Finally was able to afford an upgrade

Just so pleased right now. I'd been using an old P5K Mainboark with a Q9400 overclocked to 3.4 for a few years. Was also using OCZ reaper DDR2 ram (4GB) clocked at about 1066. That was the best I could get out of it. It served me well for a long time.



But then a new job came along, and I was able to start buying some new stuff, and I came up with the following setup:



Asus Z99-A mainboard

i5_4690K Processor

8GB of Kingston Hyperx Fury DDR3

Arctic Freezer 13 CPU Cooler



First thing was to begin overclocking. Pushed the Processor up to 4.2 GHz and pushed the RAM to 2400 MHz

Everything is rock stable so far, and my CPU temps are 27, 29,28, and 26 across the 4 cores on idle. (This is helped largely in part by my re-used Antec Nine Hundred Two case.



So for benchmarks, here's what I've got :









SuperPi 1M : 15.864Sec old: 8.624Sec New



Aida64 Extreme:

[ Memory Read ]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



4x Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 9796 MB/s

4x Core i5-4690K 4100 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 30341 MB/s



[ Memory Write ]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



4x Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 8985 MB/sMB/s

4x Core i5-4690K 4200 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 31942 MB/s



[ Memory Copy ]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



4x Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 9008 MB/s

4x Core i5-4690K 4100 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 27061 MB/s



[ Memory Latency ]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 81.6 ns

Core i5-4690K 4300 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 55.3 ns



[ CPU Queen ]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



4x Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 27667

4x Core i5-4690K 4100 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 38717



[ CPU PhotoWorxx ]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



4x Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 5694 MPixel/s

4x Core i5-4690K 4200 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 18990 MPixel/s



[ CPU ZLib ]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

4x Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 169.5 MB/s

4x Core i5-4690K 4200 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 281.3 MB/s



[ CPU AES ]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



4x Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 736 MB/s

4x Core i5-4690K 4100 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 17964 MB/s



[ CPU Hash ]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

4x Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 2157 MB/s

4x Core i5-4690K 4100 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 4360 MB/s



[ FPU VP8 ]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

4x Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 4029

4x Core i5-4690K 4100 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 6713



[ FPU Julia ]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



4x Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 9119

4x Core i5-4690K 4100 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 31391



[ FPU Mandel ]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



4x Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 4806

4x Core i5-4690K 4100 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 17352

[ FPU SinJulia ]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



4x Core 2 Quad Q9400 3400 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] P45 Dual DDR2-1018 5-5-5-18 CR2 2469

4x Core i5-4690K 4200 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] Z97 Ext. Dual DDR3-2200 11-13-13-35 CR2 3529







These are really pleasing results. Paired with a Samsung 840 SSD for the Windows7 drive, the system is cookin' with gas.



The biggest change was boot time:



Old System: 12 seconds

New system: 5 Seconds.

This is measured from the moment The BIOS screens are replaced by the Windows Lettering.



Anyway, that's all for now. Comments? Questions?

Finally was able to afford an upgrade