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All right, so we got some Battlefield Bad Company 2 going on our iinity setup

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here. The point of this video is mostly about Oh, I'm leaving the combat area.

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Is mostly about affordable ifinity with the Radeon 6800 series, much like the

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one that I recently did with uh the three HD TVs. Something that you should

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note is that three 1080p monitors versus

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three 1080p TVs actually requires exactly the same video horsepower and

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processing power. It doesn't matter how big the screen is. There there were some

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comments on the video actually asking about that. But it does not matter how

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big the screen is. The only important thing is what the resolution you're

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running at is. So, we're going to talk a little bit about the Vesta 4050, which

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is a new NCIX PC for this month, and how

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well it performs in some modern games. Hey, I stole a vehicle. So, let's talk a

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little bit about the design process of the Vesta 4050. is actually based on

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AMD's vision black platform. So what

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that means is that we're using an AMD chipset which is required for crossbar

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on a AMD platform with AMD video cards,

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hence the AMD vision platform moniker.

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So we're using an AMD chipset in here that is Crossfire ready. We're also

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using AMD's six core processors. So, even though not all of the six core

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processors actually have the black designation, they are all uh AMD Vision

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Black ready. So, depending whether you get the base package or the performance

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package, you're looking at either the 1055 or the 1090T processors. We're also

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using a Radeon 6870. So, this is the

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performance package, which means that the system we have running here has a

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1090T. It has Corsair XMS3 memory. It

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has a WD Black Series hard drive. It also has a 6870 as well as an upgraded

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power supply versus the base version. And it's only $1199 compared to $9.99 on

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the base package.

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Do you ever press the button? One advantage that a system based around AMD

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vision gives you is that you know that you're going to end up with reasonably well-matched components. If you check

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out AMD's website, they've got lots of vision guidelines. So, for example, if

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you choose a CPU out of Vision Basic, you're going to end up with something

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that's way underpowered for a video card that's listed under Vision Black. So,

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that comes back to the bottleneck video we actually did quite recently where we

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talked about matching up your components so that they're appropriate for each

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other to give you a well balanced performance experience.

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Now, while most modern games will run in affinity mode, that is across three

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monitors, not every modern game will. So, Starcraft 2 in is an example of a

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current game that only runs in 4x3, 16x9, and 16x10 aspect ratio. So, we're

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running in 16x10 right now. This is on a

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1680x 1050 monitor. I'm going to go ahead and start this timeo uh timeo time

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demo. Uh big props to Sky MTL or Mike from Hardware Connects. actually

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provided us with this time demo. And the reason that's so important is because

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we've actually taken the results with this time demo at 1080. And that means

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that you can compare it against the

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Starcraft 2 benchmarks that Mike has actually run on his website. So if you

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go to hardware.com, we actually get about 50 frames per second average and a

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33 at the low point and that's at 1920 x 1200. So you can compare that against

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the systems that Sky MTL is using in his review. So that's pretty cool. And I

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believe he's also going to make this time demo available to anyone who wants

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it in the near future. So you can compare your current system against

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systems that are benchmarked on hardware connects against the one that we're showing here today. So we're just

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showing some combat sequence stuff going on here. I think this is uh if you get

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to about 28 and a half minutes into the time demo, you run into where you start

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to see a lot of movement and hopefully

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we're getting close now. Yeah, we're getting really close. So, in terms of

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the other benchmarks, we've already shown you the synthetic benchmarks where we scored just over 15,000 marks in 3D

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Mark Vantage. Here, I'm going to move so you can see the inside of the system.

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It's not incredibly quiet. Power consumption is very reasonable though.

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So, even running a game right now, we're pulling about 262 watts from the wall,

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which means we're pulling less than 250 watts from our power supply. Now,

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bearing in mind that most games are not all that CPU intensive, so you're mostly

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taxing just the graphics card. This power supply will give you room to

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either configure the system with two graphics cards or upgrade it in the

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future. So, that's always good to know. And what else did I want to mention? I

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think Okay, we got power consumption down. I think that's pretty much it. Thank you for checking out this little

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video on the Vesta 4050 system and don't

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forget to subscribe to Lionus Tech Tips.

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Something else I wanted to mention is that with this system, we're also

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advertising an LCD monitor bundle. So, you can actually set up three 22-in

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monitors. They're from BenQ. And it also includes the Iffinity adapter that you

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need because remember, one of the monitors has to run off DisplayPort.

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So, it's a passive single link iffinity adapter which will allow you to run your

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three monitors without any hassle.