Today I have another system from Crazy Russians Crazy Lab. This is the Vesta
5350 OC and this is going to be a pre-overclocked system. Now we will be
using the stock default Intel CPU cooler
which has about 3/4 of an inch of
aluminum finish going on to cool that. No, we're not going to do that. We're
going to be using the Cool It Eco liquid cooling system. So, this is a 120 mm
radiator with a copper heat exchanger as well as a built-in
pump. That is what we will be using. We will be installing it in the Fractal
Design Define R3. And this is the system
configuration we will be using. We have this over here for validation purposes
only. The system will not come on a high-speed PC tech station. So, what do
we have in terms of spec? Well, this is the 5350, so somewhere in between the
5300 and the 5400. It is also the OC. So, we will be pre-overclocking the CPU,
although we have not yet validated the overclock that we'll be using. So,
that's going to be to come in a video down the line. This will ship in its
default configuration with 8 gigs of RAM, a GTX
560Ti, a 2500 K unlocked CPU. Remember,
for overclocking on the 1155 platform, you do have to have a K series unlocked
CPU or you're not going to be going very far. And what we also have here is down
at the bottom, we have an SSD. So, that's a 40 gig SSD. Now, I've always
been of the mind that 40 gigs on an SSD is not nearly enough for a boot
partition, but what we're actually using, and this is the Gigabyte Z68X
UD3HB3 right here, is a Z68 board. So,
we're taking that 40 gig SSD and we're using it as a cache using Intel SRT
technology which is featured on this board for the Western
Digital Caviar. Oh, well, hold on. Sorry
guys. Crazy Russian was going like this to me and I thought he meant like, you
know, one moment please or you're number one or something along those lines. But
no, that's not what he meant at all. What he actually meant was this is a WD
Caviar Blue 1 TB that we're using for the boot drive. So, we're using smart
response technology to accelerate our boot drive without having to buy a
larger capacity, more expensive SSD to boot off that exclusively. Since we're
down here, actually, we also have a CIC M12
uh 620 W power supply that is with 80 plus bronze efficiency. And let's move
up to the motherboard itself. So, this is the Z68X
UD3HB3. And if that's a tongue twister, then, well, you need to work on, you
know, not being puzzled by easy tongue twisters, I guess. Um, but what it is is
it's a Z68 board. So, that's what gives us support for Intel Smart Response
Technology. What we also have support for, and you're going to have to come
around and look at the back of the board for this, is onboard video with HDMI,
DisplayPort, VGA, and DVI, as well as
right there, you see that little sticker that says Lucid Virtue. So, we can use
Intel quick path technology. I think that's what it's called, right? Quick
path. I don't know what I don't know what it's called, but it's the one that makes your video transcoding go really,
really fast. Maybe it says on here.
Virtue virtualization for the onboard GPU. Yes.
Okay. Yeah. See, they don't they don't say
either. Either way, it doesn't really matter. What you get is better
efficiency at idle because you're able to use the onboard GPU. Whenever you're
idling or doing anything 2D, you can use the onboard GPU. Yeah. So, there's the
idle power consumption of the system. 56 watts. I know, right? It's like almost
nothing considering this is a full-blown gaming machine.
You can use the onboard GPU for video transcoding, which it just kicks butt
at. It's way faster than using the CPU. It's way faster than even using a
high-end dedicated GPU. And then when you're gaming, you can actually use the
power of your dedicated GPU. You can still output. Actually, I think the
optimized mode is to output through the dedicated GPU and then virtualize this
one. Either way, you can use this for gaming, this for what it's good at, and
you win. You get better power consumption, great gaming performance, and great video transcoding performance.
Now, with the Z68 chipset, uh, yeah,
that's pretty that's those are the main features you get. We also have support
on this particular board, which is an awesome value. That's why we went with
this one for NVIDIA SLI technology as
well as AMD Crossfire X. So, we can run
up to two cards in SLI or Crossfire. You
can configure your system either way you want. And that'll be running in 8x8x
mode, which as we've tested in the past on my show, does not give you any sort
of a performance disadvantage versus running in 16x and 16x mode. The board
also has dual BIOS, which is nice. That's a great overclocking friendly
feature because it means that even if you screw something up when you're
overclocking it on your own, remember your NCIX PC warranty is not invalidated
by overclocking. So, I mean, this is going to come pre-overclocked. You can
see if you can push it a little bit further if you want. That's also good.
Um, you can recover to the main BIOS if you screw something up, which is great.
You've also got a solid power delivery system, especially for a board in this
kind of a price bracket. That's a 6 plus one phase power design with lower RDS
MOSFETs and ferite core chokes. Also, solid capacitors. And I think that
pretty much covers everything to say about this little guy. Oh, actually, one
more thing. Check this out. So, the front USB right here. So, your two front
USB ports will be hooked up to the one with the red background. And what that
means is that it can deliver up to 40%
more amperage on your front USB. That means you can actually charge your iPad
or even a tablet if you have the utility installed on your PC. And you can charge
it right off a USB port without using a power adapter from the wall. So, thank
you for checking out my little introductory video of the Vesta 5350 OC.
And hopefully you guys will stick around and check out the video once we've got the overclock validated, once we've got
it all built up, and once we have this thing priced out. Cuz I don't even have
a price yet. We're just making sure that it's going to be awesome first.