System Builder Marathon, Sept. '09: $2,500 Performance PC

By Thomas Soderstrom
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Benchmark Results: Productivity

Adobe Photoshop runs 21% faster in concert with our 22% CPU overclock, while 3ds Max sees a similar 20% gain.

Very little of our added CPU performance translates into AVG scan time improvement. Perhaps the benchmark is limited by the performance of our super-fast SSD array?

Our file-compression benchmarks receive a moderate 17% performance gain.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.
100 Comments Comment from the forums
  • burnley14
    Just thinking about winning this system in the giveaway gets me excited.
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  • jj463rd
    Me too this is an awesome build.
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  • DjEaZy
    ... do the video compression using ATi Streem...
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  • The Quality of video on ATI streem is shit on sticks and doesn't even support high profile.

    The last build was a bit too odd for me but this one seems like a very nice chose of parts and on a larger screen set up makes a lot of sense the loss of i7 for AMD only build was a bit sad but the addition of those great SSD kind of makes up for me along with the nice chose of case and cooling. That case looks like it is very nice to work on.
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  • dirtmountain
    The Corsair CMPSU-850HX is rated Silver, not Gold. Nice build, good results, great work.
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  • @Dirtman

    http://www.80plus.org/manu/psu/psu_detail.aspx?id=25&type=2

    Check your sources because you have it wrong

    CMPSU-850HX ATX12V 850 90.38% Gold
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  • one-shot
    Please don't call RAID 1 a backup solution.
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  • dirtmountain
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139011

    Newegg says differently. I did check sources.
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  • dirtmountain
    So does Jonnyguru
    http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story2&reid=153
    I guess you just can't believe everything you find on a brands site.
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  • WINTERLORD
    now that is one slick gaming machine! could'nt imagine them frames rates on a big monitor. love the insides water cooling 3 radeon 4890's with room for a 4th. great pictures by the way lots of eye candy. you can tell alot of work went into tis kmonster. great article.
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