Aria Gladiator Sparta Haswell i5 4670K Nano Overclocked Bundle Review
Test Setup
As well as the Sparta Nano we’ll be running our tests with a heavily overclocked MSI HD7970. It doesn’t quite reach the performance heights of the Club3D HD7970 Royal Ace we normally test with, but as the i5-2500K was about value-for-money and the i5-4670K is on similar grounds, then it should make for a nicely performing system that is still within the reach of the average user.
Aria Gladiator Sparta i5 Nano Overclocked Bundle :
i5-4670K @ 4.4GHz
Crucial Ballistix 1866MHz
Gigabyte Z87 Sniper M5
Scythe Ashura CPU Cooler
MSI HD7950 OC
Catalyst 13.4
Corsair H80
Cougar CM1000
Windows 7 x64
Clock Speeds
Aria carefully select their CPUs to ensure that you end up with a model which overclocks nicely. It takes away the silicon lottery aspect. It would be very easy to just add a ton of volts to ensure that the overclock remains stable, but the real demonstrator of the build quality of the Aria bundles comes from the 1.17v CPU vCore. This should hopefully help keep the temperatures in check if the i5-4670K takes after it’s bigger brother.
Temperatures
With a single-fan air cooler we’d have imagined the temperatures to be fairly huge, but the combination of a gently volted overclock and the i5-4670K proving a far cooler CPU than it’s bigger brother has meant that, even under heavy load testing, the temperature barely got towards 60°C.
