Opening Vendor Christmas Gifts on my Winter Break!
A Glimpse into My Christmas Break: Unboxing and Reviewing Vendor Gifts
As I sit here surrounded by the chaos of holiday season, I'm excited to share with you my unboxing experience of some amazing vendor gifts that have been sent my way. It's become a tradition for me to receive these gifts, which are often accompanied by a personalized note or message from the vendors themselves.
The first gift I want to show off is from ZOTAC, a company known for their high-performance gaming graphics cards. I received an Archie X series grant that not only looks delicious but also promises to deliver exceptional performance. The packaging was cleverly designed with a cookie-like shape, and upon opening it, I found the card nestled in a bed of cellophane. The card itself features the iconic ZOTAC logo, along with a sweet note that reads "Happy Holidays from ZOTAC". I'm excited to put this card through its paces and see how it performs in various games.
My next gift is from Corsair, another renowned company in the gaming industry. This time around, they sent me a lovely coffee kit that's sure to perk up my holiday season. The package arrived a little late than expected, but upon opening it, I found a delightful array of goodies, including a Happy Holidays card with a Corsair LL series fan on the front. There's also a bag of RG beans infused with sweet vanilla and blueberry flavors from Madrenas Coffee, which promises to increase my organic frame rates (or at least make me feel like I'm in a gaming paradise). To go along with the coffee, I received a beautiful Corsair mug with fans on the side that looks almost too good to be true. And if all that wasn't enough, there's also a coffee grinder and an insulated coffee press with a built-in insert – talk about a gift that's got it all!
As I continue through my unboxing experience, I'm reminded of how much joy these gifts bring me. Whether it's the promise of exceptional performance from ZOTAC or the delightful taste of Corsair's coffee kit, each gift is a testament to the vendors' dedication to providing top-notch products.
Now that I've shared my unboxing experience with you, I want to take a moment to talk about my plans for the holiday break. As some of you know, I'll be taking over my Twitch channel (Twitch.tv/Paul'sHardware) for a couple of hours to play some video games and hang out with all of you. It's going to be a blast, and I'd love for you to join me! So mark your calendars, tune in during the first hour after this video goes live, and get ready to say hello from me.
As we count down the final week before Christmas, I hope you've had a chance to finish your holiday shopping. I, on the other hand, still need to tackle that pesky list myself. In any case, I'm grateful for all of you who have joined me on this journey and look forward to seeing what you'll be up to during the holiday break. Will you be playing video games, building computers, or just relaxing with a warm cup of coffee? Whatever your plans may be, I wish you all a wonderful holiday season filled with joy, laughter, and perhaps even a few gaming marathons.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys and welcome to my Christmas break video I imagine lots of you guys are on Christmas break right now and I wanted to join in the fun but first to clarify I am NOT taking a break from making videos you should still see videos for me in the next coming weeks as December winds down to a close let me bid farewell to 2018 but in the meantime I want to do some Christmas break II type things like playing video games and then I also have some some gifts that have been preferred by benders so I'm gonna do some unboxings of these real quick no tech in here just some things that vendors send at the end of the year to celebrates working together throughout the year and then of course I also have this giveaway system so I'm gonna start out actually by doing a quick announcement of the winner for this system which was given away during the charity livestream that we did about a week and a half ago now this system would cost you about a thousand dollars if you were to buy all the parts and assemble it yourself and actually did a video on the Assembly of this so you guys can check that out with the parts list as well if you want to potentially build something similar to it yourselves but it features a risin 5 1600 X 6 core processor with 12 threads and asus rog Strix b 450 - i gaming mini ITX am for motherboard 16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance lpx ddr4 3000 memory a Toshiba RC 100 480 gig m2 nvme SSD and EVGA geforce gtx 1070 TI superclocked 8 gig video card and EVGA 500 BQ 500 watt 80 plus bronze rated power supply all installed in this Rio Toro CR 280 Mini ITX computer case and it's very nice system windows is it salt on it as well so it's ready to go for whoever the winner happens to be let's pick that winner right now by the way if this winner doesn't respond in 48 hours I will pick a new winner so you guys can follow up on Twitter where I will be potentially announcing that new winner but hopefully this winner responds quickly drawing winners for anyone who entered there were twelve thousand four hundred and fourteen entries in this giveaway drawing is happening right now and the winner is Peter Peter was entrant number four thousand two hundred and ninety three he is from Minnesota and he has 48 hours to respond to the email that I sent him just moments ago and claim his prize if he does then Congrats Peter if not I will