My ORIGIN PC MILLENIUM Review

[Berryracer]

Manufacturer: ORIGIN PC
Model: MILLENNIUM
Computer Name: PREDATOR

Specifications:

Motherboard: ASUS X-99 Deluxe
CPU: Core i7 5930K @ 4.4 GHz (using GELID Extreme Thermal Compound)
RAM: 64 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2400MHz
Graphics: 2x EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti SLI 6 GB GDDR5 RAM
Storage: Intel 750 1.2 TB PCIe SSD + 2x SanDisk Extreme PRO 960 GB SSD + WD Caviar Black 4 TB 7200 RPM HDD + WD Red 6 TB 5400 RPM HDD
Optical Drives: 2x LG WH16NS40 Blu-ray Disc Rewriter
Monitor: ASUS ROG Swift PG278Q 27" G-SYNC
Power Supply: Corsair AX1500i
System Cooling: ORIGIN FROSTBYTE 360 Sealed Liquid Cooling System
Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow Chroma
Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Core Gaming Mouse
OS: Windows 7 Pro

Price as configured: USD $9000

Images:

Lighting Effects in Action:

http://youtu.be/-WxG-lsMTIA

 

[Berryracer]

Benchmarks:

3DMark:

GeForce GTX 980 Ti SLI (353.62) [W10]

3DMark11:

GeForce GTX 980 SLI (353.62) [W10]

PassMark Performance Test:

ORIGIN PC MILLENIUM @ 4.4 GHz [W7]

AS SSD Benchmark:

Intel 750 1.2TB PCIe SSD using IRST 13.1.0.1058 [W7]

CrystalDiskMark:

Intel 750 1.2TB PCIe SSD using IRST 13.1.0.1058 [W7]

Review:

I received the PC 2 days earlier than expected and whilst I was always in the dark not being constantly update regarding the status of my PC build, when I did email my account manager she responded in less than 24 hours to tell me the status.

The packaging as you can see from the screenshots above was very neat and well protected. In addition to the wooden crater that the PC was placed in, it had air foam inside the case to protect all the components from damage and the PC arrived from the USA to Dubai in mint condition.

The case is what really made me buy this PC, it is the best looking case I have yet to see with beautiful remote controlled LED lighting that can be set to any color or effect you want or even have a nice strobe effect similar to the ones you see in a night club

Additionally, the case has a 5 drive hot swappable bay so you pull out one of the trays and plug in any 3.5" HDD in it and you can easily increase your storage without even needing to open the case.

Their 24/7 customer service is top notch with people who actually know what they are talking about and the surprise comes that once you buy an ORIGIN PC, the support is a lifetime support (as long as you upgrade your PC components through them obviously).

The PC build, cable management, cooling, is of top quality and makes this PC worth every penny I spent on it.

This is similar to what the old Alienware was that now DELL has buried under the dust.

 

[twizzlebizzle22]

Looks awesome. How are the acoustics?

Could you also maybe throw out a couple of game performance/settings examples.

 

[Ketchup]

Huge Ice Storm improvement over the 980 SLI. More than I would expect:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2439707&highlight=

 

[Berryracer]

Looks awesome. How are the acoustics?

Could you also maybe throw out a couple of game performance/settings examples.

super queite, now when I benchmark or game, there is a little button on the front of the case where if I push it down, the fans blow at full speed and you can still barely hear them. I am talking about the water cooling fans on the top part of the case.

As for the benchmark settings, everything was at default except the texture quality was set to high performance rather than high quality

For game settings, I just use whatever GeForce Experience suggests which is usually maxed out on everything

 

[Berryracer]

Huge Ice Storm improvement over the 980 SLI. More than I would expect:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2439707&highlight=

ohhh thans for reminding me.

the problem initially was the first GPU was running at PCIe 8x while the 2nd GPU was running at PCIe 16x. That's what cause the problem

So I removed the Sound Blaster Zx card that I had to and now both GPUs run @ 16x which bumped my Ice Storm Score from 73K to what you see above.

Other benchmarks also went up by around 10% but most importantly I managed to fix that Ice Storm problem. I have a strong feeling with a few more driver updates the Ice Storm score should still go higher as it's even lower than my Alienware 18 laptop which has 780M GTX in SLI mode that can achieve 150K in Ice Storm.

Tech Support from Origin said I shouldn't even be looking at Ice Storm scores as they are meant for tablets and low end GPUs though......

 

[Ketchup]

Yeah, that sounds like an expected response from Origin, but you can't deny the fairly large score differentiation.

So what it sounds like to me is that we are finally getting cards that show a performance differentiation between 8x and 16x. I actually set my middle PCI-Express slot at 16. And I don't run SLI, just wanted a cooler spot for the card... But I am probably drifting onto another topic.

Nice system, but man that's a lot of dough! Why didn't you build?

 

[Berryracer]

Nice system, but man that's a lot of dough! Why didn't you build?

Not really bro, the components that are in the system is what made is that expensive, dual 980 Ti SLI + 5930K + X-99 Deluxe + 64 GB RAM + Intel 750 1.2TB SSD all add up

plus I got the Blackwidow Chroma Keyboard for free along with that bad *** case and water cooling. I wanted something pre built that I can easily upgrade in the future, didn't want to go through the hassle of building it myself since the last PC I built was like 15 years ago man.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Wow, insanely nice PC! I'm happy with my G3258 though, cause I don't really game much anymore. Thinking of selling my rigs, or at least my 7950 cards.

