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origin and Intel reached out about doing a sponsored piece on the Kronos a

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desktop PC that origin brags is the most

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powerful and customizable small form factor

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desktop a very bold claim but as a bit

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of a small form factor Enthusiast the

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idea of cramming unbelievable Hardware into a tiny enclosure isn't exactly new

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to me so I wanted to go a totally different route with it and look at how

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changes in Hardware have fundamentally

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changed the kind of performance we can get out of tiny gaming PCs over the last

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10 years welcome to Performance per

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leader Through the

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Ages so at about 10.6 L the origin

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Kronos is bigger than some of the Indie SF F cases that I've seen the Dan case

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a4sfx that we featured recently is a mere 7.25 L but the extra 3 lers seems

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to have been put to good use at the front is an LED lit logo and a much more

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reasonable front IO configuration then the A4 sfx's single USB 3 and power

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button two USB 3 front audio power and

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reset switches most of the panels are vented and the internals are laid out so

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the four included Ed magnetic feet can be used to flip Kronos on its side

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depending on your space requirements then over on the left above the video

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card window is its biggest Advantage a

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single water cooling radiator with a slim 120 mm fan that's responsible for

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keeping the CPU and the socket area cool even with some overclocking moving to

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the inside we find our Decked Out Hardware config including a core i7

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extreme 6950x 10 core 16 gigs of ddr4

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memory a Titan X Pascal a 1 TB Samsung

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SSD with an additional hard drive for storage a 600 W power supply and an 80

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mm cooling fan so that's where some of

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the internal space went up to and some extra air flow for those

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drives so let's take a look then at what we're putting it up against we went back

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in time or at least we went to free geek Vancouver those guys are awesome and

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have been keeping us supplied with old hardware for our projects for a little while now and we sced up these gaming

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Enthusiast configs from 10 six and three

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years ago each build should represent a

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common Enthusiast DIY case at the time

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in spite of Intel's best efforts ATX is still with us so they're actually pretty

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similar in size the best of the best single CPU and a top tier GPU

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unfortunately we couldn't get a working 8800 GTX in time for testing but we can

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extrapolate values based on our 8800 GTS

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and it's based on the same G80 chip so we'll start with pure CPU performance in

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the last 10 years enthusiasts have gone from quad core machines that turn out

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about 3500 points in CPU Mark and 250

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points in cinebench to 10 core monsters that can do anywhere from 5 to nine

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times that performance in multi-threaded workloads though it should be noted that

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when it comes to single credit performance the gains aren't quite as

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impressive at a little over double our

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only real mixed CPU GPU Benchmark a 4K

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video export of adobe's test project at our usual LTT presets yields much

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smaller improvements a firmy or greater

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Cuda GPU with a fast enough CPU is still

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a great video editing solution with most of the perf per liter improvements

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coming from Chrono his size moving on to

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gaming we see impressive improvements on the performance side of things with an

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older game like halflife 2 ending up CPU

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bottleneck a few years ago at around 700 frames per second and a newer title like

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Metro last Light scaling beautifully to the point where today's system is 20

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times faster making it nearly 100 times faster per unit

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volume so how then did all of this happen well part of it is the ever

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shrinking manufacturing processes on which these components are built but

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that accounts only for the improved performance not for the shrinking of the

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systems so is it then that older systems

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consumed much more power and therefore output more heat so they needed these

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big enclosures actually not really going

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back to 2006 our system consumed only about 250

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Watts from the wall compared to 385 for our Kronos so a big part of the

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story here seems to be thermal management these CPU temps that you're

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looking at are interesting only from an academic perspective since we're using

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Intel designed thermal Solutions on all the older machines rather than something

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afterm Market or a consistent cooler across the board but what it does tell

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us is that Intel went from considering nearly

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70° acceptable back in 2006 all the way

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down to targeting about 60° which happens to be the load temp of our 10

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Core Extreme Edition gpus clearly

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underwent a similar change NVIDIA thought 90° was cool back in 2011 then

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dialed that back with GPU boost limiting the more modern chips to ADN

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change the other big part of the story seems to be fashion Engineers are driven

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by a demand from their management and ultimately consumers to create Sol

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Solutions and the availability of smaller and smaller gaming machines has

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increased dramatically in recent years presumably because people want them

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though with that said back to origin's Claim about the Kronos being the most

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powerful and customizable sfff gaming system even if we substitute the volume

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of small form factor cases that were available at the times of our older

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systems Silverstone ST1 and sto2 and

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fractal design node 304 ignoring though

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that the node 304 is a mini ITX case and there were no Mini ITX x79

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boards thanks to the latest components today it still Stacks up very well no

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matter how far back you go so thanks again to origin and Intel for sending us

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the Kronos and sponsoring us to lock Jake in the warehouse last weekend to

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complete all of these benchmarks for our Through the Ages investigation if you're

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