29499
Starting point is 00:40:19 so only about $20 more yeah yeah so the pricing I mean you already kind of kind of hit it there but 239 for the 240 $2.94 for the $3.94 for the 360 non-RGB and then 25999 for the 240 RGB, 27499 for the 280 RGB, and then 31999 for the 360 I do want to ask a question that no one here in the chat has asked but people always ask this
Starting point is 00:40:56 about the Krakins and is you know how often do I have to change the liquid cooling in there And the answer is never. You're not supposed to take these things apart and change the liquid. And I just wanted to bring that up because we do get that question a lot. People were already asking on social once we announce these. Because a lot of people, when they hear the phrase liquid cooling, they assume it's like a custom water cooling loop or something like that where you have to do maintenance on these things.
Starting point is 00:41:28 And there is no maintenance on these things. It's just you connect them, plug them in, and turn on your PC and they're good to go. Yep, that's why they're called all in ones, AIOs. Yes. They're meant to just be super simple to use and obviously really high performance. You know, I kind of forget that AIO stands for all in one.
Starting point is 00:41:47 I just, it just becomes such a big part of my vocabulary that I just completely forgot to actually mean something. Yep. Like laser. Because apparently laser is an acronym or something like that, right? Like, laser is a physical acronym, but it's just, everyone just calls it laser. I actually didn't know that.
Starting point is 00:42:05 Yeah, laser. I'm going to have to Google it. Meaning, laser is light amplification by the stimulant emission of radiation. Wow. Yeah. It's a tactical thing,
Starting point is 00:42:18 but everyone just calls it a laser because obviously it just makes more sense to call it that. This kind of leads into the GIF versus GIF debate. Mm. Right? There is no debate.
Starting point is 00:42:32 There's no debate. There's only one. one way to say it. Yeah. Which is? Jiff. It's Jif. That's right. For those that say GIF, you just are saying it wrong just because you guys are stubborn. It is Jif.
Starting point is 00:42:47 The creator said so. He did. No, Coco Nutter. It is Jif. The creator literally said it. We should actually start pronouncing it in jeep. Chief. But it's funny because the Oxford English Dictionary
Starting point is 00:43:04 now says that both pronunciations are acceptable, but I mean, we got to go out, we got to go by what the creator says. Yeah. Steve, Steve, Will Hyde. If you invent something, you can, it's up to you to determine how to name this thing.
Starting point is 00:43:21 And the guy that invented this thing said it's pronounced Jiff, so it's pronounced Jiff. Oh, highlighting here right now. Completely different. And he told you, you know, it's pronounced Jif, it's pronounced Jif, so.
Starting point is 00:43:31 It's, it's Jeff. It's Jeff. Like, everyone. It is Jif. The creator said so. Stop saying GIF. It's Jif. When you read it, think of giraffe.
Starting point is 00:43:42 Jif. Yeah. There you go. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. If NZXT, if Johnny wanted to name NZXT, we'd call it that, but he called it NZXT because that's what the creator said so.
Starting point is 00:43:57 So if the creator says it, you say it like that, guys. Yep. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of it. of it. All right. We do have some community questions
Starting point is 00:44:08 in here from the Twitch chat. You guys have any more? Please drop them now. Now is the time. The first one's a double dinger from Michael or Miko Anton. How thick are the new cracking bezels?
Starting point is 00:44:24 I'm sick or the what? How thick are the new cracking screen bezels? Ooh. I actually don't know. Jules. I think someone... Jules, if you're still in the chat, I know you have a little measuring thing,
Starting point is 00:44:39 and I know you have the new crack angle, go and measure it real quick. Yeah, we don't actually have that called out in the specs or anything, but it's a good question. We should. Don't worry, Jules is getting his caliber. Jules is on the case. Super thin. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:55 It's much thinner than the, I'm looking at the old cracking right now, and then the old cracking, I mean, it's almost like when you compare, like, remember the iPhone 3G? how it was just like a chunky, chunky boy with thick bezels around it. That's how I kind of see the old crackets now. It's like a really thick bezel. The new one, the new bezels are super thin.
