Load Testing SetupGeoffrey' Intel Test Setup |
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CPU | Intel E6600 |
Cooling | Zalman 9700 LED |
Mainbord | Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI |
Memory | 2x 1Gb TEAMGROUP Xtreem 800MHz 4-4-4-10 |
Video | 2x NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GTS 320Mb |
Other | Maxtor 80Gb PATA HDD Seagate 200GB SATA HDD |
Our first test setup was build to stress the power supply near its maximum, the system was first run at default clock speeds, which resulted in a power draw from the wall socket of 280Watt. We’re running a Core 2 Duo E6600 and two Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI here, with a 1000W PSU unit we could run almost 4 setups like this.
The system was loaded with Realtime HDR and K7Burn to stress both CPU and VGA cards, the voltage rails where monitored with a multi meter, as well as through Abit’s software tool:
Not only do rails remain well within specs, they hardly fluctuate when the system was stressed. Impressive results.
Next up we overclocked the CPU to 3.2Ghz with more vcore and also got both Geforce 8800 GTS cards running 600 (GPU) 1000 (MEM) in SLI; total power draw was now 400W:
Yes this is a different chart, the values didn’t really change much, the ZEN400 let the system running stable for hours on end while we pushed the CPU and video cards well beyond specifications. Had you expected to see a high end SLI system run by only a 400Watt PSU? Neither did we, but it’s an testament of a solid product.