They're cutting it real CLOSE! - ORIGIN CHRONOS
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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1,881 words · ~9 min read
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- ORIGIN PC sent over a crate, a supply crate, if you will.
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Uh. Yeah, there we go.
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(box thuds)
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Video games are a lie. I mean maybe I'm just not hitting it
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at the right angles or something. It should just be like flying apart and I should get, I don't know, energy cells or...
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- [Jono] Ammo. - Ammo. Med kit.
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(wood clatters to floor) How do I get this out now? Do I have to tip it, I guess?
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This packaging, though.
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(Anthony grunts) Get out. Wow, that's a tight fit.
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This is the Chronos 2020, according to this.
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All right. Let's dig deeper. Thank you for choosing ORIGIN PC.
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Well, ORIGIN PC, you chose us today.
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So thank you. Get a nice mouse pad, as usual.
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Ours is bigger. Oh, yeah. So this is the stuff out of the power supply,
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and probably also the motherboard box. Got ZOTAC gaming stuff in there.
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This is the main event. Time to get this thing outta the package.
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What is this? This is weird. It's got like, it's like it's got underwear.
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It's stretchy and stuff. That's cool.
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You ever wanted clothing for your PC? We should do PC clothing.
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So this is the ORIGIN PC Chronos. Is there anything special, like what model number it is?
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Or is it just Chronos. - [Jono] It's just a customized system.
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- Okay, so the base model doesn't seem like it's that great a deal, but I don't think they expect you
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to buy the base model anyway. This is all about customization.
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So if you wanna bump up the spec on one thing or another, then you can.
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The base price is just kind of the base of what you can get.
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I just hit the BIOS clear button. That's great.
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(Anthony chuckles nervously) So I'm looking at this
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and I don't see a way in without taking screws out. So I'm gonna start taking screws out.
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Ah, there we go. That just pops right off like that.
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That is a dual 120-millimeter rad,
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so a 240, I think that is.
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And in order to get underneath that, I'm gonna have to take these screws out.
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(drill whirs) That's interesting. This is a really compact little build.
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Oh, that power supply is tiny. That's a 750 watt?
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What GPU is this? - [Jono] A 3080ti.
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- What CPU is this? 12900K.
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(Anthony sighs) Okay. So I don't know how much people watch "LTT"
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and "ShortCircuit", but the 12900K is a CPU that can draw up 260 watts-plus on its own,
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especially considering, as a K-series SKU, it has no turbo limit, so it'll just keep going
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for as long as it needs to. The 3080ti, I think it'll do like 300-ish,
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400 watts all day long. But it can spike a lot,
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like instantaneous readings can go as high as 700-ish-plus watts.
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So I'm a little concerned about that, Jono. - [Jono] You can change it out.
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- Right, you can change it out, and that is fully supported by the warranty,
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which I think is a year. They tell us, though, that it's gonna work just fine.
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Yeah, the overall build quality is pretty good.
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For something so tiny, considering the fact that this is a commercial product
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and not something that somebody has put together for themselves, it's pretty tight.
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- [Jono] The 3080ti has a sustained max power of 350 watts.
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- 350 watts sustained, yeah. That's about what I figured.
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So we're gonna have to hit it with some pretty heavy loads
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and see if ORIGIN PC can be trusted or if you're gonna have to find
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some other small form factor power supply. It's actually gonna be a bit of an issue
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to find a power supply that is powerful enough to just do all of that, while also fitting in here.
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Got a nice fan filter on the bottom here, as well,
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easy to remove and clean. These meshes, these mesh panels,
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also going to be pretty easy to clean, and they will make it much easier
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for the system to breathe. It shouldn't be very loud. With that being said, I guess now is a good time
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to fire it up. Let's power it up.
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Uh-oh. Uh, there we go.
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You know, I know people don't like the look of mesh
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as much as they do tempered glass, but I kinda to like the look of mesh.
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I missed the BIOS. I was gonna go in, see if I wrecked it.
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But since I did not get a, "The CMOS settings are gone,"
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I'm going to go ahead and assume that I did not, in fact, wreck the BIOS settings.
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Ooh. Is this the default?
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So our idle temperatures, I mean we haven't really been running for very long,
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but looks like 21 degrees, 24 degrees,
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somewhere around there. Apparently the minimum temperature, at one point,
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was zero degrees, so that was a glitch.
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Oh, wait, no. A bunch of them are just dropping out and showing zero degrees from time to time.
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Just gonna burn this thing and see what happens. What's your bet on what's gonna happen, Jono?
