Well over the past few days I have been tweaking a few settings and getting software installed.
I cannot tell you all how pleased I am now that everything is setup and working. I have done a few tests and screenshot below will say it all.
Screenshot Running Geek-Bench and showing "About This Mac" Screen
I have the CPU very slightly Overclocked from 2.8Ghz to 3.2Ghz but have Turbo mode still enabled and running on stock voltage settings. I had a few issues to start with, The RAM as standard is clocked at 1333 with this board and when the profile is enabled in the bios this coursed the Geek-Bench score to barely reach 4000. The Simple cure for this was to set the clock speed manually. As it is, I now have the clock speed set back to 1333 as standard but with the overclock brings it back up to 1550. I have also been able to “Backup” a DVD to H.264 in 30 minutes, when comparing the system against my old Q6600, 8GB RAM which gave a decent Geek-bench score of 4100 and did the same DVD “backup” in 53 Minutes Will see if I can re-do the tests and get screen-shots to show.
