System Builder Marathon, March 2011: $2000 Performance PC

Benchmark Results: Productivity

Adobe Photoshop shows great gains favoring this month's overclocked PC, while placing its stock performance halfway between the previous system’s overclocked and baseline scores.

3ds Max gives this month's overclocked configuration an even bigger boost when C-States are disabled, though the actual difference is probably a fraction of a second that just happens to occur near the rounding point.

A tighter chart in WinRAR could be the effect of similar memory performance, but the new system’s lead spreads out when using 7-Zip.