Vesta G1 Special Edition Gaming System Featuring GTX 590 on the Test Bench Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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So, for those of you who are pretty uh adept at guessing things, you might have
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guessed when we did the Vesta R1 limited edition system that perhaps we would do
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a Vesta G1 limited edition system. I am pleased to announce that the Vesta R1
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was a complete success. We sold out all five systems in a matter of hours. So,
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we are actually going to be doing a larger run of the Vesta G1. At this
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point, it looks like we're probably going to do somewhere between 20 to 30 systems and they are going to be, wait
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for it, painted green, right? Right.
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Because it's NVIDIA. Yes. Okay. So, we have our prototype system in the paint
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shop right now, but I wanted to show you what Crazy Russian's been working on at
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his crazy test bench. So, this is the Vesta G1 in its most being tested form.
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So, I'm gonna walk you guys through the specs. We're actually going to do two different versions of the system. One of
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them is going to have a Core i7 970 6
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core processor with 12 gigs 12 gigs of
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RAM. It's going to have a single GTX 590 and it will have an AX 850 power supply.
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Now, the upgraded version is going to have a Core i790X
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extreme edition processor, 24 gigs of RAM, and dual GTX 590s for which it will
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need an AX 1200 W power supply in order to run adequately. So, we're going to be
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building for our demo system the more basic model because that's what most
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people will likely be buying. And I just want to walk you guys through what else
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is going to be in here. So, come in and get some shots of the test bench because this looks awesome. This is the GTX 590.
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We've got the G1 Killer Sniper motherboard from Gigabyte, which is
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going to match perfectly with our with our GeForce themed color scheme. We are
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not going to be using a stock cooler. We are actually going to be using the Corsair H70 again. And for our boot
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drive, we won't be using Crazy Russian's fail ancient hard drive. We will be
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using a Corsair Performance 3 series SATA 31 128 GB SSD.
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Uh we will I think I already mentioned we were going to use the AX850 in the
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base model and we're going to have a Blu-ray uh writer. Actually, most of the
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specs are fairly similar to the R1. The big difference is going to be the GTX
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590 and the other big difference is going to be that we are using the X58
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platform with triple channel memory and a six core processor instead of the
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quadcore processor and P67 platform that
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we used last time around. So, this is just it's more of a a variation rather
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than being like uh better or worse because the G1 will be more suitable for
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things like video encoding, uh video rendering, uh anything with uh with 3D,
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okay, not necessarily games. Whereas the R1, because it only has four cores, is
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not quite as fast for those things, but is also very very fast for gaming. These
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are still gaming systems. And I think that's pretty much everything I have to
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say about the G1. So you guys do stay tuned as we are going to be doing some
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in progress updates on the Linus Tech Tips channel and I will show you guys as
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soon as I get my hands on the case. It looks like it's probably going to be Monday morning I'll get a chance to look
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at the case. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings,
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reviews, NCX PC videos, and all kinds of
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other great stuff. Thanks for watching. Crazy Russian gave me a hard time for
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forgetting to mention that what's so awesome about the Sniper board is that
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it has hardwarebased X5. That is a creative CA20 K2 chip and it also has a
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hardwarebased E2100 Killer Nick card
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built in with its own cache. So that is actually a pretty good value because you
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don't have to buy a sound card. You have a headphone amped very very decent sound
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card built right into the motherboard as well as a dedicated gaming nick.