Boomps, boomps, boomps, boomps…. Here’s a review (… sort of) of an ordered system from Ironside Computers. # 1832 – youtu.be Pls. watch in PC to see my additional (annoying) annotations. ***** LATEST UPDATE (10/21/12) Here are the usual Heaven Benchmark 3.0 settings i use (to prevent confusion) API: Directx 11 Tessellation: Normal Shaders: High Anisotropy: 4x Stereo 3D: Disabled Anti-aliasing: 4x Resolution: System (1920×1080) UPDATES (latest @ 09/22/12): 1. Updated BIOS from ver. 0801 to ver. 1015, which meant i had to do my own overclocking. The P8Z77-V Deluxe motherboard (BIOS ver. 1015 with ASUS AI Suite II now installed in OS) has awesome auto-overclocking features which is handy because i’m not an expert overclocker. (They call it “Auto Tuning”.) Unigine Heaven benchmark somehow got an increase form 70 FPS to 80 FPS- and i didn’t even touch the GTX 680 yet. 1a.) I redid the overclock to use the Corsair DOminator GT’s XMP profile. This makes use of the real 2133 MHz speed of it. Voltages are automated with it’s XMP profile. All i had to do is increase multiplier to get CPU to 4.2 GHz and up. Windows also now recognizes the full 8 GB of the memory, not the 7.9 GB when it arrived. The ASUS’s Auto-tuning overclock is nice but it will adjust memory speed if necessary. But honestly though, i don’t see much difference yet between 19xx MHz and 2133 MHz memory speed. 2. *I confirmed that the USB 3.0 problem i was having is only for that one specific external hard drive …
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Ironside Computers Review: Order # 1832