Velocity Micro Edge Z55 Intel Core i7 Gaming System
Test Setup & SiSoft SANDRA
We tested the Edge Z55 Intel Core i7 Gaming system exactly as it came configured from Velocity Micro.
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Velocity Micro Edge Z55 Intel Core i7 Gaming System
Intel Core i7 920 (over clocked to 2.93GHz)
Intel "Smackover" DX58SO, X58 Chipset
6GB Corsair DDR3-1333 Triple Channel Memory with Heat Spreader (3x2048)
2 x 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4850 GDDR3 in CrossFire
750GB Hitachi 7200rpm 32MB Cache SATA 300 w/NCQ
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
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System 2:
Dell XPS 730 H2C
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770
(3.2GHz @ 3.8GHz - Quad-Core, 1600MHz FSB)
Nvidia nForce 790i Ultra SLI
2GB Corsair Dominator DDR3-1333
(overclocked to 1600MHz)
2x 1024MB ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
(Quad-Crossfire)
2x160GB Western Digital HDD
(10,000RPM, SATA)
1x1000GB Hitachi HDD
(7,200 RPM, SATA)
Windows Vista Home Premium
ATI Catalyst v8.3 |
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SiSoft SANDRA's various benchmark modules reported scores for the Edge Z55 Core i7 Gaming System that are in-line with what we would have expected. The Processor Arithmetic test measures almost pure raw CPU power, and the Z55’s Core i7 quad-core outshines the competition. The other systems in the bunch are all quad-cores as well, with the exception of the Athlon X2 6400 64+, which is a dual-core processor.
The Processor Multi-Media test is influenced by processor clock speed, but it is also affected by the amount of CPU cache. With the Core i7, Intel’s engineers concluded that a shared L2 cache as used before wasn’t suited to their new quad-core architecture. As a result, the engineers started from scratch and gave each of the cores a Level 2 cache of its own. There’s also 8MB of Level 3 cache for managing communications between cores.
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