1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:05,640 So about two and a half years ago, we showed off our new Origin gaming PC. It was top of the line! 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:13,740 6700K quad-core processor, dual GTX 980Ti's and SLI, all kinds of great stuff. 3 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:21,480 But, as it always is with technology, our Origin PC gaming rig, well, it aged. 4 00:00:22,190 --> 00:00:23,550 But, 5 00:00:23,550 --> 00:00:29,550 Origin sponsored this video today for us to tell you about a program that they have called Origin Evolve, 6 00:00:29,550 --> 00:00:31,870 which basically takes the way that 7 00:00:32,430 --> 00:00:38,690 DIY computer builders upgrade their machines over time and makes it so that you, the person who's not necessarily 8 00:00:39,150 --> 00:00:45,990 comfortable or doesn't have the time for that stuff, can take advantage of a slower upgrade to keep your system up-to-date, 9 00:00:46,310 --> 00:00:48,310 all while retaining your system warranty. 10 00:00:48,610 --> 00:01:00,340 So basically the way it works is as long as you signed up for the Evolve program and the extended warranty, 11 00:01:00,540 --> 00:01:05,320 when you originally purchased your system, and it's available in either two or three years of coverage, 12 00:01:05,320 --> 00:01:06,160 then you 13 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:11,780 contact Origin PC, you can say, okay, so here's the components that I have now and 14 00:01:12,220 --> 00:01:15,300 here's what I want to upgrade to. And you have to not- here, 15 00:01:15,300 --> 00:01:18,920 we're gonna put a list here of all the different things that can qualify for Evolve. And 16 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,740 basically what they do is they do that 17 00:01:22,220 --> 00:01:26,940 DIY work of going in, finding a buyer for the used hardware, whether it's on like 18 00:01:27,540 --> 00:01:35,560 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, 19 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:37,100 towards your upgrade. 20 00:01:37,100 --> 00:01:42,820 So once you've agreed that, yes, indeed, they are providing you fair market value and you want to go ahead with the upgrade, 21 00:01:42,940 --> 00:01:45,520 you pack up your system, hopefully, uh, 22 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:51,190 be a little better than we've done here, and you ship it off to Origin. 23 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,980 Then, after one of Origin's certified technicians has completed your upgrade, 24 00:02:00,980 --> 00:02:05,720 they will ship it back to you with all of the sexy new hardware included. 25 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:10,840 Alright, so while we get this baby fired up with, let's say, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, 26 00:02:11,060 --> 00:02:14,960 test its gaming prowess, let's go ahead and walk through what exactly 27 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:23,440 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? 28 00:02:24,250 --> 00:02:26,250 There it is. So this is pretty cool. 29 00:02:26,250 --> 00:02:32,490 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. 30 00:02:32,490 --> 00:02:35,730 So that was something that we did change about the system. 31 00:02:36,430 --> 00:02:40,970 This is the panel for the other side, but that's not normally covered by the Evolve program, 32 00:02:40,970 --> 00:02:42,970 so we don't get a credit for our old case for that. 33 00:02:43,030 --> 00:02:49,190 But things that we did get a credit for, we went from a 6700K to an 8700K, 34 00:02:49,190 --> 00:02:54,130 so we've gone from four cores to six cores. The 8700K is a faster gaming processor. 35 00:02:54,130 --> 00:03:01,690 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. 36 00:03:01,690 --> 00:03:09,270 Obviously, in order to do that, we had to upgrade our motherboard, so we've gone to an EVGA Z370 Classified K. 37 00:03:09,270 --> 00:03:10,710 We ob- pfft, I mean, 38 00:03:10,970 --> 00:03:14,390 okay, we didn't really have to change our RAM, but RGB... 39 00:03:15,090 --> 00:03:18,030 RGB RAM wasn't a thing just two and a half years ago. 40 00:03:18,030 --> 00:03:24,090 It's funny, because when you're buried in this stuff every day, you kind of lose track of how quickly the industry changes. 41 00:03:24,150 --> 00:03:32,330 So we went ahead with some RGB RAM, and we went from dual GTX 980Ti's and SLI to dual GTX 1080Ti's. 42 00:03:32,490 --> 00:03:37,790 So this is gonna give us a significant bump in our gaming performance. We didn't change our power supply, 43 00:03:37,790 --> 00:03:40,310 we didn't change our optical drive, so there were a few things 44 00:03:40,970 --> 00:03:42,130 that we were able to reuse. 