Origin PC’s MillenniuM gaming rig has a
ridiculous number of drive bays and other
features that can take it to workstation-
class levels—four horizontal bays for
optical drives or extra USB ports, and five
optional hot-swappable hard drive bays
below. These have an interesting access
mechanism: Pull up on the top lever of
the bay cover, then pull down to reveal the
hard drive; pull far enough, and the hard
drive pops out. The aluminum door can be
adjusted to open from either side, too.
The case also has two hinged
tempered glass side panels that attach
to the chassis with magnets, so accessing
the interior on either side is easy. The unit
we received also has a custom printed
panel on one side, with Origin’s Vice logo,
inspired by Miami, FL, in the ’80s, with
white RGB components set to match the
blue and pink color scheme of the logo.
There are four configurations for
GPU mounting that include standard
horizontal and vertical, and inverted
vertical and horizontal. If you elect for the
GPUs to be mounted vertically, it puts the
backplate on top of the case. In such
instances, the backplate is hidden by a
ventilated plastic cover, with a channel in
the back to neatly run cables to the GPUs
and the rest of the motherboard ports.
But this case is massive hunk of
hardware at 22.5 x 8.5 x 23.5 inches—too
big for a regular gaming PC. There isn’t
much of a reason to have all those extra
bays either, as the model we received has
a 500GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus and a 3TBAn overabundance of drive bays, customization
options, and general beastliness
Origin PC Millennium
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verdict Origin PC MillenniumBoss Innovative; robust
customization options;
easily accessible components;
incredible performance.
Bust Huge, heavy case; expensive;
runs hot.
$5,547, http://www.originpc.comSPECIFICATIONSProcessor Intel Core i9-9900K
Graphics Dual GeForce RTX
2080 Ti (SLI)
RAM
Corsair Vengeance
RGB Pro 32GB 2,666MHz
(4x 8GB)
Motherboard MSI Z390 Gaming Edge AC
Primary storage 500GB Samsung 970
Evo Plus
Additional
storage
3TB HDD
Cooling solution Corsair H100i 240mm
white closed-loop cooler
Psu Corsair RM1000i with
white sleeved cables
Case Origin Millennium
Warranty
Lifetime 24/7 US-based
technical support,
free lifetime labor,
one-year warranty,
Our desktop zero-point consists of an AMD Ryzen 5 1600, 16GB of Crucial Ballistix Sport LT @ 2,666, an EVGA GeForce GTX and 45-day free shipping
1060 3GB, and a 250GB Samsung 960 Evo M.2 PCIe SSD. All tests were performed at 1080p at the highest graphical profile.bENChMArkS
Zero-
Point
Cinebench R15 Multi (Index) 1,152 2,055 (78%)
CrystalDiskMark QD32
sequential Read (MB/s) 3,400 3,507 (3%)
CrystalDiskMark QD32
sequential Write (MB/s) 1,720 2,739 (59%)
3DMark: Fire strike (Index) 11,101 37,148 (235%)
Rise of the tomb Raider (fps)^46118 (157%)
total War: Warhammer II (fps) 39 87 (123%)
tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon:
Wildlands (fps)
60 144 (140%)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%100%HDD. That’s more than enough space for
normal work. But it’s the dual RTX 2080
Ti GPUs that are the cornerstone of this
entire rig—overkill for casual gaming,
but if you want 4K, ultra graphics, and
more than 60fps with ray tracing turned
on, dual GPUs are necessary.Playing by numbers
In our benchmarks, the Millennium
churned out 37,148 at 1080p, 26,322 at
1440p, and 16,104 at 4K in 3D Mark. The
Port Royal ray-tracing benchmark spat
out 17,545 at 1080p, or 81fps. Our in-
game benchmarks at 1080p on ultra got
a little strange when it came to one of
the games. In Total War: Warhammer II,
frame rates averaged between 99 and
142 across battle, campaign, and skaven
modes, while Rise of the Tomb Raider
ran a consistent 143fps. Metro Exodus
clocked an average of between 65 and
85fps with ray tracing turned on. But in
Ghost Recon: Wildlands, the average
fps dropped between eight and ten after
each pass, with a high of 98fps and a low
of 80fps. The results were similar after
a second pass of four runs, waiting five
minutes between runs, except for the
first two. Between the first and second
run, the fps dropped from 92 to 81, but
waiting between the next two yielded
87 and 86fps. Current lack of proper SLI
support doesn’t explain the frame-rate
drops in back-to-back benchmarks.
Both GPUs hit a peak of 88 C,
according to EVGA Precision X1, whichcame preinstalled on the machine.
Judging by settings, both GPUs came
overclocked, which explains the high
temperature. However, after resetting
everything to default, the scaling issue
was still present.
Strange benchmark issues aside, the
Origin Millennium is still an attention-
grabbing machine. But for those who
just want to game, all those extra drive
bays will most likely remain empty. For
someone looking for a gaming PC that
doubles as a workstation, there isn’t a lot
of fan space nor intake ventilation, which
is important for any machine running
some serious hardware. The Achilles
heel in this otherwise great build is the
chassis and some SLI scaling issues,
depending on the game. –JOanna neliusin the lab
78 MAXIMUMPC aug 2019 maximumpc.com