OCZ Agility EX Series SATA II 2.5" SSD

System Set-Up and Software Used

We now turn to our system of choice, the vogue currently is Intel's i7, i5 CPU's with the popular Intel P55 chipset mainboards.  Many foresee these as great overclocking boards, though many system builders have found these mainboards as reliable sound workstation platforms.  With these equations taken into due consideration it is deemed appropriate within this article that we will focus on how the OCZ Agility performs on this type of platform build.  We have as of recent been using both FirePro and Quadro professional cards and seen some pretty astounding results using spindle drives.   Consequently it was considered to be prudent observing just how well all the components performed using a baseline SSD whilst maintaining 64-bit operating system.

Hardware Suppliers for the Review

Intel EU for the supply of the 2.93GHz Intel® Core™ i7-870  and the Intel® Mainboard DP55KG (Kingsberg)

Kingston Memory  for the HyperX  DDR3 Memory  1333MHz Unbuffered Validated P55 mainboard memory.

OCZ for the supply of the Agility SSD and Z Series 1000W Power Supply
 
ATI for the supply of the FirePro V8700 professional graphic card.

Akasa for the supply of the Akasa Freedom Xone Chassis,  Akasa Freedom Tower  HSF

Systems Integrators, OEM’s and VAR’s should contact all companies directly for pricing and availability of all components.   
Members of the public should contact their respective suppliers requesting the parts directly.

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Maintaining our target audience within the professional market place, though we are now seeing many old readers coming
back who like the style we produce; we opted for this outing a complete set of professional applications benchmarks.   This in turn means all walks of life have a very good idea what they are about to buy from this factual article.  The test system shown within will be readily found within many arena's soon.

Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64-bit SP2
Diskeeper 2010 Pro Premier
SiSoftware Sandra 2010
Crystal Mark 3.0 Beta
Everest Ultimate Ver. 5.03
Cinebench 10
POV-Ray Ver. 3.7 beta 35a 64-bit
SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™
SPECviewperf® 10.0 64-bit test only.   Test ran at 1280 X 1024 Resolution.

Each set of tests has been applied on the clean system hard drives shown above to ensure that no residue drivers were left installed with all updates/patches applied.   A test/render has been completed many times over different periods of the system uptime.   Maintaining the fair play rules of SPEC® HyperThreading was enabled,  Turbo Boost enabled and the memory left at Auto showing the default of 1333MHz.     Tests have been conducted at 1280 X 1024 @ 60Hz in 32 bit colour.   Therefore and most importantly the results that have been shown within this article are from the application/benchmarks first run in accordance with the SPECviewperf® and SPECapc™ fair play rules.

Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - Agility Pictures
Page 3 - System Set-Up and Software Used
Page 4 - SiSoftware Sandra 2010
Page 5 - Everest Ultimate Ver. 5.03
Page 6 - Miscellaneous Hard Disc Benchmarks
Page 7 - Professional Benchmarks
Page 8 - Conclusions and Award