Test Setup And Settings
System Hardware Hardware Details Motherboard (Socket LGA1156) Gigabyte P55A-UD7 (Rev. 1.0) Chipset: P55; BIOS: F3 (01/26/2010)CPU Intel Intel Core i5-750 (45 nm, 2.66 GHz, 4 x 256KB L2 and 8MB L3 Cache, TDP 95W)RAM DDR3 (dual) 2 x 2GB DDR3-1600 (OCZ OCZ3G2000LV4GK ); DDR3-1333 8-8-8-24 1T Hard Drive Western Digital VelociRaptor, 300GB (WD3000HLFS ) 10,000 RPM, SATA/300, 16MB Cache Graphics Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 GPU: Cypress (725 MHz); Graphics RAM: 1,024MB GDDR5 (2,000 MHz); Stream Processors: 1,440 Power Supply PC Power & Cooling, Silencer 750EPS12V 750W System Software & Drivers Operating System Windows 7 Ultimate X64 Updated 2010-02-11 Drivers and Settings Intel Chipset Drivers Chipset Installation Utility Ver. 9.1.1.1025 ATI Graphics Drivers Radeon Version 10.1
We used Gigabyte’s P55A-UD7, a Core i5-750 and Sapphire’s Radeon HD 5850 for this review.
Application Benchmarks and Settings Benchmark Details 7-Zip Version 9.1 beta LZMA2 Syntax "a -t7z -r -m0=LZMA2 -mx=5" Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload PCMark Vantage Version 1.0.1.0 SYSmark Preview 2007 Version 1.06 WinRAR Version 3.92 Beta 1 RAR Syntax "a -r -m3" Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload WinZip 14 Version 14.0 Pro (8652) WinZip Commandline Version 3 ZIPX Syntax "-a -ez -p -r" Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload