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CPU Magazine Review - SFF Gaming PC/Workstation
Oct 2008
This is our second review at CPU Magazine. We decided to send them a completely new system that we have developed in house. This is the ultra compact SFF Gaming PC/Workstation. In the small Sugo 4 from Silverstone, we were able to fit two Xeon CPUs, a GTX 280, three SAS 1TB hard drives with a SAS raid card, 16 GB of memory, and a 1000 Watt PSU. What is crazy about this system is that up to 48 GB of total memory is possible with this system.
"Considering the SFF Gaming PC/Workstation only had one graphics card, 12.66fps in Crysis and 28fps in World in Conflict are impressive. When we backed the resolution down to 1,900 x 1,200, it produced playable frame rates of 35fps in Crysis and 65fps in World in Conflict. In terms of image rendering, its 22452 multithreaded score in Cinebench 10 and 5097.9pps in POV-Ray 3.7 beta are some of the highest results we’ve seen. The same can also be said for this rig’s SiSoft Sandra Lite scores, which are highlighted by 99,271 Dhrystone ALU and 78,174 Whetstone iSSE3 marks. " -Nathan Lake
Review Date: Oct 2008
Editors' Rating: 4/5 |
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System Specs
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AVADirect SFF Gaming PC/Workstation |
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$6,290 |
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Case: |
SILVERSTONE, Sugo SG04B-H Mid-Tower Case, mATX |
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Processor: |
INTEL, 2 x Xeon™ X5450 Quad-Core Processor 3.0GHz, LGA771, 1333MHz FSB, 12MB L2 cache |
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Motherboard: |
SUPERMICRO, X7DCA-L, LGA771 /2, Intel® 5100, 1333MHz FSB, DDR2-667 ECC 48GB /6, PCIe x16, SATA 3.0 Gbit/s RAID 5 /6, HDA, GbLAN /2, mATX |
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Video Card: |
XFX, GeForce® GTX 280, GTX 280 602MHz, 1GB DDR3 2210MHz |
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Memory: |
KINGSTON, 16GB (4 x 4GB) ValueRAM™ Dual-Rank PC2-5300 DDR2 667MHz CL5 1.8V |
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Hard Drive: |
RAID 5 3x SEAGATE, 1TB Barracuda ES.2, SAS, 7200 RPM, 16MB Cache, 3.5-Inch
HIGHPOINT, RocketRAID 2640x4 SAS/SATA 3 Gb/s RAID Controller, 4-port, Levels 0/1/5/10 |
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Optical Drive: |
LG ELECTRONICS, GGW-H20L Black 6x/8x/24x BD/DVD±RW/CD-RW Blu-ray Disc™ Burner w/ Lightscribe |
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Cooling: |
SWIFTECH, 2 x MCX-VPro™ Universal Heatsink w/ 80mm Fan |
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Power Supply: |
SILVERSTONE, Strider ST1000 Modular Power Supply, 1000W, 80 PLUS® |
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Operating System: |
MICROSOFT, Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit Edition w/ SP1 |
Related Links
Click here to see the full review.
Configure the system here.
Click to see the showroom article on this system
Edited by MattSlagle - 16 Sep 2008 at 5:02pm
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