System Builder Marathon, Sept. '09: $2,500 Performance PC
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Benchmark Results: Synthetic
3DMark Vantage splits the difference between our 22% CPU overclock and 10% graphics overclock, rewarding 15% for our efforts.
PCMark focuses more on the great SSD performance, diminishing any gains from overclocking other components.
Sandra’s CPU benchmarks show 21% and 22% improvements.
The Sandra memory bandwidth benchmark shows a tiny 3% performance boost, in spite of our clock speed and latency improvements. This is probably a limitation of the CPU, and points to a good reason for not spending more money on faster RAM.
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Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.
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The Quality of video on ATI streem is shit on sticks and doesn't even support high profile.Reply
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. -
dirtmountain The Corsair CMPSU-850HX is rated Silver, not Gold. Nice build, good results, great work.Reply -
@DirtmanReply
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 -
dirtmountain http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139011Reply
Newegg says differently. I did check sources. -
dirtmountain So does JonnyguruReply
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. -
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.Reply