45 00:03:42,670 --> 00:03:45,970 Now, those of you watching this video are probably thinking to yourself, 46 00:03:45,970 --> 00:03:52,210 "'Gee, Liudas, that's weird timing for an upgrade to the GTX 1080Ti when the RTX 47 00:03:52,970 --> 00:03:56,170 2080Ti is either right around the corner or 48 00:03:56,950 --> 00:04:01,350 available right now." And that really is exactly the point of 49 00:04:01,550 --> 00:04:03,910 the Origin PC Evolve program. 50 00:04:04,130 --> 00:04:10,670 Not needing to keep track of exactly when hardware is coming out and still being able to upgrade like a 51 00:04:10,670 --> 00:04:13,690 a DIYer would, even if, well, 52 00:04:13,690 --> 00:04:14,930 you aren't really paying attention 53 00:04:14,930 --> 00:04:17,330 and you don't have like a guy 54 00:04:17,330 --> 00:04:20,010 to get rid of your old hardware to for a good price. 55 00:04:20,010 --> 00:04:20,990 So I'm just running through 56 00:04:20,990 --> 00:04:22,130 and making sure we've got everything 57 00:04:22,130 --> 00:04:23,350 configured correctly here. 58 00:04:23,350 --> 00:04:26,450 So it comes with SLI enabled right out of the box. 59 00:04:26,450 --> 00:04:30,370 And actually we can have a quick look at our CPU temps here. 60 00:04:30,370 --> 00:04:34,710 So you can see our 8700K is turboing up to 4.3 gigahertz 61 00:04:34,710 --> 00:04:36,010 in a lightly threaded workload. 62 00:04:36,010 --> 00:04:37,910 That's about what we'd expect to see. 63 00:04:37,910 --> 00:04:39,970 It's amazing how much CPU 64 00:04:39,970 --> 00:04:42,830 just downloading a game off Steam can use. 65 00:04:42,830 --> 00:04:44,910 Remember guys, there's a decompression aspect 66 00:04:44,910 --> 00:04:45,750 to this as well. 67 00:04:45,750 --> 00:04:48,530 It's not just downloading files. 68 00:04:48,530 --> 00:04:49,570 Then we can have a look here. 69 00:04:49,570 --> 00:04:53,230 So our package, even though we are lightly loaded here, 70 00:04:53,230 --> 00:04:57,230 is right around the 40 to 45 degrees Celsius range. 71 00:04:57,230 --> 00:04:59,790 And then our cores are all in the, 72 00:04:59,790 --> 00:05:02,670 it must be a trial of hardware monitor, 73 00:05:02,670 --> 00:05:04,530 are all in the 30 to 40 range. 74 00:05:04,530 --> 00:05:05,470 Looking good. 75 00:05:05,470 --> 00:05:07,910 So we should be able to absolutely 76 00:05:07,910 --> 00:05:09,430 crank this game. 77 00:05:09,430 --> 00:05:14,240 We're running at 3440 by 1440 ultra wide. 78 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,450 Let's go ahead and fire it up. 79 00:05:17,450 --> 00:05:20,380 Man, that's smooth. 80 00:05:20,380 --> 00:05:21,640 We don't even have G-Sync or anything 81 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,770 on this monitor either. 82 00:05:24,770 --> 00:05:26,220 What are these guys doing over here? 83 00:05:26,220 --> 00:05:28,550 These kids are lighting stuff on fire. 84 00:05:28,550 --> 00:05:32,100 Oh no, they're sparklers. 85 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:34,620 Thought they were little pyromaniacs. 86 00:05:34,620 --> 00:05:38,060 So our average FPS, even including 2x SMAA 87 00:05:38,060 --> 00:05:39,640 is 91 frames per second. 88 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,680 You can see we actually ended up really nicely balanced. 89 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:43,640 We were GPU bound, 90 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,700 only 2% of the time. 91 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:48,360 Not too shabby. 92 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:49,220 So that's pretty much it. 93 00:05:49,220 --> 00:05:51,300 That's the Origin PC Evolve program. 94 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:52,860 You guys can check out the full details 95 00:05:52,860 --> 00:05:55,260 at the link in the video description. 96 00:05:55,260 --> 00:05:56,400 Guys, if you disliked this video, 97 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:57,240 you can hit that button. 98 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,140 But if you liked it, hit like, get subscribed, 99 00:05:59,140 --> 00:06:00,140 or maybe consider checking out 100 00:06:00,140 --> 00:06:02,180 where to buy the stuff we featured at the link below. 101 00:06:02,180 --> 00:06:03,400 Also down there is our merch store, 102 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:04,700 which has cool shirts like this one 103 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:07,820 and our community forum, which you should definitely join.