BENCHMARKS
Ok, so my friends PC is up and running so while I wait for him to come and pick it up, I decided to run a few benchmarks
Here is his PC:
i7-920 and Sapphire Nitro R9 380
And here is my rig
i5-4690K and Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580
CineBench
His PC: 441
My PC: 560
All in all, he's got a pretty competent system for his first PC. Granted I built it for him and the CPU and Mobo & RAM were donated by @Tabs
His Specs:
GA-X58-UD3R Mobo
i7-920
Sapphire R9 380 4GB
8GB of DDR3 clocked at 1666Mhz I think
120GB PNY SSD
1TB Barracuda HDD
some shitty optical drive from an OEM HP system.
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I'm just glad the parts got a chance to be used again, it's been bothering me having them in storage for so long.
I'm surprised how close those results are though; have you overclocked the i7-920 yet?
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No, no overclocking. The Air Cooler that you gave my friend cools his PC just as well as my AiO cools mine. His house does not have AC and while I'm sure it would be fine, I don't want mess with overclocking I tend to leave clock speeds stock for my tech products anyway.
I already hooked him up with the 2016 Adobe Suite and am currently giving him my collection of ripped DVDs and Music since we have some similar tastes.