Oh dear... might have overdone it abit!

Ok well one issue I have (The only one I might add) is any USB mouse jumps all over the shop sometimes, incredibly annoying :|

Both work perfectly on my MBP tho!

I can do a bigger write up later (its transferring all my data from my MBP etc) takes a while!



Ok, First impressions:

You can hear it (although its on my desk about 2 ft away from my ears!)
The stock 1TB seems to be a WD Black (so now I have two in there). It took me all of 10 mins to fit a 2nd DVD drive and rearrange the HDs so its now:

1. 300Gb Veloci
2. 1TB Black
3. 1TB Black
4. 500Gb Videos/Disk image storage <--- I could fit a 74Gb Raptor in here if anyone can think of a good reason to do so?

Anyway:
OS X installed in 15 mins flat (with languages and some drivers removed), all the apps etc was installed within an hour and I managed to get a sustained 100Mb/sec between all 4 HDs in the machine. At one point I had 60Mb/sec going to HD 2 and 100Mb a sec going between 1 and 3.

Core temperatures at idle are abit high for my liking (60+) :confused: but hopefully a speed control app will be along before soon. At first start the 4870s fan ramps up to max but it does that in a PC too so no matter.

Boot is all of 1/2 circles on the grey apple screen. Time to desktop? 20 seconds maybe? I will time it later...

Pics again later. (Need to tidy up around here!)

Edit: First piccies ;)

http://www.thunder-keep.co.uk/site/ocuk/4tb_hds.jpg
http://www.thunder-keep.co.uk/site/ocuk/sneakpeak.jpg

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Thats awesome dude, whats the exact spec of the system again?

Also while the world has found out 16gb works in the quad core system, im wondering if 12gb would for tri channel in 4gb x 3 formation, surely it would if 16gb works ?
 
Adrianr said:
Lets see some Photoshop benchies :p
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Doing what?

I dont get how they do photoshop benchies!

PS: The 4870 overclocks nicely from what I can tell.

800/1000 on stock V @ 60C load 40% fan speed.

Machine is: 2.66 Quad, 6Gb (3x2Gb) 1033MHz ECC DDR3, 4870 512Mb ATi OEM card.
300Gb Velociraptor, 2x 1Tb WD Black, 500Gb WD and two DVD-RWs.

And yes im 100% sure 12gb would work :)
 
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Concorde Rules said:
Doing what?

I dont get how they do photoshop benchies!

PS: The 4870 overclocks nicely from what I can tell.

800/1000 on stock V @ 60C load 40% fan speed.

Machine is: 2.66 Quad, 6Gb (3x2Gb) 1033MHz ECC DDR3, 4870 512Mb ATi OEM card.
300Gb Velociraptor, 2x 1Tb WD Black, 500Gb WD and two DVD-RWs.

And yes im 100% sure 12gb would work :)
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Awesome dude, near enough same system im going to get, same quad core, same ram, gfx etc :D, all iv got to do now is decide between raptor or SSD boot drive :D I think ill order tomorrow, how many days did it take for your system to come through ?
 
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Awesome dude, near enough same system im going to get, same quad core, same ram, gfx etc :D, all iv got to do now is decide between raptor or SSD boot drive :D I think ill order tomorrow, how many days did it take for your system to come through ?
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SSD would have been nice but bootcamp requires that you install it on the boot drive.

Splitting 32 or 64gb wouldn't have been enough for me.

One day i'll go SSD!

Edit: Shall run that thing ASAP, just doing a handbrake to see how quickly it will get through my James Bond DVD compared to my MBP!

2.4Ghz MBP = 25FPS
2.66Ghz MP = 120FPS

So its n half quick :p
 
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Ok that benchmark took 43 seconds :confused:

The cores were barely loaded for any of the time!

Something aint quite right there!

Edit: iPhone syncs perfectly with both systems.

SWEET!
 
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You did set history states to 1 and cache levels to 4 before running the test right? If not it will skew the results. I'm also partial to believe that test is becoming slightly redundant, no-one seems to be able to get below 18 seconds!

Edit: If we can use a common file perhaps we should make our own little ocuk action. Il have a look when I get home. Or maybe the digilloyd one if we can download it anywhere?
 
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