NCIX PC Vesta 3050 $1199.99 SLI Performance Gaming System Crysis Benchmark Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,085 words · ~5 min read
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so this is the crisis time demo the GPU test running on the SLI performance
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package version of the Vesta 3050 Series so this one is
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actually $1.99 so it's around $1,200 Canadian dollar uh compared to the other
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one which is around $900 Canadian dollars but you do get some pretty cool
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upgrades for your extra 300 bucks I mean I had people saying oh well that's not a
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very good gaming machine blah blah blah I mean well it's $900 what do you expect
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so for a few hundred more you get uh an i5 760 quadcore you get an additional
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GTX 460 you get an upgraded power supply
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so the actual one on the Builder is is a
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cic 600 wat which is actually is this
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plugged into the power meter right now yeah right now we're pulling 371 Watts
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from the wall so it's more than enough and then you also get an upgrade to a
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1.5 TB hard drive so I want to emphasize
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that this is Crisis running at 1920x 1080 so you can see up here in the
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corner our average FPS is just under 40 and uh
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and we're actually running this with all of the details options maxed out as well
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as 2x anti-aliasing so this is pretty
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much the highest graphical quality that you can get out of
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Crisis and I think that's pretty much everything I wanted to say so I'm just
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going to quit the time
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demo aha there we go and then we can close that close this anyway so if you
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want to find these uh you can either click the link under the YouTube video
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that works or if you go on the NC site you can either go to buy a PC and then
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navigate through NX Fusion to either the
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Vesta I 33050 SLI base so that's the
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basic package which we already showed the performance of the other day and
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then there's also the I5 3050 SLI performance so that's the the $1,200
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package that we're showing right now
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so uh actually you know what I showed 3D Mark for the other one which was around,
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,000 points and this one scores about 24,000 points so for another few hundred
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bucks you actually get a lot more gaming performance for your dollar uh something
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else to bear in mind we had a lot of people comparing their rigs against what
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we're doing here and saying oh well I've got a quad core but then they would say
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things like oh but I have a 5770 it's like that's great but a 5770 is going to
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get absolutely curb stomped by gtx460 so
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the reason that we took the G that we took a lower-end processor in this case
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a dual core or if you get the performance package of quad core and
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paired it up with a high-end GPU is in games running at HD resolutions or
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higher even you always get more benefit from a premium graphics card than you
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would necessarily from U more cores on your CPU especially with current games
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now if you're moving forward yeah you probably want to have a quad core but if
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you're just thinking in terms of the next couple years a dual core is going to be sufficient for sure anyway this is
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the little uh ad that you can see if you
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navigate to it the other way so that's if you click the little link on the
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right hand side of the page ncpc Vesta 3050 gaming systems you get dropped on
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this page where it actually talks about some of the other cool things for
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example it comes with a free Starcraft 2 trial it comes with a copy of Metro 2033
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it comes with a copy of Just Cause 2 and that's both of the packages come with
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all of those games uh and game Trials cuz Starcraft 2 is a trial it's silent
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so you can I guess you if you wanted to you could click the links here to see
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the other videos we already did and then you can see the Vantage run that we did
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on the base package where it scores about 14,000 points here there's a
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little thing where you can Mouse over and see all of the uh special call out
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features that we're talking about I mean this is mostly about how it's silent and
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how you're getting high gaming performance out of either of these two
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machines for the dollar and then there's a couple other things down here so you can add a 3D Vision bundle so it's
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actually 3D Vision ready with the single card and then it's even 3D Vision
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surround ready if you have two GTX 460s in here so you can see back there you've
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got all four DVI outputs that you would need to run 3D Vision surround and then
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you've got a Logitech gaming bundle if you need a keyboard and mouse and then
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you can also throw Office 2010 on there if you uh had the need for that because
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remember these are for back to school right so you need office because you're
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doing lots of work on your computer that
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is clearly a work computer thanks for checking out my video blog and I hope
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you've enjoyed it oh yeah I should probably also say if
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you actually click on either of these links it takes you to our PC Builder
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where you can make any changes you want so you can pick a different color case
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although the special pricing only applies to the default config so if
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you're going to change anything you probably want to uh you know bear in
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mind that you're going to be paying a little bit more because these are priced very aggressively with the uh the
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components that we've selected so you can upgrade to 8 gigs of RAM you can uh
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you can change to 1 gig series video cards if you want anyway you can play
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around with it get it exactly the way you want it and and then all you have to
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do is check out pretty cool