Gadgetory

so about two and a half years ago we showed off our new origin gaming PC it was top-of-the-line 6700 K quad core processor dual gtx 980ti s and sli all kinds of great stuff but as it always is with technology our origin PC gaming rig well it aged but origin sponsored this video today for us to tell you about a program that they have called Origen evolve which basically takes the way that DIY computer builders upgrade their machines over time and makes it so that you the person who's not necessarily comfortable or doesn't have the time for that stuff can take advantage of a slower upgrade to keep your system up to date all while retaining your system warranty so basically the way it works is as long as you signed up for the Evolve program and the extended warranty when you originally purchased your system and it's available in either two or three years of coverage then you contact Origin PC okay say okay so here's the components that I have now and here's what I want to upgrade to and you have to knock here we're gonna put a list here of all the different things that can qualify for evolve and basically what they do is they do that DIY work of going in finding a buyer for the used hardware whether it's on like Craigslist or Kijiji or eBay or whatever and they flip the thing for you and they give you what they determined to be fair market value towards your upgrade so once you've agreed that yes indeed they are providing you fair market value and you want to go ahead with the upgrade you pack up your system hopefully uh a little better than we've done here and you ship it off to origin then after one of origins certified technicians has completed your upgrade they will ship it back to you with all of the sexy new hardware included alright so well we've get this baby fired up with let's say shadow of the Tomb Raider to test its gaming prowess let's go ahead and walk through what exactly we had upgraded from our old machine so we changed out our case actually this is pretty cool so they've got this go paratis so this is pretty cool they've got this new UV printing method that they can do on their glass side panels so you can get custom graphics on them so that was something that we did change about the system this is the town for the other side but that's not normally covered by the evolve program so we don't get a credit for our old case for that but things that we did get a credit for we went from a 6700 K to an 8700 K so we've gone from four cores to six cores the 80 700 K is a faster gaming processor so now our system is better for both creation and for gaming and we've got an extra couple of course in case we wanted to stream while the game obviously in order to do that we had to upgrade our motherboard so we've gone to an EVGA said 370 classified que we are okay we didn't really have to change our RAM but RGB RGB Ram wasn't a thing just two and a half years ago it's funny because when you're buried in this stuff every day you kind of lose track of how quickly the industry changes so we went ahead with some RGB RAM and we went from dual gtx 980ti in sli to dual GTX 10 ADT eyes so this is going to give us a significant bump in our gaming performance we didn't change our power supply we didn't change our optical drive so there were a few things that we were able to reuse now those of you watching this video are probably thinking to yourself gee Linus that's weird timing for an upgrade to the GTX 10 atti when the r-tx 20 atti is either right around the corner or available right now and that really is exactly the point of the origin pc evolve program not needing to keep track of exactly when hardware's coming out and still being able to upgrade like a DIY or would even if well you aren't really paying attention and you don't have like a guy to get rid of your old hardware - for a good price so I'm just running through making sure we've got everything configured correctly here so it comes with SLI enabled right out of the box and actually we can have a quick look at our CPU times here so you can see our 8700 K is turbo weighing up to four point three gigahertz and a lightly threaded workload that's about what we'd expect to see it's amazing how much CPU just downloading a game off scheme can use remember guys there's a decompression aspect to this as well it's not just downloading files then looking at a look here so our package even though we are lightly loaded here is right around the 40 to 45 degrees Celsius range and then our cores are all in the it must be a trial of hardware monitor aha her all in the 30 to 40 range looking good should be able to absolutely crank this game we're running at 34 40 by 1440 ultra-wide let's go ahead and fire it up man that's it we don't even have desync or anything on this monitor either these kids are lighting stuff on fire oh no they're sparklers but there were a little pyromaniacs so our average FPS even including two XS maa is 91 frames per second you can see we actually ended up really nicely balanced we were GPU bound only 2% of the time not too shabby so that's pretty much it that's the origin pc evolve program you guys can check out the full details at the link in the video description guys if you just like this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link below also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should definitely join