Überclok Reactor: “Überperformance” Gaming?
8. Benchmarks - Audio, Video and Applications
Audio
The Überclok Reactor encoded a large wave file to Apple’s iTunes format at incredible speed, blowing away the XPS 630 by 136%.
Lame MP3 encoder gets less benefit from Überclok’s higher speed, but its 51% performance increase is still admirable.
Video
Überclok Reactor’s overclocked processor helps it to transcode a DVD9 video to the smaller DVD4.7 size 36% faster than the lower-cost Dell XPS 630.
TMPGenc sees a 34% performance gain from the Überclok Reactor’s overclocked CPU.
Mainconcept h.264 encoding hands a 48% lead to the Überclok Reactor.
Even though the Überclok Reactor has a much faster processor than the Dell XPS 630, Studio 11 shows only a 21% lead.
Applications
3D Studio Max 9 hands Überclok a 57% lead.
A super-fast processor puts the Überclok Reactor ahead of the XPS 630 by 52% in Cinema 4D.
Not quite as impressive as its Cinema 4D performance, the Überclok Reactor leads the XPS 630 by 45% in Acrobat 7 format conversion.
Überclok’s lead over the XPS 630 narrows even further, to 26% in Adobe Photoshop CS3.
Deep Fritz shows the Überclok Reactor with a 49% advantage in relative speed.
The Deep Fritz kilo nodes-per-second test shows little to no performance difference between the high-clock speed Überclok Reactor and stock-speed XPS 630.
WinRAR gains 40% from the higher-priced Überclok Reactor, and any limitation of performance gains could be caused by Uberclock’s selection of hard drive.
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Überclok, Under the Skin
- 3. Internal Components, Continued
- 4. Test System Configuration
- 5. Comparison System & Benchmark Settings
- 6. Benchmark Results - 3D Games
- 7. Benchmarks - 3D Games, Continued
- 8. Benchmarks - Audio, Video and Applications
- 9. Benchmarks - Synthetics
- 10. Benchmarks - Synthetics, Continued
- 11. Benchmarks - Synthetics, Continued
- 12. Conclusion
Crysis benchmark is where?
Wow...pricey!
Exactly my thoughts rtfm.
with the exception of Supreme Commander and Warhammer. The games tested are clearly last generation. Why are you still running DX9 games to benchmark a DX10 system? get something there to actually stress the system a little bit.
Wow, I bet solitare would have over 200 fps with the Uber. Where are the benchmarks for games that folks actually play?
I just want to know what the CPU voltage is, I have the e8400 and have it a 3.6 but would love to go to 4.0 if I knew more on how to set it. I have DDR2 800 ram though (Gskill)
Two DVD burners would have been better choice than a DVD reader and a DVD burner. You can launch two copies of most writer software (i.e. Nero Essentials that's included with LG drives) and burn two DVD's simultaneously, good for making quick rapid copies of photo albums and home videos for friends at a party. Even worthwhile in the budget $1500 gaming rig. I have two of the same DVD writers and writing to both simultaneously is not a problem for modern dual core systems (less than 5% CPU to burn to two drives at once), and you still have enough CPU headroom left to play HD video simultaneously on a mid-range graphics card.
ap90033, I also have the E8400, DDR2 800 ram and have it at 4.0 stable. My settings:
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FSB - 1779
RAM - 800
CPU core - 1.50v
CPU VVT - 1.35v
Nothbridge - 1.43v
LTD - 3x (Under Advanced Chipset Features)
Memory Timing - Auto
Would like to go higher than 4 but my abit FP-IN9 mobo refuses. The same with everyone else who has this board. Point is, you should get your e8400 up to 4.4 at least with a OC friendly board.
isnt that voltage to high? I thought 1.4 was the highest you could go safely?
which voltage do you mean: cpu core or northbridge? some people go even higher:
http://forus.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=139623
Check out those settings. Apparently raising the cpu vvt voltage quite high can help a lot with stability.
extra cooling for the northbridge would be a good idea though.
pffff
This isnt a supercomputer...
My home machine
Two quad-Core x5350 xeon's 2.66GHz/1333
160GB (7,200rpm) SATA2 Hard Drive (the wimpyist thing about the machine)
16GB DDR2 677 Quad Channel FBD Memory (8x2GB)
XFX 8800 GTX 768mb DDR3
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