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Quad Core i5 gaming/rendering system @ 4.2ghz, for less than a grand?

Cinebench R10 has since been replaced by V11.5, but many people have a better indication of relative performance by the results from R10 – after all it has been around for years. We will however include R11.5 results on the following page. For those who don’t know Cinebench is not just a mere synthetic benchmarking application, it is based on the rendering engine from Cinema 4D.

The CPU test renders a 3D scene photo-realistically while applying performance intensive functions such as area light sources, procedural shaders, Ambient Occlusion and multi level reflections. Especially when used on faster, multi core CPU systems, MAXON CINEBENCH R10 delivers much more accurate results.

Our overclock boosts the score to almost 21,000 points in CineBench R10 which is a great result for a 4 core processor. The 1055T at around 3.9ghz scores the same, with an extra 2 cores in operation.

Cinebench R11.5 is the newest revision of the popular benchmark from Maxon. The test scenario uses all of your system’s processing power to render a photorealistic 3D scene (from the viral “No Keyframes” animation by AixSponza). This scene makes use of various different algorithms to stress all available processor cores.

In fact, CINEBENCH can measure systems with up to 64 processor threads. The test scene contains approximately 2,000 objects containing more than 300,000 total polygons and uses sharp and blurred reflections, area lights and shadows, procedural shaders, antialiasing, and much more. The result is given in points (pts). The higher the number, the faster your processor.

Both Cinebench results are positive for the Core i5 760 running at 4.2ghz, while Cinebench is a synthetic benchmark it does use the rendering engine from Cinema 4D so it is very useful to judge performance.

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37 comments

  1. That is a great idea for an article Zardon. that Core i5 processor is brilliant value for money. Well impressed.

  2. That is a great idea for an article Zardon. that Core i5 processor is brilliant value for money. Well impressed.

  3. 4.2ghz with a few bios changes. long gone are the days or playing with a series of voltages to get any overclock at all. I remember my FX processor was a nightmare to get 200mhz out of it.

  4. Intel processors are so easy now to overclock. no effort at all. it surprises me however that they don’t sell them faster out of the box. 2.8ghz? surely this would sit at 3.5ghz without even any effort from intel.

  5. Great idea and an entertaining twist on how to get a good value system. 4.2ghz is surely sexy.

  6. This is exactly why this site is my home page now. Zardon tests all the hardware, then keeps the best stuff for articles like this, which save people so much time when trying to build a system. I have this stored for future reference.

  7. Very entertaining read kitguru – great performance for such a modest outlay. ive seen systems 3 times this price in PC world with half the performance.

  8. I never knew the new motherboards had such great settings all preconfigured for specific processors like this. what a fantastic idea. I cant see the ASROCK board for sale anywhere however.

  9. I just bought the 760 CPU, thanks. I need an upgrade for my dual core and this was well priced.

  10. That frio is a great price. I always thought it was closer to 50 quid, not 38. what a bargain.

  11. I like the system, not sure about the chassis, wouldnt the thermaltake armor A90 be better ?

  12. Of course it would be better, but it wouldn’t be a system for under a grand, it would be a system for over a grand 😉

  13. Great find, love it. I am going to spec this very system next week. Might even pop into yoyotech myself.

  14. I wonder would it be better to include an AMD board like 5850? they cost more however so it might push it over 1000. still might opt for it instead.

  15. I love the I5 processors. and that was a great idea to compensate for dual channel by using 2000 modules. they dont cost much more either which is surprising.

  16. Terrance Giblets

    Good job resting and showing the results. I like that power supply its a very good price point. half the price of the AX850.

  17. Good system, id have opted for AMD graphics though and maybe the HD5770

  18. HD5770 would be much slower, makes no sense.

  19. Frio is rubbish, who would use that?

  20. I dont agree, the Frio should not be used. id have opted for the HD5770 and got the corsair H70 instead of GTX460 and poorer cooler.

  21. Why not two HD5670s in Crossfire instead of that power hogging card?

  22. Good all round system, ive no idea why people are complaining about the Frio, its an awesome cooler for the price.

  23. Florence in the machine

    good piece of work, very helpful for people. I tend to stick to AMD cpus and graphics cards, but this is useful for many.

  24. would the 1055T not be better for the price, extra 2 cores?

  25. That motherboard is very good, went and read the full review. seems like a great release from ASROCk.

  26. It is very difficult getting a system built for 1k without compromising somewhere. for 1,500 you can get a much better build. that 500 quid helps with a monitor, better case.

  27. nicely worked out, right to 995 ! for the price its pretty much spot on.

  28. This was good timing, I was looking around tonight for reviews of the 750 processor and this has just been released at the right time. I probably dont need all the bits here as I already have a H50, and lian li case, but the monitor, CPU and memory. motherboard all appeal to me. seems like great combination. if I can get it to 4ghz ill be chuffed.

  29. Good review, thumbs up 🙂

  30. 760 is a boring clock increase but this is a nice idea to present it. good value if they all hit 4.2ghz like this one

  31. How far can the i5 760 be pushed Zardon with manual ocing?

  32. Around 4.5ghz with insane voltage 4.4ghz if you are playing it safe. It doesnt overclock quite as good as the K series, but its still good enough.

  33. Good gaming performance. GTX460 is a really good card, really rate em.

  34. Dastardly and Nutty

    155 quid for a quad core which hits 4ghz easy is a hell of a price. 1055T is still £30 and has 2 extra cores, but it wont overclock as hell.

  35. Kingston memory? really?

  36. only complain is that the yoyotech website is really hard to get to work for me, it keeps crashing and the links sometimes dont load, even though I know they are working. I ended up finding all the parts I could on dabs today and working out how much it will cost me. I hope you can use other stores in future instead of yoyotech. scan is ok, but I prefer dabs

  37. I did something similar with my “SuperBudget” home-build at 3.5GHz. Under $450.00 U.S.

    Parts are dated, but as the wisest Native American once said, “wat-ta-hey”.

    Intel E-5300, Crucial DDR3, MSI MSi P43-C51, GeForce N8400GS/512Mb, ThermalTake 600W, Cooler Master Case and HSfan 212+.

    4.2 GHz is nice, but when I build again, I will want more than another 700.

    So I’ll be shooting for high 4’s or low 5’s, -if I find a “SuperBargain” way to do that, I’ll let ya’ll know the mix!