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MSI is the official motherboard sponsor for Overdrive, providing
Nehalem and P45 platforms for the Championship. -
HyperX DDR3 modules are specifically engineered and designed to meet the rigorous
requirements of PC enthusiasts.HyperX modules rated at DDR3-2000+are used in the
Overdrive Championship -
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1,000 W modular 80plus high-efficiency EVEREST 1010 power supplies used for
the Overdrive Championship. -
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multi-purpose keys plus a USB hub. The G5 Laser Mouse allows adjustable
weight and up to 2000 dpi sensitivity for maximum precision.
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- Overclocking Marathon Day 2 - A Home Brew
- Tom's Hardware's 2007 CPU Charts
- Energy Efficiency: AMD vs. Intel
- AMD's Smart Strike: Athlon X2 BE-2350
- Which is the Best Mainstream CPU?
- Remote PC Management with Intel's vPro
- Semiconductor Production 101
- The Gigahertz Battle: How Do Today's CPUs Stack Up?
- Dual Core Notebook CPUs Explored
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: overclocking, marathon, day, 4
Topics: Build Your Own, Overclocking
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Performance Summary
Because the budget system was tested exclusively using a monitor with a maximum supported resolution of 1600x1200, we had to eliminate the higher resolutions from this average game-performance comparison. The only alternatives would have been to average the system's frame rates without the missing settings, or to average it with "zeros" for the missing data, which would unfairly skew the results in the low-cost build's favor.
Our high-end overclocked machine was able to pull out a surprising gaming victory compared to Dell's doubly-expensive machine. Our budget system also looks very nice in its overclocked configuration, gaining up to 50% compared to its default settings.
Four cores yield brutal computational power in the XPS 720 H2C, with the system performing nearly 50% better in 3D Studio Max than our high-end dual-core configuration. If you can afford to wait longer for it to complete computing tasks, then the budget system's performance is fair for the price.
Sandra again touts the four-core advantage, while the remaining synthetics averages look a little more balanced. The overclocked budget system does well in SPECviewperf average performance.
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