I was walking by the set and I saw this crate and that's when Belle told me that
Origin sponsored this video so I could unbox the Arachnid or rather uncrate.
Our computer's in here, but uh we've got some eat, sleep, game, and repeat. This
is probably just a bunch of accessories for our computer.
For anyone who's afraid of spiders, you might want to avert your gaze because uh
it's the arachnid. That's
Wow. Not just one reservoir, but two. Because
our CPU and GPU are both on their own loops with a 360 mm rad for each. I
prefer 420, but that's, you know, it's okay. They're still pretty performant.
It's pretty big and it is going to take up some of the room on your desk if that
wasn't pretty obvious. But it's kind of a statement piece. However, it is about
21 1/2 in long, 27 in high, and 16 in
wide. And without any parts or water,
it's 27 I'm pretty sure ours is a lot heavier
now that it's filled with water and has an RTX 5090 as well as a Ryzen 9 9950X
3D. Both of which are actually really going to need their own separate loops cuz they run hot. Um, and on top of
that, this thing's using like an HX1200 power supply from Corsair. It's also got
some really nice RAM, 96 gigs at 6,000
mega transfers per second, and it's all on a nice Asus X870E crosshair
motherboard. So, while this entire thing is very expensive, we'll get to the
price later, a lot of that is just straight up going to parts. It's about
as high-end as you can get, uh, at least in terms of like a gaming PC. And with
an expensive motherboard, you do get a ton of really good IO. We've got a
couple of USBC ports, and then a bunch of USBA ports, 5 gig and two and a half
gig LAN along with Wi-Fi 7. And on the front, we've got a headphone jack, USBC,
and a couple of USBA ports. In terms of construction quality, it's actually
pretty solid. Uh, we're using a bunch of Corsair parts with 14 mm tubes, a bunch
of right angle connectors, and a nice IQ block on our CPU. I do have one kind of
minor complaint. I do wish these tubes were like a little more flat. It would
take a little more work. They'd have to extend these guys out more. Then add a
longer pipe fitting here so that this comes out straighter and then this can
come out more or something. I'm not entirely sure how to fix it, but uh it's
just these little minor details that I would love just a tiny tiny bit more
attention to detail there. Especially when you're paying a lot of money. We'll
get to the price later, but it is expensive and a big part of that is
paying for the custom tubing. While our unit looks the way it does, Origin is
allegedly refining the design with two key improvements that should result in a
much cleaner build. Some fittings will be replaced with additional hard tube
bends, and they're introducing an acrylic pass through block to eliminate
side to side movement between the systems two sections. My only other
minor complaint is I really wish this giant mesh, while great, I wish it had a
little screen filter in here somewhere so I could just like slide a filter out
to fix any dust that's going to inevitably end up in here. I don't want
to take apart all these bolts and have to get in there somehow. And what does
it look like when I turn it on? Ooh,
I like how the reservoirs at the front just kind of look like big eyes. And
because it's Origin PC, it comes with a warranty. On their website, they've got
a one-year parts warranty with a lifetime customer service warranty,
which is nice if you don't want to fix this yourself. And as for the two
accessory boxes I forgot about, we've got all of the cables for our power
supply, which is fantastic. It looks like we've also got all of our
motherboard stuff like our extra cables like SATA cables and whatnot. I actually
don't even see where you'd plug these in
because this thing like that's something I actually didn't even comment on was I
cannot see any cables anywhere except for like power cable, uh, graphics card
cable. They've done a really good job of hiding everything with this like just
case. But, you know, I can't wait to plug a display into this thing and game
on it. So, let's go. Okay, we've got it fired up and we're going to play some Cyberpunk. But one problem with our unit
specifically, and this is why having a warranty is good, you're probably going
to notice that ours has some unfortunately exceptionally bad coil
wine. Now, Origin did get back to us and
they're expanding their use of acoustic screening on the arachnid to help mitigate the noise. However, that won't
impact performance or anything. And you know, you always just throw on some
headphones. That actually did work really well. I can't hear anything
anymore. But of course, you shouldn't have to put on headphones just to kind
of ignore some coil wine, it stinks regardless. And uh yeah, if you do get a
unit like this, feel free to reach out to Origin PC. Fortunately, that doesn't
detract from the performance. And while we do have a 9950X3D, I just want to
take a quick moment to say that you can get this in Intel with a Core Ultra 9 if
you wanted to. Um I don't want to cuz AMD is crushing it when it comes to
gaming right now. Yeah, playing Cyberpunk is a fantastic experience.
