So, for those of you who are pretty uh adept at guessing things, you might have
guessed when we did the Vesta R1 limited edition system that perhaps we would do
a Vesta G1 limited edition system. I am pleased to announce that the Vesta R1
was a complete success. We sold out all five systems in a matter of hours. So,
we are actually going to be doing a larger run of the Vesta G1. At this
point, it looks like we're probably going to do somewhere between 20 to 30 systems and they are going to be, wait
for it, painted green, right? Right.
Because it's NVIDIA. Yes. Okay. So, we have our prototype system in the paint
shop right now, but I wanted to show you what Crazy Russian's been working on at
his crazy test bench. So, this is the Vesta G1 in its most being tested form.
So, I'm gonna walk you guys through the specs. We're actually going to do two different versions of the system. One of
them is going to have a Core i7 970 6
core processor with 12 gigs 12 gigs of
RAM. It's going to have a single GTX 590 and it will have an AX 850 power supply.
Now, the upgraded version is going to have a Core i790X
extreme edition processor, 24 gigs of RAM, and dual GTX 590s for which it will
need an AX 1200 W power supply in order to run adequately. So, we're going to be
building for our demo system the more basic model because that's what most
people will likely be buying. And I just want to walk you guys through what else
is going to be in here. So, come in and get some shots of the test bench because this looks awesome. This is the GTX 590.
We've got the G1 Killer Sniper motherboard from Gigabyte, which is
going to match perfectly with our with our GeForce themed color scheme. We are
not going to be using a stock cooler. We are actually going to be using the Corsair H70 again. And for our boot
drive, we won't be using Crazy Russian's fail ancient hard drive. We will be
using a Corsair Performance 3 series SATA 31 128 GB SSD.
Uh we will I think I already mentioned we were going to use the AX850 in the
base model and we're going to have a Blu-ray uh writer. Actually, most of the
specs are fairly similar to the R1. The big difference is going to be the GTX
590 and the other big difference is going to be that we are using the X58
platform with triple channel memory and a six core processor instead of the
quadcore processor and P67 platform that
we used last time around. So, this is just it's more of a a variation rather
than being like uh better or worse because the G1 will be more suitable for
things like video encoding, uh video rendering, uh anything with uh with 3D,
okay, not necessarily games. Whereas the R1, because it only has four cores, is
not quite as fast for those things, but is also very very fast for gaming. These
are still gaming systems. And I think that's pretty much everything I have to
say about the G1. So you guys do stay tuned as we are going to be doing some
in progress updates on the Linus Tech Tips channel and I will show you guys as
soon as I get my hands on the case. It looks like it's probably going to be Monday morning I'll get a chance to look
at the case. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings,
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other great stuff. Thanks for watching. Crazy Russian gave me a hard time for
forgetting to mention that what's so awesome about the Sniper board is that
it has hardwarebased X5. That is a creative CA20 K2 chip and it also has a
hardwarebased E2100 Killer Nick card
built in with its own cache. So that is actually a pretty good value because you
don't have to buy a sound card. You have a headphone amped very very decent sound
card built right into the motherboard as well as a dedicated gaming nick.