As we get started with benchmarking you may be interested in the components used for our test system:

• EVGA P67 FTW Motherboard
• G.SKill RipJaws 9-10-9-24 2X4gb Dual Channel Kit
• Intel i7 2600K CPU
• 2X Western Digital 1Tb Sata 3/6G (Raid0) Hard Drives
• Seagate 320Gb Sata 150 Hard Drive
• Corsair Professional Series HX850W Power Supply
• 2X EVGA GTX260 SSC Video Cards (SLI Mode)

The first benchmark tests we like to run are on the SATA controllers. We paired up a set of Western Digital SATA 3/6.0Gb Blacks in a Raid0 and ran HD Tune. We also ran HD Tune on a stand alone Seagate hard drive attached to one of the SATA II ports.

We continued the SATA testing with 8M and 32M runs of HD Tach. First the 8M results.

Here are the HD Tach 32M results.

The results are on par with what is expected for both SATA tests, the newer SATA 6Gb results show much faster results than the aging SATA II controllers.

Next we ran three SuperPI 1M tests at the three different overclocked speeds we showed you earlier.

SuperPI 1M @ 4.0 Ghz

SuperPI 1M @ 4.3 Ghz

SuperPI 1M @ 4.5 Ghz

Anytime you get to the sub 9 seconds area as we did with the 4.5 Ghz run, well…… you’re smoking right along! Awesome results here!