For as long as we can remember enthusiasts around the world have been keen to see how their systems perform with many commercially available benchmarks from such companies as Futuremark. While these applications are extremely useful to a wide audience sometimes it can be helpful to focus on a ‘real world’ application which many of us use on an almost daily basis.
You can get the KitGuru Photoshop Benchmark 1(4) here. Please note lower times are better as this means less time is taken by the system to process the commands.
1. Texturiser (1) | 1.7 |
2. CMYK | 2.7 |
3. RGB | 2.8 |
4. Ink Outlines | 36.9 |
5. Dust & Stratches | 4.3 |
6. Watercolor | 38 |
7. Texturiser (2) | 1.8 |
8. Stained Glass | 26.7 |
9. Mosiac Tiles | 15 |
10. Extrude | 177.7 |
11. Rough Pastels | 13.8 |
12. Smart Blur | 112.4 |
13. Underpainting | 39.6 |
14. Mosiac Tiles | 15.2 |
15. Spherize | 4.5 |
16. Palette Knife | 28.2 |
17. Sponge | 53.8 |
18. Smudge Stick | 7.6 |
Total | 582.7 |
As Photoshop rarely makes use of more than two cores, the i5 660 performs very well even when comapred to quad core processors like the i5-750. So a time of 582.7 seconds is very reasonable.
Really good review, I like these systems and it is always great to see coverage. CPU is good for the price too. Not sure I agree it would need to be core i3, core i5 performance is very strong for the clocks.
weird design if there is no CMOS clearance switch ?
I need a media system like this, my PC noise levels are rubbish for media 🙁
What is that cooler like? a reference intel cooler ?
Nice little system that. Would probably use a different chassis tho
Sounds like the perfect board for me, on my to buy list.
The zotac board seems a better deal than this one as the overclocking options are better.
If they allow for overclocking but give no way to rescue it, what is the point of that? if it locks out how do you get back to normal.
Are you sure the board cant overclock? what is the point of giving bios options if they dont allow voltage increases or ways to get it back to default speeds? isnt that a recipe for a disaster?