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Hey check it out, I got my first core i5 MP55 computer.
Stick around we're going to see what all the hype's about.
Alright, so here it is, check it out. This is the Systemax Core i5 Gamer PC.
This is the first computer that I haven't built, that I got my hands on,
that has a Core i5 system in it. Basically, P55 chipset Lynnfield processor,
and 4 gigs of ram, all the good stuff, nice video card.
So let's take a look at it. Now, first of all, you might recognize this case,
I don't know if you've seen this before, but this is the NZXT Apollo,
which is a pretty popular case. You know, pretty affordable, but good build quality,
it looks pretty nice, it's got a door that opens up in the front.
You got a, you know, a bunch of space here, you actually have space
for one, two, three, four, five 5.25" bays, and you have another 3.5 down here,
which is the... You put a card reader in there, so that's really nice.
You're going to be able to look at your SD cards, your MS, your MS Pros, your CF cards,
all that good stuff is readable on here. They gave you an LG SuperMulti DVD drive
up here at the top, you'll also notice that this case does have
a nice big blue fan on the side, so a big 120mm will provide more air.
Now in total this case actually has the ability to hold three fans.
but Systemax put two in it. They put one in the back, and they put one in the door.
And that's actually a pretty good configuration, it works out very-very well,
very nice. Now I'm going to go ahead and unplug this real quick.
Pull the door off, so there's your clear-sided door,
you want to definitely show off these internals, because they're pretty nice.
Now, take a look at the inside. What you'll notice here is quite a few things.
First of all, you are going to see that it is a MSI motherboard,
that is the new P55 chipset, so there is no northbridge.
The southbridge doesn't really exist either, it's down here.
This is actually a P55, as it's called, a PCH, or a Platform Controller Hub.
It's down to two chips now, that, the P55 chip, and the CPU, and that's it
on this motherboard. So very-very simple, great setup, very fast, it brings...
If you don't know, P55, and Core i5 and Core i7, the new ones for the 1156 socket,
what that does is it brings the performance of Nehalem,
the microarchitecture that's used in the X58 boards and in those Core i7 chips,
it brings it down to the 1156 socket and makes it mainstream.
That means that anyone can afford it, it's not super expensive, it's not super high-end,
but it's going to give you that same type of high-end performance.
I'll show you in a little bit, in superpi 1M, which is a benchmark, in case you don't know,
basically, very-very nice scores, comparable to those of an X58 system,
but this is a much more affordable system. Now, back to the internals,
you are going to notice that instead of triple channel memory,
the core i5's use dual channel memory, but you still have four gigabytes
of DDR3 memory right here, 1333, you can upgrade that, definitely, to eight,
if you wanted to, and you can actually go to 16 in the future,
if you wanted to use a four-gigabyte dim, but I don't really recommend that to anybody,
it's really expensive. There's also plenty of storage, a Western Digital 640 gigabyte
hard-drive comes with the unit. You also got your Core i5 processor right here,
this is the 750, which is a 2.66 GHz processor,
but it's important to know that these processors have turbo boost.
So although it might run at 2.66 regularly, if you're doing a single-threaded application
and it needs to go faster, it will actually self-overclock itself
to about 2.8, 2.9 GHz easily, just for that. To those single-threaded apps
one of the cores will go, will overclock itself,
or, when you're doing all four cores at the same time, pretty much you have
four cores to do all the work for you, so you don't need to go too much faster than that.
Also, down here, graphics, as far as graphics are concerned,
you do get a 9800GT graphics card. Now regularly, a 9800GT is clocked at 600 MHz
for the core, and 1500 for the shaders, and 900 for the memory.
Not this one, take a look at this board, this is actually a factory-overclocked
9800GT, you're getting 660 MHz core clock, 1650 MHz on the shaders,
and 950 MHz on the memory that's on this card.
So you are getting a nice little overclock and you can possibly
overclock a little bit further. Now, talking about overclocking,
a really interesting feature on this board right here, I don't know if you can see it,
I'm going to tilt this thing over a little bit, but right here,
see these two plus and minus buttons? Those are actually overclocking buttons.
Those are going to increase and decrease your base clock.
So every time you pump one of those up you're increasing the base clock
of your motherboard and you're overclocking, literally, just by pushing buttons.