Starting point is 00:45:22 I'm trying to find like a video that uses it. Oh, actually, you don't hear. They don't seem that big. They don't seem too huge. Well, you also have the, since you have the RGB ring that's encircling it. You have like the, you know, the, the rim, and then you have the RGB ring. Then you're going to have a little bit of a bezel.
Starting point is 00:45:48 Then you have the screen. There we go. 8 millimeters. Thank you, Jules. Okay. So it goes, RGB ring, 8 millimeters, bezel, and then the screen. Jules, if you have an old crack in, can you measure those bells? puzzles. Guess who we know?
Starting point is 00:46:11 Thank you. Thank you, Jor. Thank you. That helps a lot. The second question from Miko Anton. What's the difference between the normal and the RGB crack in? Is it only the fans? It is only the fans. Yep. And okay, since we're talking about the fans, like we also have a whole new fan system here. We didn't really talk about, Jordan. Do you want to talk about the single frame fans a little bit? Sure, yeah, single frame fans.
Starting point is 00:46:45 Those are the ones that we launched in June. And so the whole thing with those is that you're combining multiple fans, either two if you have a 240 or a 280 or three if you have a 360. And you're combining them into one unit. And so what that does is it simplifies the installation because you only have one cable for both fans, instead of having one for each. And it also means you have less screws.
Starting point is 00:47:12 So instead of doing four screws per fan, you just do four screws per unit. And then from a visual standpoint, it's just clean. And it has like a side window that has some passive RGB lighting. And it's just a really clean way of doing fans. So it's simple, but it also has a visual effect as well. Also, Jules measured the previous crackens, the previous Crakent Lee and the Crakens and they both have an 11 millimeter bezel.
Starting point is 00:47:47 So these new crackens have a bezel that's 3 millimeters smaller. Okay. Thanks, Jules. That's awesome. Some real-time measurements. The only person I know that has the calipers, like he carries. him in his shirt pocket. He loves measuring stuff. I love that. Next question from Duke Clems. Will an H5 Elite be released as well? No plans to, but I cannot, I cannot confirm or deny.
Starting point is 00:48:25 So for those that don't know, up until recently, every time we made a new case, we made the base version. the flow version and the elite version. The base version was just a closed front panel. The flow version had a perforated front panel. And the elite version had a clear temporary glass front panel. But recently, we have not done that. We just made flow cases. And the reason for that, I guess,
Starting point is 00:48:59 it's kind of the same reason Jordan said earlier about not making a 280 millimeter radiator. It's just, if more, if the majority of people are leaning towards one versus the other, then those are the ones that we're trying to focus on and improve and really make as good as we possibly can. However, with that being said, that doesn't mean we're not going to make an elite version of anything
Starting point is 00:49:27 or even like a closed panel version of anything, because we never know. like we're not we're not the ones making the decisions of role we know like they could be working on that right now um yeah we just nothing's been announced something's been planned or anything like that so maybe maybe one day maybe not yeah and i think also it really has to do with the performance as well right i mean obviously the flow with the perforated panel has stronger performance than if it was just a closed off solid you know solid metal panel or a glass panel or a glass panel And just with the way components are these days, whenever you're building a new build,
Starting point is 00:50:08 you're going to want more performance. And so it just feels like the flow versions are way more functional these days. Next question from Halo Bo 143. Do you need to use the fans that come with the AIO or can you else? Or can you use other ones? You could technically, I guess you could use other ones. You can use whatever fans your heart desire. Yeah, I mean, when you get it, you just go to appear like, it just comes with the fans separately.
