Silent SLI GTX 580 Core i7 Extreme Build in Define R3 Vesta 6050 Production System Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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today we have kind of a neat system from the NC PC lab now we did our Vesta 6050
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which uh the Prototype of which you can see right here we showed it running
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games we showed it being sort of designed okay so that's all fine and
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cool but we had a customer come to us and uh this is one of the first 6050
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series Systems off of our production line he came to us and he said well I
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want the Vesta 6050 I like the overall spec I want to make a couple small
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tweaks but I don't want such a big case I have some space considerations for
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where I'm putting my computer and we kind of went okay well what we'll do is
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we'll uh we'll see what we can do to customize the 650 into the smaller
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Define R3 chassis versus the larger
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Define XL chassis so we made a couple tweaks first of all the modu vent
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feature here uh we've taken off the
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sound dampening material and replaced it with a 140 mm exhaust fan so we do have
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some uh slightly warm air coming out of here that's drawing heat away from the
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graphics cards and other than that most of the internal specs are the same but
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the first thing I want to show you is the CPU temps so we are running the
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h70 so we are getting temperatures only
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as high as 60° that is with all 12
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threads on this 980x he did upgrade to a
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980x 6 core CPU all 12 threads are at
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100% using prime 95 small fft so now we
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can take the side panel off and obviously the temperatures are going to get even a little bit better once we
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remove the side panel Okay so we've taken that off here we go so I'll show
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you all of the other tweaks that he made to his personal config first he changed
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to an hx850 wat power supply from the tx850 power supply that is in the spec
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that allows us to uh maintain better Cable Management in this small case so
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we can make sure we have adequate air flow bringing air from the front of the
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case here from these 2 120 mil fans over to the graphics cards okay so that's one
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change that he made another change that he made is he added a killer Nick 2100
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these were on like crazy Black Friday promo for $449.99 so U yeah it's kind of
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a no-brainer at that price okay we've also added a storage drive now instead
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of using the WD green series he opted for a velociraptor series Drive in
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addition to his ocz vertex 2 SSD and then I believe that is oh yeah
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finally of course he upgraded to a 980x 6 core processor from the 950 quad core
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that we normally use so yeah you can clearly see that there now as an
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experiment we kind of built one built the system for him and this is right out
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of our production lab this is not a prototype built by crazy Russian or
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anything like that so this is pretty much what you can expect if you buy a system from NC and uh so we also wanted
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to run some 3D benchmarks to ensure that even with the side panel closed we're
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not going to get any overheating because two GTX 480s is 480s 580s is a pretty
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significant heat load and we also found that even with the two 580s the six cor
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processor etc etc there was no overheating now another thing that
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people seem to be concerned about and I I can't imagine why with our Vesta 6050
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prototype was that we were using an 850 W power supply with two GTX 580s
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well it's fine I can tell you that right
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now even with the 980s upgrade that we've made here this system running
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Prime 95 in the background running 3D Mark Vantage pulls no more than 726
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Watts from the wall now factoring in that the hx850 is about 88%
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efficient that means that we are actually pulling no more than 650 Watts
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from that power supply well within its rated capacity you've got an extra 200
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watts of additional power available yeah you're not going to be adding another
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GTX 580 with that kind of of an overhead but you also don't have to worry about
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adding any additional drives or adding a sound card or adding some more RAM
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that's a a non concern with 200 watts of
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additional room it also means that that I mean that's only when you're under the
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the highest load okay so when you're at idle you're pulling like a very very
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small portion of what this power supply is capable of achieving so we're going
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to run Vantage for you guys I'm going to put put the side panel back on so you've
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seen the max temps with the Corsair h70
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uh running with full load on the CPU but I also want to show you guys just how
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high the graphics cards get when we close this up and let it
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cook all right so we finished our Vantage test we've got SLI enabled
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obviously uh fizx however is off just so
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that we have scores that are more easily reproducible if you want to compare at
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home and you can see we scored 36,000 3D marks and that is in the
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performance mode you can tell by the P at the beginning and then the hottest
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that our gpus got are 87° on the top GPU
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and 80° on the bottom one that is pretty darn good although I have to tell you
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guys in some of the testing we did see it peek up around as high as 90 but you
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know it's still well within reason for a GTX 580 I also meant to mention that one
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of the other small tweaks that was made from this machine was dual 120 mm fan in
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the front rather than only a single and
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a card reader so that well the card reader is not all that significant but
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the uh the changes to the front intake are somewhat significant so thanks for
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checking out this little video on one of our well I mean I could call it a Vesta
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6050 but it's fairly customized because we did have to use a different case and
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revalidate The Thermals for that different case but yeah thanks for
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checking out the video on this custom system from NC and don't forget to
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