Psy4 computers give you higher peroformance computer systems than any other system builder, our Elite computer systems are liquid cooled and use special BIOS's to give you maximum performance from your hardware and retain stability and reliability.
While we would like to give you exact figures in the systems tuned performance, it is not possible due to the actual indivdual hardware used in building the systems. We have had two of the same 2.4 Ghz (stock) processors and found that they have not been able to match each other in performance, one would only run up to 2.7Ghz while the other ran at 3.2Ghz so it is not possible to give you an accurate figure on the computer systems. we can however give you a conservative estimate so that you can view an average of how the system will perform.
GPU's (graphics cards) can sometime be unlocked, this is paticual within the lower range systems like the VS range, What we often do is use custom BIOS's for the graphics cards to unlock them and tune them. this often leads to lower range GPU's out performing the high range cards. As an example, we took one mid range card and had it out performing a higher range card that was 4 models up. This meant that the card was effectivly beating a card of 3 times the cost.
We do offer a tuning service for computer systems that we have not built. Sadly anytuning will be dependant on the hardware that is used in the system. Typically you can be looking at a 25% performance boost from this service, click the services tab to find out more about this service and how we can make your old computer perform faster.
To give you an example of our performance tuning we took a Q6600 Is a 2.4Ghz Processor at stock, and pushed up to 3.2Ghz on air cooling we then added liquid cooling and pushed this up to 4.3Ghz
As you can see the gain is great, but this cannot be garenteed, we would mark this system at 3.7Ghz to give a large saftey margin.
I am often asked, dose tuning and over clocking make the system unstable and also shorten the life of the processors and other hardware?
The short answer is no, as long as it is done with care and by a knowledgeable person such as use at Psy4.
The long answer is, Carefull hardware selection, and cooling will give you a stable system, we have bench tested a computer for a number of years and found no issues also none of our customers have reported any problems in the years that they have used the systems. Tuning isnt over clocking or maxing out the hardware. its about looking at the technical information (white papers) and applying our engineering and scientific knowledge to work out the effective best peroformance or the hardware and making it match and give the best performance while still retaining reliability and stability. It certainly is not cranking everything up till it starts to fail and then leaving it like it.
Performance tuning is also applied to other types of computer systems that we at Psy4 offer. you will notice that we ask; what the computer will be used for? This is simply because the hardware specifications will be dictated by the use of the system.
Lets take the example of the 76Gig Raptor Hard drive. everyone is under the impression that these are kings of Hard drives and the performance is wonderous. Well, Thats not right. we have tested the Raptor in a number of applications and uses and they are not as good as most people believe. Yes. yes, I have also seen the published bench results BUT.. I did look at the white paper and looked more into the drive that most people would care to do. The Raptor is a small file and cache drive, great for smaller files and older games, the sustained data rate was poor. This means that other SATA drives gave a better performance over all. To give an analagy of this:
Take two cars:
Car 1: 0-60MPH in 1 second top speed of 70MPH (Raptor SATA)
Car 2: 0-60MPH in 1.8 Seconds Top speed 120MPH (Other SATA)
Clearly the Raptor will win short races, however the other sata will win on longer races. The raptor is fast for 16Mb of data and then its starts to drop in speed and cannot sustain the speeds. other sata's dont get the fast burst as much as the Raptor, but sustain a higher rate and therefore work better at transfering data. While this is not a Raptor review, it shows our point clearly.
Taking this into account, have you wondered why the same company makes several hard drives all at the same size and fitting? they all perform differently and match certain useage.
This goes for most hardware and it is by knowing what you are using the computer for that we can select the best hardware to meet your needs.
It is this type of expertease that goes into build the computer systems at Psy4 and why our systems are the better choice and how we score in the top 1% of all computer systems in the world..