Gradetsk's Computer

System Owner: gradetsk
3DMark Fire Strike: 0
3DMark 11: 8,333
Community Score: 1
3DMark Vantage: 33,023
3DMark 06: 0
SuperPi 32M:

ELIGIBLE

System Details

Component Type Brand Product

Motherboard EVGA 750i FTW

CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450

Frequency: 3.72 GHz FSB / QPI: 1860 MHz Multiplier: 8x x Stepping: C1
VCore: 1.35 v VTT Voltage: 1.35 v PLL Voltage: Default

RAM Gskill 2x2GB DDR2 1200 PI 5-5-5-15-2T

Frequency: 930 MHz Timing: 4-4-4-12-1 Voltage: 2.1 v

Graphics Card EVGA 2x GTX 470 Superclocked+

GPU Frequency: 880 MHz Shader Frequency: 1760 MHz Memory Frequency: 1954 MHz SLI: Yes

Case

Silverstone

Raven 2

Cooling

Stock

Air

Heatsink

Xigmatek

HDT-S1283

Monitor

Sceptre

24 inch X24WG-1080P

Hard Drive

Western digital

2x WD1001FALS 1TB raid 0

Power Supply

Silverstone

op1000-e

Keyboard

Logitech

G500

Notes

Started off with this computer 3 years ago, now it has some upgrades, but there are still lots of original components including the CPU and Motherboard and its holding up real well. I have updated it to the specs above, but here I show you for all the parts that were replaced what the originals were and what I updated them to. 2x 512mb 8800 gts g92 in sli -----> now 2x GTX 470 SC+ in sli, Seagate 7200.11 hard drive -------> now 2x 1tb western digital caviar black raid 0, Originally Aspire now Apevia X-navigator ---> now Silverstone Raven 2, 2x2gb Gskill DDR2 1066 PI ----->now 2x2gb Gskill DDR2 1200 PI, everything else is part of the original build from 3 years ago. When I build my computers I choose my components by trying to find the best performing components for the price at the best time to assure the computers longevity. I feel strongly this build, while it doesn't look the fanciest, you will see is holding up exceptionally well to even the newest components. Especially for its age. I also put a lot of work into selecting the best upgrades to push my components to the max to extend its longevity, because I feel the longer you can hold off to your next build the more you can save and improve. This system is 100% air cooled, but you will see I am hitting frequencies stably that most of the time only watercooled people will hit. I might not be quite as cold as other watercooled computers but my computer is cold enough to reach the frequencies to compete with the best especially for the ones within the same age. Oh yeah some other notes, this is the second fastest 3dmark11 score for my processor and gpu's (beat by an Asus striker), and 4th fastest for all scores with my cpu on 3dmark11(beat by a 580 and 480 sli q9450 rigs), as well as being 88th fastest score for all core 2 quads. For Vantage I have the fastest score for anyone with my processor. Also here is another test I did, MSI kombustor 2.0. http://www.ozone3d.net/msi_kombustor/scores_gl4_1080.php. I scored 3738 points on the extreme mode, which is 7th for all computers with my graphic cards and 59th for all computer. On kombustor I was able to reach higher frequencies in my gpu then what I posted on my mod rig, because I have a slight cpu bottleneck with kombustor, which I don't have on most apps allowing my cards to stay cooler at higher frequencies then what is really stable for other apps without the cpu bottlenecks.

Comments

Posted By Date Text

gradetsk
06/22/2011
02:32 PM

Hi I am commenting on my own mod for the p67 motherboard competition. If I got a p67 motherboard ftw or SLI I would definately hold on to it for the top end ivy bridge series. I hear that 1155's are the ivy bridge socket standard and I just don't feel the new sandy bridges would be a big enough upgrade for me. This is what I would do, I would get an 8 core ivy bridge unlocked multiplier cpu, extreme edition if its not in the 1000 dollar range, if it is I will get what ever the next best non extreme edition cpu intel sells and overclock the cpu heavily without killing it. If I had to do a build for an i7 sandy bridge I would get the 2600k, some ddr3 2133 cas 9, a 3rd gtx 470, a solid state a 3rd hard drive, and some silverstone air penetrators to help cool this off. If I can wait for an ivy bridge I would start fresh with a new case, probably silverstone fortress instead of the raven, watercool it this time (still don't know if I would do a single loop or multi loop but it would be my first watercooled system). Also this time find some nice wire covers. Get 8 to 16 gigs (or 12 to 24 gigs if its tri-channel memory) of ddr3 2133 or what ever is better at the time of the ivy bridge era, I would have one solid state looking like a crucial or corsair ssd and 4x 7200 rpm hard drives in raid 0+1, hopefully a next generation graphic card that is not out yet, but if I had to choose right now it would be either 3x 570's or 560 ti's, a new CD burner unlike the grey one I have above with lightscribe burning capabilities. Honestly its hard to guess my build that I would do right now especially since my plan is to build a top end ivy bridge computer, and the first plan to come out in 6-9 month's so I'll probably have to wait at least a 1 year to 1.5 years till the best ivy bridge processors come out that would suit the build that I would want to do to replace this computer. I want it to be a big improvement and something that would last for another 4-5 years with out falling behind like what this one has done.