Conclusions

Its very difficult at times to out do something that has been tremendously exciting on its first outing, but today we have achieved this and some.   The results shown over the review have been exceptional and we never thought that it would be so good.  Close yes, possibly a little faster, but to excel in the magnitude shown - spectacular.   Its not often we are lost for words here, but for once the VelociRaptor and its astonishing performance has most certainly achieved this.   Over these last few days we have sat back in awe watching all previous records being completely blown away.   This system configuration shown is most certainly a powerful combination.

Intel’s D5400XS (aka Skulltrail) has performed flawlessly and truly is a system that should be sitting in many desktops now.  With what has been shown today and on early outings, you have the cream of the crop and the best of both worlds.  A system that can multifunction as a Workstation and Gaming platform,  rendering out a scenes with lightening speed and wallops modern games with its awesome power

Akasa’s new Omega chassis.  This is a first sneak peak at this excellent chassis and has been an exceptional upgrade path from the Mirage 62 which it supersedes.    Akasa have put a lot of thought into this new chassis refining upon its already award winning formula.   For those eagle eyed readers you will have noted the space in the upper partition of the chassis for liquid cooling if you so desire.   The PowerMax 1200 Watt PSU supplied by Akasa has been directly product focused for Intel’s Skulltrail and future systems of this magnitude.  An upgrade to this PSU will keep you right for a very long time to come.

Not to degenerate away from the VelociRaptors day at the races.     By strength, by guile it has hammered home astounding performance, therefore to briefly apprise those who like to just flick through the pictures a summary of the results.

HD Tach results remain very good.  One thing that has to be noted and fully emphasised is once more that the CPU utilisation has a very small footprint indeed at 1% throughout and this result was consistent with all the tests and reruns completed.

PCMark 2005 Advanced – Up from 5811 to 8385 a 44.30% increase in the Hard Drive I/O output within the test. 

MAXON Cinebench 10 – once more 10% increase in the I/O Render output of the CPU.

SPECapc for Solidworks 2007 - Day in the Life Scores (left hand column) are better (Lower = Better) the Complete Score shows a 8.75% increase in performance; SPECapc Score (right hand column) increase in performance by 7.98% with the rest of the results in this section are better (Higher = Better)

SPEC Viewperf 10 - FSAA tests show nice increases as too within the Multithreading test.   Run_all test shows remarkable results with tremendous increases in performance.

The starters gate has opened and we are well down the race track nearing the finish line.   Can we get faster than already shown?  Time will tell as to what is hidden up our sleeves for the next outing.   With all that has been shown over this last week; A New Day,  A New Dawning and a whole New Era has been started with the VelociRaptor.   So small, yet so powerful.

Page 1 - Introduction & System Set Up
Page 2 - *New* Akasa Omega Chassis
Page 3 - HD Tach Version 3.0.4.0
Page 4 - PCMark 2005 Advanced
Page 5 - MAXON CINEBENCH 10
Page 6 - Autodesk 3ds Max 9 SP2 Scenes
Page 7 - SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™
Page 8 - SPECviewperf 10 ® Multi Sampling (FSAA)
Page 9 - SPECviewperf 10 ® Threads
Page 10 - SPECviewperf 10 ® run_all
Page 11 - Conclusions