 So I have right here is a reason desktop and what makes this desktop? Especially someone's gonna point out and mash into keyboards. I could build it myself It's just standard parts blah blah blah go away Leave your comment and you don't need to watch this video if you're in if that's what your plan is It's not not for you. You're not the right audience. We get it But let's talk about this the reason desktop and why it's here So as a reason sent this will specifically to Jay But also to here because we use the same studio to do a review on I don't know if Jay's videos out yet But I'll link to his channel where he'll have a more in-depth review of this But we've been playing with it and we definitely really like it now Let's talk about who is a reason and why am I even talking about him as raisins a customs integrator Who's actually been around for quite a while their niche their specialty is building custom systems that just work with Linux Matter of fact, this is a gaming Linux server, which of course is great to watch But they do servers as well They do other different systems including laptops and it's not just like one or two distro choices Actually, this is a cool thing about Zerazan is they have a list of disc shows that they can preload on there So for people that want to get into Linux, but don't want to spend the time sorting out any Compatibility issues with hardware or trying to figure out what combination of parts work Well Zerazan takes care of that for you and it's a nice simple system. They are using a standard This is an NZXT H 200 desktop They do have some cool RGB's in there It's not too flashy, but just enough because you have a little bit of RGB I do like the glass side on this many ITX board I don't have I can't see the model and I didn't want to take it apart But I know it's an AS rockboard But those details aren't super relevant because if you're going to hunt down and build it all yourself Then you're gonna go around hunting for the best deal versus when you buy it for Zerazan You're gonna get a really reasonably priced computer reasonably priced for assembled delivered to you with a warranty And with the Linux distro of your choice that you know is going to work And you don't have to spend time in form sorting out Compatibility problems now the system right here as spec'd is an i7 9700k 8 core at 3.6 gigahertz has an RTX 2080 16 gigs of DDR4 Samsung evo 970 250 gig NVMe in it and Well, there's not a whole lot else to talk about it does run a j tried a couple different Distros on it. I've wiped it and reloaded it with pop OS and loaded steam because well, it's got a RTX 2080, so we want to test the gaming performance But before I make a fool of myself trying to play a game I played doom on the last one when I did the review of the system 76 Laptop, so I'm gonna have Steve come over here and play Monster Hunter Which by the way is a good test because I wanted to note this thing is on now And we're gonna show the ambient noise while playing Monster Hunter because it actually stresses it and Steve will share a little bit of His thoughts as someone who plays games exclusively on Windows of what he thinks I'm playing games on Linux But you think it's kind of a good side note to this because I just don't play enough games to have any real opinion on it so Let's launch Monster Hunter here. All right, so the game launches fast, but it's running on a Samsung evo 970 We that's kind of like an as expected as far as a fast launch here But the graphics and everything the frame rate did the frame rate in corner. Oh, you do awesome Yeah, and I have the I checked the settings are at max. Yeah, everything is at max on this game And I played a few games on it What I found as far as gaming in Linux Anything running in proton seems to actually run amazing the stuff with native Linux support runs kind of rough I tried arc and I Forget what else I tried and they felt really like Like laggy like there were just frame drops in that right when I moved to games like doom and Monster Hunter that launched with proton It renders at you know over 60 frames a second really smooth and please note Well, the way we tested this and this is an important aspect Steve's not a Linux expert here Steve's one of my network engineers who likes to play games and He's not not being someone who ever plays game in Linux This is completely out of the box Papa West loaded steam and clicked go you didn't customize anything nothing customized I installed steam and went yeah We're doing this from a concept of a Linux gaming noob and that actually qualifies Steve because he loves to play games But they're all on windows so Turning all the you know ramping everything up to max on this But no special load just clicked ran the steam installer loaded the games that he wanted to play and tested them out so we're gonna Cut right here so we can wait for the game to get started. Yeah, this is always the delay. Oh Wait, I could go that was my bad All right, so see he's got the game going and We've given a couple minutes of playtime because I wanted to make sure you could hear any ambient noise We don't have any sound of course from the video here but we are this is all not liquid cooled and actually Linus tech tips did an informative video about Air-cooled versus liquid cooled and that some of these if you have a good air cooler Some of them are really not that loud and you know right here. There's a system that we're running It's warm to the touch, you know, it's at probably the full temp all the fans are definitely spinning in it I heard it ramp up. Yeah, we heard it ramp up Steve can fill the warm breeze because it's venting behind him over here But you can see the game runs just butter smooth no stuttering no problems Of course, this is gaming in Linux, which is you know exciting to me even though I'm not a big gamer. I just think it's cool that I can at some point because I do I will admit You know my kids play games at home. We have a gaming career I occasionally play on but it does run windows. It's my one windows computer that's in my life I don't do anything work related on it. I do occasionally play a couple games, but I'm not a big Gamer, which is why I I tried playing this. I'm like, okay. This is bad Steve. Come here But I wanted to share thoughts on this one. This is raising desktop is nice You can essentially the point of this is you can buy a computer have it pre-loaded pop os or obon 2 Whichever you prefer like I said, we load a pop on here ourselves But you can have the folks that's a raisin load whichever the Linux so should you want get on there load steam onto it And uh start playing like there's nothing else you have to do Of course, there's still more fine tuning in Linux that can be done there's probably tweaks to some of the games that would have made them a little bit faster and You know things like that, but for the most part, there's quite a few titles Especially you can look up what supports proton any of the proton games each area. We tried just work butter smooth just like this This one running on proton was great. We you know, we did doom on the system 76 laptop, which was also Amazing because that was a 144 hertz monitor. Yeah So and if you wonder why we're looking up a little bit It's because the monitor we're playing the game on of course is behind the camera, so Uh, but my review is very positive. We've been actually playing with this for since last week J Played for a while and we uh, we had an interim just playing games on it I said just play for a while. You know, it's it's rough working here sometimes But uh, so you gotta relax and uh play some video games for a while and that the couple of guys turns Yeah, Eric left monster hunter on it. Yeah, we left it running went all night Yeah, I went home to play and it complained. Yeah, because it was already open here at the shop He left it running all night But the game the performance the cleanest the cable Management everything about this, you know, I think they could probably put a couple more rgbs in a row You can probably get a special request. I didn't look fully to see if there's some options But I'm sure they would comply with that or you know, get your own rgbs and decorate it yourself But a nice system reasonably built you can Go ahead and jump on their website order them. They're available And at some point I may because there's a reason is now a michigan based company And they're only about to think about an hour. Yeah, that's awesome. He didn't know either We make you make a road trip out there It's like I think about an hour drive from our office here Because they put together and they don't have any photos that I've seen yet But I seen on their about page they put together a retail store Where they're gonna have some of their systems on display and I thought it'd be kind of cool They may be a fun youtube video to go make a trip to their facility Where they assemble and put these systems together and talk about how they do the testing So if you're listening's reason. Hi. Hi Love it Yeah, and we'll go from there. So that's about it for this video I don't have a whole lot of links to their page. They have a nice ordering system Where you can pick, you know and pick out all the details for the systems you want on there This specifically is their virtuous line and like I said, it's as spec'd out with the i7 eight core rtx 2080 16 gig in the 970 as I said in the beginning But overall impressions. We're really happy with it. It plays games as you can see quite well And running in Linux. Yay. Yeah All right. Thanks. 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