Our Test Procedures and Test Benches
Our CPU Test Benches for each CPU tested |
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Intel Socket 2011 (Ivy Bridge-E) |
Intel DX79SI Motherboard Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600MHz Quad Channel Ram Two Kingston HyperX SATA 3 SSD’s in RAID 0 Intel Active Thermal Solution RTS2011LC Water-cooling Cooler Master Silent PRO Gold 1200w PSU Two Nvidia GTX580’s in SLI Highspeedpc Test Bench |
AMD Socket FM2 |
Asus F2 A85-V Pro OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD Kingston HyperX 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM Noctua NH-U14S heatsink Cooler Master V1000 Power Supply Two Nvidia GTX 580’s in SLI Microcool Banchetto 101 Test bench |
Intel Socket 1150 |
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Kingston HyperX 128GB SSD Kingston HyperX 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM Noctua NH-U12S heatsink Cooler Master V1000 Power Supply Two Nvidia GTX 580 ‘s in SLI Microcool Banchetto 101 Test bench |
Intel Socket 1155 (Ivy Bridge) |
Crucial Ballistix Tracer Ram 1600Mhz 2x2Gb Intel DZ77GA-70K OCZ Agility 3 120Gb SSD Noctua NH-C14 heatsink Cooler Master Silent Pro M 850Watt PSU Two Nvidia GTX580’s for SLI testing Microcool Banchetto 101 Test bench |
Intel Socket 2011 (Sandy Bridge-E) |
Intel DX79SI Motherboard Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600MHz Quad Channel Ram Two Kingston HyperX SATA 3 SSD’s in RAID 0 Intel Active Thermal Solution RTS2011LC Water-cooling Cooler Master Silent PRO Gold 1200w PSU Two Nvidia GTX580’s in SLI Highspeedpc Test Bench |
Intel Socket 1155 (Sandy Bridge) |
Crucial Ballistix Tracer Ram 1600Mhz 2x2Gb FATAL1TY P67 Profess1onal Series Motherboard OCZ Agility 60Gb SSD Noctua NH-C14 heatsink Cooler Master Silent Pro M 850Watt PSU Sapphire HD6970 BF:BC2 Edition for AMD testing Two Nvidia GTX580’s for SLI testing Microcool Banchetto 101 Test bench |
Intel Socket 1366 |
Gigabyte G-1 Assassin Gaming Motherboard EVGA Classified GTX580 Video card Cooler Master HAFX Nvidia Edition Case Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3 Ram 1600MHz Cool-It Water-cooling Cooler Master Silent PRO Gold 1200w PSU Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue SSD |
CPU Testing Procedures |
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 |
1920x1080 – high settings, first scene starting after the cut scene, recorded using fraps |
Dirt 2 |
1920x1080 – 4x MSAA – high settings, in-game benchmark |
3DMark Vantage |
CPU Score- Performance benchmark |
3DMark 2011 |
Physics Score – Performance benchmark |
wPrime |
1024M and 32M |
X264 HD Benchmark |
Pass 1 and Pass 2 |
Cinebench |
CPU and CPU (Single Core results) |
Passmark |
String Sorting, Physics, Encryption, Compression, SSE, Find Prime Numbers, Floating Point Math, Integer Math, CPU Mark Score |
Sandra |
Inter-Core Latency, Inter-Core Bandwidth, Whetstone iSSE3, Dhrystone iSSE4.2, Aggregate Arithmetic Performance |
AIDA64 |
CPU PhotoWorxx, CPU Zlib, FPU VP8 |
PCMark Vantage 64-bit |
Full benchmark Suite |
PCMark 7 |
Full benchmark Suite |
WorldBench |
Photoshop CS2, Autodesk 3Ds (rendering) Microsoft Office, and Winzip |
Onboard GPU Testing Procedures (for CPu’s that have built in GPU’s) |
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3DMark Vantage |
Performance and High settings |
X264 HD Benchmark |
Pass 1 and Pass 2 |
Unreal Heaven Benchmark 3.0 |
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Cinebench |
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Dirt 3 |
1920x1080 – 4x MSAA – high settings, in-game benchmark |
F1 2011 |
1920x1080 – 4x MSAA – high settings, in-game benchmark |
Super Street Fighter 4 |
Set to 1920x1080 |