ORIGIN PC Un-build Log - Showcase & Teardown
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,938 words · ~9 min read
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so about a month ago origin PC did a live stream of building a very special
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machine one for me so it's finally here
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in a massive wooden crate and
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naturally the first thing I'll be doing is tearing it apart welcome to another
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unbuild log here on minus Tech tips if I
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could only get this on the table
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okay so I don't know who came up with Origins premium shipping containers but
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this thing is amazing it actually feels
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like the stuff inside is worth
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$4,000 which in this case is probably
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because it is it's quite a high-end config so you start by removing all the
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screws from the top of the wooden crate
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you can do this by
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hand but I would strongly recommend that you whip out an electric drill if you're
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not looking to uh beef up those forearms
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then the side comes off you slide the cardboard box out of the wooden crate
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remove these plastic lock things and lift the whole top of the box up to
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reveal the accessory carton with some good stuff like extra power supply
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cables uh magnetic Wi-Fi antennas and
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ooh an RGB lighting controller and some Le L useful stuff like CDs and a DVI to
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VGA adapter as well as the most glorious
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Soft Cell foam I have ever laid my hands on I mean I know I'm going on and on
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about the packaging at this point but it just keeps getting better the case is
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shrouded in this cloth scratch cover and when you lift that off bam more badass
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foam this uh bag stuff works by mixing a
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couple of expanding chemicals when you break the internal separator kind of
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like a glow stick then what it does is it expands to fill in all the nooks and
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crannies making it much safer to ship systems with graphics cards
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pre-installed I remember looking into these back when I worked for a system
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integrator we got a couple of samples and then decided against it due to the
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uh ching ching that they were going to cost us now I've seen Origins Millennium
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case at shows but I've never really been
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handson with it it is surprisingly well thought out mine is a midtower
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configuration without the modular bottom piece for more drives or Cooling and
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with a beautiful red accent paint job that goes perfectly with the component
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choices inside I let them pick the hardware since they're the ones ponying
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up for the system here so I removed this back cover this is here because the
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motherboard can go in four different ways or something like that so the io
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might not always end up going to the rear and fired up the system there's
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that RGB lighting it's got the same basic controls as you'd expect so
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whatever color you want on the inside uh
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sort of front top side accent pieces and the front logo but with a Twist there's
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a button on the case that you can push to control a completely separate UV LED
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strip I don't have any UV reactive Parts in this machine but it's a nice touch
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for those who do with the system fired up I checked out the pre-installed
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programs actually nothing too bad in here and then I ran some stress tests to
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ensure that system temperatures and performance were as expected one cool
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note is that while I took my readings from Ida 64 and software the CPU temp
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can also be read from a little display directly on the motherboard cool the
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video cards brought about the first challenge in my unbuild even I fix it
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couldn't save me from these skinny holes to reach the GPU screws so I needed my
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old Jeweler screwdrivers and a pair of pliers to extract them and actually no
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not quite I also needed some side Cutters since the PCI Express power
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connectors were cleverly cable managed to the fan power for the video card so
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they would not move at all speaking of
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the video card though these are MSI gaming series GTX 980 TI normally I
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prefer rear exhaust cards but this case
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has ample air flow between the rear top
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and bottom fans for the extra heat that gets blown around inside the case and
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these types of coolers do do a better job of keeping the card itself cool and
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you can see that in the results from cooling even though it was 32° outside
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on the day that I was doing this testing the CPU Cooler is a custom jobby from
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acitech you can tell from the design of the hold down with Origins branding on
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the Block and the long quinch tubes go over to the front where they're
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connected to the radiator before we look at that though we'll pull out the CPU
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the core i7 67 100K is pretty much the
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perfect choice for a system of this class as long as you don't intend to add
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more graphics cards or a ton more PCI Express expansion cards keeping it cool
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is a massive triple 120 mm radiator
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something I had wished for from the major AI makers for ages with three
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origin branded fans running through a clever little Cable Management grommet
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to a fan Splitter on a custom PCB near the front of the chassis hiding behind
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the 5 and a quarter inch Bay it should be noted that this is one of the few
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things on this case that is not symmetrical for power it doesn't get
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much more Overkill than a 1,300 watt EVGA G2 and while the
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Supernova blows up everything and takes
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everything else with it branding of evga's power supplies doesn't make a ton
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of sense to me I can't argue with the quality or in this case the cable
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management I don't know why more case makers like
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people who just make cases not origin
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who has their case designed and put systems in it I don't know why more case
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makers don't build their products like this there are so many cable management
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points they cost nothing extra to manufacture and make life so much easier
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for the Builder who wants to do a professional job of cable management
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behind the motherboard tray Origins motherboard choice is a little more
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Overkill than I would normally opt for for a personal system but I can't fault
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the features of the z170a gaming M9 a it's got the onboard
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sound isolated from the rest of the PCB dual m.2 slots for up to two m.2 ssds
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it's got a ton of IO including USB type-c dual front USB 3 headers for the
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four front ports on this case it's got ample Cooling and a flashy thank
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goodness I don't have to install anything but the be driver killer
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networking solution for RAM it appears
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at first that they've gone with plain Jane dual Channel hyperx Fury ddr4 but
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wait what's that I want hyperx REM with
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my name on it that is freaking awesome
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which I guess leads us to mass storage I really liked the hot swap system for
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this case one of the weird things is that only three of the bays are plugged
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in out of the factory so you might have to guess and check a little to find out
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which ones have SATA connections there's no reason that they shouldn't have been
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able to run a couple more cables and do them all but overall the 1 TB Seagate
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drive that ships in the system should be well protected and well cooled by this
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aluminum 5 Bay hot swap cage with expansion being a piece of cake our
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optical drive is well you guessed it it's an optical drive woohoo it's one of
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those things that used to have sex appeal actually and now is about as
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interesting to enthusiasts as a USB powered Jack Lantern probably less there
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are a few things that I want to take a closer look at here on the case it took
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me a while but I finally figured out the front logo illumination and how that
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happens without any power leads going to it there's an LED that comes out of that
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custom PCB that they have in the in the front top of the case that handles the
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IR receiver for the RGB lighting as as well as all the front IO and front
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buttons and all of that good stuff I also figured out how they mount the
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motherboard in the different configurations so you just take these
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rails unscrew them and there are just a
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ton of holes in this baby so depending
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on what orientation you want to mount it in let's say we wanted a reverse ATX you
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just move them around to where they go and you slide the motherboard tray in
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the other way you put some screws back in and there you have it while I was
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doing that though I discovered that one of the RGB lighting strips was in the
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way of trying to orient the motherboard the other way and it turns out this is
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really cool origin actually did up their own RGB lighting strips they've actually
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like got their name right on the back of the pcbs so these use a hard PCB rather
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than a flexible one and then they are hard mounted with standoffs and screws
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to the case rather than rying on adhesive cuz if as you guys probably
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know if you've ever used LED strips that adhesive can come off pretty easily
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especially over time that's an over-engineered solution to the problem
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of LED strips falling off in shipping but I really really like it so there you
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have it guys my unbuild treatment of origin PC's Masterpiece
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is complete I have reduced it to its
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bare components and if you guys were thinking well gee
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next time