Hi Guys,
Since its almost 4 years since I started the last Pc and Overclocking topic, I reckon its time to do a new up to date one.
Have just built a new system comprising of the following components:
Main Pc Specifications:
- Case: Coolermaster Stacker 830.
- Fans: 3x 120mm
- PSU: XFX P1-1250 Black. 1250W
- Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V-Pro/GEN3
- CPU: Intel i7 2600K
- CPU Cooler: Corsair H80 Water Cooler Kit.
- Ram: 16Gb Corsair Vengeance DD3 (1800mhz)
- Video: 2xRadeon HD 7970 with 3GB DDR running in Crossfire.
- Monitors: 3x Dell U2410 LCD monitors (All 24")
- HDD 1: OCZ Vertex 3 SSD (240GB)
- HDD 2: Seagate Barracuda 500GB. (7200rpm)
- HDD 3: Seagate Barracuda 1TB. (7200rpm)
- HDD 4: Seagate Barracuda 1TB. (7200rpm)
- Sound: Onboard
- Mouse: Microsoft Razor Habu optical.
- Keyboard: Saitech Eclipse II.
- Network. Gigabit LAN cabled through whole house.
- OS: Windows 7 64bit.
Backup Solution:
HP Mediasmart EX495 running windows server 2003 with 7TB Of Storage.
This backs up both my main PC's and my laptop every evening and provides a one click restore function for any drive or whole system as required.
Benchmarking,
Lets all use the same things, that we can get free so anyione can join in the topic and see what different machines do.
Monitoring:
I use these programs to monitor my settings for safety.
CPU Z (click to download)
GPU Z (click to download)
I will be running some more overclocking tests tonight to see what is what, but so far its loooking good. Ran heaven and Super Pi tests at 4.7GHZ already, and the results are as follows: ** UPDATED **
Super Pi. 7.66 seconds.
3DMark Vantage: P41876
Heaven 2.5. = 3355
PC Mark 7 = 5936
