So about two and a half years ago, we showed off our new Origin gaming PC. It was top of the line!
6700K quad-core processor, dual GTX 980Ti's and SLI, all kinds of great stuff.
But, as it always is with technology, our Origin PC gaming rig, well, it aged.
But,
Origin sponsored this video today for us to tell you about a program that they have called Origin Evolve,
which basically takes the way that
DIY computer builders upgrade their machines over time and makes it so that you, the person who's not necessarily
comfortable or doesn't have the time for that stuff, can take advantage of a slower upgrade to keep your system up-to-date,
all while retaining your system warranty.
So basically the way it works is as long as you signed up for the Evolve program and the extended warranty,
when you originally purchased your system, and it's available in either two or three years of coverage,
then you
contact Origin PC, you can say, okay, so here's the components that I have now and
here's what I want to upgrade to. And you have to not- here,
we're gonna put a list here of all the different things that can qualify for Evolve. And
basically what they do is they do that
DIY work of going in, finding a buyer for the used hardware, whether it's on like
Craigslist or Kijiji or eBay or whatever, and they flip the thing for you and they give you what they determine to be fair market value,
towards your upgrade.
So once you've agreed that, yes, indeed, they are providing you fair market value and you want to go ahead with the upgrade,
you pack up your system, hopefully, uh,
be a little better than we've done here, and you ship it off to Origin.
Then, after one of Origin's certified technicians has completed your upgrade,
they will ship it back to you with all of the sexy new hardware included.
Alright, so while we get this baby fired up with, let's say, Shadow of the Tomb Raider,
test its gaming prowess, let's go ahead and walk through what exactly
we had upgraded from our old machine. So we changed out our case. Actually, this is pretty cool. So they've got this- where'd it go?
There it is. So this is pretty cool.
They've got this new UV printing method that they can do on their glass side panels, so you can get custom graphics on them.
So that was something that we did change about the system.
This is the panel for the other side, but that's not normally covered by the Evolve program,
so we don't get a credit for our old case for that.
But things that we did get a credit for, we went from a 6700K to an 8700K,
so we've gone from four cores to six cores. The 8700K is a faster gaming processor.
So now our system is better for both creation and for gaming, and we've got an extra couple of cores in case we wanted to stream while we game.
Obviously, in order to do that, we had to upgrade our motherboard, so we've gone to an EVGA Z370 Classified K.
We ob- pfft, I mean,
okay, we didn't really have to change our RAM, but RGB...
RGB RAM wasn't a thing just two and a half years ago.
It's funny, because when you're buried in this stuff every day, you kind of lose track of how quickly the industry changes.
So we went ahead with some RGB RAM, and we went from dual GTX 980Ti's and SLI to dual GTX 1080Ti's.
So this is gonna give us a significant bump in our gaming performance. We didn't change our power supply,
we didn't change our optical drive, so there were a few things
that we were able to reuse.
Now, those of you watching this video are probably thinking to yourself,
"'Gee, Liudas, that's weird timing for an upgrade to the GTX 1080Ti when the RTX
2080Ti is either right around the corner or
available right now." And that really is exactly the point of
the Origin PC Evolve program.
Not needing to keep track of exactly when hardware is coming out and still being able to upgrade like a
a DIYer would, even if, well,
you aren't really paying attention
and you don't have like a guy
to get rid of your old hardware to for a good price.
So I'm just running through
and making sure we've got everything
configured correctly here.
So it comes with SLI enabled right out of the box.
And actually we can have a quick look at our CPU temps here.
So you can see our 8700K is turboing up to 4.3 gigahertz
in a lightly threaded workload.
That's about what we'd expect to see.
It's amazing how much CPU
just downloading a game off Steam can use.
Remember guys, there's a decompression aspect
to this as well.
It's not just downloading files.
Then we can have a look here.
So our package, even though we are lightly loaded here,
is right around the 40 to 45 degrees Celsius range.
And then our cores are all in the,
it must be a trial of hardware monitor,
are all in the 30 to 40 range.
Looking good.
So we should be able to absolutely
crank this game.
We're running at 3440 by 1440 ultra wide.
Let's go ahead and fire it up.
Man, that's smooth.
We don't even have G-Sync or anything
on this monitor either.
What are these guys doing over here?
These kids are lighting stuff on fire.
Oh no, they're sparklers.
Thought they were little pyromaniacs.
So our average FPS, even including 2x SMAA
is 91 frames per second.
You can see we actually ended up really nicely balanced.
We were GPU bound,
only 2% of the time.
Not too shabby.
So that's pretty much it.
That's the Origin PC Evolve program.
You guys can check out the full details
at the link in the video description.
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