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System Set-up and Diskeeper Professional Premium

How did it perform?

For the test we utilised major products that require significant cooling for a system build and the benchmarks used most certainly stretching the full I/O of the system producing considerable amounts of heat. Utilising the system build below and the results speak for themselves in the charts and screenshots shown over in page 3.

1 X MSI K8N Diamond Plus SLI Mainboard
2 X 1GB (2GB Total) 4400PRO Corsair TwinX Memory
1 X AMD Opteron 180 with EVO 120 V2 HEATPIPE COOLER utilising Akasa
HI-Spec Pro-Grade+ 5022 Thermal Compound,
1 X AKASA ALLInONE controller set to AUTO controlling both intake and exhaust fan headers
1 X NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 Professional Graphics Card
2 X Western Digital 150GB 10K Raptor with 16MB Buffer Configured to Raid 0
1 X AKASA ECLIPSE-62 Chassis
1 X AKASA POWERPLUS iQ 650W
1 X AKASA 120MM Ultra Quiet Amber Series for the Intake Fan
1 X AKASA 120MM Ultra Quiet Amber Series for the Exhaust Fan.

One thing we can never get enough of is how cool the system is and what temperature the HSF is running at and what temperature our exhaust fan are pulling out. All the stuffed in peripherals produce heat and one point always forgotten about is how much heat is being actually taken out of the system. Taking this into account we can actually then determine if we have enough cooling in our systems. Too much heat going out means 2 things; either not enough cool air coming in which means we need to look at overall cooling of the system. Or, the exhaust fan is actually doing its job very well.

Benchmarks, Software Used and Conclusions (32 Bit Mode)

To complete all of the tests on the system has taken some considerable time. Maintaining the fair play rules we did not manipulate any of this mainboards superb overclocking facilities just to see accurate the Heatpipe Coolers actually performed, therefore the mainboard was left at its default settings. One important note to bear in mind is that we have plugged directly into the mainboard the fan header for each of the HSF to ensure that we maintained the true temperature readings of what the mainboard supply to the fan actually produced leaving the fan for the HSF in its natural running state. All tests have been conducted at 1280 X 1024 @ 70Hz in 32 bit colour.

Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 with full Updates
Diskeeper 2007 Professional Premium
SPECviewperf® 9.0.3
PCMark 2005 Advanced with patch 1.1.0
Sandra 2007 SP1

This review also sees its first outing of the new version of Diskeeper 2007 Professional Premium. We have seen many types of disk fragmenting utilities coming through here and still we find that Diskeeper is the ultimate product of our choice. What we have done is listed a few of the key features of this remarkable new product for you

NEW! I-FAAST™ 2.0 Diskeeper's I-FAAST™ 2.0 (Intelligent File Access Acceleration Sequencing Technology) was specifically developed to accelerate the speed of your systems file access in order to meet the heavy workloads of file-intensive applications. I-FAAST intelligently monitors file usage and reorganises the files that are used most for the fastest possible access. Users of applications such as CAD/CAM, database applications, and graphic and video intensive applications will experience an astonishing increase in speed and response.

NEW! InvisiTasking™ revolutionary breakthrough technology intelligently enhances operating system multitasking to ensure maximum system performance and zero resource conflicts for true real time defragmentation. With InvisiTasking there is no longer any need to schedule Diskeeper to run when you are not using your computer. It places no drain on computing resources whatsoever.

NEW! Real-time defragmentation automatically handles fragmentation as it occurs. With Diskeeper 2007 enabled your systems run faster!

Fragshield™ dynamically prevents fragmentation of critical system files, maintaining system stability and reliability

The new Diskeeper 2007 Professional Premium version contains a vast array of many new hidden features which are too many to discuss here now, though what we can state is that it is a vast improvement upon the previous version that we have come to admire in how it maintains exceptional hard disc performance.

Below are just a few screen shots of the product in action. A more in depth review will follow soon in comparing this current version with its predecessor and just how much performance increase has been gained over the previous edition of the product.

To completely defragment the hard disc which was heavily used using the new Diskeeper Professional Premium took no less than 28 seconds to complete. Reverting back to the old version of Diskeeper 10 Professional Premium covering nearly the same amount of fragmentation took 48 seconds to complete!

Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - System Set-up and Diskeeper Professional Premium
Page 3 - Results and Conclusions

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