origin pc sponsored this video and boy
am i ever excited because inside this crate
is not just a tiny gaming pc
but a tiny all AMD gaming pc that is
among the most powerful gaming rigs on the frickin planet
so let's pop this puppy open oh no i stripped it
the origin chronos
good quality packing material in addition to the flippin crate
it's small that's what she said
and she said it in exactly that tone she was excited
oops yeah you're right Yvonne's gonna get mad was that me
that couldn't have been me for accessories you've got a usb stick
32 gigs so you can actually use that on an ongoing basis power cord we're going
to need that extra power cables for the power supply
those nice individually sleeved ones big fan of those cable tie SATA cables extra
mounting hardware for the CPU cooler as well as a wireless antenna but we're
going full wired today ladies and gentlemen
this looks like a custom case design
i don't think i've ever seen even a chassis that this would have been
derived from very interesting
it's not as small as previous kronos designs that i've seen
but i'm expecting the cooling on this thing to even meet the gamer's nexus
standard of approval i mean what's it made of it's made of
plastic with vents which he wouldn't like but mesh
mesh and more mash followed by
a touch of mesh not bad
i don't know if i would pay extra for the tempered glass version i mean with
these kinds of fine meshes you can see through them anyway and then they can
also breathe that's good stuff
io is very complete here we've got type a and type c along with an audio jack in
the front and then all the usb 3 that most people could ever need and even a
postcode in the back so it's definitely an ASUS rog motherboard in there now
that's weird is that an 80 millimeter fan
it's been a long time since i've seen one of those and then of course our rx
6800 xt graphics card is down here in the
bottom including a type c output so that is not really for vr anymore that's just
kind of like a type c DisplayPort the one thing that i feel like is kind of
missing here is origins optional metallic paint job would have been
pretty sick in their pink color but at 250 bucks i guess they wanted to send
like a balls to the wall config but
without anything unnecessary for maximum
gaming performance while i would think most people's first instinct would be to
immediately fire this thing up and play games on it
i actually really want to know how this case is laid out internally so let's
crack it open
back here we've got the rear of our motherboard the intake for our power
supply which has ample access to nice fresh air through the mesh we've got our
two and a half inch SSD as well as an RGB hub and then one of these little
expander dude adama jigs for led strips so i'm expecting to find RGB strips but
surprisingly there's nothing here on the back side which would have actually
looked really good especially with a strip along the top with that mesh side
panel oh maybe it's just on the front yeah maybe they went full full frontal
you know with their lighting very interesting
i see some stuff so they've tucked all the cables kind of
up here where the modular interface for the power supply is so you can't really
see them under this mount for what looks like a 240 millimeter radiator you can
see our graphics card is just plugged directly into the motherboard and then
it looks like there's a little usb like internal usb header hub
that they've double sided taped over on the bottom there what's really cool
about this case is that look at this every panel comes off
so you have totally unrestricted access to the internal components
that is as long as you move the mount for the aio radiator
it really is a thing to behold when a system integrator designs a case
because everything about it is like
man this is so easy to work in like clearly
someone at origin pc is like look i got
sausage fingers i need to be able to work on the computers we sell
boom there's your solution the motherboard alone costs as much as a
ps5 it's a crosshair eight impact but this thing is loaded for bear we got i
think it's a 5950x 32 gigs of 3200
megahertz cl 16 memory we've got a 750
watt power supply check this thing out this is like a special card that takes
two m.2 slots and you can like mount them to this thing and stick them out of
the board because mini itx is just
too small to put as much expansion as they wanted to pack onto it and then of
course as i mentioned a Radeon 6800 xt
there's no doubt it's not as small as some previous chronos's or cronie or
whatever but if you know that you're going to be dealing with a generation of
hardware that can have graphics cards that can consume up to 400 watts and
cpus that when overclocked can hit 150 200 even 250 watts
i can see why they would have taken this approach and just gone okay you look you
know what cooling first then we'll deal with everything else
i think the front logo is the power button oh my god this thing is so very RGB i'm
still not ready to jump into games though because there's a feature that i
have been itching to try that is exclusive to systems just like this one
for the time being and it requires some BIOS configuration first i'm just going
to go into boot and make sure that i have csm disabled so for whatever reason
you install your os with csm enabled you're actually going to have to go back
completely reinstall your os then i'm going to pop into advanced pci subsystem
settings turn on above 4g decoding and ah yes
resize bar support we're going to turn that to auto basically what this feature
does AMD brands it as smart access memory and it's supported on their 5000
series cpus with their 6000 series gpus
is it allows the CPU to have access to the entire up to 16 gigabytes of video
memory all at once for what is supposed to be a significant real world gaming
performance improvement now this feature has existed on Linux for years now but
