Calling all benchmark champions

[Jeremy Herron@DBS Solutions™]

I want to build a box based on all the knowledge gained from the benchmark site, and I used to up on all the new technology, but I have been so busy at work the last couple of years I have not had time. Here is my first draft. I would aprreciate any advise.

 

Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor SATA 10,000 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD3000HLFS -

 

PNY VCQFX3800-PCIE-PB NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 1GB GDDR3 Graphics Card

 

Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750-Watt TX Series 80 Plus Certified Power Supply compatible with Intel Core i7 and Core i5

 

Cooler Master Cosmos ATX Full Tower Case Silver - (RC-1000-KSN1-GP) - Coolermaster

 

Western Digital 128 GB SiliconEdge Blue SATA Solid State Drive SSC-D0128SC-2100

 

Corsair XMS3 12 GB 3 x 4 GB PC3-15000 1866mhz 240-pin CAS 9 Dual Channel DDR3 Core i3, i5, i7 Memory Kit CMT12GX3M6A1866C9

 

Intel Core i7 980X EE w/ ChillTec Cooler Bundle

 

ASUS Rampage II Extreme LGA1366 Intel X58 DDR3-1600 ATX Motherboard -

 

Thanks in advance

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

SSD's are way awesome! Nice sled.

[The_Evil_Machinist]

Replace the hd with an intel x25-m and maybe look at the corsair h-50 cooler if you're gonna overclock.

[Mic]

If you're looking a SSD drive you should look at the X25-M 2. generation from Intel. This is one of the best drives on the marked and with a decent pricetag on it.

 

edit: Evil beat me during typing:)

 

[ 05-27-2010, 12:03 PM: Message edited by: Mic ]

[GoetzInd]

I've got an ssd and love it.

 

Mike

[Chris Rizzo]

Looks pretty solid. Can't wait to see the benchmark, my 1000$ rig is still under a minute!

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I've got an SSD and I can't say ehough good things about it. Platter drives will be dead soon. No Moving Parts > Moving Parts

 

JM2C

[The_Evil_Machinist]

^^^

 

Hope you know bout trim support and limited write cycles.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

^^^

 

Yeah, I'll be sure to swap my drive out in 20 years

[The_Evil_Machinist]

Not true. If you have trim support enabled, you can last 20 years. But if you don't, it wont last a year.

[Jeremy Herron@DBS Solutions™]

rev 1:

 

Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor SATA 10,000 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD3000HLFS -

 

PNY VCQFX3800-PCIE-PB NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 1GB GDDR3 Graphics Card

 

Corsair 800D Case, H50 Cooler

 

Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750-Watt TX Series 80 Plus Certified Power Supply compatible with Intel Core i7 and Core i5

 

Intel X25-M Gen2 160GB 2.5" SATA 9.5mm Solid-State Drive + Bundle with 2.5" to 3.5" Bay Mounting Kit

 

Corsair XMS3 12 GB 3 x 4 GB PC3-15000 1866mhz 240-pin CAS 9 Dual Channel DDR3 Core i3, i5, i7 Memory Kit CMT12GX3M6A1866C9

 

Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition 3.33GHz 12 MB L3 Cache LGA1366 Desktop Processor BX80613i7980X

 

ASUS Rampage II Extreme LGA1366 Intel X58 DDR3-1600 ATX Motherboard -

 

 

Thanks again for the input guys.

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I dont think ssd's will help me much at all. It would be hard to shell out that kinda coinage for milliseconds.

Cant remember exactly but I was around 18 seconds on the benchmark

 

edit:

Jeremy, Here are my specs:

 

Dell Precision T7500 Workstation

Dual Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processors X5550 2.66GHz,8M L3,6.4GT/s,turbo

Memory 4GB, DDR3 RDIMM Memory,1333MHz, ECC (4 DIMMS)

1.5GB NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 4800, DUAL MON, 2DP & 1DVI

Boot Hard Drive 300GB, 3.0Gb/s, SAS, 3.5 inch, 15K RPM Hard Drive

Hard Drive Configuration C21 All SAS drives, RAID 1, 2 drive total configuration

 

2nd Hard Drive 300GB, 3.0Gb/s, SAS, 3.5 inch, 15K RPM Hard Drive

Hard Drive Internal Controller Option PERC6/i SAS/SATA Hardware RAID Card

 

[ 05-27-2010, 03:39 PM: Message edited by: Keith Horton from Murray Mold & Die ]

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Keith you'll gain more than milliseconds with an SSD, but they are pricey I'll give you that.

 

Question; you guys with 15k drives... how loud is your system? My laptop only makes noise when the fan or CD/DVD drive is running. Other than that it's silent. Every once in a while I have to look at it and move the mouse to make sure it's still on.

 

Evil, TRIM is enabled by default isn't it? My Kingston SNV42S2128GB came enabled by default.

[The_Evil_Machinist]

Should but you gotta check.

 

I need to get my cluster running again. Keith owns the record and I have to have it back!

[[email protected]]

quote:

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15k drives... how loud is your system

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Cant hear it over pandora

Seriously, its not too loud. When I dont have pandora on listenin to tunes (which is very seldom) I can hear a little whirr

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

You have one of those nice Antec Cases right?

[The_Evil_Machinist]

Antec... Nice...

 

WTF AM I READING???

[Code_Breaker]

Go to this post and read what I did to get my system base score up to 7.1 (out 7.9) ...

 

Processor: Intel® Xeon CPU E5430 @2.66GHz ... score 7.7

 

Memory (RAM: 20.0 GB ... score 7.7

 

Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 ... score 7.1

 

Gaming graphis: 5119 MB Total available graphis memory ... score 7.1

 

Primary hard disk: 85GB free (149GB total) ... score 7.8

 

All this inside a Dell Precision Workstation T7400 with Windows 7 Professional (64 bit) using

8 processors (dual quad core) ...

 

It is so fast, that I even have time to write on eMastercam ...

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

What's wrong with this case?

[Mr. M]

I have 15k drives and they whir but arent too loud

[kunfuzed]

How do you check to see if trim is enabled? I suppose I could google it, but I'm feeling lazy.

[Jeremy Herron@DBS Solutions™]

So I pose the question to all of you, am I better off with Kieths dual 15000 and raid configs or a 160 gb sst and a 10000 rpm 300gb drive?

[Code_Breaker]

quote:

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Replace the hd with an intel x25-m

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My SSD is: Intel X25-M SSDSA2MH160G2R5 Solid State Drive - 160GB, SATA, 2.5"

 

Cost: $429.99

 

Performance rating is 7.8 (7.9 isthe highest you can get) ...

 

[Steve Hattori]

+2 on the X25M...its worth it just to boot from OFF to DESKTOP in about 12 seconds...McamX4 starts in about 5 secs. My laptop runs the benchmark in about a minute..

Keith, you wouldn't see a big diff on the benchmark, but you would on any 5x calc-heavy routines..

[bogusmill]

Trim is built into windows 7. Vista, XP do not have it. Simple. I never found any benchmark gain from going from a 7500 rpm drive to a 10,000 rpm drive and I'd be the SSD wont make it quicker either but launching and saving any program or file will make the machine much more responsive and feel like the benchmark is faster. You'll want the CPU with the largest L2 cache you can get, then overclock as far as your confortable with. Check out link below.

 

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2354230,00.asp