YoYoTech Intel Spartan 300 Gaming System
Quake4, GRID & Unreal Tournament III
Published: 30th July 2008 | Source: YoYoTech | Price: £500 |
Quake 4 is a game built on the Doom 3 engine. Benchmarking was performed using Quake4Bench and a custom timedemo recording. The benchmark was set to run a total of 5 times, with Quake4Bench automatically calculating an average result at the end of the run.
Race Driver: Grid is a visually taxing game that perhaps represents a challenge to any graphics system. The benchmark was run a total of 5 times using Fraps with the highest and lowest scores removed leaving the remaining 3 runs to calculate the average fps.
Unreal Tournament 3 is the highly anticipated game from Epic Games and Midway. The game uses the latest Unreal engine, which combines fast gameplay along with high quality textures and lighting effects. All benchmarks were performed using UTbench with a fly-by of the DM-BioHazard map. As usual, all benchmarks were performed 5 times, with the highest and lowest results being removed and an average calculated from the remaining three.
Result Observations
The Spartan 300 made light work of Unreal Tournament III at both 1900x1200 and 1280x1024 resolutions in DX10 mode with all detail turned up High, and even managed to produce a smooth framerate on GRID with medium settings and 2xAA. Just for a laugh we did try increasing the settings to High/4xAA on GRID which is extremely taxing for any system, and as expected the framerate dipped into the single figures with a rather nasty slideshow.
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