now we had a bit of a setback on the special edition red and black Corsair
650d cases uh the shop called this
morning to say they are not ready yet but hopefully we'll be able to have
access to them tomorrow however what we do have right now is our test platform
running so the overall spec of this machine is going to be fairly evident at
this point we have the Radeon HD 6990
from XFX we are going to be using a Gigabyte
p67a ud7 and this is a B3 revision board
so that means that the sata2 controller problem is fixed on this particular
motherboard we're going to be using a Corsair performance 3 Series SSD so
we're using the 128 gig as a boot drive and then we're going to be using a 2
tbte WD black hard drive for storage
we're going to be using the Corsair h70 for cooling as well as Corsair Dominator
GT memory to fit the overall color scheme which is going to be black red
and with a touch of gold because we're also using a Corsair ax 850 power supply
so you can see we do have just a little bit of gold on both that as well as the
motherboard itself so that's that's what we're going for here we're going to be using a Blu-ray Rider we've got the
special MCX Edition y Lon red and black fans that we'll be decking the system
out in uh this is a 2600 K processor
down here I think that's pretty much everything as far as specs specs go now
we will be pre- overclocking these systems so we're expecting to get at
least 4.4 to 4.6 GHz on the CPUs uh for
these special edition systems and we are going to be flipping the bio switch on
the 6990 and validating that every one of these systems ships at 880 MHz which
is the full unlocked after you flip the awesome switch on the
6990 uh version of this card so you get the best possible performance out of it
uh from that regard Okay so we've got our 3D Mark 11 Advanced Edition score
that is in the extreme preset and that is an X 3361 now uh score now we haven't
actually overclocked the CPU yet but we will be working on that
shortly and uh because I mean the reality of it is we can't overclock with
the stock cooler so we're going to be doing that once we've actually installed
the systems in the cases and I think that pretty much covers everything I
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