It's a 5090 and a 9950X 3D. That's basically as high-end as you can
possibly get, especially with like 96 gigs of RAM. I'm going to just roll some
numbers on screen here for you. But, uh, thanks to our testing, I can safely say
that this is essentially the best 5090 we've tested cuz, yeah, it's water
blocked, so it's just going to hit those boost clocks and stay there. And it was
kind of the same story with our 9950X 3D. Yes, it is getting hot 100%. But,
it's maintaining our clock speeds while doing so. And considering it's only a
360 mil rad, I think it's doing a really good job. And then if you want to see
what our temps are like when it's not under extreme loads, like just a normal
gaming load, uh, it's totally fine. Obviously, it's going to have IQ
installed, but we've also got a few other random little tidbits like some
wallpapers and whatnot. So, if you want a perfectly clean install, it's not
quite that, but it's really close. And they've got essentially no real bloatware on this thing. On top of that,
you know, with IQ, you're able to do pretty much whatever you want. Like, I'm
not personally an IQ guy cuz I don't go and tinker with a ton of stuff, but I
have seen some absolutely wild RGB
creations uh using this software because you can just you just have so much
control that you can do whatever you want to do. And we've got basically
everything showing up here. IQ Link, IQ, our other IQ Link XD5 Elite, the
Arachnid. I love how it's got its own custom thing here. uh all our fans, IQ
link system hub, and then the elite LCD screen. Even our power supplies
detected, but not our graphics card. And
Origin, it's my one and only complaint. I get that you probably only got so many
5090s, but I really wish that you'd been able to get some that were addressable
with IQ. Instead, you've got to grab Gigabyte software and then match the
graphics card to the rest of the system on your own. But I mean, you know,
it's one of the more covered up parts, so that's okay. It's a pretty sick
package that actually performs. But what about the price? Well, it's very
expensive, at least for the one that we speced out. Uh, it's $9,300.
However, I mean, look at the price of a 5090. Look at a 9950X3D.
And then you add in the motherboard that we've got cuz it's a pretty top- end motherboard. 96 gigs of RAM. Um, and
then all of the hardware for the custom liquid cooling. That's going to set you
back a ton of money, even if you tried to do this all yourself. We looked up a
few reviews for these things before we shot the video, and everyone seems super
happy, at least so far. So, I don't think that you're going to get steered
wrong if this is what you're after. They've also got like a cool uh custom
UV face plate as well. We've just got the black one, which I'm This is why
Arjent sent us the cool UV print thing. It looks awesome. They look really cool on the website. You can spec yours
differently on the website to get a lower price than that. And I don't know,
maybe they'll eventually just sell the case in the future. Um, I kind of wish
they would. I think it's a super cool idea and it's a very striking design.
Um, like this thing just looks sick. I don't know how else to put it. It looks
super cool. And my only wish right now is to change all of the RGB and whatnot
to make it blue, which I can do. It's in the power of my hands. And one other minor complaint we've got is that our
RGB controller runs a little too hot. We've reached out to Origin and Corsair
about that. Hopefully they get back to us by the time the video goes up. I
don't know what the solution is. Move it maybe. Not 100% sure, but we did notice
it. Could just be our unit, but we got to let you know. Thanks again
to Origin for sponsoring this video. If you like ShortCircuit, keep watching
Short Circuits and just, you know, watch more of them. Uh this is the Arachnid.
It's pretty sick. I wish I could take it home with