[Irinikus]

I've upped the CPU frequency to the max that I can without having to manually raise the core voltage. (3666MHz)

This is what it scored in 3DMARK 6:



Here's the latest Blender Test result:



The increase in performance is no longer linear! (Blender proves this!)

[Irinikus]

My RAM arrived today, and one of the sticks is faulty, so back to the drawing board! (I'm starting to get sick of receiving DOA components for this system!)



The one stick works perfectly, but the system won't even boot to BIOS, when the other stick is inserted!!!! (With or without the working stick!)

So I've just put the memory that came with the system back in for now!

I'm not going to overclock it further, so 3666MHz is a far as I'm willing to go with this one!

MemTest is a good means of testing for overall system stability, as it tests all of the memory and stresses all of the CPU cores at the same time, and it's not nearly as crazy as Prime95!

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So here she is for now!

[Shiunbird]

Looking forward to your benchmarks on youtube.

[Irinikus]

Looking forward to your benchmarks on youtube.

I'll definitely release a video once the machine is completely upgraded!

Crysis image quality difference between high and very high settings on the system. (Open the original image to view it at its true resolution)
I've just played through the game with very high setting using the system and it performed pretty well. (There were only two areas where I experienced significant slowdown, it's difficult to explain why though, as the system wasn't using close to its full graphic or system memory)
The two places were, the settlement before reaching the mine and on the aircraft carrier, while the admiral was speaking over the intercom system.
Funny, I remember experiencing slowdown in these same ares, when I originally played the game in 2007!
I must admit that the original game has held up pretty well! 

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This is the machines current build!

I'm still waiting on performance RAM, an ioDrive and high performance fans with a fan controller. (This is starting to cost me a small fortune! But I love it! )

[Shiunbird]

The screenshots are interesting.

I had the same impression from your screenshots as I had last time I ran Doom 3 and Quake 4.
The games aged beautifully - there's no need to pump out more polygons or lights, movements are fine, it looks good.

Higher texture resolutions would make ALL the difference, however. Specially when you look at repeated patterns such as rocks - even on your best screenshots, the rocks far away are the ones that give away the game's age.

Enjoy your project!

[Irinikus]

I've just bought this Patriot 8GB kit for the machine with a latency of 4-4-4-12, I really hope it works!!!!!

[Irinikus]

Stability testing with Heaven! (Those G80's do get heated!!!)

[Irinikus]

I'm going to be ordering in three of these Corsair fans as well as this fan controller, as I can source them locally (I'm getting tired of having to import all of the parts that I need for this build, as it's expensive and it's taking forever!)





I would have loved to use the industrial Noctua fans, but I can't source them locally!!! The shipping and tax will cost me more than the fans themselves!

[Irinikus]

The ioDrive's in and it works!!!! (Not quite 2GB per second, but pretty darn fast for system running a QX6850 in an EVGA nForce 680i SLI board!!!)





The drive also has just over 99% of its writes remaining, which is awesome!!!!

[Shiunbird]

For perspective, I remember that my Katmai Pentium III scored 400MB/s RAM speeds back in the day. =)