Black Samurai, a well-known series under Thor. 2022 is also a key year for the Black Samurai product line to stabilize and advance. Thor has upgraded the overall Black Samurai style, aiming to create a new e-sports brand for young people from the inside out - "Black Samurai". All along, Thor has adhered to the concept of "no water cooling, no game", and is committed to bringing water cooling to the side of every game enthusiast, so that more friends can enjoy the pleasant game experience brought by water cooling.
In February this year, the new Black Samurai Candle Dragon console debuted hotly, and the configuration equipped with AMD 5000 series CPU + RX 6000 series graphics card once again set off a heat storm in the console market. The dual core composed of AMD and Thor's newly upgraded ICE-STOM3.0 water-cooled heat dissipation solution are bound to impact the dessert-grade host market, let's take a look at how this new power product performs!
The Emberless Force is carved into the Black Samurai style DNA
Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon host continues the black samurai and force style that has always existed. The design language used by the candle dragon host this time is called "dark black", and the main color of the fuselage is also black, highlighting a low-key introverted.
The front is still a conspicuous three-body six-sided grille, not to mention the functional blessing of heat dissipation inside the chassis, just from the appearance point of view, this design highlights the low-key and mysterious, and the role positioning of the black samurai is very suitable. The Thor Faith boot logo is located on the front near the top, and the one-click light makes each boot very ritualistic. The sides of the intake grille are also decorated with Force lightsaber light strips to further point the problem.
The fuselage also retains the elements of the side-through panel, and the whole glass panel has a lot of weight, which can well display the components inside the fuselage, and the colorful lighting effects are unobstructed; At the same time, the side glass panel is also convenient for users to make the chassis into an exclusive display cabinet, and put some of their favorite handmade, ornaments and the like into the chassis, which can be seen after work and entertainment. The side panel adopts a tool-less disassembly design, which is also convenient for users to clean and upgrade equipment.
The fuselage of the Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon also retains many similar design details of the Black Samurai family. In addition to the detachable side-view panels, the sled bottom structure of the elevated fuselage and the portable handle at the top of the fuselage, the small details are still homeworked.
Theoretical performance test we use CPU-Z, CineBench R20, CineBench R23, V-Ray and other professional software, how the results we see specifically.
First of all, put a Lu master running score, the comprehensive performance 987853 score more than 76% of the country's users, "can smoothly run DOTA 2, League of Legends and other large-scale network games, PS and other drawing software to meet your daily entertainment needs." The configuration of this host can basically be at the middle level, in fact, in addition to online games, some AAA masterpieceS Thor 911 Black Samurai Candle Dragon can also hold.
Thor 911 Black Samurai Candle Dragon host uses AMD R5-5600X as CPU, this processor uses AMD Zen3 architecture, 7nm process, with 6 cores and 12 thread specifications, the main frequency is 3.7GHz, the maximum turbo frequency can reach 4.6GHz, and the TDP is 65W.
We compared the R5 5600X to the Intel i5-12400 in CPU tests. In the CPU-Z test, the R5 5600X was comparable to the i5-12400 multi-core score, with a difference of about 2%. The single-check score is slightly inferior to the i5-12400, with a gap of about 10%.
CineBench R23 test shows that R5 5600X is 7%-8% lower than i5-12400 single-core and multi-core.
The CPU Prefile score is as follows, in the multi-threaded task, R5 5600X performance is in line with its CPU positioning, basically can rank in the upper middle level; The maximum thread score is not a significant improvement over the 16 thread score, but it is enough for dessert positioning.
V-Ray scored 7979 vsamples, which was not top level but was in line with expectations;
However, in the 3D Mark FireStrike Extreme test, the R5 5600X achieved an advantage over the i5-12400 in physical scores, almost 2%-4%. Summarizing the TEST on the CPU side, the R5 5600X is weaker than the i5-12400 in terms of single-core performance, but the multi-core performance comparison is comparable.
PC Mark 10 Pro Version Workload Test, Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon was able to score 7234 points, which performed well in digital content creation projects, reaching 10401 points; This shows that the Black Samurai Candle Dragon is very relaxed in dealing with basic office tasks;
In the pc Mark 10 Extended test, which is more demanding on the device, Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon was able to score 8128 points, and the game score was 11162, of which the graphics (graphics) score was 15231 and the physical (CPU) score was 23968. The scores in the content tests, which are commonly used for basic features, productivity, and numbers, are basically the same as the standard tests, and the game score is slightly lower, but it is still acceptable in the core collocation of the dessert level.
