NCIX PC Vesta 3050 V2 Complete System Showcase Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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All right, so we've got the Vesta 3050 V2. This is the upgraded configuration
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featuring Sandy Bridge. It is pre-overclocked. So, I want to show you
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guys what it looks like when it's off of the Highspeed PC Techstation test
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platform and into the Fractal Design Define R3 white, Arctic White rather,
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case. So, here there's one thing I missed in my unboxing of the Arctic
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White Define R3, and that's that the LED here has been changed from blue to red.
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So, there's uh something to show you guys here. I have still an empty fan
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spot. You can populate that in your system if you want, but then I have one
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fan that's spinning in there. We've got a uh DVD multi in the front. We've got a
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whole bunch of stuff running over here, which I'll get to in just a moment, but I just want to show you guys how all of
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the hardware packs into this case for
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optimal hardware packing. So, here we've
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got the MSI P67A GD53
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at the core of our system. So, that supports Sandybridge processor, supports
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up to 16 gigs of DDR3 dual channel
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memory. So here we've got a kit of DDR33
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from GSkill. All right, we've got a GTX
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560 graphics card. So this is the performance package, which means that
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Oh, this is the performance package. So I think yeah, the 1600 had already been
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tested and I believe the 1600 skew was pulled out in order to validate the DDR3
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1333 skew with the auto overclocking
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feature of the MSI motherboard. So you can see here that OC Genie is enabled
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and so that means that our CPU is actually not running at the default
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clock speed of 3.4 GHz I believe it is
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and it is instead running at 4.2 GHz and
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cooled by the Coolit Eco ALC water
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cooling system. So right here the Eco actually has rotating uh fittings here.
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So no matter what, your system is going to not have any undo stress on the water
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cooling hosing. You do not ever have to maintain the Cool It Eco because it's
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pre-sealed, preconfigured, pre- everything. And uh so you don't have to
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worry about any of that. One of the things I want to show you guys is we do have the Eco set up for exhaust. So, you
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could actually potentially get even better temperatures by configuring your
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Vesta 3050 with dual exhaust fans in the
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top and then an intake fan at the back
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instead of an exhaust cuz that way you could be using fresh air instead of
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heated air in order to cool your CPU. Now, one of the other things we've got
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here is a CIC 620 W 80 plus bronze power
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supply. Although, as you'll see, uh, with our power meter here, the absolute
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max power draw we were able to achieve with this system was 363 watts from the
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wall. So, really, that's about 320
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watts, probably less than that. Probably about 315 watts being pulled from the
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power supply. And that was running small FFTs on the CPU for maximum power draw
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on the CPU as well as 3D Mark1 on the graphics card simultaneously. So, the
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620 W power supply is totally overkill. It's never going to ramp up in terms of
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fan speed. Always going to run nice and cool and quiet. So, we've got an OCZ
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Vertex 220 gig SSD for our boot drive
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here. And then for our storage drive, we have a 1 TBTE drive from I believe it's
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Western Digital Green Series Drive. Uh
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you can add as many as, you know, eight SSDs or storage drives should you so
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desire. And that would be a pretty extreme configuration. So let's turn our
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attention to the screen here where we are running our Prime 95 test on all
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eight virtual cores of the 2600K processor. You can see here our 2600K is
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clocked at 4.19 GHz using OC Genie and
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that also enables uh any XMP profiles
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that are present on the memory. So in this case we're running the 1333 memory
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right now. So, there are no XMPP profiles, but if you did configure it
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with XMPP profiled memory, it would enable that and you'd get the the
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tighter XMPP timings. So, I think that's pretty much everything to say about
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that. Oh, here's our temps, right? So, CPU temps, the maximum we've seen is
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about 70°. So, that is pretty darn impressive, especially considering that
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this is a silence optimized chassis and not necessarily an airflow optimized
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chassis. And that is while running 3D benchmarks as well as CPU benchmarks.
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Oh, what's this? Why did he move it? Oh,
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okay. It looks like the highest we've seen is about 75. Still not bad. still
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within reason, especially considering that in a real world load environment,
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you are never going to stress your CPU as much as eight threads of Prime 95 at
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the same time, plus a bunch of heat from the graphics card causing it to be
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warmer inside and all that stuff. So, you can see our CPU usage is pinned at
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100%. We've done our full overnight test
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with the DDR3600 modules, which I've borrowed on another
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platform to test something else. And then it's going to run again overnight
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on the 1333 modules and then we are ready to launch this system and it will
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be available to the public because it will be fully validated. Don't forget
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you can also buy the basic platform which has a 2500 K a GTX 460 a lower-end
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power supply and it does not have an SSD for the boot drive and it has the 1333
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RAM and I think those are all the changes and that one is available for a
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lower price as well. Actually, Crazy Russian wanted me to
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show you one more thing. So, I'm just going to Okay, here. Uh, come around to
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the back so you can hear how how loud the system is under load.
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So, still not very loud, especially with the silent chassis and the fact that we
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have the mic positioned directly behind the case, which your ears will never be,
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but I'm going to turn off Prime 95
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and you're going to hear that ramp right down. So, when you are not taxing the
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system to the max, this thing is so
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quiet. Very, very impressive. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips
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