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EVGA and K|NGP|N Break New World Record with First True 2GHz on GTX 780 Ti

It must be just me that finds these LN2 cooled CPU/GPU benchmarks utterly pointless.

If they were achievable under air or water fine.

Is their a point to them at all, apart from manufacturer e-peen?
 
It's just about seeing how far you can push hardware really. Obviously the means in which its achieved isn't practical but that's not the CPU/GPUs/RAMs fault :p. There's just not the technology in place to super cool components 24/7 sensibly :D

I get why you'd think that though, it is very much a case of "look what numbers I made".

Yeah? Now go and play a game for half hour with it :D
 
Kelt said:
It must be just me that finds these LN2 cooled CPU/GPU benchmarks utterly pointless.

If they were achievable under air or water fine.

Is their a point to them at all, apart from manufacturer e-peen?
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I understand what you are saying but to me it is like watching racing and then saying, "this is pointless as you can't drive like that on the roads". The gamer in me, I don't bother overclocking but the bencher in me loves to push my hardware as far as possible without breaking it.
 
You don't pull over in the middle of a track to top up the LN2 vat every few seconds :D

That said like I say it's still all about pushing the hardware but there is a little element of 'why' to me lol
 
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Motor racing has had lots of benefits for normal road use over the years.

I think if a benchmark lasted a couple of hours like a motor race does there would be a lot more benefits for graphics cards developed. A 2 hour long benchmark would make it difficult to use LN2 but then it would encourage the use of cooling solutions that people could use 24/7.

A very long benchmark would also put the emphasis on reliability again with benefits for the end user.

It would be nice if HWBot had a competition for the above with real prestige for manufacturers who did well.
 
MjFrosty said:
There's just not the technology in place to super cool components 24/7 sensibly :D
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The technology is there, plenty of engineering applications need constant cooling at very low temperatures. It would add many tens of thousands of quid to the cost of the card though!
 
Kaapstad said:
Motor racing has had lots of benefits for normal road use over the years.
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So has extreme OCing considering that the flagship enthusiast products of GPU/mobo manufacturers are quite often designed in collaboration with the best extreme OCers in the world. Some of the popular features on asus mobos for example are originally there due to being developed for LN2 use.

Without LN2 guys you would never have gotten gigabyte OC series, MSI lightnings, modern EVGA classified cards, some of the most legendary EVGA mobos such as the SR-2 etc.
 
Can anyone translate that 2GHz means for 780Ti? For example how much faster it is than a stock 780ti in, say, 3dmark. Cheers
 
If companies would just go with giving us bigger heatsinks and thicker/bigger fans we'd see much better air cooling. I really don't understand why more companies don't shove an extra inch onto their existing designs and release it for people who don't want to run CF/SLI :/
 
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