it's just making its way to Windows and can give you anywhere from a zero
percent to even a five to seven percent
FPS improvement just from allowing the CPU to access more than just a 256
megabyte chunk of memory at a time so why don't we start by
just checking the AMD drivers to see if there's any indication that smart access
memory is on nope there's absolutely nothing in here to indicate that it's
working so apparently the only way to find out is to just benchmark with and
without it enabled and see if you notice a difference fortunately
we are perfectly well equipped to do just that
as i suspected this thing is equipped with a 5950x
16 core zen 3 CPU so i'm expecting this
gaming performance to be pretty darn sick regardless of smart
access memory we're kicking things off with forza horizon 4 running at 4k completely
cranked with the one exception being we've got motion blur set to short
because quite frankly it looks better HDR's on dynamic optimization is off and
we are ready to freaking benchmark yeah i want to continue
we've already got our numbers without smart access memory so now we're gonna
see how much of a performance uplift we get man this is a pretty game already
and i've only seen the loading screen so far there's no raytraced shadows in this
game but that doesn't keep the shadows from looking absolutely
sick there's a hot air balloon above us
and the only reason i know is because it's reflected in the rear windshield
i haven't seen it dip below 100 frames per second absolutely
maxed out so at night you can actually
see the shadows of the headlights get affected by the other cars and
everything look at that look at that ah
how'd we do compared to your previous numbers
let's see that's uh 12 FPS more not bad
oh wow that's like almost a 10 improvement
yeah and the minimum's 10 FPS more
which is a 10 improvement yeah
sun and it's not even loud
all AMD is starting to look like a thing hey
yeah of course performance and noise are only part of the picture we want to know
what the thermals are like so if we all tab out of our game we can see
GPU's running at 97 degrees but
don't get too scared off by this because what's happening here is you're looking
at the absolute hottest part of the die that's the t-junction and you won't
experience any thermal throttling until you hit about 110 degrees so if we look in hardware
info we actually see the average temperature of the die which is more
like what we'd expect in the 80 to 83
degree range what this fineness of
temperature measuring does for AMD is it allows them to push the card as hard as
they can without risking damage because there's a hotspot somewhere that they
weren't able to measure in borderlands 3 we've got everything cranked to ultra
we're running at 4k we've got HDR enabled and
wow it's almost like too good this art style
doesn't lend itself to absolutely perfect
crisp rendering in this way
like like it almost looks like wrong
yeah i actually thought it looked weird too i like the ps2 look more yeah that
is so funny and still managing 60 FPS
uh 64.25 and frame time millisecond average
is 15.56 how'd we do do we beat it
smart access memory for the win by 2.25 frames 2.25 FPS okay that's not
much but that's three percent if someone was like okay come on come on
over here come on over here i got i got three extra percent FPS in here you want
it you want it boy you'd take it yeah
i would let's look at the minimums as well 54.59
is our one percentile FPS so that's
three and a tiny bit FPS more wow
so that's another like six percent improvement yeah not
bad we've got uh we've got an FPS emergency going on they're testing the
fire alarm doesn't matter the point is we averaged 104 and our 95th percentile
was 82. that's the same that's the same okay so
do i still have borderlands running in the background
nope this system just straight up don't care if you got another game running in
the background i guess that's probably why AMD doesn't mention shadow of the
tomb raider in their literature dirt 5 they do though so let's go ahead
and run this puppy cranked out man forza
looks so much better than this game
like to be clear this is fine it's good it's pretty but like this is not good
lighting yeah but look at these like window reflections and stuff like it's
just way less exciting
very small improvement for average FPS but our one percent lows are
what was it 72 before yep okay so that's another four to five percent improvement
i'll take it red dead redemption 2 wasn't on the list
of games to benchmark from origin pc and actually we didn't run it without smart
access memory i just want to see what this puppy can do so i've got it cranked
to absolutely the maximum you know what the best part of this is running at 60
plus FPS absolutely cranked
and this thing is barely making a peep
it's definitely kicking off heat that's happening
but sound just a touch of GPU coil one that you
gotta get pretty close very impressive for
an all red gaming pc wow those horse
motion captures are pretty good hold on let's go somewhere there's not snow
let's see if the animations change look at that see the horse stops high
stepping and starts just stepping normally once you get onto the cobblestone here
that's cool the chronos is optimized first and foremost for gaming with parts
that were chosen specifically for their gaming grunt you can also customize the
heck out of these machines not just the core components but even custom paint as
well and each purchase includes origins 24 7 365 technical support if you need
it and you can check it out at the link in the video description so i hope you
guys enjoyed it thanks to origen for sponsoring this video we will see you
next time if you guys want to check out another sweet origin pc we did a well
you could say this build was ahead of its time a showcase of a cyberpunk
themed one that they built and sent over quite a while ago when they were
expecting the game to come soon