pick a new winner and maybe one of you guys who entered that contest when it was ongoing has a chance to win let's move on to my presence though there let's start off with this box right here which I have a sneaking suspicion what is inside I'll be honest I'm kind of suspicious that I know what's in most of these gifts because I've seen a few other people get them but that doesn't change the fact that it might be edible and I'm kind of excited for that there we go this is from Asus it says Happy Holidays 2018 from Asus Republic of gamers there's a card and peanuts so this actually is an insert from the chocolates company where this originated from with cafe au lait and much so it looks like we've got some green tea and we got some milk chocolate and we have a lovely lovely bow Happy Holidays 2018 from Asus oh look at that that's actually pretty cool so these are all chocolates from Bella Sophia chocolate we got hazelnut and chocolate in one and then we've got matcha green tea I'm guessing these little egg-shaped ones are gonna be kind of green tea and they're really pretty I'm I'm almost scared to eat these what okay 21 I'll say Oh save the pointy looks I'm gonna give one of these a shot up that's the green tea one definitely green tea right there although it's very good green tea can be kind of hit or miss with me but this is this is actually quite decadent do you wanna try green tea I mean these are very nice chocolate Bella Sophia one more chocolate piece here this is the milk chocolate before I spoil my lunch and a big thanks to Asus oh I feel good Jackie no milk chocolaty but there's also a hazelnut going on where's your delicious all right I have put these away for eat the rest thank you very much Asus for the lovely Christmas gift next gift here is from Nvidia and Nvidia whenever they send you something you're on their vendor list you get some emails just say hey you got a shipment coming from the video and it can often be something really fun like you know addition graphics card or something like that I already again know what this is because I saw Kyle open his but that's not at all to detract from the thoughtfulness of the gift because NVIDIA has once again sent us a lovely Christmas ornament so as curious that this might light up because Coursera actually sent an RGB Christmas ornament last year which is kind of cool this one doesn't light up but you know it's keeping things classy we've got the NVIDIA GeForce r-tx logo on one side and then sort of a snowflake design on the other side with with graphics cards sticking out presumably arc GX graphics cards and then in between the graphics cards you actually have a little env link sli bridges for the next generation of cards so I'll be hanging this on the tree adding it to my other Nvidia Christmas ornament and thank you very much Nvidia for sending this over well it will it will be a part of the family tradition when we decorate the tree for years to come final vendor gift here I already opened and I kind of already broke so I'm sorry I didn't record when I broke it cuz it would have been at least you know fun to include in a failed video or something like that but this is from MSI and fortunately the thing that I broke they sent two of them so I have a backup as well as possibly the opportunity to fix it with maybe some superglue but we actually have a bonus item in here as well let's start off with this elongated box here Joe thinks it might be a wand which which would be cool I mean the magic MSI wand it's a shot glass sets No so we have a set of shot glasses we should I guess maybe we should integrate these onto the live show these are featuring all of MSI's new series of motherboards which are M eg m PG & M ad so over here on the on the M eg side we have ma G's mm MSI extreme gaming we got the godlike as well as the ACE for mpg which is performance gaming we have just mpg by itself as well as the edge and then o we also have the what is that one ah that's that's gaming plus right there gaming plus and then finally damn it Joe sneezing and then finally over here we have the ma G tomahawk which is actually a very solid board here in a slightly less expensive board from MSI so thank you MSI for the shot glasses we'll add them to our shot glass collection and perhaps take drinks out of them on our live show in the future and now we have these two which again are identical as far as I can tell except for one that is broken thankfully I chose the unbroken one to open right now so I can end it like everything was fine here we have lucky the msi dragon oh no this one's broken too oh no this broke off lucky what an unlucky thing to happen that's right this can be repaired ok and just stick it like that there everything's fine so here's my other lucky dragon and this this one actually unbox took it out I was like oh cool then I was putting it away I had it in this side like that and then it's got two little horns on the top and this took a tumble and landed upside down and then the horns broke off in cough - it's ok poor Joe Joe's sick he still came into work today so rip my lucky dragon phone holders they are still functional as phone holders though that's that's really all it's made for lucky holds your phone like that was a good job the only thing I would save functionally the only downside to these phone holders is that it would block if your if you had a connection on the bottom for charging or whatever it would kind of block that other than that that was very cute so yeah I guess I guess he could do it like that - so he could hold it