Syntech SA’s Monster Machine

29 November, 2011 - Newsbytes, Technical

Chaos Computers recently had their Chaos Summer Tech Expo, held in Cape Gate mall. Side by side with leading global brands, Syntech SA had a chance to show off their product range and their technical team’s great talent! Our monster machiche features some of the latest hardware and a variety of storage devices:

MOTHERBOARD: MSI Z68A-GD Military Class Mainboard

POWER SUPPLY: Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 1000W

GRAPHICS: Gainward Phantom3 GeForce GTX570 1280MB GDDR5

MEMORY: Patriot Sector 5 DDR3 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-10666 1333Mhz

PROCESSOR: Intel Core i7 2600 3.4GHz

OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 7 Professional 32 bit

STORAGE: Hard Drive Hitachi 1TB 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
READ 113MB/s WRITE 111MB/s

Solid State Drive Patriot Wildfire 120GB
READ 557MB/s WRITE 516MB/s

PCIE Solid State Drive OCZ RevoDrive 3X2 240GB
READ 1310MB/s WRITE 1247.6MB/s

USB Flash Drive Patriot Snip USB 2.0 8GB
READ 16MB/s WRITE 10MB/s

USB 3.0 Flash Drive Patriot Supersonic Xpress 16GB
READ 81MB/s WRITE 25MB/s

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Andrew Galloway, December 1, 2011

Just explain why would you use 8GB Ram and 32bit OS... Thanks Reply
- Ryan, December 1, 2011
  
  I'm glad someone picked up the 32bit OS, and in a real environment nobody wants to be limited to 3GB of memory. This concept machine was designed to highlight how a regular hard drive holds back overall performance when compared to Solid state. With the amount of money that we spend on components like CPU, GPU, PSU and memory, I'd argue that most users would see a lot more value in with an SSD than the best of everything else. Thanks again for the feedback, and please keep it coming. I'll be sure to load Win7 64 bit before i take this baby home. Reply
Hendre Visagie, December 1, 2011

I agree with Andrew, This box consists of some of the best storage components around, But could it really run those RAM chips at 7-7-7-20 @ 1333MHz? Reply
Younis, December 1, 2011

Looks pretty but the components are not going to do anything special when limited to only 32bits. Reply