Edits: Specs (2x rigs, mostly identical):
GA-H81M-DS2V mobo (CPU+mobo combo $90)
G3258 CPU (OCed from 3.2 to 3.6, H81 mobos aren't great OCers)
2x4GB GSkill Sniper DDR3-1600 CAS9 1.5v ($40)
240GB Crucial M500 SSD (Windows 7 64-bit) ($80)
80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD (Linux Mint 17.1) ($62)
LG 14X BD-RE ($40)
HIS 3GB GDDR5 7950 (800/1250 are stock clocks, no boost) ($130)

I think the case is surprisingly nice, for being a budget case. It's a RaidMax Cobra in Titanium grey and black. ($40)

Under $500, for the hardware.

 

[Berryracer]

Wow, insanely nice PC! I'm happy with my G3258 though, cause I don't really game much anymore. Thinking of selling my rigs, or at least my 7950 cards.

Thanks man, post your specs please.

 

[escrow4]

ROFL $9K. With Win 7. And reference 980 Ti cards. And no 5960X. How odd. I'd rather pocket the $7K and build a box that won't be as fast but will still do the job just as well (and be better balanced). Even if I had a room full of 100s and gold bars I still wouldn't spend $9K on a box.

Don't be a jerk. You can critique the machine without making it personal.

mfenn
General Hardware Moderator

 

[Ketchup]

Hey berryracer, can you tell me how your drives are set up:

Intel 750 1.2 TB PCIe SSD + 2x SanDisk Extreme PRO 960 GB SSD + WD Caviar Black 4 TB 7200 RPM HDD + WD Red 6 TB 5400 RPM HDD

For one thing, I can't figure why one would have 1 PCIe SSDs if you are going to have 2 SATA SSD's (presumably in RAID).

And on a side note, I hope Intel has a chipset coming soon that will allow these PCIe SSD's in hardware RAID.

 

[Berryracer]

Hey berryracer, can you tell me how your drives are set up:



For one thing, I can't figure why one would have 1 PCIe SSDs if you are going to have 2 SATA SSD's (presumably in RAID).

And on a side note, I hope Intel has a chipset coming soon that will allow these PCIe SSD's in hardware RAID.

Simple, since I wanted the fastest and greatest to play the benchmarks game, I chose the Intel 750 PCIe SSD while ordering my machine, I also told them to prepare a 2.5" to 3.5" bay ready with the cables so I can simply plug in any SSD that I might have. So what I did is, I removed those two SanDisk Extreme PRO 960 GB SSDs from my Alienware 18 and put them in the ORIGIN PC MILLENNIUM.

Here is how I have the drives setup:

Intel 750 1.2TB PCIe SSD

C Drive = 300 GB = OS Drive
D Drive = 750 GB = Games Drive + software installation folder (the folder where I place all the EXE setup files for my software)
* Remaining space is left for OP (over-provisioning)

1st SanDisk Extreme PRO 960 GB


E Drive = 600 GB = Drivers + ISOs + Training Videos + OS Backup Folder (where I place the image I create for backing my C partition after setting up the system as I like
* Remaining space is left for OP (over-provisioning)

2nd SanDisk Extreme PRO 960 GB

F Drive = 600 GB = Users folder = This is where I place my docs, music, videos, pics, and user folder in general
* Remaining space is left for OP (over-provisioning)

WD Black 4 TB

G Drive = Videos

WD Red 6 TB

H Drive = Backup (not OS back up as in images, but rather a general backup for my normal files such as videos, pics, etc)

 

[lehtv]

ROFL $9K. With Win 7. And reference 980 Ti cards. And no 5960X. How odd. I'd rather pocket the $7K and build a box that won't be as fast but will still do the job just as well (and be better balanced). Even if I had a room full of 100s and gold bars I still wouldn't spend $9K on a box.

Tbh I thought the same thing. Massively overspecced for high end gaming, and overpriced too. However, this is not marketed as a gaming PC; it is marketed as a workstation.

 

[DigDog]

i dare say, it's somewhat expensive.

 

[Essence_of_War]

Who cares about PC, zomg those cats, WANT.

 

[DSF]

Who cares about PC, zomg those cats, WANT.

Yeah I was wondering whether they came with the PC or were the delivery crew.

 

[lobbyone]

Love the Origin shipping box!!

 

[Nhirlathothep]

this seems a battle with my alienware setup!

U ve been annihilated !

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

nicer set up, I personally wouldn't use a 4/8core closed loop on a high end unit. Here's mine--->:|

 

[Yuriman]

Ugh, matte black plastic and lights.

Impressive specs, but does anyone care to assemble a cart and find out what the cost of assembly was?

 

[Yuriman]

I'm coming up with $6,541 as-configured from Newegg, minus case, cooler and OS. I think $500 is a reasonable amount to spend on those if you have this kind of budget, so the markup is around $2000 for them to assemble it, install the OS and put it in a box. Some small tweaks in part selection could probably shave another grand or two off of that without any appreciable spec loss.

~

I'm just not a fan of prebuilts, unless I'm looking for something dirt cheap for a relative.

 

[Nhirlathothep]

You can close the discussion,

Alienware annihilated it!

Look at the pics!

(Btw: it s not 4core)

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Alienware for suckers. Cost twice what you could build for half that's the point of this forum. How can you be an overclocker if you can build a computer? Toms hardware needs you!

 

[frozentundra123456]

Who cares about PC, zomg those cats, WANT.

Bingo, my thought exactly.

As far as the price, people spend money on cars, houses, vacations, a lot of very expensive stuff, so if the op can afford it, I say more power to him.