lucky could hold the phone for you while you watch a movie that makes sense and then plug in from the side very smart Joe perhaps that's that's what the way these were designed oh it's got the outline of it look how perceptive Joe is taking advantage of the fact that he can see the bucks is from his angle I can't putting a fax to people our next package arrived a little late and if I look different ignore that ignore everything but this is from ZOTAC so I want to say a big thank you to my friends over at zou tech Ginny and Boo and I am pretty sure this is something that I can eat which I am excited about because kind of hungry this open packaging is very confusing aha there we go so we have happy holidays from ZOTAC gaming this was made at the MEC Ultra holiday Factory a special ZOTAC cookie look at that comes individually wrap I believe this is an Archie X series grant yeah one of their new Archie X graphics cards which which looks just delicious Oh cellophane packaging here and there we have it heizo tech RT X xx atti I imagine this is an amp edition amp extreme and triple fan cooling as well as some RGB lighting going along there as well but how does it taste I'd say the only thing that's missing is a backplate but it does appear to be a very power efficient model as it has no supplemental PCI Express power connectors taste-test though I guess to sum up my review of this ZOTAC Archie X xx atti cookie it's very good it's quite delicious but I'm hoping that the ray-tracing performance might improve when they release a patch in the next month or two okay guys I have one more package here a late arrival this one from Corsair and inside we have several other boxes so here's what was included in the box it is a corsair copy kits we have a Happy Holidays card with the Corsair LL series fan on the front thank you very much for the warm holiday greetings we have coffee of course the RG bean mix from madrenas coffee with vanilla dark chocolate and blueberry this coffee will of course increase your organic frame rates improve your natural boot times and is flavored with sweet sweet RGB you'll want something to drink out of so we got a nice Corsair mug with the corsair fan i've got fans on the side that's pretty awesome a coffee grinder included since this is of course whole bean coffee course there wouldn't you know presume to send us pre-ground stuffs happens that would be horrible so we got a coffee grinder and then this which is a really awesome coffee press actually as you can see coffee press inserts there and it's actually insulated and everything and it's got the corsair logo so that is really cool too thanks for the coffee kit Corsair Merry Christmas and those are the vendor gifts that I have been sent this year thus far there might still be stuff arriving I'm never 100% sure who's gonna send me stuff and I never expect it but I'm always happy when it arrives so now I have given a gift it's kind of with the giveaway drawing I have received some gifts so Christmas break videos going quite well I think there's one more thing that I want to do on my Christmas break that's play video games so here's what I'm gonna do when I post this video I am going to start a live stream on my twitch channel which is twitch.tv slash Paul's hardware and I'm gonna play video games for like a couple hours so I should probably be doing a live stream right now if you're watching this video within the first hour to that it goes live so I'll post the link to my twitch channel down in the video's description hop over there and join me and say hello I'm just gonna play some overwatch and who knows what other games for a couple hours and I welcome all of you to join me say hello and maybe spread to the holiday cheer as we move into the final week prior to Christmas I hope you all finished your Christmas shopping I have not I should do that too but guys that is gonna wrap it up for this video I hope you have enjoyed seeing a few of the vendor gifts that have been sent to my way this year and of course if you have the chance to join me for the live stream and leave a comment in the comment section below let me know what you guys have planned for your Christmas break this year where they're gonna be playing video games or building computers or just hanging out and chicken hot chocolate or something thanks again for watching guys we'll see you next timewhat's up guys and welcome to my Christmas break video I imagine lots of you guys are on Christmas break right now and I wanted to join in the fun but first to clarify I am NOT taking a break from making videos you should still see videos for me in the next coming weeks as December winds down to a close let me bid farewell to 2018 but in the meantime I want to do some Christmas break II type things like playing video games and then I also have some some gifts that have been preferred by benders so I'm gonna do some unboxings of these real quick no tech in here just some things that vendors send at the end of the year to celebrates working together throughout the year and then of course I also have this giveaway system so I'm gonna start out actually by doing a quick announcement of the winner for this system which was given away during the charity livestream that we did about a week and a half ago now this system would cost you about a thousand dollars if you were to buy all the parts and assemble it yourself and actually did a video on the Assembly of this so you guys can check that out with the parts list as well if you want to potentially build something similar to it yourselves