Starting point is 00:50:48 And so technically, yeah, you could use whatever fans you want. And I know there are some people that are really into fans. And what I mean by that is, you know, there's people that, like, they just have their favorite fans, whether it's not Tua or Lian Lee or NGST. whatever, you know, it's just people like to stick with their fans. So yeah, you can put whatever fans you want on there. Yep. Next question is actually not related to anything that we talked about, but it's the last question we got today.
Starting point is 00:51:25 It's from Athene Prendimi. They ask, what are the names of your doggos? Well, I don't have a dog, so I'll let Jordan. and Mike answer that question. My dog, his name is Alvi. A-L-V-I-E. He's a five-year-old Australian Shepherd, Cattle Dog, Border Collie mix. Where did you get that name from?
Starting point is 00:51:55 So this is actually kind of a cool story. His name, when we adopted him, we adopted him back during the pandemic. We were living in Colorado. And he was like nine months, 10 months old when we adopted him from the shelter. And his name was Alvi. And the reason he was named Alvi is the shelter owner, her dad was a cattle farmer. And his name was Alvi. And since Alvi is a cattle dog, it's like, that's a perfect name.
Starting point is 00:52:23 And then come to find out that my grandpa's father, his name was Alvin, and they called him Alvi. And he was also a cattle farmer. So it kind of just worked. So Alvy means cattle. So you need his dog? your grandpa. Yeah. Love it.
Starting point is 00:52:41 That's cute. Yeah. And this is mine. This is Zelda. That was her original rescue name. So we're just like, you know what? That's kind of cute. We'll keep it.
Starting point is 00:52:50 And now she's just sleeping on the couch. She usually sleeps whenever I did the podcast. And also she's learned whenever I do my outro, she neatly comes. For some reason, she recognizes when I start doing the outro, she'll go, oh, it's time to, you know, go outside or go eat. Aw. How old is she? She is like a year and a half right now, like a year and a half.
Starting point is 00:53:16 We got her when she was like, puppy puppy. But now look at her. Sleepy. That's it. Should we do the rapid fire questions, Mike? Yeah, we can do a couple of them. You ready to do a couple of rapid fire, Jordan?
Starting point is 00:53:30 I am, but actually, I had one more thing. We were talking about fans. I wonder if this is a good time to kind of chat about, the difference between the fans that come in our cases and the ones that you can buy separately. Oh, yes. That is a good question that we get on social. Yeah, and actually internally, we realize that it's kind of confusing, and so we're taking some steps to make it less confusing,
Starting point is 00:53:54 and so we're actually going to provide more education and name these fans slightly differently so you know what you're getting. But essentially what it is is if you ever see a fan that's coming inside of a case, It'll say in the specs that it's a case version fan. And really what that means is that instead of being a four-pin PWM fan, it's actually a three-pin DC fan. And the difference there is that four-pin PWMs that you can totally control the speeds of those fans
Starting point is 00:54:25 and have them sync up and go turn down when they're under low load. Whereas DC-3-pin fans kind of are always are blowing at a certain velocity. and the reason that we use DC three pin fans in our cases is I mean transparently one they're more affordable and so we're able to you know include them in cases without driving the price up super much but also they really provide like solid adequate performance for most people and if you're super into your fans you're going to swap them out anyways and so it's more of kind of the the average person who's just going to keep using the pre-installed fans, they're great and they're perfect for that. But if you're going to go in there and actually change them all out and set all your curves and go crazy with it, then you're going to replace them anyways. So that's kind of the difference. And so whenever you see, we're going to start making sure it's really clear with parentheses.
Starting point is 00:55:24 So for like the new H5 flow, it has two F-120Q CV fans, which means case version. And then same with the flow RGB. it has an F360 RGB core case version and then it has an F120Q case version. So that's the difference. That's why. And hopefully as we kind of start introducing that more and explaining it more,
Starting point is 00:55:48 we'll get less questions and people will understand what they're getting. Carrot Pickman asks, why not standardize all the fans using the case with the normal fans, sold in retail so that we can control all the fans with the same hub. Good question. You can take it to the product team. But I think it is kind of basically what I was just saying is that most people might not want to do that or need to do that.
