Test Procedures and Test Bench
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Intel LGA2011 V3 Test System |
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CPU |
Intel i7-5960X |
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Motherboard |
Gigabyte X99-SOC Champion |
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Cooling |
Noctua NH-U12S for cooling Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste |
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Memory |
Kingston HyperX FURY Black 32GB Quad Channel Kit 2666 MHz |
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Storage |
Kingston Hyper X Savage 960GB SSD |
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Video Card |
AMD RX480 |
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Power Supply |
Thermaltake Grand 850W PSU |
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Case |
Dimastech Test Bench |
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OS |
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit |
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Test Procedures |
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CrystalDiskMark |
Sequential read and write speed testing |
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AS SSD |
File Copy benchmark using ISO, Program, and Game settings |
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Passmark Performance Test 9 |
Advanced Disk Benchmark using the four default tests Database, File Server, Web Server, and Workstation. We also test overall Storage Score. |
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PCMark 8 |
Default storage benchmark but we use the bandwidth result not the score |
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Anvil's Storage Utilities |
We run the whole SSD benchmark but only use the 4K QD16 IOPS |
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Queue Depth Testing |
This uses Anvil’s as well but we run individual tests set to 4k file size at a queue depth from 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and for read speeds 128 |
