I finally got round to putting together the offices new fastest PC yesterday. After all the AMD Athlon FX60s and X2 4800s we've got we needed an Intel box to run Vtune.
Basically I wanted the fastest normal processor Intel offer, so that was the Pentium Core 2 Due Extreme XT6800. Ideally I would have liked a board which could SLI, but the Asus P5W DH Deluxe has an Intel chipset which was more important for this PC. The board does however Crossfire and SLI with hacked drivers as it's only a software lockout.
Anyway, final spec is as follows, but I also tested it with some other cards just to see how far it will go. All clock and memory timings are default, although Toms Hardware reckon you can gain 26% from playing with the memory timings and O/Cing the CPU. Not something I'm bothered about on a work PC. lol
Intel P5W DH Deluxe
Intel Pentium Core 2 Due X6800
2gb Corsair DDR2 XMS2-8500c5 Twin X 1066mhz memory
Nvidia 7900GTX
Also tested with SLI'd 7900GTX and Crossfired X1900XTX out of my PC.
Here's a fast PC for comparison to show how much better the new Intel Chips are, the first result is 3Dmark 2005 the second 2006:
Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe AMD Athlon FX 60 2gb OCZ DDR400 XFX Nvidia 7900 GTX x 2: 13747 8924
The new system, first one 7900GTX: 11538 6487
Because the board doesn't really support SLI I used a hacked driver to run it SLI'd, this was okay in 3Dmark 2005, but wasn't stable in 2006 so no result for that. In 2005 it benched: 16543
Finally with my 2 Radeon X1900 XTX: 16995 10097
Those cards in an X2 4800 system give: 12548 8210
Pretty obvious those new Intel chips are the s**t, but at a cost. Look at the price of the chip and the RAM, and of course those video cards.
Right, I'm done geeking it up for the day, time to get back to some p**n surfing.
Basically I wanted the fastest normal processor Intel offer, so that was the Pentium Core 2 Due Extreme XT6800. Ideally I would have liked a board which could SLI, but the Asus P5W DH Deluxe has an Intel chipset which was more important for this PC. The board does however Crossfire and SLI with hacked drivers as it's only a software lockout.
Anyway, final spec is as follows, but I also tested it with some other cards just to see how far it will go. All clock and memory timings are default, although Toms Hardware reckon you can gain 26% from playing with the memory timings and O/Cing the CPU. Not something I'm bothered about on a work PC. lol
Intel P5W DH Deluxe
Intel Pentium Core 2 Due X6800
2gb Corsair DDR2 XMS2-8500c5 Twin X 1066mhz memory
Nvidia 7900GTX
Also tested with SLI'd 7900GTX and Crossfired X1900XTX out of my PC.
Here's a fast PC for comparison to show how much better the new Intel Chips are, the first result is 3Dmark 2005 the second 2006:
Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe AMD Athlon FX 60 2gb OCZ DDR400 XFX Nvidia 7900 GTX x 2: 13747 8924
The new system, first one 7900GTX: 11538 6487
Because the board doesn't really support SLI I used a hacked driver to run it SLI'd, this was okay in 3Dmark 2005, but wasn't stable in 2006 so no result for that. In 2005 it benched: 16543
Finally with my 2 Radeon X1900 XTX: 16995 10097
Those cards in an X2 4800 system give: 12548 8210
Pretty obvious those new Intel chips are the s**t, but at a cost. Look at the price of the chip and the RAM, and of course those video cards.
Right, I'm done geeking it up for the day, time to get back to some p**n surfing.
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