The Corsair Hydro X Custom Water Cooling Review, on a Ryzen 9 3950X
by Gavin Bonshor on February 5, 2020 9:00 AM ESTGaming Performance
World of Tanks enCore
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for a new and unreleased graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine will implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine run optimally on their system.
F1 2018
Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained; otherwise, we should see any newer versions of Codemasters' EGO engine find its way into F1. Graphically demanding in its own right, F1 2018 keeps a useful racing-type graphics workload in our benchmarks.
We use the in-game benchmark, set to run on the Montreal track in the wet, driving as Lewis Hamilton from last place on the grid. Data is taken over a one-lap race.
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Holliday75 - Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - link
Was going to post this. I was like uhhhhhhhhhhh I was not planning on buying a new CPU, but at that price buy buy buy!airdrifting - Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - link
Who is paying $130 for 3 Corsair fans? lolMakaveli - Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - link
lol I have a Corsair H150i which is RGB but comes with just Regular ML fans.As soon as I saw the price for Corsair RGB fans I said forget that idea.
I payed like $200 CAD for the H150 I was not going to spend $130 on fans just for RGB.
Corsair what are you smoking.
Teledhil - Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - link
Is the World of Tanks enCore a useful benchmark? I get around 200 fps with my i7-2600k@4'3GHz and a RTX-2080. (1080p with max settings, no RTX)eastcoast_pete - Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - link
Why does the illuminated CPU cooling look like Mr. Potato Head?Tomatotech - Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - link
Because the CEO made a bet with his friends that he could release an overpriced potato head and intelligent discerning gamers will happily buy it as long as it was lit up with LEDs.Judging from the amount of clicks and comments on this article, I fear we may see more vajazzled articles on AnandTech.
Arbie - Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - link
Which is the larger factor in selling liquid cooling:• Actual need, to manage very hot chips at tolerable noise levels.
or
• Relentless hype and attention on tech websites.
??
Neither one will ever sell it to me. And - 30W for the pump alone?
Roboionator - Thursday, February 6, 2020 - link
In what world are such temperatures, i test some air coolers and custom water systems but this what a see here is from another world.....I don't see a forum that doesn't have a high tempreature thread....(3900x and 3950X)Roboionator - Thursday, February 6, 2020 - link
delta temp, all temps + 21/22 just confusingRatman6161 - Thursday, February 6, 2020 - link
Ok, I see. But we are still left with not that much cooling performance difference between the el-cheapo product and the expensive product and no indication on weather or not the slightly better cooling would equate to any performance benefits.