Benchmark Results: Synthetic
Synthetic benchmarks don’t represent actual programs, but they do help to show how well specific parts of a system perform.
3DMark benefits from improved CPU, GPU, and DRAM performance, yet on average, these benchmarks scaled almost equally to the change in CPU speed.
PCMark puts more emphasis on launch times, but hard drives can’t be overclocked. A 7% improvement is noteworthy.
Sandra CPU performance scales almost perfectly with clock speed.
While the memory speed of the overclocked configuration is slightly slower than stock, improvements in memory timings provide a 2% boost in Sandra Memory Bandwidth tests.
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Are Europeans also able to join the contest?
Nice build but a shame that the I7 was not further overclocked.
Wouldn't a scythe orochi have matched into the system?
@Erdinger - No.
I'm on the .co.uk site and it's all US dollar and parts you can't get in the UK! Sad thing is . If you swap the $ for £ the price is about the same.
Perfect timing! I was just about to buy a gaming PC but all your articles on gaming budget PC's were outdated. Do you have any plans on what day the "Day 3: The $600 Gaming PC" will be published?
ehm everyday one article .... today came number two so tomorow number 3 ^^
it's BS to put 24/7 HDs in a normal system. They aren't designed for a normal computer that get's turned on and off once a day and will die faster