In terms of graphics cards, Thor 911 Black Samurai Candle Dragon host chose AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT this dessert graphics card, this graphics card uses RDNA 2.0 architecture, 6nm process process, with 4GB GDDR6 memory, the main frequency is 2310 MHz, the maximum Boost frequency can reach 2815 MHz.
This game test is set to 1920× 1080 resolution, which is often referred to as 1080P. R5 5600X + RX 6500XT core combination is basically capable of loading excellent game frame rate performance at 1080p resolution, some games we not only tested medium and high quality, but also tested extremely high quality, Thor 911 Black Samurai Candle Dragon console can also carry.
For performance-demanding games like Cyberpunk 2077, it is recommended that users turn on AMD's dynamic FFX CAS to select 80%-100% rendering (even down to 50% rendering), and get a good frame rate performance in both medium and low quality. The test selects a driving chart scene, and if it is a character walking scene, the number of frames will also be improved.
If users can tolerate the picture quality, then the smooth running of the mainstream AAA masterpieces on the market is completely no problem, and FPS games such as CSGO and PUBG can also be easily handled.
Next, let's look at the performance release and system stability test, which is what we often call "copy test".
Room temperature 20 °C, 30 minutes single copy FPU test, Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon CPU frequency 4.14GHz, temperature 69 °C, power consumption 75W;
30 minutes single copy GPU test, Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon GPU frequency 2.5GHz, power consumption of 90W, temperature 66 ° C, basically able to stabilize full speed operation;
30 minutes double roast test, Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon CPU frequency 4.1GHz, temperature 76 °C, power consumption 75W; The GPU frequency is 2.5GHz, the temperature is 68°C, and the power consumption is 90W. The power consumption of the whole machine is stable to 165W.
As mentioned earlier, the Black Samurai Candle Dragon host adopts a new generation of Thor ICE-STOM3.0 heat dissipation solution. "No water cooling, no gaming", in addition to the improvement of chassis heat dissipation, Raytheon has also upgraded the 240 water cooling, with a larger copper bottom contact surface, while the new architecture water pump with a new silent cold exhaust fan, continue to ensure heat dissipation, so that the core components are cooler. At the same time, the white lighting effect of the cooling fan also enriches the details inside the chassis, and the visual effect is more beautiful.
It is worth mentioning that Thor guarantees full compensation for 3 years of water cooling leakage loss. In addition to the genuine Windows 11 system that has been installed, Raytheon provides a three-year warranty and three-year on-site after-sales service to solve the user's worries.
In terms of scalability, Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon has a USB 2.0 and 2 USB 3.2 Gen1 on the front panel, a microphone, a headset (supporting AC97/HD) interface, and 2 USB 2.0 interfaces in the rear of the fuselage, which can be used to expand wireless mice and keyboards, as well as 4 USB 3.2 Gen1 and network ports; In addition, there are HDMI and DP interfaces on the graphics card. The basic extensions of everyday life can be Carri, but it is still a pity that there is no Type-C interface.
The hard disk adopts a 512GB PCIe 3.0×4 NVMe SSD, the read and write is unremarkable, the read speed of 2549MB/s and the write speed of 1220MB/s, if there is a need for faster write speed users can also choose to replace themselves.
In addition to the M.2 2280-PCIe slot occupied by this hard drive, Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon also provides four SATA3 6.0Gb/s interfaces inside the fuselage, supporting RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and hot swapping; 1 Super M.2 interface, support M Key 2242/2260/2280, M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s and M.2 PCIe modules to Gen4x4 or Gen3x4; In addition, there are 2 SATA 3.0 interfaces (supporting 3.5/2.5-inch hard drives) and 2 SATA 3.0 interfaces (supporting 2.5-inch hard disks). The fuselage has a total of 1 PCIe 4.0 x16 slot and 2 PCIe 3.0 x1 slots. If you want, you can build the Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon into your own massive storage platform.
Overall, positioned in the dessert-level game console, Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon host in the "proposition essay" handed over a satisfactory answer, R5 5600X + RX 6500XT composed of the core configuration can not only cope with the general high frame rate online game, daily basic graphics office tasks, in the face of heavy load of AAA game masterpiece can also run smoothly at 1080p resolution. The so-called no undesirable equipment, only undesirable prices, in the price of less than 6k can start this host configuration is still very conscientious, interested partners can pay attention to it.