Before we delve into any testing we would like to take this opportunity to review our test system and thank those sponsors who kindly provided us with test equipment to make our work possible. We offer our thanks to:
Intel for supplying us with a Core i7 4960X processor, which we reviewed here.
Kingston for supplying us with a Hyper X 3K 240GB solid state drive, which we reviewed here.
XFX for supplying us with an R9 290X Double Dissipation 4GB graphics card, which we reviewed here.
AMD for supplying us with a Gigabyte R9 270 OC 2GB graphics card.
Corsair for supplying us with a Hydro Series H100i liquid CPU cooler, which we reviewed here, and a Vengeance Pro 1866MHz 16GB memory kit, which we reviewed here.
Be Quiet for supplying us with a Straight Power E9 680W power supply unit, which we reviewed here.
ASUS for supplying us with a Rampage IV Extreme X79 motherboard, which we reviewed here.
Lian Li for supplying us with a PC-T60A test bench.
Noctua for supplying us with NT-H1 thermal compound.
Test System:
Software Used
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