Give me a Test Review Idea

[El_Capitan]

I'm not sure if OCC's still looking for reviewers, but I've steadily been building a plethora of parts I've been buying used, or on sale, or open box for benching. I'll be gathering testing benchmarks this weekend, then running the benchmarks sometime next week.

 

I've got 4 different systems I can test on. All but my test bench is watercooled, but that's because I want to run graphics card tests on it on air (easier to interchange that way). The rest all have identical PSU's (I managed to trade up to four Corsair AX1200's), and memory (2x4GB G.Skill Ripjaws at 9-9-9-24-1T @ 1600MHz).

 

Here's what I can test for CPU's:

i7 2600K

i5 2500K

i7 950

Phenom II x6 1090T

(I might get an x4 830 for $50 at MicroCenter this weekend)

 

Here's what I can test for GPU's:

GTX 460 1GB (single and SLI)

GTX 560 Ti 1GB (single card)

GTX 570 1.2GB (single and SLI)

GTX 580 1.5GB (single card)

HD 6870 (single and Xfire)

HD 6970 (single, Xfire, and Tri-fire)

 

Give me some ideas or I'll just probably run a graphics card test review.

[ccokeman]

Patience is a virtue!

[Krieg1337]

SLI GTX 460s, overclocked to 850mhz on the core, 1700 on the shader and 2000 on the memory

[Black64]

With that much hardware you could make your own review site!

[El_Capitan]

SLI GTX 460s, overclocked to 850mhz on the core, 1700 on the shader and 2000 on the memory

Can't promise that on memory, but Core will be easy enough. Any game or benchmark in particular? Otherwise will go by the benchmarks OCC uses.

[Krieg1337]

Can't promise that on memory, but Core will be easy enough. Any game or benchmark in particular?

 

 

Hmm...

 

BF3, Crysis 2. Oh and GTA 4 if you have those games.

[MJCRO]

I did mine on my GTX 570 Classifed I put up FS on the forum. Do it on the SB setup Capi!

[BluePanda]

That's quite the stack of parts there -- if you're looking at still doing your mock review take it easy. Write about a keyboard, mouse, hell a mousepad! Keep it simpe -- show them you've got the basic skills to do reviews. Then practice some of the benchmark styles you see in the reviews for video cards or CPU coolers or what you are interested in. If you can follow that format -- then you are good!

 

Just hang in there -- like Frank said -- PATIENTS!

[El_Capitan]

... I didn't even think about keeping it simple.

[BluePanda]

... I didn't even think about keeping it simple.

lol. I did my lycosa keyboard for my mock review -- lol Don't hurt yourself

[damian]

Nice list you got there.

 

Im currently setting up my own review site and plan on keeping it simple in the meantime. But thats just cause i cant afford a lot of hardware. I got some parts already that i can review but i dont want to have those on the front page for the launch of my site. Like they say go big or go home.

 

I plan on buying a couple of chips/gpus, like what you have going on. what i plan on doing (this is also as my suggestion for your question in the OP) is testing how the cpu scales at different settings and configurations.

 

Ex:

 

how CPU "A" at "x" multiplier scales with GPU "A" at "x" "y" "z" settings compared the same CPU only with lower multiplier with higher frequency paired with GPU at "x" "y" "z"

 

I also plan on including different ram settings. Basically, im gonna test different configurations to find a balance.

Because you dont always have to get the baddest of the bad arse hardware to have a nice enthusiast set up!

 

This will intrigue users looking for value. And the other results will intrigue users looking for, either, high performance, decent performance so on and so fourth.

 

You can also try different settings to market differnt types of uses for a computer, like so:

 

http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/article/1018/AMD-Phenom-II-X6-1090T-OC-Scaling-With-VoltageCooling/1#axzz1c9KRZnff

 

 

That articles is actually what gave me the inspiration. I wanna see how socket 1155 compares to bulldozer with different settings.

 

 

EDIT: of course you dont have to do that, i dont know. If youre like me, testing that stuff is fun, otherwise that testing maybe bore you. I'd love to see your results nonetheless

Edited October 29, 2011 by damian

[ccokeman]

That's quite the stack of parts there -- if you're looking at still doing your mock review take it easy. Write about a keyboard, mouse, hell a mousepad! Keep it simpe -- show them you've got the basic skills to do reviews. Then practice some of the benchmark styles you see in the reviews for video cards or CPU coolers or what you are interested in. If you can follow that format -- then you are good!

 

Just hang in there -- like Frank said -- PATIENCE!

 

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