This Gaming PC is AWESOME! - EKWB Vanquish 295
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2021-05-05
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1,616 words · ~8 min read
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- Here today. We have the EK water blocks, fluid gaming.
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Oh, what the, heck's it called? Vanquish 295. I believe it is.
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Yes. Nailed it. It's water cooled. Well, of course it's water cooled, it's EK.
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But she's really frigging powerful. Yeah. Budget build rate here only, you know
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the least rich Saudi princes buy this one,
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(wheezes) you go into Dubai with this thing and they're just like, Oh, damn it.
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You got the EK fluid gaming? What the hell are you even doing?
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I don't even think it has SLI-39, so like (lip trill)
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We get a tube, presumably for filling? Oh, draining, actually it says it right there.
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All of the other cables that would come with your power supply, I guess its an EVGA one.
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And two and a half inch drive bays. Everyone's favorite way to open these.
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Oh, heck yeah. Oh yeah. That is sex back right there.
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Yeah. One thing to note is that it did not come pre-filled, our logistics guys did that for us.
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I'm pretty sure that it was really easy though. Cause they have just like a fill port right there and a drain port down there,
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if you ever want to take the fluid out and that way you don't have to worry about like, things move around a lot in shipping.
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So if you couldn't tell this is based off of a Lian Li 0-11-D, in my opinion, it's basically one
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of the best computer cases on the market right now. It has cool things
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like the ability to put two power supplies in it. If you're De Bauer
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(wheezes) and it also has such a good setup
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for custom water cooling and EK has taken full advantage of that.
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Now what you normally don't get in an 0-11-D is this frigging incredible distribution block
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and reservoir and pump combo that they have up here.
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Oh, you do get these fairly small hardline tubes.
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I think those are like 10 mils. Oh wow.
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Yeah. It looks like that, something unpleasant happened to this in the shipping. You can see a little bow right here.
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Yeah. The box looks pretty good. Let's turn this on just to figure out
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exactly how this flows. Oh, there we go.
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That's a good sploosh right there. No leaking that I can see.
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Okay. And now we know for sure that the way that I thought it was going to flow
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it actually does. There's a little spinning wheel here that shows us that the water is actually flowing.
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Pump pumps here goes out into the GPU, down into here and then
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across into the CPU comes back in here into
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Radiator One which looks like a 240, then into Radiator Two,
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which is a 360. And then it comes back into the big old reservoir right here
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which I imagine is going to have absolutely no trouble cooling this thing, like just this 360
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probably totally fine for the system. Chuck in the 240 there as well.
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And she's, she's real good to go. So like we have an X570 prime as the motherboard here
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you could technically have like a crosshair or
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like a strict gaming E, which would be better. But at the same time, I highly doubt.
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It's going to give you any actual more performance RTX 3090, fastest GPU you can get.
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I guess you could put two of them in here, but in the vast majority of cases, one is going to
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be just as fast. If not faster. As for the CPU, Ryzen 9 5950X,
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fastest CPU on the market, that's kind of just how she goes.
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64 gigabytes of 3,200, I believe it's C16,
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but they didn't say, memory from G-Skill and
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to round the whole thing out, you get a 970 EVO. So they could have gone for the 980
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which does support PCIe 4.0. But at the same time, you can't really saturate PCI 3.0
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so it doesn't super matter. And in the back here, we have a four terabyte hard drive
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for all of your games. From the front I would say that the cable management
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is exceptional for a prebuild. This one right here.
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I guess if I was to really complain, could be
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marginally better, but only marginally. This is really well done.
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It just looks really sick. Okay. So the timings on this RAM
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is C-Sixteen-Eighteen, Eighteen-Thirty-Eight,
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which is pretty good. I believe, I'm not a RAM overclocking kind
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of person because it's always a terrible time. But if that's your jam, I imagine this stuff
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does pretty good where they might be hiding. Some badness though is in the back, I guess
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that the airflow goes sucking in through here and in
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through the bottom and then exhausting through the radiator
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at the top, which is actually a pretty smart way to do it. So this is a thousand watt, EVGA Supernova G5.
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It's just a fantastic power supply. Take a look here.
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Oh, that's really quite well done, for like, a prebuild.
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Then finally you can see the hard drive is right here. One thing, that's nice, that they did do, is there
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is another SETA connector already placed right there.
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So if you want to chuck in another hard drive, it's already basically run.
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You do have to put a SETA cable down. Now the final kind of janky thing that they did
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is the motherboard does not support Wi-Fi
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but they threw in an MSI Wi-Fi card.
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I don't know why they do that. Like it's the sort of thing where it doesn't matter.
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This Wi-Fi cards probably better than onboard Wi-Fi overall though
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like this thing is just exceptionally well done. Like you expect it.
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It's, you know, a $6,000 gaming PC,
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but again, I've seen pretty stupid stuff
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and very expensive prebuild's before, so good job EK.
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All right, we got her all set up and this is my favorite part.
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That's luxurious right there. Oh, now, that was a fantastic peel.
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But what's not as appealing is the fact that they used a DDC pump in this.
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It should have a D5. There's no reason it should have a DDC. It's this big, DDC's suck, D5's are good.
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Come on EK, you know this. Ahhhaha (uncomfortable laughing)
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Well it's I don't think this is EK's fault, but that's not good.
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Yeah. We used boot time. Excellent. But what the heck happened there?
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Let's see here. Let's boot up Doom maternal again and hopefully we don't get a blue screen.
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Okay. Doom maternal opened. Now we're not even in the game.
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What? What is this? Why?
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Oh, something might be broken. Okay. I have no clue why the blue screens were happening.
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Okay. So Doom just open. We're just idling with CPU temp
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in the mid-50s and the GPU also in the mid-50s.
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That's good for now, but let's see how good we go here.
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All right. We're looking at
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above 200 FPS for sure. Overall though, unsurprisingly,
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a 3090 is delivering excellent gaming performance.
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Something's weird with this system. So earlier today I was using basically
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this exact same config. So 5950X and a 3090,
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and a case that was about this big that was using mostly EK's stuff.
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And it was being cooled better than this, despite the fact
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that this should be better in basically every single way.
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Yeah. Maybe they overclocked it from the factory. Oh, okay.
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Yup. They had auto overclocking enabled. So that's probably what did it, so nevermind.
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System's working great. It was just overclocked and I didn't know.
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Let's do this again. You had me scared there, EK.
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Okay. So the CPU's already gotten above 80 degrees.
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Something's wrong with this computer? Something-Something's terribly wrong.
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I genuinely don't think it's EK's fault. We saw clearly that it was damaged in shipping.
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Like the bottom in here, is pretty mangled.
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I don't know what's going on without totally taking it apart, but,
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Oh, that's disappointing. This thing is so freaking cool.
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It's legitimately like one of the coolest computers that I've ever unboxed.
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Like you just look at it. It's freaking awesome. I'm sorry, EK.
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None of this was your fault. You built an awesome system and it got damaged.
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I really hope that we get another one in, at some point in time that's not broken or we can fix this one.
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We almost definitely can. Like, I'm not worried about that.
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Get subscribed, have a great old day. See ya.