Voodoo PC OMEN a121x CrossFire Extreme Gamer PC
Thermal Characteristics & Test Setup
Before we rolled up our sleeves for the benchmarks, we wanted to get a sense for the general performance, thermals, operational voltages and noise level of the system under heavy load.
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We fired up instances of Folding At Home and "rthdribl" (The DX9 Real-Time High-Dynamic Range Image-Based Lighting benchmark) and proceeded to take some simple measurements with PC Probe II, the bundled health monitoring software that Asus packs in with their A8R32-MVP motherboard.
;) OMEN CrossFire Full Load |
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We observed that the system with both GPUs and the CPU fully loaded, while overclocked at 2.95GHz, still only reported a 51oC CPU temperature and a 40oC system board temp. CPU voltages required for this level of performance were in the 1.54 - 1.55 range. The system exhibited excellent stability during our stress testing and never faltered during our forthcoming benchmark analysis. At idle the system dropped back down to a cooler 40oC CPU core temp. Clearly the OMEN CrossFire's liquid cooling system was performing very well.
From an acoustics perspective though, the OMEN CrossFire a121x certainly isn't the quietest machine we've ever tested. It's fairly quiet, relatively speaking, versus most water or liquid-cooled setups we've come across, however. At these speeds and feeds, we're certain virtually any air cooling setup you could put together would be louder, so ultimately we're satisfied with the OMEN's balance of performance and relatively quiet operational characteristics.
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Voodoo OMEN - SYSTEM 1: AMD Athlon 64 X2 FX-60 overclocked (2.95GHz) Asus AN8R32-MVP (ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200) 2x1GB Corsair PC3200 CL 2-3-2-6 2X Radeon X1900 XT - CrossFire On-board Ethernet On-board Audio 2X Hitachi 400Gig HD - RAID 0 7,200 RPM SATA Windows XP Pro SP2 ATI Catalyst 6.4 Drivers DirectX 9.0c |
SYSTEM 2: AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 (2.6GHz) AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (2.4GHz) (Non-gaming tests only) Asus AN832-SLI (NVIDIA nForce 4 SLIX16) 2x1GB Corsair PC3200 CL 2-3-2-6 2X GeForce 7900 GTX - SLI On-board Ethernet On-board Audio WD "Raptor" HD 10,000 RPM SATA Windows XP Pro SP2 NVIDIA Forceware v84.26 DirectX 9.0c |
SYSTEM 3: AMD Athlon 64 X2 FX-60 Asus AN8R32-MVP (ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200) 2x1GB Corsair PC3200 CL 2-3-2-6 2X Radeon X1900 XT - CrossFire On-board Ethernet On-board Audio WD "Raptor" HD 10,000 RPM SATA Windows XP Pro SP2 ATI Catalyst 6.4 Drivers DirectX 9.0c |
SYSTEM 4: (Non-gaming tests only) Pentium Extreme Edition 965 (3.73GHz) Pentium Extreme Edition 955 (3.46GHz) 3.73GHz Pentium Extreme Edition Asus P5WDG2-WS Motherboard (i975x Chipset) 2x512MB Corsair DDR2-667 CL 3-2-2-8 GeForce 7800 GTX On-board Ethernet On-board Audio WD "Raptor" HD 10,000 RPM SATA Windows XP Pro SP2 NVIDIA Forceware v84.26 DirectX 9.0c |