Starting point is 00:56:26 And so it's kind of like you're not getting anything more than you need, I guess. But it's a good point for sure. We'll pass that along with the product team. I'm literally taking a screenshot of Carit Pickman's feedback, and I'm going to go into Slack. I'm opening up the product feedback channel where we drop all the community feedback on there, and we do encourage it. We do listen. Sometimes we're slow, like, for example, adding airflow to cases, but now that we do add that,
Starting point is 00:56:58 you can tell, you know, we really take your feedback to heart. So definitely. Thank you for that feedback. All right, let's get into some rapid fire questions before we call it over here. All right. Let's go ahead. All right. What's the weirdest food combo you secretly love?
Starting point is 00:57:19 Ooh, so I don't eat much meat anymore or especially red meat, but one of my favorite combos is a burger patty with peanut butter on it called a Goober burger. A what? I think it might just be a weird Midwest thing. Brough. Peanut butter? It's so good. Wait, what's your burger called?
Starting point is 00:57:40 A goober burger? Yeah. Don't quote me on the goober burger, but maybe it is. Yeah, the Missouri goober burger. Yeah, you just slather a, just a ground beef patty with peanut butter. And I don't know. It's something about the flavor combo is so good. That sounds disgusting, Jordan.
Starting point is 00:58:05 Hey, don't knock it until you try it. Take a little trip to mid-state Missouri and have yourself a goober burger. I think if I were to go to Missouri, the last thing I would probably want to eat is a peanut butter hamburger. I'd probably get a rib joint first. It does. I mean, it doesn't look bad. It doesn't look bad. It's just...
Starting point is 00:58:32 Yeah, it's, it's, I'm telling you. I mean, obviously it's not for everybody, but a lot of people who have tried it have been like, oh, I, I get it. And hey, that's a, that's a protein powerhouse right there. Did they also put jelly on the burger too? Because this one looks like this guy's jelly on his burger as well. That's, that's a way to do it as well. Gosh. Maybe like a little jalapeno jam or something to go along with it.
Starting point is 00:58:59 All right, and you know what we got to do next Wait, silly red I sometimes dip hot cheetos into peanut butter Why is everyone? Why is everyone upset with peanut butter? Maybe peanut butter is just the ultimate supplementary food item For savory dishes, who knows?
Starting point is 00:59:20 What the heck? Has anybody in the chat? Has anyone tried a goober burger? Peanut butter on a burger? Um, GS tickle stick said that I've tried to eat a butter out of burger. Wasn't bad, but I prefer other toppings. I love that. That's a username by the way.
Starting point is 00:59:39 Tickle stick. Tickle stick. Yeah, that's fair. That's the SpongeBob Jellyfish Jelly Crappy Patty. Yeah, it is. It actually is. Jordan, what the heck is going on over there? What?
Starting point is 00:59:56 What's going on over there? What are you guys making over there that you guys like? You know what? Let's put peanut butter and burgers, no problem. Just some tasty, protein-packed burgers. Yeah, it could be like high peanut sauce, but I feel like this is a different breed. Yeah, related though, right? I mean, there is something to this peanut with savory. Does the peanut butter burger have any other toppings?
Starting point is 01:00:23 Dealers choice. It's up to you. But for me, just plain, plain patty and peanut. butter. Howdy peanut butter and bread? And obviously the peanut butter is on a hot burger, so it's kind of, you know, melty and more, more viscous than, like, you know. I literally have peanut butter.
Starting point is 01:00:43 I may actually try this later because I have, I have some ground beef that I have. May try this out. I'll experiment today, Jordan. I'll tell you how it is. Oh, I can't wait. Let's say, Mike, maybe you can surprise it with some goober burger. Oh, yeah, it's my girlfriend's birthday and bringing in a Gooberburger. I don't know how happy she would be about that.
