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12:54 PM - March 27, 2008 by
Thomas Soderstrom
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: system, builder, marathon
Topics: Build Your Own, Overclocking
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Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: system, builder, marathon
Topics: Build Your Own, Overclocking
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Table of Contents:
Introduction
Here's a list of the System Builder Marathon (SBM) articles in this five day series.
- Day 1: The Low-Cost PC
- Day 2: The Mid-Cost PC
- Day 3: The High-Cost PC
- Day 4: All Three SBM PCs Overclocked
- Day 5: Summary - The Price/Performance Winner
It's time for the highly anticipated overclocking segment of our System Builder Marathon, where each builder puts his overclocking credentials on the line in order to prove the extra value of his component choices. Some of this week's configurations were a little more controversial than those of previous marathons, but will daring to be different pay off?
Before we go into the overclocking results of each system, here's a quick look at the benchmarks we've selected.
| Benchmarks and Settings | |
|---|---|
| 3D-Games | |
| Crysis | Version: 1.1
Video Quality 1: High Details No Anti-Aliasing Video Quality 2: Very High Details, 4x Anti-Aliasing Benchmark: Benchmark_CPU.bat |
| Prey | Version: 1.3
Video Quality 1: Default (No AA, 8x AF) Video Quality 2: High Quality, 4x AA Benchmark: THG-Demo |
| Supreme Commander | Version: 3.220
Video Quality 1: Default Video Quality 2: High Fidelity, High Shadow, 4x AA Benchmark: Real 60 Game |
| Unreal Tournament 3 | Version: Retail
Texture Detail: 5 World Detail: 5 Field of View: 100 Benchmark: Botmatch (WAR-Torlan, 12 bots, 1 Minute) |
| Warhammer Mark of Chaos | Version: 1.6
Video Quality:Default (Highest Settings) Demo: THG Timedemo (1 Minute) |
| Audio | |
| iTunes 7.2 | Version: 7.1.1.5
Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 min High Quality (160kb/s) |
| Lame MP3 | Version: 3.98 Beta 3 (05-22-2007)
Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 min wave to MP3 160kb/s |
| Video | |
| TMPEGEnc 4.0 Xpress | Version: 4.2.10.211
Import File: Terminator 2 SE DVD (5 Minutes) Resolution: 720x576 (PAL) 16:9 Audio: Dolby Digital, 48000 Hz, 6-Channel, English Advanced Acoustic Engine MP3 Encoder (160kb/s) |
| DivX 6.6 | Version: 6.6.1
Profile: Home Theater Profile (720 x 576) 1-pass, 780 kb/s Encoding mode: Insane Quality Enhanced multithreading |
| XviD 1.1.2 | Version: 1.1.2
Target quantizer: 1.00 (maximum quality) |
| Applications | |
| Adobe Photoshop CS3 | Version: 10.0x20070321
Filtering 69 MB TIF Photo Benchmark: Tom's Guide-Benchmark V1.0.0.4 |
| Autodesk 3D Studio Max | Version: 9.0
Rendering One Video Frame Quality: HTDV 1920x1080 & 1280x720 |
| Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus | Version: 7.5.467
Virus Base: 269.6.1/776 Benchmark: Scanning 3.82 GB Application Folder |
| Maxon Cinema 4D | Version: 10.008
Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Benchmark: Rose Drop, 8-bits (50 Frames) |
| Rarlab Winrar | Version 3.70 BETA 8
Compression = Best Dictionary = 4096 kB Uncompressed Folder Size: 642 MB |
| Synthetics | |
| SPECviewperf 9 | Version: 9.0.3 |
| PCMark05 Pro | Version: 1.1.0
System, CPU and Memory Tests Windows Media Player 11.0.6000.6324 Windows Media Encoder 9.00.00.2980 |
| Futuremark 3DMark 2006 | Version 1.10
System Test Only |
| SiSoftware Sandra XII | Version 2007.5.11.40
CPU Test = CPU Arithmetic, Multimedia Memory Test = Bandwidth Benchmark |
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