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alright so we got some battlefield bad company 2 going on our eyefinity setup here the point of this video is mostly about no one we can combat area it is mostly about affordable eyefinity with the radio on 6800 series much like the one that i recently did with the 3 HD TVs something that you should know is that 3 1080p monitors vs 3 1080p tvs actually requires exactly the same video horsepower and processing power it doesn't matter how big the screen is or there are some comments on the video actually asking about that but it does not matter how good the screen is the only important thing is what the resolution you're running at is so we're going to talk a little bit about the best of 40-50 which is a new NCIX pc for this month and how well it performs in some modern games at full of people so let's talk a little bit about the design process of the best of 40 50 is actually based on a music vision black platform so what that means is that we're using an AMD chipset which is required for crossfire on a AMD platform with AMD video carts hence the AMD vision platform moniker so we're using an AMD chipset in here that is crossfire ready we're also using AMD's 6 core processors so even though not all of the six core processors actually have the black designation they are all AMD vision black ready so depending whether you get the base package or the performance package you're looking at either the 10 55 or the 1090t processors we're also using a radeon 6870 so this is the performance package which means that the system we have running here has a 1090t it has corsair xms3 memory it has a WD black series hard drive it also has a 68 70 as well as an upgraded power supply versus the base version and it's only 11 99 compared to 999 on the base package do you ever press the button one advantage that a system based round AMD vision gives you is that you know that you're going to end up with reasonably well matched components if you check out Amy's website they've got lots of vision guidelines so for example if you choose a CPU out of vision basic you're going to end up with something that's way underpowered for a video card that's listed under vision black so that comes back to the bottleneck video we actually did quite recently where we talked about matching up your components so that they are appropriate for each other to give you a well balanced performance experience now while most modern games will run in eyefinity mode and that is across three monitors not every modern game will so starcraft 2 is an example of a current game that only runs in 4 x 3 16 by 9 and 16 x 10 aspect ratio so we're running in 16 x 10 right now this is on a 1680 x 1050 monitor going to go ahead and start this time of a timeout time demo big props to sky MTL are Mike from Hardware Canucks he actually provided us with this time demo and the reason that's so important is because we've actually taken the results with this time devil at 1080 and that means that you can compare it against the starcraft two benchmarks that mike has actually run on his website so if you go to Hardware cox com we actually get about 50 frames per second average and a 33 at the low point and that's at 1920 x 1200 so you can compare that against the systems that sky MTL is using in his review so that's pretty cool and I believe he's also going to make this time demo available to anyone who wants it in the near future so you can compare your current system against systems that are benchmarked on harbor Canucks against the LUN that we're showing here today so we're just showing some combat sequence stuff going on here I think this is if you get to about twenty eight and a half minutes into the time demo you run into where you start to see a lot of movement and hopefully we're getting close now yeah we're getting really close so in terms of the other benchmarks we've already shown you this info benchmarks where we scored just over 15,000 marks in 3dmark Vantage here i'm going to move so you can see the inside of the system it's not incredibly quiet power consumption is very reasonable though so even running a game right now we're pulling about 262 wats from the wall which means we're pulling less than 250 watts from our power supply now bearing in mind that most games are not all that CPU intensive so you're mostly taxing just the graphics card this power supply will give you room to either configure the system with two graphics cards or upgraded in the future so that's always good to know and what else did I want to mention I think okay we've got power consumption down I think that's pretty much it thank you for checking out this little video on the Vesta 40-50 system and don't forget to subscribe to- tech tips something else I wanted to mention is that with this system we're also advertising an LCD monitor bundle so you can actually set up three 22 inch monitors there from benq and it also includes the eyefinity adapter that you need because remember one of the monitors has to run off DisplayPort so it's a passive single link eyefinity adapter which will allow you to run your three monitors without any hassle