Origin's Genesis: Flagship Bling
by Dustin Sklavos on April 2, 2011 2:00 PM ESTGaming Performance
Of course, while the Origin Genesis is attractive and fun to run tests on, its true stated purpose is gaming and on that front it's not unreasonable to expect it should put up a good fight. What will be of particular interest is seeing how well the SLI'd GTX 560 Ti's compete with NVIDIA's new flagship, the dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590.
In games that are principally shader-limited, the Genesis falls in about where you'd expect it to in our "high" preset testing. When we move to the "ultra" presets, the relative strengths and weaknesses of its graphics solution should become more readily apparent.
As you can see, we're still fairly CPU-bound. These kinds of gaming solutions really aren't appropriate for gamers using a 1080p screen. A single Radeon HD 5870 (or 6870) or GeForce GTX 560 Ti (or 570 or 580) is really ample for anyone running up to 1920x1200, as I can attest in personal experience. So since these solutions are just too much for running in 1080p, let's see how they fare in ultra high resolution surround settings.
It's hard not to find these results frankly academic. While the GTX 590 always holds a decent lead (and stands to increase that lead with the application of anti-aliasing in some cases), it's awfully hard to argue the 590 as being $250+ better than a pair of GTX 560 Ti's. The oddball in the bunch is the STALKER result, which gets freakishly inflated during the "Night" portion of the benchmark. Other results remain fairly in line with the GTX 590's performance. You'll want to check my review of the iBuyPower LAN Warrior II to read about that along with just how fraught with difficulty (and believe me, it's extremely so) getting NVIDIA Surround to run properly can be.
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KoolAidMan1 - Monday, April 4, 2011 - link
I am too, I own an 800D myself. That said, the 600T is also a good case. It has quite a few of the features of the 800D, things like its cable management, and it is very well built. It is a pretty great deal given that you can find it for around $140 on Amazon.bigboxes - Saturday, April 2, 2011 - link
I'm tired of this kind of posts. You know this is not geared to the normal pc builder on AnandTech. It's geared towards those that can't or won't do it them selves. Yeah, I'm one of them, but egads the horror that someone may actually make a profit on putting together a computer. Why would they make their own parts. They put together the computer with quality parts. What else could you ask for? Your complaint that they don't make the motherboard? The cpu? The case? I'm at a loss to understand your complaint. I just checked out their website. You can choose a windowless design. Still got complaints? Then nothing is going to satisfy you. I am with you, but I do not make stupid posts knocking others for doing so. Why? Because I'm the exception. I'm the builder. Most are not. I would have more respect for someone who bought one of these than a Dell or HP. Not everyone is an idiot because they don't build their own pc.ArKritz - Saturday, April 2, 2011 - link
Lift with your legs, man! :ptacobff - Saturday, April 2, 2011 - link
Starts at 1337$Awesome.
Ninhalem - Saturday, April 2, 2011 - link
Took a look at the options they offer for all the different components and frankly it is overwhelming the number of options they have. I haven't seen anything like that ever before. If I was going to do something like that, I would need to sit down with the Anandtech GPU bench system to choose the correct gpu configuration because there are so many options.As for what other case I could choose? The Cooler Master Cosmos case comes to mind. Personally I think that case is a lot better than the Corsair case, but that's a personal preference.
Xorp - Saturday, April 2, 2011 - link
Anyone know the make and model of that SATA Hot-swap bay?Dustin Sklavos - Sunday, April 3, 2011 - link
I don't have the model number offhand, but it's a Lian-Li dual drive hot-swap bay if that helps.ooiman92 - Saturday, April 2, 2011 - link
Starting at $1,337I LOLed :P
skyshiro - Saturday, April 2, 2011 - link
Where on Earth did they get the side panel? No one is selling one, I'd love to get a 600T if I could get my hands on a side panel for one.JarredWalton - Sunday, April 3, 2011 - link
"Origin is also in a privileged position with Corsair and as a result are among the first to get their hands on the new windowed side panel which they make use of by illuminating the internals with strips of white LED lights."I'm guessing Corsair will make the window available at retail at some point, but right now you'd have to roll your own.