Starting point is 01:01:05 But she hates peanut butter, too. So I don't think she'll like that anyways. Yeah, maybe not. Jordan, what's your go-to karaoke song? Go-to karaoke song. I haven't karaoke in a while, which is unfortunate. But, um, holl and oats. Anything by hollow notes.
Starting point is 01:01:24 So you make my dreams, man-eater. Um, you know, Sarah's smile, any hollow notes is my jam. Can we get a line from Man-Eater, please? What? Can you give us a line from Man-Eater? Oh, man, this is really putting me on the spot.
Starting point is 01:01:46 Now I'm trying to remember. You can look at a little bit. Oh, my gosh. Now I have to see. It was one line, Jordan. Well, the beginning, is she'll only come out at night. All right, let's hear it.
Starting point is 01:02:06 She'll only come out at night. The lean and hungry type. That's it. That's the first two lines. Sound just like Daryl Hall, man. If only I could, you know, do three more octaves, maybe so. What's your most embarrassing childhood nickname? Most embarrassing childhood nickname.
Starting point is 01:02:33 Oh, I think, honestly, I think this was kind of self-inflicted. When AOL Instant Messenger was a thing, I made my username Whitey, my last name is Whitey. I made my username Whitey-Tidy, and that led to some nicknames. Well, that's my fault. That's going to be your new nickname on Slack now, Jordan. Whitey-Tidy. Jordan, Whitey-Tidey. I'm going to make a whitey-tidy.
Starting point is 01:03:03 Or maybe it was tidy, whitey. I can't remember, but one of the two. All right. You both are bad. Put that on the list. A tidy whitey emo for Jordan on the flag leader. Oh, I got you. Don't worry.
Starting point is 01:03:18 All right. What's a strange talent that you have? Great talent that I have. I'm pretty good at drawing. I used to draw a lot as a kid. kid, especially like cartoons. Like I was,
Starting point is 01:03:40 it was a pretty good cartoonist as a kid. And I don't do it as much anymore, but I definitely color and draw with my, my two-year-old son. And so I'm starting
Starting point is 01:03:52 to bring it back a little bit. But yeah, I used to be pretty good at cartooning as a kid. What is your favorite game of all time? Favorite game of all time. The number one.
Starting point is 01:04:04 Yeah, it's, honestly, it's so, it's so hard because I have to compartmentalize into different genres. But one of the games that I played and I just finished, I finished it and was like, that was just so, so fun,
Starting point is 01:04:18 so unique was Firewatch. Have you guys played Firewatch? Oh, that's awesome. I absolutely loved that game. And I tell everybody about it. I always try to gift it to my friends on Steam to be like, hey,
Starting point is 01:04:31 just set aside like four hours and you can run through this. And so, yeah, that's probably still one of my friends. favorite games ever, Firewatch. Wow, it has amazing. Nine out of ten with 71,000 reviews. That's amazing.
Starting point is 01:04:46 It's great. And that studio, Campos Santos, that's the only game they put out. They were going to put out another one and it just kind of fell off. And so I don't know, I don't know where it's at. But yeah, really cool. Like first person, but like narrative game. Really cool story. You get to choose all your own conversation.
Starting point is 01:05:07 So you can kind of change how it plays. It's a really, really fun game. That's amazing. You know, this reminds me of before your eyes. If anyone has a chance to, you have, it's definitely worth it to have, like, a webcam because it tracks your blinking. And it's one of the most, like, I was so stunned by this game. Super worth it if anyone has a chance to.
Starting point is 01:05:34 Before your eyes. Amazing. Let's see. What games are you playing right now? Yeah, the game I'm playing right now, and I'm loving it, is against the storm. Have you guys ever played it? I have not. Yeah, so against the storm.
Starting point is 01:05:49 It came out last year. It was an early access last year, and then it finally came out. It's a city builder type, but it's a rogue light too. It's super interesting. So basically you are a, it's called a viceroy, and you are settling. new settlements for the queen and you have these orders. And so you start these settlements and you have these orders from the queen. And then you build, you build out these settlements to fulfill her orders.
