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17 Nov 2008

The Dream PC in Jakarta

Today i attended the benchmarking workshop held by CHIP at the Annual Indocomtech event, the biggest IT exhibition Show in Indonesia.

I will not tell you about this Indocomtech, i'll just give a short story of the extraordinary scene i had. I start this workshop just with the meaning of benchmarking, the test, and the result

The post about benchmarking will be posted soon, but what I'll post now is about the PC i saw with my own eyes, the dream PC that only for test center for now.

This dream PC is shown by the CHIP test center Indonesia and Also Benchmarked by them. They use this specification:
-Motherboard MSI Eclipse X58 (they didn't tell the chipset type, but i found it out myself)
-Processor Intel I7 965 Extreme edition 3.2 GHz 4 core Hyperthreading
-three channel Qimonda memory DDR3 unknown capacity, perhaps 6 GB
-Two Intel SSD 64 GB operating in RAID 0 with writeback feature enabled
-three 280GTX three way SLI
-Tagan power supply 1100 watt

They test it with 3Dmark 2006 and they get over 21000 point!!! What a point. They also benchmark an insane value of data transfer, 555++ MBPS for data transfer in SSD and cache write in 2288 MBPS, with a very consistent speed. The real score is shown by HDtach, FYI, normal harddisk can only have a maximum data transfer of 100 until 150 MBPS with inconsistent speed.

The cores shown on the task manager are all 8!!!, they all working together with the reference speed 3.2 GHz.

The most exciting view is that this PC can run Crysis at a "very high" setting, with the resolution 1280 x 1024, and anti isotropic filtering (anisotropic filtering) at 16xQ at average around 40 fps. This is insane!!!

There are 4 preset for Crysis game setting, they are "low", "medium", "high", and "very high". My own PC with the Graphic card NVIDIA Geforce 8600GT can only play Crysis at "medium" setting with the resolution 1280 x 1024 and the anisotropic filtering off at the average 25 fps.

I could not the picture of the PC, because they had it in secret, and ask for the audience not to take even a single photo. I didn't really understand why should they keep the product in secret. They even didn't mention the chipset and the processor at the workshop, but i found it by myself, because they gave a lot of clue about them.

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