Just an update to those that have shown interest in this thread. Should be getting the Predator today, so fingers crossed on that. Just for giggles I ran a cristal disk mark on the drive in the machine at the moment I believe is a seagate 1TB 7200rpm. Needless to say its appaling -----------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 75.913 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 76.576 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 0.952 MB/s [ 232.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.080 MB/s [ 263.7 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 77.600 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 76.553 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.389 MB/s [ 95.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 1.090 MB/s [ 266.1 IOPS]
Test : 1024 MiB [C: 5.7% (52.5/923.4 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2016/04/13 8:33:52
OS : Windows 7 Professional SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)
As well as a cinebench r15 score which is a little more Impressive
CPU score is 715 which putts it between
I7-4770k---822cb (still retailing for around $400!)
I7-3770----662cb ($350 and up on amazon)
so I paid arounf $350 for the whole system refurbed on newegg
I bought a complete system with better performance than a single proccesor. Extremley happy with it so far.
Now For the GPU I threw in a GTX 660 Gigabyte windforce I had laying around and the GPU in this system is a little underwhelming but more than adequate for what im using the system for. The cinebench score on it was 50.04 FPS take what you will with that information.
Hopefully I'll be posting back later today or tomorrow with a new cristal disk mark score!