Vesta 5350 OC System Showcase & Overclocking Speed Finalization Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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So, here we are a mere 12 hours later or so, and we have the Vesta 5350 OC
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validated at its factory overclock. So, we're actually going to be taking the
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2500K processor that's included with this system and clocking it at 4 GHz out
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of the box for your high performance
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computing pleasure. Now, you can also see here that our max CPU temperatures
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in our lab at that uh at that frequency
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are just over 60°. And this is with four
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instances of Prime 95 running with small
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FFTs. And it's actually been running. I'm not I'm not sure how long it's been
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running. Let's find out how long Crazy Russian has had it on the bench. And for
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some reason, he's still pointing over there. And now he's pointing at me. My
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mind is blown. Okay, let's stop the workers. And we see it's been running
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for 15 hours and 4 minutes. That is a validated overclock. So now let's have a
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look at what the system looks like once it gets installed in the case. So
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because we're using the Define R3, all the cable management features are here
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for our use. So all the power supply cables are able to be tucked away quite
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tidily. Same with the SATA cables, the PCI Express cables, the 24 pin, and even
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the 8pin power connector for the motherboard. You can see now that it's
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not on the test bench test bench. Test
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bench. We've got the Eco water cooling
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system installed and is using the rear
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120 mm exhaust on the case in order to
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take that heat from the CPU and blast it right out of being used for exhaust.
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Right. Yes. And blast that uh that hot
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air right out of the case. So, the other components are not going to suffer in
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their cooling because of it. We've got our GTX 560, which is actually the
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loudest thing in the system. This thing is really, really
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quiet. You probably can't even hear it on the camera cuz it's incredibly quiet.
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The eco fan is is very, very quiet. The pump is quiet and CIC power supplies are
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pretty much all quiet. So then all we're left with is the front cooling fan,
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which is taking care of our 1 TBTE boot drive. That's a WD blue, as well as our
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40 gig Intel 320 series SSD for
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caching. I'll just show you guys uh the front of the case. If you're not already
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familiar with the Define R3, you can see we've got two 5 and a/4 in bays for
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optical expansion. We've got two front
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120 mm fan slots. only one of them is populated by default to cool those those
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drives. The other one you could populate down the road if you wanted to. And it
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does have the modu vent cooling system. So that means you can actually take out
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these covers here and install up to an additional
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two or 140 mm fans in the top. And you
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can actually remove the modu on the side and install an additional 120 mm or
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rather or 140 mm fan on the side as
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well. So, if you were going to do something like go with an SLI graphics,
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or if you were going to not use the Kool-Aid Eco and you were going to use
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an air cooled heat sink, you might want to install some additional cooling in
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order to make sure your system's performing up to par. And I think that's
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pretty much it. So, I just wanted to show you guys what we were able Sorry
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about that. What we were able to do in the lab with the Vesta 5350 OC and uh
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the overclock we've achieved. Oh, yeah. One thing I didn't mention in this video is that we are running 8 gigs of Mushkin
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Silver Line RAM in here. Thanks for
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