WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:07.040 So, we're having a look at another NCIXPC system. This is the Vesta 2050. 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:11.200 So, last time we were looking at the 3050, and this one has some key changes. 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 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:21.600 gaming case from Cooler Master. This is the brand new Half 910. So, you can 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 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:30.800 as a look at this particular gaming system. It looks like Oh, shoot. It 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 00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:38.000 back. It's working. Awesome. So, you can see we're running a Mafia 2 benchmark 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 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:46.719 half. Okay. Half stands for high air 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 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 00:00:54.160 --> 00:01:00.480 see two 120s, two 140s, I believe, or 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:03.280 you can run with that looks like a 160. 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 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 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:16.720 the look of things in the front. Or those might be 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:18.640 92s. Let me see. Hopefully, cameraman. 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 00:01:19.759 --> 00:01:24.880 system spec here itself. Actually, no. Let's continue to look at this case 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 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 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 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:41.119 options. You can also install an how 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 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, 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:56.000 all those lights, and you've got the traditional half styling. Now, what's 00:01:53.280 --> 00:02:00.479 really sort of standoutish about this case is how solidly built it is for a 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:04.960 value case. And I mean, Cooler Master's really done a great job with their half 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:07.280 series overall. Everything from this is 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 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:16.160 the spec of this machine. You can see we've got a different architecture here. 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 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:22.879 Athlon 2 X4, so we do still have a quad 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:28.000 core, even though this is a lower price system at 749. We're using an MSI 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:32.319 motherboard. Once again, this is an NF Force board because we did want SLI 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:36.959 support. And it also features the new GTS 450. So, once again, is with the 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:40.720 Cyclone cooler, so we're able to maintain that level of quiet. And 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:44.720 speaking of quiet, we've gone with a C-sonic power supply this time around 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:49.319 with an 80 plus bronze rating. This power supply is actually capable of 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:54.959 powering two cards in SLI with this configuration, more than capable. And it 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. 00:02:57.519 --> 00:03:03.760 We've got a 500 gig drive in here for storage. And obviously you can upgrade 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 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:13.040 a secret. It is actually our NCIX Ivan, 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 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 00:03:18.720 --> 00:03:23.200 the benchmark running, but there's a 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:26.959 couple things that we wanted to touch on. First of all, tweaking. So at the 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:32.000 default settings, we were able to get 29.8 FPS. So that's with physics on 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:34.799 medium running on the video card. But there's actually a few things you can 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:38.879 do, and you can get details on this on the NCIXPC Facebook page. You can 00:03:37.440 --> 00:03:43.440 actually tweak it so that you can turn off certain aspects of the fizz X such 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 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:51.200 fizz X on the clothing, the dynamic clothing on all characters, you can 00:03:49.519 --> 00:03:55.519 actually boost that up considerably to about 37 FPS. And if you're running 37 00:03:53.760 --> 00:03:59.439 FPS in the demo, you're actually getting a reasonably good gameplay experience. 00:03:57.519 --> 00:04:03.519 However, sometimes it's kind of fun to see the the clothing whooing around and 00:04:01.519 --> 00:04:09.280 explosions and stuff like that. So, if you only leave the clothing on for veto, 00:04:06.799 --> 00:04:13.840 and I mean the dynamic clothing, then you get around 33.3 FPS, which is again 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:17.440 acceptable, but you don't have dynamic clothing on all the people around you. 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 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:26.800 with this system. And there's also another note here. Yes, it comes with 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:31.040 Just Cause 2. So, just in case you were curious, we have a couple Vantage 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:35.199 benches here. So, with FsX turned off, it scores about 9,000 3D marks, which is 00:04:33.520 --> 00:04:39.280 pretty darn good for a system in this price range. And then if you turn FSX 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 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:46.240 can see the CPU score. CPU jumps way up 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 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 00:04:55.120 --> 00:05:00.800 Vesta 2050. And don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips.