System Upgrade

[FirBirGir]

I bit the bullet and upgraded my PC last night (well, technically it was 4:00am this morning). I brought an air hose in from the garage and gave it a thorough blasting and it will take a week to clean up all the dust

Specs:
Intel i5 2500K 3.3ghz, running at 3.5ghz (auto OC)
Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Motherboard
Corsair Vengence PC3-12800 1600mhz DDR3 16GB (4x4) RAM
CoolMaster Hyper 212+ CPU Cooler (half the noise of my previous one)

Everything else was reused:
OS Drive - Hitachi 1TB 7200
Data Drive - 2 Hitachi 2TB 7200 RAID 0
Asus GTX 560

3dMark11 Score - P4127

I noticed a couple of things with SiSoft that I'll go back and check, namely memory.

SiSoft Sandra

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SiSoftware Sandra

Display
Connection : Local Computer

Processor Arithmetic
Analysing...
Combined Score : 64.55GOPS
Result ID : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4C 3.51GHz Turbo, 3.5GHz IMC, 2x 256kB L2, 6MB L3)
Speed : 3511MHz
Capacity : 4Unit(s)
Power : 95.00W
Finished Successfully : Yes

Processor Multi-Media
Analysing...
Combined Score : 183.11MPix/s
Result ID : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4C 3.51GHz Turbo, 3.5GHz IMC, 2x 256kB L2, 6MB L3)
Speed : 3511MHz
Capacity : 4Unit(s)
Power : 95.00W
Finished Successfully : Yes

.NET Arithmetic
Analysing...
Combined Score : 21.02GOPS
Result ID : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4C 3.51GHz Turbo, 3.5GHz IMC, 2x 256kB L2, 6MB L3)
Speed : 3511MHz
Capacity : 4Unit(s)
Power : 95.00W
Finished Successfully : Yes

.NET Multi-Media
Analysing...
Combined Score : 21.08MPix/s
Result ID : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4C 3.51GHz Turbo, 3.5GHz IMC, 2x 256kB L2, 6MB L3)
Speed : 3511MHz
Capacity : 4Unit(s)
Power : 95.00W
Finished Successfully : Yes

Memory Bandwidth
Analysing...
Combined Score : 16.524GB/s
Result ID : Intel Core (Sandy Bridge) DRAM Controller; 2x 8GB Corsair CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 DIMM DDR3 (1.33GHz) PC3-12800 (9-9-9-24 5-33-10-5)
Speed : 1334MHz
Capacity : 16384MB
Power : 36.01W
Finished Successfully : Yes

File Systems
Analysing...
Combined Score : 92.428MB/s
Result ID : Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 (1TB, SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm, 29MB Cache)
Speed : 7200rpm
Capacity : 1000.21GB
Finished Successfully : Yes

GP (GPU/CPU/APU) Processing
Analysing...
Combined Score : 386.93MPix/s
Result ID : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 (336SP 7C 1.7GHz, 1GB 4.2GHz)
Speed : 1700MHz
Capacity : 336Unit(s)
Finished Successfully : Yes

GP (GPU/CPU/APU) Bandwidth
Analysing...
Combined Score : 0.318GB/s
Result ID : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 (336SP 7C 1.7GHz, 1GB 4.2GHz)
Speed : 4194MHz
Capacity : 1024MB
Finished Successfully : Yes

Overall Score
Combined Score : 4.00kPT
Results Interpretation : Higher Scores mean Better Performance.
Decimal Numeral System (base 10) : 1GPT = 1000MPT, 1MPT = 1000kPT, 1kPT = 1000PT, etc.
Result ID : GigaByte Z68AP-D3 (Intel Core i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz; Intel Core DRAM Controller; 2x 8GB Corsair CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 D; Hitachi HDS721010CLA332; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560)
Finished Successfully : Yes

[FirBirGir]

Much Better Now - memory set to 1600mhz and I tried the turbo function. I'm now running at 3.7ghz.

Not using a RAID for my OS drive is hurting performance scores but I'm not a fan of striping the OS...

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SiSoftware Sandra

Display
Connection : Local Computer

Processor Arithmetic
Analysing...
Combined Score : 70.24GOPS
Result ID : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4C 3.71GHz Turbo, 3.7GHz IMC, 2x 256kB L2, 6MB L3)
Speed : 3711MHz
Capacity : 4Unit(s)
Power : 95.00W
Finished Successfully : Yes

Processor Multi-Media
Analysing...
Combined Score : 199.09MPix/s
Result ID : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4C 3.71GHz Turbo, 3.7GHz IMC, 2x 256kB L2, 6MB L3)
Speed : 3711MHz
Capacity : 4Unit(s)
Power : 95.00W
Finished Successfully : Yes

.NET Arithmetic
Analysing...
Combined Score : 23.32GOPS
Result ID : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4C 3.71GHz Turbo, 3.7GHz IMC, 2x 256kB L2, 6MB L3)
Speed : 3711MHz
Capacity : 4Unit(s)
Power : 95.00W
Finished Successfully : Yes

.NET Multi-Media
Analysing...
Combined Score : 23.02MPix/s
Result ID : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4C 3.71GHz Turbo, 3.7GHz IMC, 2x 256kB L2, 6MB L3)
Speed : 3711MHz
Capacity : 4Unit(s)
Power : 95.00W
Finished Successfully : Yes

Memory Bandwidth
Analysing...
Combined Score : 20.712GB/s
Result ID : Intel Core (Sandy Bridge) DRAM Controller; 2x 8GB Corsair CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 DIMM DDR3 (1.6GHz) PC3-12800 (9-9-9-24 5-33-10-5)
Speed : 1600MHz
Capacity : 16384MB
Power : 39.40W
Finished Successfully : Yes

File Systems
Analysing...
Combined Score : 88.339MB/s
Result ID : Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 (1TB, SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm, 29MB Cache)
Speed : 7200rpm
Capacity : 1000.21GB
Finished Successfully : Yes

GP (GPU/CPU/APU) Processing
Analysing...
Combined Score : 396.80MPix/s
Result ID : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 (336SP 7C 1.7GHz, 1GB 4.2GHz)
Speed : 1700MHz
Capacity : 336Unit(s)
Finished Successfully : Yes

GP (GPU/CPU/APU) Bandwidth
Analysing...
Combined Score : 25.492GB/s
Result ID : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 (336SP 7C 1.7GHz, 1GB 4.2GHz)
Speed : 4194MHz
Capacity : 1024MB
Finished Successfully : Yes

Overall Score
Combined Score : 7.43kPT
Results Interpretation : Higher Scores mean Better Performance.
Decimal Numeral System (base 10) : 1GPT = 1000MPT, 1MPT = 1000kPT, 1kPT = 1000PT, etc.
Result ID : GigaByte Z68AP-D3 (Intel Core i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz; Intel Core DRAM Controller; 2x 8GB Corsair CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 D; Hitachi HDS721010CLA332; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560)
Finished Successfully : Yes

[hitchcockgreen]

Nice build.

No, I'd not stripe the OS drive/partition unless I was running an enterprise server.
Unfortunately, with the hard drive "shortage" SSD prices have shot up. I'd have suggested using one just for the OS and redirecting documents and %programfiles% to another drive. That'd definitely boost your performance.
But now? Nah.

RAID kind of slows down performance for the OS anyways.