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Do you think this thing's just gonna shut down? Do you think it's gonna throttle? - [Jono] I think it'll be just fine.
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- Think it'll be fine? You got confidence in ORIGIN PC?
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GPU stress tests, go. Prime95.
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- [Jono] Wait, you're doing both? - Oh, yeah. Okay the CPU package is at 90-ish degrees.
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Okay, 96, 97.
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Okay, it's not going any higher, yet. All right, so we're at 338 watts
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for the GPU, and the CPU, we're drawing 280-ish watts.
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We went up to as high as 301. So it's currently thermal throttling.
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That's why it's at around 280 and not 300. You can hear those fans ramping up.
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They should've ramped up much sooner, but probably what's going on is it didn't do that
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in order to make it so that you don't constantly hear, (imitates fans winding up and down)
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whenever you hit it with a short load. There's a lotta red.
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Yeah, the CPU has hit 100 degrees on several cores.
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To be clear, we're still boosting on both the CPU and the GPU.
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It's not like it's actually bad.
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A non-K SKU for the CPU would have throttled down
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to base clock at this point, which would have been around 3.7 gigahertz.
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We're still at 4.2, 4.3,
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whereas the maximum boost clock is five. So we're kinda in the middle of where we could be.
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So yeah, it would appear that that power supply is able
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to handle this, which is interesting.
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It's totally fine. I mean okay, it doesn't sound very fine, does it?
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CPU is currently thermal throttling all over the place.
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Now, of course, the system is screaming right now.
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So let's stop the GPU load
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and see if that, see how much of that noise was the GPU.
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I doubt it was much. Oh, yeah, the system itself is pretty hot, too.
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Oh, especially the rear side of the motherboard.
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That SSD's probably getting cooked back there. But the good thing about that,
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it's getting pretty good passive convection,
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and also there's a little bit of air flow coming from this upper fan, as well.
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So it's not bad. Also, a lot of that screaming was, in fact, the GPU.
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The CPU cooler is just a whoosh.
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If that were glass, oh-ho.
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Well, considering I feel a lot, a lot of air coming through here on the intake,
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this is take air in and it's getting exhausted out the top,
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and the back,
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yep, I think glass would probably be not advisable in this situation.
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You'd probably wanna go with a lower-end CPU. A Core i7 or a Core i5 might be perfectly fine
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in that case, but if you want a Core i9 like this,
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you'll probably wanna get the mesh sides.
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Anyway, let's stop this Prime95 and see what the gaming performance looks like.
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Okay, so I'm putting on Ultra Nightmare. Gonna turn ray tracing on, 'cause why not?
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All right, so sitting at the title screen, we've got about 120-ish FPS.
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Vertical sync is off, so that is as fast as it can go.
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Oh, it's getting kinda loud. Low ammo and I think low health.
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No. Health's okay.
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It's a pretty good experience.
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Uh, yeah, so we're dipping under 100 here,
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but only barely.
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In most cases, it looks like you're gonna get about 120 FPS at 4K with everything maxed
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out in "Doom Eternal". Now that's obviously not indicative of every game.
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"Doom Eternal" is basically the most optimized game
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I can think of.
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But with that being said, that's a lotta performance.
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It all just works. They didn't even send us this keyboard, either.
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This pattern is gonna go around,
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and now it's on the keyboard, and now it's back into the system.
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That's the cool thing about iCUE. I do wish that that were something
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as robust as iCUE that supported general RGB stuff,
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but if you're in the Corsair ecosystem... Honestly I'm kinda surprised that
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this thing was able to handle as much wattage going
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through it as it did. Not only just from the fact that
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it's a 750-watt power supply in there, but also because it's such a small package
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for this much going on, and it's not a customized cooling setup,
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like you'd get with an extreme small form factor build.
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This is straight-up just a compact ITX build.
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So the fact that the CPU thermal-throttled
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doesn't surprise me. The fact that it didn't thermal throttle a lot surprised me.
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I don't really think I have any major complaints. The warranty covers swapping out parts.
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Of course the parts that you swap in won't be covered by ORIGIN's warranty,
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but they'll be covered by the manufacturer's warranty then, and your warranty for the rest
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of the system is not voided. I don't know what else to say.
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Jono, this is, it's a computer.
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- [Jono] Is it a powerful computer? - It is a powerful computer. Very powerful for how compact it is.
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So if this looks like something that might interest you, or something similar, you can go ahead
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and build this specific one. This was like four grand.
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