Starting point is 01:06:20 And it has like a dark fantasy genre to it as well. And so you like have different villagers, different races of villagers. You have like beaver people, lizard people, harpies, foxes and humans. And they each have like specialties for resource gathering and food production. And then you kind of explore that settlement, build it out, fulfill the orders, and then you build up your reputation and please the queen. And then if you do that, you win. And then you go do another settlement. So it's like a city builder, but it's not like one big city, right?
Starting point is 01:06:56 Like you're just doing different settlements. It's really fun. That looks like a really fun and interesting game. I got to check this one out. Yeah, I do too. I love building games. Yeah, check it out. It also has a really cool visual style tool.
Starting point is 01:07:09 kind of reminds me of like Warcraft 3, like that kind of animation, top down RTS 5, but it's just super unique. Like the roguide aspect is awesome. Yeah, I'm loving it. I've been playing it a lot over the last few weeks. Wow.
Starting point is 01:07:27 And to Twitch.com. TV slash tidy whitey to watch Jordan play this. Oh, man. Maybe someday. And the final one. Would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? I think one, one horse-sized duck. You got one thing to focus on.
Starting point is 01:07:54 Yeah, you just got one thing to focus on. I feel like if you could get your, if you could get your hands in those feathers and really, really take control, I think you'd have a chance. You imagine fighting a horse-sized duck in real life? I'm imagining it right now. It sounds terrible. Dude, Ducks are freaking vicious too.
Starting point is 01:08:17 They get mad. They're so mad. They get mad. They get mad and quacky. But I mean, could you imagine fighting a hundred? A hundred of them? No. I've imagined it.
Starting point is 01:08:36 It's pretty crazy. I don't want to think about it anymore. Actually, can I ask you a Raptifier question? Jordan probably call it quits? Sure. All right. What's the most random thing you've Googled recently? Well, I definitely Googled laser during this.
Starting point is 01:08:57 I googled laser acronym during this. That was pretty random. I don't know. I'm a Googler. I'm a researcher. And I also use chat GPT a lot for like own personal research and Googling. You know, like sometimes instead of going to Google to Google, to Google something,
Starting point is 01:09:16 I'll just pull up chat GPT and be like, hey, what's this? Tell me all about it in a clear, succinct way. Because I feel like I just get better information. Trying to think of what else I googled though recently. That was odd. Check my history right now.
Starting point is 01:09:32 Oh, that's a good idea. Don't really have anything crazy. But Gooberberger is definitely the number, number one weirdest thing. I think I've done recently. If you don't have anything crazy, like then, You can share your screen while you show us your recent Google.
Starting point is 01:09:51 It's a lot of crunchier role because I've been catching up an anime. So it's a lot of anime recently. My recent Google searches are scrambled eggs, hotline league, and Dodgers. Those are my three most recent ones. Okay. I was Google searching electrolytes last night. Gotta stay hydrated. Gotta stay hydrated.
Starting point is 01:10:21 Yes. Let's just go with that one. That's pretty random. That's pretty random. All right, Mike, let's get into the announcements and call it quits. Sounds good. All right. So like we just talked about, we just launched the new H5Flow right behind me, H5FLRGB,
Starting point is 01:10:39 Krakkeno Leats, and 242,80, and 360. Take a look at ncc.com or estimation point new stuff in chat. If you guys want to take a look at all the new landing page. We have the new rise in 9,000 processes on our website. Go at ncxte.co slash 9,000 or estimation point rise in 9,000. You can see all the PCs and all the pre-bills that we have available. The flex subscription service, $59 a month. You can get a game PC.
