NCIX PC Laboratory Update - Production Vesta I1 vs Prototype Vesta I1 - I'm Seeing Double!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to another update from the Crazy Russian laboratory so we've actually got
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a production model of the Vesta i1 and I
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just wanted to sort of run you guys through it in terms of the key
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differences between the Prototype model the one here that was on display at the
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NC Tech fair and the actual production model so the one on the tech fair I
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already covered this has the vinyl uh
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blue rainbowy stripey thing going on okay so we had already said that the
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production ones weren't going to come with that it also has an underg glowy
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thing going on that isn't available yet but hopefully will be coming at some
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point in the future other than that
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except for the hardware choices that the customer makes they are the same darn
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thing so come here and check this out you can see that the carbon fiber vinyl
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wrap is actually of exactly the same quality done by the same shop with the
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same procedure as the one that was in our you know special golden sample unit
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so you can see same all the details are
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very well detailed and then when it comes to the internal cabling so the
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Prototype was built by the Crazy Russian himself with the utmost care and
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attention because it's our prototype and we do all of our marketing based on that
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prototype unit all right so there's that
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see pretty tidy looks pretty good looks pretty clean okay and the production
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system was built by a random one of our
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techs downstairs in our production facility and you can can see once again
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pretty tight pretty clean looks awesome so we're just showing you guys the key
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difference between a production system and a non-production system which
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evidently is not a whole lot so this
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particular customer has gone within ASUS direct cu2 graphics card that's got
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their thick heat pipes on it and there're this is actually a special
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configuration where they're using an S shape on the heat pipes in order to get
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the best efficiency possible out of them that should be a 670 I believe is that a
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that's got to be a 670 okay so oh yeah there right on the back GTX 670 uh he's
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also decreased the RAM down to only 8
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gigs of RAM or maybe potentially 16 gigs of RAM yep 16 gigs of RAM and then you
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can see the Sabertooth uh placeholders are in their well their place that is
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being held by those uh we've got the Corsair h100 in here everything else is
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pretty much exactly what you'd find in the uh in the Prototype system except
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you know okay well know that's the same SSD except he's added an optical drive
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which you can see doesn't decrease the sexiness factor of it and uh I think
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that's pretty much all there is to say about it you can see it's uh being
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burned in for um billion hours on Prime 95 just because that's how the Crazy
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Russian rolls we want to make sure that whatever happens with these uh sort of
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letter number systems these are our premium premium systems so they do go
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through extensive validation to make sure that they are 100% ready to rock
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before they ship out and I think I think yeah that pretty much covers it so thank
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you for checking out our little Showcase of a fresh off the production line ready
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to ship to a customer Vesta i1 oh and
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also the carbon fiber case is going to be available on a couple other systems
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including the G2 and the Corsair dream machine so if you do want one of these
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carbon fiber cases and you don't necessarily want the Vesta I one you
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will be able to get one hopefully very soon