This is a great way to establish your first, initial base clock.
You just push the buttons so you get a BSOD, than you back it off a few MHz
and that's your base overclock. After that you need to go the BIOS
and increase your voltages, and then keep going but it makes things very-very simple.
Also you'll notice that down here on this motherboard, you do have a power button,
so that's great when you build the computer, before you put it in the case, it's also good
if you're benching the system, or for whatever reason you stall any hardware
you can always turn the computer on through there, rather than using the case.
Another thing you'll notice, right next to it, is the OC Genie,
that's part of MSIs self-overclocking utility software,
pretty much overclocks itself and lets you overclock from inside
the operating system rather than have to overclock from the BIOS.
Now, other good features on here, let me turn this thing around for you,
I actually want to show you guys the ridiculous amount
of USBs that this thing has, I've never seen anything like it.
Looking at this back panel, you have two, four, six, eight, ten USB 2.0 ports,
you have PS/2s, you have 10/100/1000 Ethernet,
and you have 7.1 channel HD audio with a very-very nice controller on it.
The controller I'm talking about will actually do the true, true Blu-ray audio,
it can decode that. You'll also note that you have two DVI, dueling DVIs out here.
Also included in the package, you'll get this little VGA adapter as well.
And in case you want to know, this big black power supply sticking up, up here,
that is a 500 watt power supply, so plenty of juice to power
all the good stuff that you have on here. Also, a really cool thing to note
on this thing, is that it actually got a perfect Vista score,
It got a 5.9 Vista score. And, you know, normally it's not a huge deal,
on a high-end system, but this is an affordable, mainstream P55 setup,
and it's maxing out Vista score. So that's very-very impressive.
Also, as far as expansion goes, just so you guys know,
you do have three PCI slots in here, as well as two PCI-Express x1 2.0s
are also present in there. And just to kind of show you a very-very basic demonstration
of the type of power that you're getting off of a P55 system, again,
it's the type of system that brings the, the performance of Nehalem,
of the microarchitecture, of all the new stuff, but it's making it more affordable
and it gives you the same type of performance. I'm going to show you guys
real quick, I'm going to run a benchmark called superpi.
And most Core i systems do it in about 13, 12 or 13 seconds,
depending on how fast they're clocked. And I'm actually going to throw down
just to show you that there's barely any difference. Now your older systems
used to do this type of calculation in, sometimes, just, you know, under 20 seconds,
which is not really that impressive, but you'll see here, where you can spend
probably another additional thousand dollars and only get one second less,
or one second more. Check this out, I'm going to run superpi 1M,
hit OK, and boom, it's going to take off. It's going to take about 14 seconds,
I believe, to run this loop, basically it's trying to find,
it's just reading out pi as far as it possibly can,
and it's giving you loops and loops and loops.
And 1M means it's going to produce one megabyte's worth of pi,
which is a lot of numbers, by the way.
There you go, 15 second pi, so very-very quick, and just to give you a demonstration
of how fast this little overclocking thing works,
I'm actually going to push this button over here a few times,
just randomly haphazardly pushing it, actually if you want to see,
I will turn on CPU-Z and you will see that my base clock frequency has increased,
and so, in turn, has my frequency for the CPU. Very-very fast system,
gives you, pretty much, all the benefits of the Nehalem architecture.
It gives you the ability to have a really-really nice general computing,
aweseome for doing Photoshop, video editing, gaming, it's really up to you.
it's a great-great system and it's very-very affordable, highly recommended,
and in case you don't know, all Systemax cubicle computers are built in the USA,
and on top of that, they are not like these other brands, that use
their own proprietary parts, that if they break you just can't repair them,
and if your warranty ends you're done with. Everything in this computer,
whether you believe it or not, is literally, just a regular PC part that you could buy
and replace in there. So, in the future, if you have any issues with the computer,
it's really easy to repair, it's not going to be a nightmare,
you don't have to order really expensive parts. So really-really good stuff,
I love this stuff from Systemax. If you have any questions, as always,
you can E-mail me here, and I'll see you guys next time.
For more information on the Systemax Core i5 Gamer PC,
type in 'SYX-1024' into the search engine of any of these major retailers.
For Computer TV, I'm Albert.