This year, on the basis of the AAA platform (AMD processor / AMD motherboard / AMD graphics card), Thor launched a new Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon water-cooled game console, the appearance is still outstanding, the cost performance is still powerful, hoping to help mainstream players play 2022!
AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X processor, dual-row CPU water-cooled heatsink, Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card, B550 chipset motherboard, DDR4-3200MHz 2×8GB dual-channel memory, 512GB SSD, 600W 80PLUS certified power supply, this is the main configuration of this Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon water-cooled game console at present.
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and Radeon RX 6500 XT are amd's current very people-friendly game equipment, and now Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon Water Cooled Game Console brings them together, and the performance is still quite worthy of mainstream players' expectations. In this article, the author will take a look at the real performance of this water-cooled game console.
Star Wars appearance is outstanding
The chassis design of the Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon Water Cooled Game Console is inspired by "Star Wars", and the front face of the chassis specially adopts a three-body and six-sided three-dimensional design, which is inlaid with a boot key with the shape of the Thor LOGO, as well as 4 symmetrical lightsaber-style light strips, which will show a red light effect after lighting up the host, just like the "Force Gathering", exuding powerful power!
Power-on button with red light effect.
4 symmetrical lightsaber-style strips, the red light effect is very beautiful.
The right-hand side of the chassis cover is designed with a steel plate design, which supports tool-free removal. According to the nameplate on the right-hand side of the chassis cover, the main configuration of this water-cooled game console can be known.
The left-hand side of the chassis cover features a side-permeable tempered glass design that also supports tool-less removal.
A handle is designed on the top of the chassis to facilitate the user's use of the machine.
I tried it myself, and it feels good, and the comfort when handling the machine is very good.
The top of the chassis is also designed with two USB3.0 connectors, a headphone jack, a headset connector, a USB2.0 interface, and a triangular restart button.
The rear of the host.
The I/O connector on the rear of the motherboard.
Discrete graphics interface, including a DP, an HDMI.
This water-cooled console features a down-mounted power supply. The power supply is designed with a separate on-key.
Remove the left-hand side chassis and continue to see the internals and configuration materials of the Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon Water Cooled Game Console.
This water-cooled game console features a compartment design. The power compartment and the hard disk compartment are independent. And the use of backplane trace design, can effectively improve the internal aesthetics of the chassis and ventilation and heat dissipation performance.
The CPU heatsink is paired with a Thor custom one-piece dual drain cooling radiator, and the water cooling head and two cold exhaust fans are designed with white lighting effects.
The motherboard is an ASRock B550 chipset motherboard with an M-ATX form factor design.
The graphics card is paired with the Radeon RX 6500 XT from Han Jiao, which adopts a single-fan cooling design and requires 8pin external auxiliary power supply.
Samsung memory, 2×8GB DDR4-3200MHz, operates in dual channel mode.
512GB M.2 SSD from Kingston.
Detach the other side of the chassis side panel to see the mounting position of the mechanical hard disk and the installation position of the power supply.
The console reserves two 3.5-inch mechanical hard disk mounting slots, which players can upgrade and use on their own.
The power supply is produced by Ai Pan E-sports, the rated power is 600W, and it has passed the 80PLUS bronze certification.
Through the dismantling of the machine, it can be seen that the Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon Water Cooling Game Console has selected a large number of common brand accessories on the market, which has a good quality guarantee.
AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X teamed up with Radeon RX 6500 XT:1080p Gaming Go!
The AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X is a 6-core, 12-thread processor with a maximum acceleration frequency of 4.6 GHz. The AMD ZEN 3 architecture processor features a uniform 8-core CCX with direct access to 32MB of L3 cache, resulting in a 19% increase in instructions per clock cycle (IPC) performance of the ZEN 3 core architecture over the previous generation, the biggest improvement since AMD introduced the "ZEN" processor in 2017.
Through the two software tests of CPU-Z and Geekbench 5, it can be seen that the performance of AMD Ryzen™ 5600X has been very good.
Memory performance performance.
Product information on this 512GB M.2 SSD.
Judging from the results of CrystalDiskMark's test software, the sequential read speed of this SSD exceeds 2500MB/s and the sequential write speed exceeds 1000MB/s.
Next is the graphics card introduction and game performance demonstration. The Radeon RX 6500 XT is an AMD graphics card based on the Navi 24 display core, with 1024 stream processors, 32 raster units and 64 texture units, with 64-bit wide, 4GB capacity GDDR6 video memory.
The Radeon RX 6500 XT features a 16MB Infinity Cache, which works with the AAA platform to achieve a better gaming experience. The latest "AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin" adrenaline drive can further release the full performance of the graphics card, and also supports game live streaming, AMD LINK remote gaming and other very useful features. Coupled with the highly effective rip-resistant Anti-Lag and the latest FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution) super resolution technology, it can effectively increase the number of game frames, and the picture quality is better, greatly improving the player's gaming experience.
Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card with 3DMark scores.
Next, through 6 games, I will take a look at the real game performance of this water-cooled game console.
Game Testing - Cyberpunk 2077
Game Testing - Tomb Raider: Shadow
Game Testing - God of War 4
Game Testing - Gears of War 5
Game Testing - Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
E-sports Game Testing - CS:GO
According to the measured results of the above 6 games, the AMD Ryzen™ 5600X and the Radeon RX 6500 XT are able to play a large number of games at 1080p resolution.
Finally, using the pressure test that comes with AIDA64, the author will test this water-cooled game console with a CPU + GPU dual grill.
(Note: The room temperature at which the author is located is maintained at about 26 °C)
After turning on the dual grill for 10 minutes, the CPU temperature of this water-cooled game console is stable at about 51 ° C, and the power consumption is about 75W. The GPU temperature is stable at about 61°C, and the power consumption is about 89W.
Obviously, the heat dissipation performance of the dual-row CPU water-cooled radiator is really great.
In addition, don't look at the Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card of this game console only uses a single-fan cooling design, and its actual thermal performance is also very satisfactory to the author.
Product summary
Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon Water Cooled Game Console has outstanding appearance and reliable brand accessories, and the blessing of water-cooled radiators has also greatly enhanced its product competitiveness. At present, the AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X model with Radeon RX 6500 XT is currently only sold for 5599 yuan in the official flagship store of Raytheon Jingdong, and in all fairness, the cost performance is already very good, and it is worth the author's push to mainstream players.
For players with higher pursuits, the Thor Black Samurai Candle Dragon Water Cooled Game Console currently offers a more high-end AAA platform, with a hardcore combination of AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800X and Radeon RX 6600 XT, players can choose according to their needs.