NCIX PC Vesta 5050 Gaming PC on the Test Platform Linus Tech Tips
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·2011-05-08
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that's right guys we have another update from the NC PC lab so this is the Vesta
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i7 5050 and what we've aimed to do with
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this particular system is create a flexible platform where users can for
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the same price either choose a GeForce
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solution which is what we have running on the bench right now or a radon
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solution so it's going to be available in a couple of different configurations
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that are going to be priced exactly the same so basically you're going to get all of
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this configuration Plus either graphics card so it has a core i7 960 so with the
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recent price drop on the 960 you can now get a 960 at 3.2 GHz for the same price
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as the 950 I mean even though both CPUs
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have been out in the market for a similar time the 950 is not going to
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drop any further it's just going to pretty much be phased out and the 960 is
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going to be a replacement so you get a little bit bit more value for your dollar that way we're going to be using
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a coolit Eco liquid cooling kit once we get it installed in the real case which
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is going to be an NZXT Phantom white
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right there so we're going to have liquid cooling on that CPU so if you
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wanted to do some overclocking once you get your system then Be Our Guest we're
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going to be using mushkin enhanced Silverline memory so this is DDR3 1333
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very low voltage Kit only a 1.5 volt kit
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so you're going to be able to have overclocking room on that as well the
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system is all about overclocking you can see right here we've got an isus
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Sabertooth tough series motherboard once again all about overclocking now
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speaking of overclocking we're using a very high quality power supply which is
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one of the things that is necessary for pushing a system past its regular limit
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so it's a cic 620 wat and as you can see
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from our power meter here the absolute maximum power draw we've managed to
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achieve with this system from the wall is 391 1 watt so since this is an 80
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plus bronze power supply that means that we're looking at about 39 about about 65
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is Watts maybe about 70 Watts less than this in terms of actual power draw from
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the power supply itself so only about 330 Watts which means you should have
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plenty of overhead even to add an additional graphics card if you want and
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the power supply will operate quite silently so you can see here we're
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running Lost Planet 2 very demanding direct EX title we've scored a rank of a
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in the test B Benchmark and let me just
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show you guys what settings we are actually running all of this at so I'm
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going to show you the settings uh crazy Russian says he's got it maxed out
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at 1280 by 720 what the deuce okay so
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crazy Russian hardcore failed running it at the wrong
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resolution you can see we're running The Benchmark again now at 1920 by 1200
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which would be a proper PC gaming resolution not 1280 by 720 okay so
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anyway let's keep talking about the config while this runs and we'll show you the overall score at the end so
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we're going to be shipping this configuration with a 60 gig ocz vertex 2
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SSD as well as a wd green 1 tbte drive
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for storage now I realize we're not running off the SSD right now but
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there's a very good reason for that which I'm not going to get too far into
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basically crazy Russian didn't bother to install the OS on the SSD
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so that's okay we're running our benchmarks without it uh what else do we
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got here oh yeah if you guys want to check out the relative performance of
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these two cards on a like test platform you can check out my video review
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actually of the GTX 560 TI where I cover
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these two cards as well as the 560 TI and a variety of modern games I think
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when we left off we were just going to talk about the performance so why don't
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we actually hold off on filming until
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this is done and we'll show you guys how this setup performs in the demanding
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ever demanding Lost Planet 2 directx11
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game all right so there we go we ranked B which means that the game is very
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playable okay so we rarely dip below the
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45 frames per second range here actually
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you can see the average is about 45 FPS so as long as you don't go below 30 it's
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going to be delivering a very playable experience and this is without any
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overclocking on any of these parts so the system's going to ship for 99.99 and
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I'll do an update for you guys uh with the radon card versus the GeForce card
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at the equivalent price points once we've got the system fully configured
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and properly built within the NZXT Phantom case thanks for watching don't
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