but it features a risin 5 1600 X 6 core processor with 12 threads and asus rog Strix b 450 - i gaming mini ITX am for motherboard 16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance lpx ddr4 3000 memory a Toshiba RC 100 480 gig m2 nvme SSD and EVGA geforce gtx 1070 TI superclocked 8 gig video card and EVGA 500 BQ 500 watt 80 plus bronze rated power supply all installed in this Rio Toro CR 280 Mini ITX computer case and it's very nice system windows is it salt on it as well so it's ready to go for whoever the winner happens to be let's pick that winner right now by the way if this winner doesn't respond in 48 hours I will pick a new winner so you guys can follow up on Twitter where I will be potentially announcing that new winner but hopefully this winner responds quickly drawing winners for anyone who entered there were twelve thousand four hundred and fourteen entries in this giveaway drawing is happening right now and the winner is Peter Peter was entrant number four thousand two hundred and ninety three he is from Minnesota and he has 48 hours to respond to the email that I sent him just moments ago and claim his prize if he does then Congrats Peter if not I will pick a new winner and maybe one of you guys who entered that contest when it was ongoing has a chance to win let's move on to my presence though there let's start off with this box right here which I have a sneaking suspicion what is inside I'll be honest I'm kind of suspicious that I know what's in most of these gifts because I've seen a few other people get them but that doesn't change the fact that it might be edible and I'm kind of excited for that there we go this is from Asus it says Happy Holidays 2018 from Asus Republic of gamers there's a card and peanuts so this actually is an insert from the chocolates company where this originated from with cafe au lait and much so it looks like we've got some green tea and we got some milk chocolate and we have a lovely lovely bow Happy Holidays 2018 from Asus oh look at that that's actually pretty cool so these are all chocolates from Bella Sophia chocolate we got hazelnut and chocolate in one and then we've got matcha green tea I'm guessing these little egg-shaped ones are gonna be kind of green tea and they're really pretty I'm I'm almost scared to eat these what okay 21 I'll say Oh save the pointy looks I'm gonna give one of these a shot up that's the green tea one definitely green tea right there although it's very good green tea can be kind of hit or miss with me but this is this is actually quite decadent do you wanna try green tea I mean these are very nice chocolate Bella Sophia one more chocolate piece here this is the milk chocolate before I spoil my lunch and a big thanks to Asus oh I feel good Jackie no milk chocolaty but there's also a hazelnut going on where's your delicious all right I have put these away for eat the rest thank you very much Asus for the lovely Christmas gift next gift here is from Nvidia and Nvidia whenever they send you something you're on their vendor list you get some emails just say hey you got a shipment coming from the video and it can often be something really fun like you know addition graphics card or something like that I already again know what this is because I saw Kyle open his but that's not at all to detract from the thoughtfulness of the gift because NVIDIA has once again sent us a lovely Christmas ornament so as curious that this might light up because Coursera actually sent an RGB Christmas ornament last year which is kind of cool this one doesn't light up but you know it's keeping things classy we've got the NVIDIA GeForce r-tx logo on one side and then sort of a snowflake design on the other side with with graphics cards sticking out presumably arc GX graphics cards and then in between the graphics cards you actually have a little env link sli bridges for the next generation of cards so I'll be hanging this on the tree adding it to my other Nvidia Christmas ornament and thank you very much Nvidia for sending this over well it will it will be a part of the family tradition when we decorate the tree for years to come final vendor gift here I already opened and I kind of already broke so I'm sorry I didn't record when I broke it cuz it would have been at least you know fun to include in a failed video or something like that but this is from MSI and fortunately the thing that I broke they sent two of them so I have a backup as well as possibly the opportunity to fix it with maybe some superglue but we actually have a bonus item in here as well let's start off with this elongated box here Joe thinks it might be a wand which which would be cool I mean the magic MSI wand it's a shot glass sets No so we have a set of shot glasses we should I guess maybe we should integrate these onto the live show these are featuring all of MSI's new series of motherboards which are M eg m PG & M ad so over here on the on the M eg side we have ma G's mm MSI extreme gaming we got the godlike as well as the ACE for mpg which is performance gaming we have just mpg by itself as well as the edge and then o we also have the what is that one ah that's that's gaming plus right there gaming plus and then finally damn it Joe sneezing and then finally over here we have the ma G tomahawk which is actually a very solid board here in a slightly less expensive board from MSI so thank you MSI for the shot glasses we'll add them to our shot glass collection and perhaps take drinks out of them on our live show in the future and now we have these two which again are