3XS EVOLVE NLE 4K | USER REVI EW
“THE CORSAIR CARBIDE CASE IS ATTRACTIVE AND PRACTICAL”
The latest update to its mid- range Evolve NLE 4K is a monster. If you are easily bored by specs, then please skip over the next couple of paragraphs, but suffice to say the main processor is an astonishingly fast, multicore beast, and the image processing is carried out by (at the
BELOW The inside of the Evolve’s case contains neatly sheathed cabling
cabling is carefully sheathed and cable-tied neatly in place. The inside of the case is sound-proofed and the CPU is liquid cooled. Pipes lead from the chip to a large radiator in the top of the case. Two lazy fans push air through this radiator – the enlarged surface area only requires the fans to run slowly to achieve the required cooling, making the Evolve whisper quiet under even heavy loads. In normal operation, the computer is virtually silent. The graphics card also has a built-in heat extraction system, with a couple of fans – these high- powered cards are often the source of much of the noise workstation class computers make. Again, given its extraordinary power, the RTX 2080 is surprisingly quiet. The Corsair Carbide case itself is attractive (for a computer) and practical. I loved the power button feature, headphone jack and a couple of ‘front panel’ USB connectors, which are on the top, front edge of the unit, where you can actually reach them from your seat if the computer is by the desk. It’s a little thing, but would make a huge
time of writing) probably the fastest consumer graphics card you can buy. IMPRESSIVE SPEC So, the CPU is a 12 core AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, clocked at 3.8GHz and mounted in an ASUS Prime XS570-P motherboard. There is 64GB of 3200MHz Corsair Vengeance DDR4 DRAM fitted as standard, with a Samsung 500GB SSD as the ‘system’ disk, and another high-reliability 1TB SSD for data. I got a mighty 12910 multicore Geekbench score and clocked transfers to the data SSD at over 3.5GB/s. The graphics card is an 11GB EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. This is an impressive specification, and these high-quality components are matched by Scan’s astonishing build quality and attention to detail. The computer’s case is a beautiful Corsair Carbide 275Q with a 650W, high-reliability (though not redundant) power supply. The computer is shipped packed out with antistatic bubble-wrap, so your first job is to open up the case and remove it. The case opens without tools and reveals a nerd’s dream. The internal
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