1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:07,040 So, we're having a look at another NCIXPC system. This is the Vesta 2050. 2 00:00:05,759 --> 00:00:11,200 So, last time we were looking at the 3050, and this one has some key changes. 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:16,640 First of all, you can see the case is quite a bit different. This is a value 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:21,600 gaming case from Cooler Master. This is the brand new Half 910. So, you can 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:26,800 actually I wanted to treat this video kind of as a look at the 910 as well as 6 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:30,800 as a look at this particular gaming system. It looks like Oh, shoot. It 7 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:35,120 looks like I managed to unplug the uh DVI cable there. Oh, there we go. It's 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:38,000 back. It's working. Awesome. So, you can see we're running a Mafia 2 benchmark 9 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:44,960 here. You don't actually have to look at that cameraman, but I'm going to go ahead and take this off. So, we've got 10 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,719 half. Okay. Half stands for high air 11 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:51,840 flow. So, you can see the side panel here runs with either a 120 or a 140 mm 12 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:57,280 fan on it. You've got all the amenities inside. So, you can run with uh let me 13 00:00:54,160 --> 00:01:00,480 see two 120s, two 140s, I believe, or 14 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:03,280 you can run with that looks like a 160. 15 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:07,439 So, you've got tons of 200, sorry, 200. So, you've got a ton of options in the 16 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:11,840 top for air flow. You've got a 120 mm fan in the back. You've got two 120s by 17 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:16,720 the look of things in the front. Or those might be 18 00:01:13,159 --> 00:01:18,640 92s. Let me see. Hopefully, cameraman. 19 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:21,920 Two 120s. Two 120s in the front. All right. So, let's have a look at the 20 00:01:19,759 --> 00:01:24,880 system spec here itself. Actually, no. Let's continue to look at this case 21 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:29,920 because there's a lot of cool stuff in here. First, you got support for two SSD 22 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:34,560 drives natively. That's two 2 and 1/2 in drives. And then you've got support for 23 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:39,040 an additional 1 2 3 4 5 six 3 and 1/2 in drives. So, you have a ton of storage 24 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,119 options. You can also install an how 25 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:45,200 many optical bays? Yeah, we've got four 5 and 1/4 in bays. You can see here in 26 00:01:43,759 --> 00:01:51,439 the front we've got only the one drive installed right now. You got all your usual front connectivity, reset, power, 27 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:56,000 all those lights, and you've got the traditional half styling. Now, what's 28 00:01:53,280 --> 00:02:00,479 really sort of standoutish about this case is how solidly built it is for a 29 00:01:58,719 --> 00:02:04,960 value case. And I mean, Cooler Master's really done a great job with their half 30 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:07,280 series overall. Everything from this is 31 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:11,039 now the lowest end all the way up to the half. So, let's talk a little bit about 32 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:16,160 the spec of this machine. You can see we've got a different architecture here. 33 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:21,200 So, we're using instead of an Intel CPU, we're using an AMD CPU. This is an 34 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,879 Athlon 2 X4, so we do still have a quad 35 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:28,000 core, even though this is a lower price system at 749. We're using an MSI 36 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:32,319 motherboard. Once again, this is an NF Force board because we did want SLI 37 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:36,959 support. And it also features the new GTS 450. So, once again, is with the 38 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:40,720 Cyclone cooler, so we're able to maintain that level of quiet. And 39 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:44,720 speaking of quiet, we've gone with a C-sonic power supply this time around 40 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:49,319 with an 80 plus bronze rating. This power supply is actually capable of 41 00:02:46,879 --> 00:02:54,959 powering two cards in SLI with this configuration, more than capable. And it 42 00:02:52,239 --> 00:02:59,599 runs dead silent because it's 80 plus bronze and it uses a quiet 120 mil fan. 43 00:02:57,519 --> 00:03:03,760 We've got a 500 gig drive in here for storage. And obviously you can upgrade 44 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:10,640 it to an SSD or a bigger drive if you want. And the uh cameraman today is not 45 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:13,040 a secret. It is actually our NCIX Ivan, 46 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:16,720 the guy who runs our NCIX PC Facebook and actually does a lot of work on our 47 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:21,920 PCs these days. And he wanted me to talk a little bit about Mafia 2. So we had 48 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:23,200 the benchmark running, but there's a 49 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:26,959 couple things that we wanted to touch on. First of all, tweaking. So at the 50 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:32,000 default settings, we were able to get 29.8 FPS. So that's with physics on 51 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:34,799 medium running on the video card. But there's actually a few things you can 52 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:38,879 do, and you can get details on this on the NCIXPC Facebook page. You can 53 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:43,440 actually tweak it so that you can turn off certain aspects of the fizz X such 54 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:47,680 as clothing. So if you you don't turn off clothing, but if you turn off the 55 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:51,200 fizz X on the clothing, the dynamic clothing on all characters, you can 56 00:03:49,519 --> 00:03:55,519 actually boost that up considerably to about 37 FPS. And if you're running 37 57 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:59,439 FPS in the demo, you're actually getting a reasonably good gameplay experience. 58 00:03:57,519 --> 00:04:03,519 However, sometimes it's kind of fun to see the the clothing whooing around and 59 00:04:01,519 --> 00:04:09,280 explosions and stuff like that. So, if you only leave the clothing on for veto, 60 00:04:06,799 --> 00:04:13,840 and I mean the dynamic clothing, then you get around 33.3 FPS, which is again 61 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:17,440 acceptable, but you don't have dynamic clothing on all the people around you. 62 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:23,040 So, that's something that we wanted to talk about a little bit. Uh, bear in mind, this is the OC version that comes 63 00:04:20,639 --> 00:04:26,800 with this system. And there's also another note here. Yes, it comes with 64 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:31,040 Just Cause 2. So, just in case you were curious, we have a couple Vantage 65 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:35,199 benches here. So, with FsX turned off, it scores about 9,000 3D marks, which is 66 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:39,280 pretty darn good for a system in this price range. And then if you turn FSX 67 00:04:37,199 --> 00:04:44,800 on, just in case you have an NVIDIA card and that's your point of reference, you 68 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:46,240 can see the CPU score. CPU jumps way up 69 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:51,199 and you get a substantially higher score. Although, this is the one that any Radeon users or older GeForce users 70 00:04:49,919 --> 00:04:57,520 are going to want to compare against. So, thanks for checking out our little showcase on the Half 912 as well as the 71 00:04:55,120 --> 00:05:00,800 Vesta 2050. And don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips.