All right, so we got some Battlefield Bad Company 2 going on our iinity setup
here. The point of this video is mostly about Oh, I'm leaving the combat area.
Is mostly about affordable ifinity with the Radeon 6800 series, much like the
one that I recently did with uh the three HD TVs. Something that you should
note is that three 1080p monitors versus
three 1080p TVs actually requires exactly the same video horsepower and
processing power. It doesn't matter how big the screen is. There there were some
comments on the video actually asking about that. But it does not matter how
big the screen is. The only important thing is what the resolution you're
running at is. So, we're going to talk a little bit about the Vesta 4050, which
is a new NCIX PC for this month, and how
well it performs in some modern games. Hey, I stole a vehicle. So, let's talk a
little bit about the design process of the Vesta 4050. is actually based on
AMD's vision black platform. So what
that means is that we're using an AMD chipset which is required for crossbar
on a AMD platform with AMD video cards,
hence the AMD vision platform moniker.
So we're using an AMD chipset in here that is Crossfire ready. We're also
using AMD's six core processors. So, even though not all of the six core
processors actually have the black designation, they are all uh AMD Vision
Black ready. So, depending whether you get the base package or the performance
package, you're looking at either the 1055 or the 1090T processors. We're also
using a Radeon 6870. So, this is the
performance package, which means that the system we have running here has a
1090T. It has Corsair XMS3 memory. It
has a WD Black Series hard drive. It also has a 6870 as well as an upgraded
power supply versus the base version. And it's only $1199 compared to $9.99 on
the base package.
Do you ever press the button? One advantage that a system based around AMD
vision gives you is that you know that you're going to end up with reasonably well-matched components. If you check
out AMD's website, they've got lots of vision guidelines. So, for example, if
you choose a CPU out of Vision Basic, you're going to end up with something
that's way underpowered for a video card that's listed under Vision Black. So,
that comes back to the bottleneck video we actually did quite recently where we
talked about matching up your components so that they're appropriate for each
other to give you a well balanced performance experience.
Now, while most modern games will run in affinity mode, that is across three
monitors, not every modern game will. So, Starcraft 2 in is an example of a
current game that only runs in 4x3, 16x9, and 16x10 aspect ratio. So, we're
running in 16x10 right now. This is on a
1680x 1050 monitor. I'm going to go ahead and start this timeo uh timeo time
demo. Uh big props to Sky MTL or Mike from Hardware Connects. actually
provided us with this time demo. And the reason that's so important is because
we've actually taken the results with this time demo at 1080. And that means
that you can compare it against the
Starcraft 2 benchmarks that Mike has actually run on his website. So if you
go to hardware.com, we actually get about 50 frames per second average and a
33 at the low point and that's at 1920 x 1200. So you can compare that against
the systems that Sky MTL is using in his review. So that's pretty cool. And I
believe he's also going to make this time demo available to anyone who wants
it in the near future. So you can compare your current system against
systems that are benchmarked on hardware connects against the one that we're showing here today. So we're just
showing some combat sequence stuff going on here. I think this is uh if you get
to about 28 and a half minutes into the time demo, you run into where you start
to see a lot of movement and hopefully
we're getting close now. Yeah, we're getting really close. So, in terms of
the other benchmarks, we've already shown you the synthetic benchmarks where we scored just over 15,000 marks in 3D
Mark Vantage. Here, I'm going to move so you can see the inside of the system.
It's not incredibly quiet. Power consumption is very reasonable though.
So, even running a game right now, we're pulling about 262 watts from the wall,
which means we're pulling less than 250 watts from our power supply. Now,
bearing in mind that most games are not all that CPU intensive, so you're mostly
taxing just the graphics card. This power supply will give you room to
either configure the system with two graphics cards or upgrade it in the
future. So, that's always good to know. And what else did I want to mention? I
think Okay, we got power consumption down. I think that's pretty much it. Thank you for checking out this little
video on the Vesta 4050 system and don't
forget to subscribe to Lionus Tech Tips.
Something else I wanted to mention is that with this system, we're also
advertising an LCD monitor bundle. So, you can actually set up three 22-in
monitors. They're from BenQ. And it also includes the Iffinity adapter that you
need because remember, one of the monitors has to run off DisplayPort.
So, it's a passive single link iffinity adapter which will allow you to run your
three monitors without any hassle.