System setup and notes
Setup| Storage drive | Kingston SSD V | OCZ Summit | OCZ Vertex | Intel X25-M | Samsung Spinpoint F1-DT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drive capacity | 64GB | 128GB (120GB) | 32GB (30GB) | 80GB | 750GB |
| Drive firmware | B090522a | VBM1901Q | 1.10 | 045C8820 |
N/A |
| Approx. price at time of writing | £99.99 | £254.99 |
£99.46 | £206.77 | £49.56 |
| Approx price per GB | £1.586 |
£1.942 |
£2.15 |
£2.58 | £0.0661 |
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (3.20GHz) | ||||
| Motherboard | eVGA nForce 790i SLI FTW | ||||
| BIOS revision | I790SZ13
(10/22/2008) |
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| Memory | 4GB Corsair XMS3 DHX PC10,600 @ 1,333MHz | ||||
| Graphics Card | NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra | ||||
| Mainboard software | nForce
15.25 |
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| Graphics driver | ForceWare 182.50 | ||||
| PSU | Enermax MODU 82+ 625W | ||||
| Operating System | Windows Vista Business SP1, 64-bit | ||||
Tests
| 2D benchmarks | Iometer 2006.07.27 h2benchw 3.13 PCMark Vantage 1.0 w/Nov '07 hotfix Microsoft Vista boot time Far Cry 2 loading time |
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Setup notes - important
We've thrown in a couple of better, larger drives from OCZ and Intel that, naturally, don't provide the price-per-GB of the Kingston drive. Halving the capacity brings the 30GB Vertex into play, and we've rounded it off with a 750GB mechanical drive.This is the last time we'll be using this particular setup - a transition to Windows 7 RTM is currently taking place.