Starting point is 01:11:08 It comes with a warranty. You upgrade every two years. You can cancel any time, which is the cool thing. So if you're done with like a game, you know, if you want to play a new Wukong game and your PC can't do it, go ahead and just pay, you know, $59. And then you can play it for a little bit. And then whenever you're done with Wukong, you send it back. Super easy. Great for people that are traveling or doing like internships or going to school, especially like college.
Starting point is 01:11:30 Super easy. Discord wallpapers. If you go to Discord.org.org.org. We're doing a Discord wallpaper and setups contest. You guys participate with some awesome prizes. and if you have a poochie, which you can win in these contests, we have a poochie photo contest.
Starting point is 01:11:48 So show off your poochie plush, and you can win a $25-themed gift card. Pretty dope. We're launching all these new products. You know, we got the H5 Flow right behind me, the Cracking Elite's, the 8-7 flow. For those that don't know,
Starting point is 01:12:03 we just refreshed 8-7, white power supplies. Like, we got so much more. Take a look at nccc.com or check our social media. is at NZXT on all social media platforms. Super, super nice. Jordan, do you have any last minute things you want to say before I give them the little
Starting point is 01:12:20 gleam a code? No, I don't think so. This was fun. Always fun chatting with you guys, fun talking about the new products. And love the questions and the feedback for improvement. I think that's super important and always something that we're receptive about. So, yeah, keep it up. Thank you, Jordan.
Starting point is 01:12:41 Alrighty, let's go ahead and give them the code. Ivan, you have anything else before I give them to code? Only thing I want to mention is if you are at Gamescom, stop by the NZXT booth. We do have a booth right now. It is in the AMD area there. There's tons of NZXT stuff on display as well as our new case and cooler. So you can see it in person right now at Gamescom. and if you're not at gamescom
Starting point is 01:13:11 you can still enter our gamescom giveaway go to mzexte.co slash gc giveaway the giveaway is going to end on Sunday evening um yeah so thank you everyone for tuning it and good luck in the giveaways
Starting point is 01:13:27 yep all righty so the code for the 500 extra entries oh also by the way so there's two secret codes there's one there is the uh um one
Starting point is 01:13:40 that we're giving you guys now for an nccc podcast there is going to be a fly quest one on their discord uh i think it's in a couple days so go ahead join the fly quest discord uh they'll be doing and ask me anything uh for i think it's one of their uh players right uh and then go ahead stick tuned ask questions and then uh you'll get another code for 500 extra entries into it so you're gonna get a total thousand extra entries this so totally worth it and thank you everyone for joining us on the NCC podcast so the code
Starting point is 01:14:18 for the 500 extra entries is bald eagle bald eagle's the code if you don't know why I'm going to send the code I'm going to send the link for you guys to watch but I will not show it on street because I think I can get bad for it
Starting point is 01:14:36 but it is bald eagle there is a thing By the way, Jordan, I don't know if you've seen it. Have you seen this thing that I made? I don't know. I just fired me like when I saw this thing. I couldn't believe it. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm sorry, Jordan, when I made this,
Starting point is 01:14:52 and I will continue making these. So I am so sorry. Okay, I'm ready. But baldy eagles the code. Yeah, I see you. It'll say, okay, there you go. That's the reason why. You're welcome, everyone.
Starting point is 01:15:08 Oh, my, my, my wife saw this, and she asked me what it was about. It was about our new power supplies. That's what it was about. That's how we're doing ads now, Jordan. I'm just letting you know. I'm just, this is the, this is the cliff I'm going down. So, so good. All right.
Starting point is 01:15:33 All right, guys, sorry again, but thank you guys for joining us. Tuted live every other Friday at 10 a Pacific Standard Time on the official SEC Twitch and don't forget to listen to previous episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and SoundCloud. Got any questions for us, send to email to podcast at ncc.com or tag at NCC on all social media platforms. Thank you, Jordan, for joining us live and explaining all these new products to us. Thank you, Ivan, for joining as well.
Starting point is 01:15:59 And I think that's it. So I'll see you guys later. And good luck on the giveaways.

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