Origin's Genesis: Flagship Bling
by Dustin Sklavos on April 2, 2011 2:00 PM ESTApplication and Futuremark Performance
We've had the opportunity to take an overclocked Intel Core i7-2600K for a spin before, but Origin's 4.5GHz overclock is the highest we've seen from a boutique system thus far. The Intel 510 series SSD is also very fast and should placate PCMark, so let's see how the Genesis stacks up.
Much to the surprise of no one, the Origin Genesis hangs out at the top of every chart. It boasts the highest overclock on Sandy Bridge (already a performance-per-clock demon) and has among the fastest SSDs on the market along with one of the fastest graphics solutions we've ever tested. The key word, really, is "fast."
Amusingly, the only 3DMark not tied up in being as heavily CPU-bound is 3DMark03. All of the other tests show the SLI'd GeForce GTX 560 Ti's powering the Origin Genesis beating up on faster graphics solutions. We've been questioning the value of the 3DMark suite for some time, and while it makes for easier comparisons in notebooks, desktop machines are so incredibly fast now that these results are much less useful. What are you supposed to do when an ostensibly independent benchmark is so easily skewed by a single component it's not even expressly designed to test, as is the case when the PCMark scores inflate on account of an SSD or 3DMark gets hung up on processor power?
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MeanBruce - Sunday, April 3, 2011 - link
The windowed side panel is available NOW for the 600T at the Corsair website. Personally I would go with the new Corsair Obsidian 650D chassis, with it's understated elegance, it's exceptionally urbane. I have one in my office!;)HilbertSpace - Sunday, April 3, 2011 - link
First SC 2 graph is wrong - no way the Puget system should be leading.Dustin Sklavos - Sunday, April 3, 2011 - link
Graph is likely correct. In my experience Radeons have less CPU overhead in SC2. Couple that with the fact that the Genesis is driving two video cards instead of one and it does balance out.iamezza - Sunday, April 3, 2011 - link
Another good review thanks Dustin!If you are going to keep reviewing these massive boutique systems maybe you could claim a gym membership as a tax deduction :)
Alex99a - Monday, April 4, 2011 - link
quoting..."I can tell you that the packaging was decidedly American and absolute overkill...."
Well, now what is THAT supposed to mean? Please explain to me the concept of "decidedly American". I come to AnandTech for good tech info and reviews, not stereotyping anti-American slams.
Oh, and if I ever do buy an expensive boutique computer system, i hope it DOES come in a big honkin' wooden crate to hopefully survive the journey intact.
Ninhalem - Monday, April 4, 2011 - link
Because American packaging is known to be of the highest quality, because if it isn't, you're going to have very irate customers wanting to know why you didn't package their dear products like a Abrams tank.strikeback03 - Monday, April 4, 2011 - link
Bottom of the page on noise, hat, and power consumption, you say "CyberPower's system has a 4.4GHz overclock and it still manages to keep idle power low by requiring 0.7V less to hit its overclock than the Origin Genesis does. " I assume you meant to say 0.07V?EBH - Monday, April 4, 2011 - link
For anything more than 1000$ I would expect more than:Audio
Realtek ALC892 HD Audio
Speaker, mic, line-in, and surround jacks for 7.1 sound
Digital and optical out
veri745 - Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - link
"CyberPower's system has a 4.4GHz overclock and it still manages to keep idle power low by requiring 0.7V less to hit its overclock than the Origin Genesis does."I think you probably mean '0.07V less', unless the Cyberpower system is running at 0.72V