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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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