identical as far as I can tell except for one that is broken thankfully I chose the unbroken one to open right now so I can end it like everything was fine here we have lucky the msi dragon oh no this one's broken too oh no this broke off lucky what an unlucky thing to happen that's right this can be repaired ok and just stick it like that there everything's fine so here's my other lucky dragon and this this one actually unbox took it out I was like oh cool then I was putting it away I had it in this side like that and then it's got two little horns on the top and this took a tumble and landed upside down and then the horns broke off in cough - it's ok poor Joe Joe's sick he still came into work today so rip my lucky dragon phone holders they are still functional as phone holders though that's that's really all it's made for lucky holds your phone like that was a good job the only thing I would save functionally the only downside to these phone holders is that it would block if your if you had a connection on the bottom for charging or whatever it would kind of block that other than that that was very cute so yeah I guess I guess he could do it like that - so he could hold it lucky could hold the phone for you while you watch a movie that makes sense and then plug in from the side very smart Joe perhaps that's that's what the way these were designed oh it's got the outline of it look how perceptive Joe is taking advantage of the fact that he can see the bucks is from his angle I can't putting a fax to people our next package arrived a little late and if I look different ignore that ignore everything but this is from ZOTAC so I want to say a big thank you to my friends over at zou tech Ginny and Boo and I am pretty sure this is something that I can eat which I am excited about because kind of hungry this open packaging is very confusing aha there we go so we have happy holidays from ZOTAC gaming this was made at the MEC Ultra holiday Factory a special ZOTAC cookie look at that comes individually wrap I believe this is an Archie X series grant yeah one of their new Archie X graphics cards which which looks just delicious Oh cellophane packaging here and there we have it heizo tech RT X xx atti I imagine this is an amp edition amp extreme and triple fan cooling as well as some RGB lighting going along there as well but how does it taste I'd say the only thing that's missing is a backplate but it does appear to be a very power efficient model as it has no supplemental PCI Express power connectors taste-test though I guess to sum up my review of this ZOTAC Archie X xx atti cookie it's very good it's quite delicious but I'm hoping that the ray-tracing performance might improve when they release a patch in the next month or two okay guys I have one more package here a late arrival this one from Corsair and inside we have several other boxes so here's what was included in the box it is a corsair copy kits we have a Happy Holidays card with the Corsair LL series fan on the front thank you very much for the warm holiday greetings we have coffee of course the RG bean mix from madrenas coffee with vanilla dark chocolate and blueberry this coffee will of course increase your organic frame rates improve your natural boot times and is flavored with sweet sweet RGB you'll want something to drink out of so we got a nice Corsair mug with the corsair fan i've got fans on the side that's pretty awesome a coffee grinder included since this is of course whole bean coffee course there wouldn't you know presume to send us pre-ground stuffs happens that would be horrible so we got a coffee grinder and then this which is a really awesome coffee press actually as you can see coffee press inserts there and it's actually insulated and everything and it's got the corsair logo so that is really cool too thanks for the coffee kit Corsair Merry Christmas and those are the vendor gifts that I have been sent this year thus far there might still be stuff arriving I'm never 100% sure who's gonna send me stuff and I never expect it but I'm always happy when it arrives so now I have given a gift it's kind of with the giveaway drawing I have received some gifts so Christmas break videos going quite well I think there's one more thing that I want to do on my Christmas break that's play video games so here's what I'm gonna do when I post this video I am going to start a live stream on my twitch channel which is twitch.tv slash Paul's hardware and I'm gonna play video games for like a couple hours so I should probably be doing a live stream right now if you're watching this video within the first hour to that it goes live so I'll post the link to my twitch channel down in the video's description hop over there and join me and say hello I'm just gonna play some overwatch and who knows what other games for a couple hours and I welcome all of you to join me say hello and maybe spread to the holiday cheer as we move into the final week prior to Christmas I hope you all finished your Christmas shopping I have not I should do that too but guys that is gonna wrap it up for this video I hope you have enjoyed seeing a few of the vendor gifts that have been sent to my way this year and of course if you have the chance to join me for the live stream and leave a comment in the comment section below let me know what you guys have planned for your Christmas break this year where they're gonna be playing video games or building computers or just hanging out and chicken hot chocolate or something thanks again for watching guys we'll see you next time\n"