today we have kind of a neat system from the NC PC lab now we did our Vesta 6050
which uh the Prototype of which you can see right here we showed it running
games we showed it being sort of designed okay so that's all fine and
cool but we had a customer come to us and uh this is one of the first 6050
series Systems off of our production line he came to us and he said well I
want the Vesta 6050 I like the overall spec I want to make a couple small
tweaks but I don't want such a big case I have some space considerations for
where I'm putting my computer and we kind of went okay well what we'll do is
we'll uh we'll see what we can do to customize the 650 into the smaller
Define R3 chassis versus the larger
Define XL chassis so we made a couple tweaks first of all the modu vent
feature here uh we've taken off the
sound dampening material and replaced it with a 140 mm exhaust fan so we do have
some uh slightly warm air coming out of here that's drawing heat away from the
graphics cards and other than that most of the internal specs are the same but
the first thing I want to show you is the CPU temps so we are running the
h70 so we are getting temperatures only
as high as 60° that is with all 12
threads on this 980x he did upgrade to a
980x 6 core CPU all 12 threads are at
100% using prime 95 small fft so now we
can take the side panel off and obviously the temperatures are going to get even a little bit better once we
remove the side panel Okay so we've taken that off here we go so I'll show
you all of the other tweaks that he made to his personal config first he changed
to an hx850 wat power supply from the tx850 power supply that is in the spec
that allows us to uh maintain better Cable Management in this small case so
we can make sure we have adequate air flow bringing air from the front of the
case here from these 2 120 mil fans over to the graphics cards okay so that's one
change that he made another change that he made is he added a killer Nick 2100
these were on like crazy Black Friday promo for $449.99 so U yeah it's kind of
a no-brainer at that price okay we've also added a storage drive now instead
of using the WD green series he opted for a velociraptor series Drive in
addition to his ocz vertex 2 SSD and then I believe that is oh yeah
finally of course he upgraded to a 980x 6 core processor from the 950 quad core
that we normally use so yeah you can clearly see that there now as an
experiment we kind of built one built the system for him and this is right out
of our production lab this is not a prototype built by crazy Russian or
anything like that so this is pretty much what you can expect if you buy a system from NC and uh so we also wanted
to run some 3D benchmarks to ensure that even with the side panel closed we're
not going to get any overheating because two GTX 480s is 480s 580s is a pretty
significant heat load and we also found that even with the two 580s the six cor
processor etc etc there was no overheating now another thing that
people seem to be concerned about and I I can't imagine why with our Vesta 6050
prototype was that we were using an 850 W power supply with two GTX 580s
well it's fine I can tell you that right
now even with the 980s upgrade that we've made here this system running
Prime 95 in the background running 3D Mark Vantage pulls no more than 726
Watts from the wall now factoring in that the hx850 is about 88%
efficient that means that we are actually pulling no more than 650 Watts
from that power supply well within its rated capacity you've got an extra 200
watts of additional power available yeah you're not going to be adding another
GTX 580 with that kind of of an overhead but you also don't have to worry about
adding any additional drives or adding a sound card or adding some more RAM
that's a a non concern with 200 watts of
additional room it also means that that I mean that's only when you're under the
the highest load okay so when you're at idle you're pulling like a very very
small portion of what this power supply is capable of achieving so we're going
to run Vantage for you guys I'm going to put put the side panel back on so you've
seen the max temps with the Corsair h70
uh running with full load on the CPU but I also want to show you guys just how
high the graphics cards get when we close this up and let it
cook all right so we finished our Vantage test we've got SLI enabled
obviously uh fizx however is off just so
that we have scores that are more easily reproducible if you want to compare at
home and you can see we scored 36,000 3D marks and that is in the
performance mode you can tell by the P at the beginning and then the hottest
that our gpus got are 87° on the top GPU
and 80° on the bottom one that is pretty darn good although I have to tell you
guys in some of the testing we did see it peek up around as high as 90 but you
know it's still well within reason for a GTX 580 I also meant to mention that one
of the other small tweaks that was made from this machine was dual 120 mm fan in
the front rather than only a single and
a card reader so that well the card reader is not all that significant but
the uh the changes to the front intake are somewhat significant so thanks for
checking out this little video on one of our well I mean I could call it a Vesta
6050 but it's fairly customized because we did have to use a different case and
revalidate The Thermals for that different case but yeah thanks for
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