we doing this david yeah because i don't know what's in the box
what's in the box i actually don't know what's in the box
there's a sponsored uh sponsored unboxing
from verla which i have never heard of before now
this is my first time ever hearing of them and inside here
is what they call the centaur pc
i don't know what kind of pc it is but i know it's got some bubble wrap
it's got some spare parts some evga
stuff so there's a graphics card in there ooh goodies so they make servers and
workstations i thought this was going to be yet another gaming computer
all right what is this thing got a power cable
i don't know if i have enough clearance for this box to come up
good luck everybody ah
oh hey
got it please remove packing material from inside the computer before use
that's a good strategy oh oh i just about punched
myself in the face that was so close the plastic like
whipped me right under the eye i was wrong by the way
this is a gaming pc so they were founded in 2016
doing like workstations for vfx and like
you know hollywood and that shiz hence the you know la
based location and then last year they branched into gaming systems so we got a
tempered glass side panel on this puppy
oh and that would be quite the gaming system
um that we've got ourselves in here they managed to get an rtx 3080
wow okay all right maybe these guys are legit then
you know i'm actually pretty impressed right off the bat they haven't made any
critical mistakes that jump out to me like you might see someone who's not
that experienced with gaming machines you know misconfigure the airflow for the system
so in this case we've got three 120 millimeters in the
front two in the top one in the back so they're clearly going for kind of like a
a balance between intake and exhaust which
has been shown time and time again is well the correct way to go about it
in terms of cable management man it's hard to find
flaw with any of this it's pretty freaking clean to the point where we're
gonna have to take the side back panel off and see if we can find any problems
that's not bad everything is neatly tucked away but
also not to the point where i look at it and i go yeah obviously they knew who
they were sending it to so they went and you know put special fancy cable ties and spritz
some you know new car smell in it or anything like that
just smells like a normal computer but everything's out of the way of the fans
and we basically can't see the cables through the windowed side panel see that
can you see me though hi david hi how's it going
in terms of spec they've gone with a 750 watt b5 series power supply from evga
i actually don't know what kind of CPU is in there but we've got
32 gigs of RAM from g skill let's see 3200 cl 16 so
i would say reasonable high end so
without overspending on anything this is a very potent basically top of
the line gaming machine the one question i have is with respect
to thermals so they've chosen a case that does have
three 120 millimeter fans in the front but also has a tempered glass front
panel now this is a lot better than one we checked out recently over on Linus tech
tips that had almost no space along the side for intake and
had these front fans getting suffocated but i'll be interested to see what kind
of thermals we get when we fire this puppy up interestingly they've configured the
fans to run at very different rpms the front ones are
they're ripping and these top ones
they're barely spinning we are on the desktop in terms of bloat there's pretty
much nothing GeForce experience which i would install anyway
RGB fusion which is uh gigabytes RGB
controller software which i'm going to fire up and see if i can figure out
how to light this puppy up and then microsoft edge and yes i did count
microsoft edge that's probably not fair probably not
fair i'm kidding it's chromium now i'm kidding i'm just
i'm just i'm just teasing microsoft and ah there's your problem
oh oh it's not too bad
there we go oh wow had a connector come loose in shipping happens to the best of
us wow that is i am actually kind of super into that
cooler that that looks not bad at all
and uh hold on a second you're definitely right
that's definitely worse there you go so
that is how it is intended to be opera that looks
that looks awesome they went and they put their logo on there and everything
how's that that's pretty good all right looking good oh the one thing we don't have
synced is our poor evga graphics card well yeah rip indeed i'll live with it it is
time to close up the panel and see how much chica looks let's see if what
they learned about workstations and servers applies to gaming thermals i mean they
are very similar principles but as everyone knows a principal is not
necessarily the same as a teacher man rtx 3080 is one impressive
piece isn't it yeah got that 100 percent
usage using up 70 of the GPU in code
and i don't even see any complaints about dropped frames
i've got a filter on the top there
oh look at that they put little stickers on so it won't come off during shipping
need to put one of those on the RGB cable there
i'm just teasing guys i know stuff like that happens it really does create a
pain in the butt for customer support when someone calls in about something as trivial as that though
some customers might not even realize that half of their RGB isn't working
so this is not a bad idea hot glue hot glue is there's a pro tip for you and a
half you can get hot glues that kind of like peel off really easy
but like hold on really nice we've got a 970 evo plus 500 gig for our boot drive
a one terabyte hard drive spinning storage that's your mass storage right
there two and a half gig lan and for CPU they've gone with a core i7
10 700 that is interesting
it's a good balance again between like price
to performance ratio and i wouldn't expect it to be a huge bottleneck for an
rtx 3080 but a lot of the time with the more traditional you know gaming system
companies you would see them put like a core i9 top of the line in there
even if they don't expect the customer to overclock which let's face it
if you're the kind of person that's buying a pre-built i would say the odds
of you tinkering in the BIOS and overclocking probably slimmer the one thing then that
i would critique about this configuration is that if i knew i was going to go with
a non-k CPU i might not go with a z490 motherboard
except that well they loaded up with pc 3200
megahertz memory which of course these days you need a
z-series chipset for which is like it shouldn't be the case but i guess it is so
there's the rationale there i guess i talked myself into the motherboard
kind of looks like it's not gonna i think we're settling in at a nice
comfortable 75 degrees celsius might get up as high as 76.77 but given
that we're still turboing up to 1530 megahertz that's looking pretty
good another good sign is that this particular 750 watt power supply must
have been validated by them because we've run into issues where even a power
supply that's rated for the amount of power that an rtx 3080 technically calls for
can still run into issues where the overcurrent protection will kick in
because of a sudden spike in draw from the rtx 3080 or for that matter
rtx 3090 so so far we're not seeing any of those symptoms
hey they even have in their talking points i'm supposed to mention that this
is what all the pcs look like not just mine so there you go they actually did
go out of their way not to specially build one for me this is great
especially in the current market buying a pre-built is a great choice please
demonstrate this somehow i can demonstrate that real easy you
want to know how how the hell else are you going to get an rtx 3080
NVIDIA has a long and proud history
of getting the boutique builders and the system integrators
way way more stock relative to the size
of their business than the part sellers get and i remember
this because at ncix even though we had a system
building division and i would go to NVIDIA and i'd say hey
we should probably get system builder allocation they wouldn't send it to us because i
think they assumed we were just going to send them out as individual cards
i don't get it though because obviously it was in our best interest to sell a
whole system around it but that was always a point of contention so i know
for a fact that there's extra allocation for system
builders so that's a real easy one right there as long as it's reasonably priced i got
nothing against a pre-built system 100
for lots of people it doesn't make sense like it's easy for me to say yeah
i could build this system in i wouldn't even say half an hour i'd say
cable managing to this level probably more like an hour but if you have no
idea how to do it and you have to like look up what parts to get and look up
how to put it together and then and then put it together and then double
check that everything's right i mean we're talking for just like an average
person it could be a five six hour process so if you pay yourself like 20 bucks an
hour yeah it's pretty easy to say yeah there's 100 to 150 value and having
everything built and warrantied by someone who knows what they're doing all right you know what i'm convinced
very reasonable gaming rig reasonable part selections
totally happy with the build quality and of course the performance speaks for
itself or at least it would if i had remembered to open up the performance
metrics got him
i'm gonna keep doing the gotham thing forever i've already got complaints about it
which makes me extremely happy so there's not much else to say
vrla verla i don't really care how you pronounce it but you can check out their
systems at the link down in the video description and it's
not just gaming systems they've got professional stuff as well which i think
is super super cool maybe next time they'll
send a workstation over
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