YoYoTech Intel Spartan 300 Gaming System
3DMark, Crysis & CoD4
Published: 30th July 2008 | Source: YoYoTech | Price: £500 |
3DMark is a popular synthetic gaming benchmark used by many gamers and overclockers to gauge the performance of their PC's. All 3DMark runs were performed a total of 5 times with the highest and lowest results being removed and an average calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Call of Duty 4 is a stunning DirectX 9.0c based game that really looks awesome and has a very full feature set. With lots of advanced lighting, smoke and water effects, the game has excellent explosions along with fast gameplay. Using the in-built Call Of Duty features, a 10-minute long gameplay demo was recorded and replayed on each of the GPU's using the /timedemo command a total of 5 times. The highest and lowest FPS results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Crysis is without doubt one of the most visually stunning and hardware-challenging games to date. By using CrysisBench - a tool developed independently of Crysis - we performed a total of 5 timedemo benchmarks using a GPU-intensive pre-recorded demo. To ensure the most accurate results, the highest and lowest benchmark scores were then removed and an average calculated from the remaining three.
Result Observations
In both 3DMark05 and 06 the Spartan 300 produces some extremely respectable results for a mid-range dual core system. Even on 3DMark Vantage at high resolutions, the Spartan 300 came within a whisker of the results we obtained from our 3.6GHZ Q6600 test PC while benchmarking a stock HD4850.
Moving on to the real game benches, the Spartan easily handles Call of Duty 4 at 1900x1200 with 4xAA and all settings set to their highest. Producing an average of 56.6FPS we didn't experience any noticable slowdowns during online gaming, even when playing on a server with over 40 other opponents.
Crysis also faired quite well on the Spartan 300 with the graphics detail set to Medium in DX10 mode. While not exactly lag-free at 1900x1200, it was still fairly playable and even more so with the resolution reduced to 1280x1024.
Most Recent Comments
I`ll open by being brutally honest in that I`ve never forgiven YoYoTech for advertizing the IX38-MAX, and it of course not making the shops 
However, great review Jim, and I have equally be honest that if some1 came to me with the story we all get "can u build me a pc" - for £500, I`d point them at this. Jim had to technicalities.. but here`s the beauty about it - the person who bought it wouldn`t be on my phone all the time with an issue
That my friends is priceless.
Once going and benching is pretty darn decent, and there`s a fair bit of expansion u can add to it in the future - which is the downfall of most pre-made systems.
Good stuff.
http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/demos/Imag...-animation.gif
However, great review Jim, and I have equally be honest that if some1 came to me with the story we all get "can u build me a pc" - for £500, I`d point them at this. Jim had to technicalities.. but here`s the beauty about it - the person who bought it wouldn`t be on my phone all the time with an issue
That my friends is priceless.Once going and benching is pretty darn decent, and there`s a fair bit of expansion u can add to it in the future - which is the downfall of most pre-made systems.
Good stuff.
http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/demos/Imag...-animation.gif
Cracking VFM, shame about the slight issues. Still, they've stretched £500 a long way
Several times you mention the mobo as a P45 chipset but it's not, it's a P43.
Rumour has it that P43 has been constrained to ~400fsb (way down on P45) for overclocking which I would love you to test if you still have the system.
Rumour has it that P43 has been constrained to ~400fsb (way down on P45) for overclocking which I would love you to test if you still have the system.
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Originally Posted by name='BUFF'
Several times you mention the mobo as a P45 chipset but it's not, it's a P43.
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Originally Posted by name='BUFF'
Several times you mention the mobo as a P45 chipset but it's not, it's a P43.
Rumour has it that P43 has been constrained to ~400fsb (way down on P45) for overclocking which I would love you to test if you still have the system. |
If you check the pics in the review, have a look at the model number printed on the PCB and punch it into Google.
Maybe MSI have done something to it...but to me it looked like a P45 with a sticker on it.
Out of curiosity I went to MSI's site and downloaded the manual for those board. By the looks of it, there are three different boards bearing the model number (P45, P43, and G45). From my reading, the P43 is essentially the same chip as the P45, just with a few features disabled (only 1 x16 PCI-E, weaker official memory support). Possibly low-binned P45's. The G45 is just a P45 with an integrated graphics solution. So I suppose you could look at this board as being a lower-binned, feature-capped P45 board
Thats really strange how they gave you an ES chip :S
Pretty cool if they gave everyone one though
Pretty cool if they gave everyone one though
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Originally Posted by name='Jim'
From what I've been told the board that was used in that system is actually a P45 board and MSI have just changed the sticker on it to read P43 so that they can sell it at a lower price.
If you check the pics in the review, have a look at the model number printed on the PCB and punch it into Google. Maybe MSI have done something to it...but to me it looked like a P45 with a sticker on it. |
This is by far the best budget gaming setup someone possible could get right now. The arctic cooler is great. Very nice choice of components.
£35 for them to build it, overclock and RTB warranty!!!! GREAT VFM!!!
1.445v Vcore !! ouch. I thought the 45nm chips were failing at voltage close to that. Seems a bit steep for Yoyotech to get stability?? Intel spec VID up to 1.365v. Very risky imo.
Great review. And hope this pc sells like hot cakes. It is miles infront of other system builders in terms of value!!
£35 for them to build it, overclock and RTB warranty!!!! GREAT VFM!!!
1.445v Vcore !! ouch. I thought the 45nm chips were failing at voltage close to that. Seems a bit steep for Yoyotech to get stability?? Intel spec VID up to 1.365v. Very risky imo.
Great review. And hope this pc sells like hot cakes. It is miles infront of other system builders in terms of value!!
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YoYoTech Intel Spartan 300 Gaming System