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SmoothCreations LanShark Pro Customized Gaming System
Overclocking, Power and Noise
Overclocking
495
450
375
0
MHz (higher is better)
569.25
I'm going to start with the nice stuff, the overclocking. I had no real problems booting at 500MHz FSB, which is just damn fast. It wasn't quite stable until I pulled things back to 495MHz, but there is definitely more tweaking possible than what I had time for. The choice of DFI for the motherboard means no dearth of overclocking options, but I felt settling for a 450x8 setting, with +50mV on the CPU was both sane and impressive. I mean, 3.6GHz on four cores, with air cooling, and no real shift in CPU temperatures is a great start. 
Power
(Show All Graphs)
105
158
0
Watts (lower is better)
320.85
219
279
0
Watts (lower is better)
320.85
Power is also pretty good, with the 45nm quad showing excellently against AMD, consuming 50-60W less at both idle and load, and not really coming close to the 300W point. I did have some issues getting all four cores loaded and the GPU, since the machine spent a significant chunk of CPU time dedicated to handling paging to the hard drive; whenever this happened a core would drop down to 1-3% load; what I'm saying is that there's the possibility that the machine might break 300W, but if I couldn't make it happen under artificial circumstances, then there's almost no chance that it'll happen otherwise. Which makes me think that there's something up with the fans used here. There's one high-speed Scythe fan, if I'm not mistaken, and it's stern. The lower fan is a quiet CoolerMaster fan, and both are powered by 4-pin Molex and not adjustable. Even though the heatsink is quiet, the power supply is silent, and the GPU is inoffensive at least while not in use, it's all moot with that one loud intake fan. Not that it doesn't make a difference, though. Again: 3.6GHz.
Page 1: Introduction, The Computer, Specifications & Test Setup
Page 2: General Benchmarks Page 3: Gaming Benchmarks Page 4: Overclocking, Power and Noise Page 5: Conclusion 
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