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Gaming System:

Case: Lian Li A05
Mainboard: Asus P5N32-E SLI
Chipset: NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2800 MHz
Memory: G.SKILL - DDR2 1000 (8GB - 4x 2048 DDR2 @966MHz)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS (G92) – 512MB
Hard Disk: Seagate 7200.11 (500 GB)
Hard Disk: Seagate 7200.10 (320 GB)
DVD-RW Drive: Optiarc DVD SATA
Monitor Type: DELL 2007FPW - 20 inch (1680x1050)
Network Card: D-Link G+108 (PCI-somethingrather)
Power Supply: Antec Smartpower 2.0 - 500w
Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi
Operating System: Windows (TM) Vista Ultimate Professional X64
DirectX: Version 10.00
Vista Score: Haven't done one since the changes...
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Updated above slightly... Admiral will need to do the same...

That GTX is bloody loud. May have to find a quiet cooler for it... Performance is nice though...
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I only get 5.6 for Vista determined by my disk throughput. I should change my .11 to be the system drive.
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- 8800GTS 640 + 8800GT 512 =

3DMark Score 11349 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 5217 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 4954 Marks
CPU Score 2824 Marks
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I shall run a bench this evening with the GTS 512
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GTX 280... 8GB... Q9450... ASUS X48...

That is all...
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GTX 280 SLI...
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I m teh slow upgradar...

Actually I've been up and running in intel land for over a month now but was waiting until my 2nd 7600 got RMA'd (blown caps) to bench so I could have an accurate comp.

New Spectaclees:

Intel Q6600 (Quad 2.4GHz)
Asus P5N32-E SLI
4GB DDR2
Dual EVGA 7600GTs
750GB Seagate 7200.11 (& a 7200.10, & a 7200.9, & a 7200.8 )
Vista Ultimate x64

Windows Rating: 5.3

3DMark 06 v1.1.0

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 3D MARK 2006            OLD AMD System           New Intel System
==============         ==================        ==================
Final Score               3088 3DMarks              5976 3DMarks
SM2                    1361 (11.079/11.612)            2459
HDR/SM3                1246 (11.066/13.850)            2083
CPU                      952 (.299/.485)               3338
Hmmm - so score seem about equivalent to what everyone else was getting 18 months ago. I guess that is about right since the video cards are 2+ years old. Not that I am playing a lot of games tho. Not that I am a "gamer" or anything...

So here is a nice real world benchmark. I used ConvertX to creat 2 identical DVDs from XviD files. Both about 3.5hrs long.

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ConvertX v3.2.0.52           OLD AMD System           New Intel System
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DVD Enc. Time                  1:16:48                     27:30
DVD Enc. Rate                   2.28x                      6.35x
That deserves a real world w0000t!
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I suppose I should do mine since I only upgrade once every 6 years...and I don't believe I have ever even posted any of my machines...anyway this computer is 10 X faster than my old dog machine...

Display:
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NEC Display Solutions LCD2490WUXi-BK Black 24.1" 16ms (8ms G to G) Widescreen LCD (high end monitor but worth it)

XFX PVT98FYDBU GeForce 9800 GTX Black Edition 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported

Sound:
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Mackie HR 624 Mk IIs

(trying to figure out what sound card to get now that I have the Mackies and the onboard sound is not so great)

Beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro

Behringer Xenyx502

CPU:
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Yorkfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569Q9450

Motharboard:
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EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel

Memory:
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CORSAIR XMS2 DHX 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel

Hard Drive:
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3750330AS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s

Powar Supply:
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SeaSonic M12II SS-500GM 500W ATX12V 2.2 /EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

OS:
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Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit

DVD:
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Pioneer 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model DVR-215DBK

Case:
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LIAN LI PC-7B plus II Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower


Vista score is 5.9
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Wow that DVD conversion really benefited from the upgrade!

So what is that 3 250GB Drives? Are they in RAID 0?

Glad to see you went with the X64. Now you can run CS4 x64.
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Life is much faster in Vista world with the Q6600 and 4GB of ram. So much better. I've already forgotten why I didn't care for it before and I love my dreamscene.

get it here if you wanna join the club
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I've noticed that things got a tiny bit faster going from 4GB to 8GB because of caching...
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Oh whats that about HDDs?

I have:
750GB 7200.11 system drive
320GB 7200.10
300GB 7200.9
300GB 7200.8 external
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Wow you have quite the seagate spectrum there!
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A veritable museum of the last 5 years of Seagate technology.
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Weeehaaawww!!!

