So, we're having a look at another NCIXPC system. This is the Vesta 2050.
So, last time we were looking at the 3050, and this one has some key changes.
First of all, you can see the case is quite a bit different. This is a value
gaming case from Cooler Master. This is the brand new Half 910. So, you can
actually I wanted to treat this video kind of as a look at the 910 as well as
as a look at this particular gaming system. It looks like Oh, shoot. It
looks like I managed to unplug the uh DVI cable there. Oh, there we go. It's
back. It's working. Awesome. So, you can see we're running a Mafia 2 benchmark
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
half. Okay. Half stands for high air
flow. So, you can see the side panel here runs with either a 120 or a 140 mm
fan on it. You've got all the amenities inside. So, you can run with uh let me
see two 120s, two 140s, I believe, or
you can run with that looks like a 160.
So, you've got tons of 200, sorry, 200. So, you've got a ton of options in the
top for air flow. You've got a 120 mm fan in the back. You've got two 120s by
the look of things in the front. Or those might be
92s. Let me see. Hopefully, cameraman.
Two 120s. Two 120s in the front. All right. So, let's have a look at the
system spec here itself. Actually, no. Let's continue to look at this case
because there's a lot of cool stuff in here. First, you got support for two SSD
drives natively. That's two 2 and 1/2 in drives. And then you've got support for
an additional 1 2 3 4 5 six 3 and 1/2 in drives. So, you have a ton of storage
options. You can also install an how
many optical bays? Yeah, we've got four 5 and 1/4 in bays. You can see here in
the front we've got only the one drive installed right now. You got all your usual front connectivity, reset, power,
all those lights, and you've got the traditional half styling. Now, what's
really sort of standoutish about this case is how solidly built it is for a
value case. And I mean, Cooler Master's really done a great job with their half
series overall. Everything from this is
now the lowest end all the way up to the half. So, let's talk a little bit about
the spec of this machine. You can see we've got a different architecture here.
So, we're using instead of an Intel CPU, we're using an AMD CPU. This is an
Athlon 2 X4, so we do still have a quad
core, even though this is a lower price system at 749. We're using an MSI
motherboard. Once again, this is an NF Force board because we did want SLI
support. And it also features the new GTS 450. So, once again, is with the
Cyclone cooler, so we're able to maintain that level of quiet. And
speaking of quiet, we've gone with a C-sonic power supply this time around
with an 80 plus bronze rating. This power supply is actually capable of
powering two cards in SLI with this configuration, more than capable. And it
runs dead silent because it's 80 plus bronze and it uses a quiet 120 mil fan.
We've got a 500 gig drive in here for storage. And obviously you can upgrade
it to an SSD or a bigger drive if you want. And the uh cameraman today is not
a secret. It is actually our NCIX Ivan,
the guy who runs our NCIX PC Facebook and actually does a lot of work on our
PCs these days. And he wanted me to talk a little bit about Mafia 2. So we had
the benchmark running, but there's a
couple things that we wanted to touch on. First of all, tweaking. So at the
default settings, we were able to get 29.8 FPS. So that's with physics on
medium running on the video card. But there's actually a few things you can
do, and you can get details on this on the NCIXPC Facebook page. You can
actually tweak it so that you can turn off certain aspects of the fizz X such
as clothing. So if you you don't turn off clothing, but if you turn off the
fizz X on the clothing, the dynamic clothing on all characters, you can
actually boost that up considerably to about 37 FPS. And if you're running 37
FPS in the demo, you're actually getting a reasonably good gameplay experience.
However, sometimes it's kind of fun to see the the clothing whooing around and
explosions and stuff like that. So, if you only leave the clothing on for veto,
and I mean the dynamic clothing, then you get around 33.3 FPS, which is again
acceptable, but you don't have dynamic clothing on all the people around you.
So, that's something that we wanted to talk about a little bit. Uh, bear in mind, this is the OC version that comes
with this system. And there's also another note here. Yes, it comes with
Just Cause 2. So, just in case you were curious, we have a couple Vantage
benches here. So, with FsX turned off, it scores about 9,000 3D marks, which is
pretty darn good for a system in this price range. And then if you turn FSX
on, just in case you have an NVIDIA card and that's your point of reference, you
can see the CPU score. CPU jumps way up
and you get a substantially higher score. Although, this is the one that any Radeon users or older GeForce users
are going to want to compare against. So, thanks for checking out our little showcase on the Half 912 as well as the
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