The All New, All New Spec and Bench Thread!!!

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 10:41 pm

New Specs:
Report Date: Monday 05 April 2010 at 22:35

System Summary
Mainboard Asus Rampage Formula
Chipset Intel X48
Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 2666 MHz
Physical Memory 8192 MB (4 x 2048 DDR2-SDRAM )
Video Card ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Hard Disk ST31000340AS (1000 GB)
Hard Disk ST3320620AS (320 GB)
Hard Disk ST3320620AS (320 GB)
DVD-Rom Drive Optiarc DVD RW AD-7170A ATA Device
DVD-Rom Drive LITE-ON DVD SOHD-16P9S ATA Device
Monitor Type Dell Computer DELL 2007WFP - 20 inches
Network Card MV88SE614x PCIe to SATA2 controller Yukon 88E8056 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Network Card MV88SE614x PCIe to SATA2 controller Yukon 88E8056 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Network Card RT2800 802.11n Wireless LAN Card
Operating System Windows 7 Professional Professional 6.01.7600 (x64)
DirectX Version 10.00

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:21 am

New Specs:

Mainboard EVGA X58 uATX
Chipset Intel X58
Processor Intel Core i7 930 @ 3.2 GHz
Physical Memory 6 GB (3 x 2048 DDR3-2000) - (down from 12 GB)
Video Card ATI Radeon HD 5770
Sound Card ASUS Xonar
Windows 7 X64
LG BD Writer

The rest is boring...

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 2:38 pm

I just cut and pasted from PC wizard... The one thing it's still good for after I found CPUID's Hardware Monitor, which I find way more lightweight, and awesome.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:48 pm

ATI 10.4 drivers are out.

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catal ... ws-7-64bit

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Sun May 02, 2010 1:27 pm

Downloaded them, but haven't installed yet...

Post by **enderzero** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:46 pm

The New PC is all in and up and running (well has been for the last few weeks). Here are the all new specs and benchmarks!

NEW PC
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CPU: Intel i5 2500k Quad Core 3.3GHz stock
RAM: 8GB (4GBx2) G.Skill RipjawsX 8GB DDR3 1600 PC3 12800 CAS9
MoBo: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Z68
Sys Drive: Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB SATA III
Data Storage: Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB 5900RPM SATA III
Video: XFX Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5

OLD PC
========================
CPU: Intel Q6600 Quad Core 2.4GHz stock
RAM: 4GB (2GBx2) G.Skill PC2 3200 CAS5
MoBo: Asus P5N32-E
Sys Drive: Seagate 7200.12 1.5TB
Video: XFX Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:58 am

Nice! You're modern!

I'm still using the same exact system as I posted above, only I have a GTX-460 instead of the 5770 now. The 5770 is in the living-room PC.

I don't think I've ever had a PC as long as I've had this one. I have no compelling reason to upgrade anything right now, except maybe bump the video up another notch at some point.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:02 pm

Now using a Radeon-6870. It's nice. For the most part it completely out-performs the GTX-460 I had. I've noticed an item or two that just seemed to prefer nVidia though. Pretty happy with this card though. A lot of performance for just under $200. It's REALLY quiet too.

N3ur0n0saurusl2exs0r!!! · Tue Sep 20, 2011 11:17 pm

Those improvements are stupid ridiculous with a little "holy shit what the hell?!?!?" added to the overall performance improvements. I'm still rockin a PC from 2008!!!! w00t!

Post by **enderzero** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:58 pm

A couple months in and I am very happy with the rig. Still haven't played a 3D game yet but the system is just so much speedier. I think the vast majority of the improvements are due to the SSD. Best single part upgrade you can make.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:50 am

I love SSDs. I just haven't wanted to spend money on something as mundane as storage.

However, I'm able to hold out less and less each day.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:57 pm

This thread has nearly received 16 bits worth of views...

That will be alll...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:24 pm

ROTATE!!!

Using a GTX560ti now...

And...

The Admiral is running a 6870...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:25 pm

We've exceeded 16 bits of views!!! Overflow! Overflow!!!

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N3ur0n0saurusl2exs0r!!! · Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:56 pm

You and your benchmarks...To hell with you all!!! Get your keys to the gates of Hades and see Cerberus.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:52 am

I don't actually run benchmarks. Haven't for years actually. (that I'm aware of anyway...) I may have run some in my sleep...

Basically, I play a new game, and if it runs unsatisfactorily, I upgrade a bit at a time until it works satisfactorily.

I haven't upgraded my full computer for years now. I've been running the same basic i7 processor, X58 chipset, and memory for probably the longest I've ever had a PC. I've changed video cards a few times, but that's about it. I still don't see any compelling reason to upgrade it for the near future. It's still incredibly fast, snappy, quick, and any other descriptive terms I might feel like using for this. At the resolution I play at, it seems to run everything at sync.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 3:25 pm

For archive/nostalgic purposes:

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Report Date&#58; Thursday 03 November 2011 at 15&#58;23

<<<System>>>
  > Mainboard &#58; Asus Rampage Formula
  > Chipset &#58; Intel X48
  > Processor &#58; Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 2666MHz
  > Physical Memory &#58; 8192MB &#40;4 x 2048 DDR2-SDRAM &#41;
  > Video Card &#58; AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
  > Hard Disk &#58; Seagate ST31000340AS ATA Device &#40;1000GB&#41;
  > Hard Disk &#58; Seagate ST3320620AS ATA Device &#40;320GB&#41;
  > Hard Disk &#58; Seagate ST3320620AS ATA Device &#40;320GB&#41;
  > Hard Disk &#58; Seagate ST330062 2AS &#40;300GB&#41;
  > DVD-Rom Drive &#58; Toshiba-Samsung CDDVDW SH-S243N
  > Monitor Type &#58; Dell Computer DELL 2007WFP - 20 inches
  > Monitor Type &#58; Dell Computer DELL 2005FPW - 20 inches
  > Network Card &#58; Marvell Semiconductor &#40;Was&#58; Galileo Technology Yukon 88E8056 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller
  > Network Card &#58; Marvell Semiconductor &#40;Was&#58; Galileo Technology Yukon 88E8056 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller
  > Network Card &#58; Ralink Technology RT2800 802.11n Wireless LAN Card
  > Operating System &#58; Windows 7 Professional Professional Media Center 6.01.7601 Service Pack 1 &#40;64-bit&#41;
  > DirectX &#58; Version 11.00
  > Windows Performance Index &#58; 5.9 on 7.9

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:46 am

That's a lot of disks! I'm using a 1000GB and a 500GB. I have various external ones though. They hold sporadic backups of emulators, media, and projects...

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:06 pm

The original plan was to have the two 320s in raid 0, and have the 1TB for a storage drive. To bad my other plan was being lazy for 3 years.

The 300 is actually the USB you gave me!

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