General Performance

CINEBENCH R10

CINEBENCH places a heavy load on the CPU during the rendering tests, and can utilize a single CPU or multiple cores. The video subsystem has no bearing on the CPU rendering portion of this benchmark.

Cinebench R10

Even at a 3.2GHz clock speed, compared to the 4.0GHz quad-cores shown in the graph, the Edge Z55 and its Core i7 not only hold their own but a set a new high for multi-core performance. The Core i7 architecture really shines in this application, and Hyper Threading provides a minor boost as well allowing the multi-core increase to hit 4.02x.

PCMark Vantage

Our new standard for general platform performance, the PCMark Vantage suite provides a wide series of tests, some of which focus on the CPU while others also utilize the video subsystem, and include digital photo manipulation, webpage loading, video transcoding, High Definition content playback, and so forth.

PCMark Vantage

The Edge Z55 enjoys a healthy lead here over our previous (single GPU) test systems.

Setup and Startup Gaming/3D Performance
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  • leexgx - Saturday, December 13, 2008 - link

    it utterly destroys hard disk performance when it gets stuck doing an shadow copy for 1hr until it give up and stops
    on my d: drive it has an tendansy to read my 3dmark vantage setup file 4 times as i can see it doing it in resource monitor repeatably reading the same files

    but i must admit system restore on vista does work alot better when useing it and tends to brake less things when ran
  • UNHchabo - Friday, December 12, 2008 - link

    I looked at some of their machines, and they do offer Norton Suite pre-installed as an optional extra.

    One small request: jpegs make sense for posting gaming screenshots or photos, but could you please switch to .png files when posting screenshots of regular windows programs? The lack of artifacting makes it easier to read things like the System Information window.

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  • leexgx - Saturday, December 13, 2008 - link

    is there any way to make MSpaint on vista allways pick PNG

    i can see why web sites do not use PNG still but realy users should be useing Opera (still works on win95 and up)/Firefox 3 with 2-3 plugins for exploits/ IE7 (maybe not IE with lots of 0day problems at this time but should be installed and fully up to date)

    PNG should be used nowadays or very uncompressed JEPG (do not use msPant as it has no compression settings)
  • Voldenuit - Friday, December 12, 2008 - link

    Intel stock cooler? And wait, what is this I'm hearing... *chipset fan*???

    Blegh.
  • Cuhulainn - Saturday, December 13, 2008 - link

    This is just unbelievable to me.

    Spending that kind of scratch on a system with the latest greatest Intel processor (which is known to run hot!) and not getting an aftermarket cooling solution?!

    It's like buying a fine wine and drinking it out of a dixie cup.. or something.
  • mmntech - Sunday, December 14, 2008 - link

    It certainly is chintzy. If you're spending $2100 on something like that, I would expect at least high end air.
  • UNHchabo - Monday, December 15, 2008 - link

    At Core i7's launch there were only two LGA1366 aftermarket coolers on Newegg, and both had reviews saying that the stock cooler actually did a BETTER job of cooling the CPU.
  • strikeback03 - Friday, December 12, 2008 - link

    That is the stock Intel cooler on an Intel board, and it looks like it overhangs the first DIMM slot?
  • Matt Campbell - Friday, December 12, 2008 - link

    Good eye - yes, it does.
  • afkrotch - Friday, December 12, 2008 - link

    I read Anandtech a few times during the week and noticed this review. One thing I feel is lacking is the Customer Service portion. I like the way HardOCP deals with it. They call customer service with an issue to see how it gets resolved. They act like a regular customer with a regular problem and rate it based on their experience.

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