Utopia Computers Ballista Review

👤by Brendan van Varik  Comments 📅02-10-12

Test Systems & Benchmarks

As the Ballista is preoverclocked, we compared it against our overclocked test rigs.

We will be comparing the Ballista to our test bench machines which feature the following components:

Utopia Computers Ballista: AMD Trinity 5800K @4.4GHz
CPU AMD 5800K, 3.8GHz – overclocked to 4.4GHz
Cooling Coolit Eco Advanced liquid cooling system
Motherboard – ASUS F2 A85-M Pro (Socket FM2)
Memory Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz 2x4GB
Graphics ASUS HD 6770 1GB in CrossFire with the APU
Storage Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD & Seagate 1TB
Optical Sony Slot Loading DVDRW
PSU Corsair TX 550w Modular

Custom Test Bench: AMD Phenom II 955 (OC), ASUS M5A99X EVO
CPU AMD Phenom II 955 @3806MHz (331x11.5)
Cooling Noctua NH-D14
Motherboard ASUS M5A99X EVO
Memory G.SKILL RipJawX DDR3-1866MHz CL9
Graphics Zotac GTX 570 1280MB
Storage Corsair Force F120
PSU FSP Aurum CM Series 750W

Custom Test Bench: AMD Bulldozer FX-8120 (OC), ASUS M5A99X EVO
CPU AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core Processor @3852MHz (335x11.5)
Cooling Noctua NH-D14
Motherboard ASUS M5A99X EVO
Memory G.SKILL RipJawX DDR3-1866MHz CL9
Graphics Zotac GTX 570 1280MB
Storage Corsair Force F120
PSU FSP Aurum CM Series 750W

To give you a variety of results and to best show how the system performs; we will be running the following benchmarks to give you a full perspective of how the system performs.

AIDA64 – CPU benchmarks
X264 HD 5.0.1 – 1st and 2nd pass encoding
SiSoftware Sandra 2012 – CPU and Memory benchmarks
CineBench 11.5 – CPU score
3DMark 11 – DX11 3D Performance and Extreme preset
Games – Crysis 2, DiRT Showdown, Skyrim and Sleeping Dogs