today on the crazy Russians NC PC lab I
have boxes actually I have a system hiding
behind the boxes featuring a number of the components that are here represented
by the boxes that the components are no longer inside because they're in the
system so we have the Crosshair 5 formula which is a susa's republic of
Gamers SLI Crossfire ready motherboard
that has full support for AMD bulldozer
FX so we've got an fx 8150 CPU in here
cooled by the Corsair h100 using four
fans and push pull configuration for maximum static pressure and maximum air
flow we've also got a radon hd6970 direct cu2 from ASUS so the direct cu2
cooler uses dual fans in order to provide better cooling than the
reference design card you can actually run not only one but two of those cards
in this system just by adding an additional card and upgrading the power
supply where the ax850 is more than
enough for a single card solution just for comfort you might want to go with
something a little bit higher end if you go with a dual or even a triple no I
don't think yeah this card does not support triple Graphics because it uses
a triple slot cooler on this particular motherboard but you can still go with
dual graphics and then you might want to go with um an HX what is it HX 1050
these days I think the hx1000 is gone either way let's have a look at the
system so the first thing you're going to see here is the AMD FX 8158 core
processor so here I'm going to show you what might become your favorite
Benchmark and that is Task Manager because it has eight threads all of
which are pinned at 100% because we are running Prime 95 small fft in order to
Pro put the maximum amount of stress on the CPU to make sure it's stable before
we start any overclocking because these systems will come pre-overclocked this
is actually going to be a special edition red painted system as you may or
may not be able to tell at this point in time I also want to show you one other
cool thing about the bulldozer FX CPU I'm going to stop the small fft test
hopefully that doesn't bother crazy Russian and it's not doing anything that
matters I don't know uh so I'm going to set it to one torture test thread to run
and you are going to see AMD
turbo hold on there we go
so core clocks are up to 3.9 GHz so that
is using their turbo core technology in
order to provide better single-threaded performance when you're running a
lightly threaded workload so there you go it works uh what else do we have here
yeah let's open it up and have a look at the rest of the system config I actually
don't know how much these are going to cost yet I don't know what the final clock speeds of the CPU going to be yet
these are all sort of trivial details what you need to know is that it is a
beast machine and it looks great so we've got the ax850 there there's your
triple slot capable of five simultaneous
outputs a uh ASUS radon 6970 and you can
put an additional one in this lot right here actually oh can you can you okay
apparently you can I'm getting the nod from uh crazy Russian so that's good
we've also got a crucial M4 sat3 SSD
installed in the top Bay and a 3 tbte storage drive that's a 128 gig right yep
I'm getting the nod we've got 8 gigs of Corsair Vengeance RAM which can be
upgraded to 16 gigs should you so desire we've got the h100 so you can clearly
see the two stock Corsair fans here and then we've also got two Cooler Master
red LED fans here which gives you that little bit of LED lighting Accent on the
top we've got the corser h100 right here which you can actually adjust the fan
speed on just by clicking the button so there's your low mid and your highspeed
settings just you can see the LED illumination around it and the Crosshair
5 formula motherboard makes a beautiful backdrop with its black overall look and
red accents that go along with every other aspect of this system very very
sharp looking system so thank you oh yeah we've got hey check that out we've
got a Blu-ray uh is that a Blu-ray burner nope we've got a Blu-ray player
DVD burner combo unit in the front to go with the ASUS and Corsair overall theme
of this build it is an ASUS Blu-ray Drive and I think that pretty much
covers everything I wanted to say about this Sky I look forward to getting back
to you guys with our overclocking results with the bulldozer FX 8150 don't
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