Synthetics
3D Mark 2006 loves the SLI configuration of our current build, and the gains continue getting better as resolutions, anti-aliasing, and anisotropic filtering are used.
PC Mark’s system test favors our previous build, could it be due to the quad-core processor?
The processor change didn’t appear to make much of a difference. Maybe it was AMD’s on-die memory controller that gave the former build a better system-test score?
PC Mark’s Memory Test favors the new build as well. Perhaps it was the graphics component that favored the former build’s ATI graphics card, which caused the system test to favor the former build.
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You started by asking if the new $1000 PC you built could compete with the big boys, and ended by comparing it to a previously built $750 machine. You paid 33% more for 14% increase in performance, and never did compare to bigger machines.
Wandering: Remember the price listed takes the depreciation into account, and even then the difference is $183, NOT $250. And seeing as the whole point is the OCing I think we'll see the different priced systems compared in full next week once they're fully stressed
But on that subject, I'm wondering how well this system WILL OC... Not a perfect setup, you blew a LOT on the graphics, fine but this is putting direct pressure on a component you seem to have underbudgeted in turn - PSU. Even a made-of-win Silverstone will have a fun time trying to run a loaded system of above spec (SLId 8800!!) on just 400W at stock clocks, and I fear there might be an explosive temper-tantrum in store when you try to run it with everything OCd to boot!
Solitaire, Thanks for the info on the coming week. Maybe I'll learn something then. Haven't so far.
As to the numbers, I wasn't making precise computations but making a point. That point stands whether you add 2% for inflation or use $183 rather than the heavily rounded $250. Either way you pay more to get more. Either way the systems are not comparably priced.
Have a good day.
Can anyone tell me performance and price difference from upgraded my G4/733 for about $400.00 worth of CPU VS. your March/June/July/Aug 2008 SBM $1,000 PC Component Cost running OSX. Other then the $600 bucks?