Vesta 6050 QC Testing Almost Complete - Some Real Life Video Gaming Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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996 words · ~4 min read
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So, here we are in the TechTip studio and uh apparently the cameraman's
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interested in my shirt. This is my new hoodie. I got it for Christmas. It's a
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bit of an early present. Vancouver Conucks. Go Knucks. Okay, so here we
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have the Vesta 6050 system that I showed kind of an inrogress build of. So, I
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just want to go over the overall specs again. We've got the Core i7 950. That's
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a quad core hyperthreading processor with the Corsair H70 liquid cooling
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all-in-one unit on it. So, it's running nice and cool no matter what we throw at
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it. We've got 12 gigs of RAM. We've also got an ASUS Rampage Formula motherboard
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in here. So, that's an X58 board running dual GTX 580 graphics card. So, these
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are the top of the range single GPU graphics cards on the market. They are
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capable of all of NVIDIA's exclusive technologies like CUDA, PhysX, 3D
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Vision. And as you can see on the left here, we have the Crazy Russian himself,
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who is as part of our validation process for this system demonstrating NVIDIA
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Surround Gaming in Mafia 2, which is one of the games that takes advantage of all
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of those awesome NVIDIA technologies. Now, this is just the introduction, and
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we're actually going to have him showing off a very intense scene with lots of
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broken glass and guns and explosions and
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all kinds of good stuff. So, we can really show you what physics can do to
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enrich the gameplay experience. So, a couple other things I want to show you
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guys. SSD means we've got nice fast
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loading times no matter what we're doing on this system. That's a 120 gig Vertex
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2. And then we've also got a storage
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drive here. So I believe it's uh h I
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can't remember how big the storage drive is, but I think it's 2 terbte. Hopefully. Uh yep, two terb. Nice. I got
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the I got the thumbs up over there. All right. Then in terms of power supply,
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we've got a TX850 power supply, which is more than capable of providing all the
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power needed for this system. And we're able to maintain even during a gaming
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scenario relatively quiet operation.
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Now, we could probably Yeah, we could probably turn down those Corsair fans a
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little bit, but it's not the end of the world. And that's part of what keeps it
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running. So cool. And I mean, hey, that's good, right? So,
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anyway, this is the introduction. So, we'll come back when uh when the Russian
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is ready for us to show off some of the more intensive gaming experiences. I'm
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not Russian. I'm Soviet Canadian. Well, whatever that you can have with this
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machine. All right. So now we are going to demonstrate the Vesta 60/50 with all
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the physics, zeal, and fury that we can
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muster. All right, so here we go. So we're going to have water effects all
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over the place, destructible environments, broken glass. I think the
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Russians playing on easy right now, but uh you know, I guess they're not very
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good at video games in Russia, so it's somewhat understandable. So we'll get to
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actually video game plays here. Yeah, whatever.
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So, here here he is hiding behind the corner and hopefully he starts to cause
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some uh real havoc here pretty quick.
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I've actually never played this game before, so that's why I asked him to do
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the uh the gameplay video for
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me. Hey. Hey. Nice. There we go. Causing
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senseless havoc. Love it. So, you can see that the glass is all persistent in
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the environment here. And you should probably kill that
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guy that's shooting at you. And uh
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that's powered by NVIDIA CUDA. So uh
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with their physics technology, they're able to Yeah, it's actually kind of
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neat. They're able to well die and then fall on the broken glass. Does the glass
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move when you die? It's okay. We'll be back at the Red Dragon restaurant in
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just a moment here. And yeah, so that was pretty much the whole point of this.
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This is the latest system we've developed at NCIX. It is based on the
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fastest technologies that we can throw together in a very very nice quiet
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enclosure and hopefully you guys enjoy it. We do have the two configurations
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available. So the one is going to run you about and I've got my cheat sheet
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there about 1,800 bucks and that one is with single 580. It has an H50 water
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cooler instead of the H70. You've got 12 gigs of lower speed RAM instead of the
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higher speed RAM. And you've also got a lower-end power supply. And then if you
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go with the performance edition, that one's around 2600. You get the faster
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memory, you get the bigger water cooler, you get the storage hard drive instead
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of no storage hard drive. They both have an SSD. You also get the upgraded power
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supply. And hopefully I am not missing anything, right? You get the uh Republic
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of Gamers motherboard. So on the base one, you will get a
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P6X58DE motherboard. And on this one, you get the Rampage 3 Formula. So, thank
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you for checking out this video on the Mafia 2 gameplay footage with the Vesta
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6050. Don't forget to subscribe to Lionus Tech Tips and big thanks to our
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Soviet Canadian friend over there for doing our gameplay
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demo. If you want to see something really pathetic, this is cameraman. He
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actually got further into the level than Crazy Russian, and they are on the same
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difficulty level. Nice.