Intel recently released their Core i7 platform, taking over the PC land by storm. So we figured .. it is inevitable that we'll be testing on such a speedy platform anyway, so now's the time to start thinking about building a new test system.
X58 as you guys know can support both SLI and Crossfire, allowing one PC to test both, and for a reviewer that's pretty wicked really, as we do not have to build multiple similar configured systems. One to rule them all. We figured, let's make a new system and go a little crazy.
So the guys over at Smooth Creations decided to help us out by taking care of a custom paintjob. I wanted blue Guru3D colored flames with our logo stamped in there, with a black coating. And so they made that happen on a Silverstone chassis.
A while ago the chassis came back from the USA (towards Europe) and I have started building the new primary graphics card test PC. We wanted it to look good though, so we had the guys from Smooth Creations do a bitching paint-job on the chassis after which we needed to make some choices regarding the rest of the components.
Here's what Guru3D.com graphics card test-platform will look like for the reviews in 2009.
Now this is the chassis (still) in early stages. We still are seeking a proper water-cooling block for Core i7 as this system screams H20. So with that in mind, we are still building it. We already received a lot of questions about this rig as some of you spotted a photo on it in a couple of out articles.
So this is a small pictorial of our new test system called Project-X. Let's have a peek shall we? Then please head on over to the next page.
There she is: "Project X" ...