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so we're having a look at another NCIX PC system this is the vesta 2050 so last time we were looking at the 3050 and this one has some key changes first of all you can see the case is quite a bit different this is a value gaming case from Coolermaster this is the brand new half 9/10 so you can actually I wanted to treat this video kind of as a look at the 9/10 as well as as a look at this particular gaming system it looks like oh shoot it looks like I managed to unplug the DVI cable there well there we go it's back it's working awesome so you can see we're running a mafia 2 benchmark here you don't actually have to look at that camera man but I'm gonna go ahead and pick this off so we've got half okay half stands for high air flow so you can see the side panel here runs with either a 120 or 140 millimeter fan on it you've got all the amenities inside so you can run with let me see - 120 s - 140 s I believe or you can run with that looks like a 160 so you've got tons of 200 sorry 200 so you've got a ton of options in the top for air flow you've got a 120 millimeter fan in the back you've got to 120 s by the look of things in the front or those might be ninety two's let me see hopefully cameraman - 120 s - 120 s in the front all right so let's have a look at the system's back here so actually no let's continue to look at this case because there's a lot of cool stuff in here first you got support for - SSD drives natively that's two two and a half inch drives and then you've got support for an additional one two three four five six three and a half inch drive so you have a ton of storage options you can also install and how many optimal things yeah we've got four or five and a quarter inch base you can see here on the front we thought only the one drive installed right now you got all your usual front connectivity reset power all those lights and you've got the traditional half styling now it's really sort of standout ish about this case is how solidly built it is for a value case and I mean Coolermaster has really done a great job with their half series overall everything from this is now the lowest end all the way up to the half so let's talk a little bit about this back of this machine you can see we've got a different architecture here so we're using instead of an Intel CPU we're using an AMD CPU this is an Athlon 2 x4 so we do still have a quad core even though this is a lower price system at 7:49 we're using an MSI motherboard once again this is an enforce board because we did 1 SLI support and it also features the new GTS 450 so once again is with the cyclone cooler so we're able to maintain that level of quiet and speaking of quiet we've gone with a c sonic power supply this time around with an 80 plus bronze rating this power supply is actually capable of powering 2 cards in sli with this configuration more than capable and it runs dead silent because it's 80 plus bronze and it uses a quiet 120mm fan we've got a 500 gig drive in here for storage and obviously you can upgrade it to an SSD or a bigger drive if you want and the cameraman today is not a secret it is actually our NCIX Ivan the guy who runs our NCIX PC Facebook and actually does a lot of work on our pcs these days and he wanted me to talk a little bit about mafia 2 so we have the benchmark running but there's a couple things that we wanted to touch on first of all tweaking so at the default settings we were able to get 29.8 FPS so that's with physics on medium running on the video part but there's actually a few things you can do and you can get details on this on the NCIX PC Facebook page you can actually tweak it so that you can turn off certain aspects of the PhysX such as clothing so if you don't turn off clothing but if you turn off the PhysX on the clothing the dynamic clothing on all characters you can actually boost that up considerably to about 37 fps and if you're running 37 fps in the demo you're actually getting a reasonably good gameplay experience however sometimes it's kind of fun to see the the clothing whooshing around and explosions and stuff like that so if you only leave the clothing on for Vito and I mean the dynamic clothing then you get around 33 point 3 FPS which is again acceptable but you don't have dynamic clothing on all the people around you so that's something that we wanted talk about a little bit bear in mind this is the OC version that comes with this system and there's also another note here yes it comes with Jeff Koz too so just in case you were curious we have a couple vantage benches here so with physics turned off it scores about 9,000 3d marks which is pretty darn good for a system in this price range and then if you turn PhysX on just in case you have an Nvidia card and that's your point of reference you can see the CPU score CPU jumps way up and you get a substantially higher score although this is the one that any Radeon users or older geforce users are going to want to compare against so thanks for checking out our little showcase on the half nine one two as well as the vesta 2050 and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips also don't forget to check out and cix pc on facebook