Edited... Making some wee changes...
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Jeebs...jehosephats

I'll take video. No paypal ducats to spare this month. But I do have dual 7600s for trade... :grinnin:
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My goal with this is to stop upgrading for a significant amount of time. Other people seem to be able to get away with running the same computer for a year or more, and I'm tired of shifting parts, cable management, etc. The LEGO factor seems to be wearing off for me. :D I may swap the video card out at some point, but I'd like the basic system to stay in place for a while.
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What the fricken hell - 8 cores of fury? Where you get that? Isn't that super expensive? Is it a Xeon or a dual quad cores or something?
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oh hey what is your Windows experience index at now?
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what?

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I just checked mine and after installing a new Titanium X-fi and the 4GB of faster ram my index for the ram went down from 5.9 to 5.7...what the hell...
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That experience thing is retarded. I think it's just a random number generator. :)

It's not actually 8 cores I guess. It's 4 with Hyperthreading, which all of the Core 2s didn't have. I never really read up much on them, and then when I saw some of the benchmarks, I decided it was pretty cool. I just did a bit of reading a bit ago. Anyway, quite fast. I just fixed the other post. :D It shows up as 8 in the performance monitor (like the HT P4s showed up as two.)
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What the hell? This was over a year and a half ago...what happened?

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/521/1/
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Reasonably cool benchmarking app for 32 & 64 bit Vista

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I ran the 64-bit benchmark app (CINEBENCH R10 64Bit.exe) used in the aforementioned Intel 8 core article...

With the standard settings my machine scored:

CPU Benchmark:
Rendering (1 CPU) 3280 CB-CPU
Rendering (4 CPU) 11383 CB-CPU
Multiprocessor Speedup 3.47x

OpenGL Benchmark:
OpenGL Standard 3772 CB-GFX

Is pretty cool to watch it render the street bike scene when it uses multiple cores/CPUs as it subdivides the scene...the single CPU rendering seems to take a LONG time comparatively speaking...

You can get Cinebench R10 here:

http://http.maxon.net/pub/benchmarks/CINEBENCHR10.zip
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Perhaps I shall have to run this here Cinebench... Hmm... Sounds like a confection of some sort. :D
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mmmm sugary sweet cinebench:

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CINEBENCH R10
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Processor        : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz
MHz              : 
Number of CPUs   : 4
Operating System : WINDOWS 64 BIT 6.0.6001

Graphics Card    : GeForce 7600 GT/PCI/SSE2

****************************************************

Rendering (Single   CPU): 2788 CB-CPU 
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 9789 CB-CPU 

Multiprocessor Speedup: 3.51

Shading (OpenGL Standard)          : 3507 CB-GFX 


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again...

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Redone via the "-> To Clipboard" button and results embedded in code block a la Endar

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CINEBENCH R10
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Tester           : 

Processor        : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz
MHz              : 
Number of CPUs   : 4
Operating System : WINDOWS 64 BIT 6.0.6001

Graphics Card    : GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+/PCI/SSE2
Resolution       &#58; <fill>
Color Depth      &#58; <fill>

****************************************************

Rendering &#40;Single   CPU&#41;&#58; 3255 CB-CPU 
Rendering &#40;Multiple CPU&#41;&#58; 11486 CB-CPU 

Multiprocessor Speedup&#58; 3.53

Shading &#40;OpenGL Standard&#41;          &#58; 3706 CB-GFX 


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I say R3cogniz3r, run the confection as there is no need to install it...dl, zip, run
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I'll try it out as soon as I plug the PC in.
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CINEBENCH R10
****************************************************

Tester           &#58; 

Processor        &#58; Intel&#40;R&#41; Core&#40;TM&#41; i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
MHz              &#58; 
Number of CPUs   &#58; 8
Operating System &#58; WINDOWS 64 BIT 6.0.6001

Graphics Card    &#58; GeForce GTX 280/PCI/SSE2
Resolution       &#58; <fill>
Color Depth      &#58; <fill>

****************************************************

Rendering &#40;Single   CPU&#41;&#58; 4763 CB-CPU 
Rendering &#40;Multiple CPU&#41;&#58; 19013 CB-CPU 

Multiprocessor Speedup&#58; 3.99

Shading &#40;OpenGL Standard&#41;          &#58; 6600 CB-GFX 


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