unsure what to buy next for full system potential

supermotolew

supermotolew

supermotolew

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so I built my new rig a little while ago and I am hooked on chasing benchmarking points and cranking up applications and awesome looking rigs.
I would like some direction on what to focus on next non graphics card related I pretty much have my heart set on the new r295x2 and a 1000watt psu maybe I have more money then sense but building epic computers over clockers UK is about .

the rest of the system currently is
i7 4820 @ 4.5Ghz
16Gig of g.skill 2400 ram @2400 with xmp
rampage iv black edition
2T hybrid drive
h100I cooler ( but im currently saving parts to run 2 loops one for bridge and Mosfets and a larger one for the CPU )

im thinking the next restriction with that card will be my slow hybrid drive im already seeing signs of that being my current bottleneck with my OC 280x
I like the look of the 1T Samsung SSD
 
Bit of bling bling? An SSD (MX100/Samsung Evo), new case perhaps, braided cables, some LEDs? :)
 
all bling blinged up ! braided lines and a open bench case .
I guess what im really asking is if I buy a epic card what will I need to keep the rest of the system up to scratch its an expensive card and Its counter productive to let the rest flag behind.
 
stulid said:
Nvidia new GTX880 is out in September, maybe buy a pair.
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Good idea

Either way, I'd take two watercooled R9 290(X)s over an R9 295x2, but the single card design may sway it for others, I can see both sides of the argument tbh
 
I would say an SSD first, though for benching I doubt that will make as much of a difference as a new 4930k/4960X obviously - would make everything more snappy though!
 
yeah my work lappy has a ssd and it boots so much faster my desktop feels slow to boot it spends most of its time on the ROG pre windows don't think a ssd will help that much gonna play in the bios tonight and try to speed it up by removing usb boot devices and the such .
 
supermotolew said:
yeah my work lappy has a ssd and it boots so much faster my desktop feels slow to boot it spends most of its time on the ROG pre windows don't think a ssd will help that much gonna play in the bios tonight and try to speed it up by removing usb boot devices and the such .
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It really is a hard one as you do have a great system spec it seems.

What benches do you run?
 
I think I read a post somewhere saying the rampage iv boards can be slow to get to the boot loader then from there its only 30-40 seconds or so till I can se the OS.

real bench , 3d mark , and prime 95 these are just the ones recommended to me by a friend so that's what I went with
 
supermotolew said:
I think I read a post somewhere saying the rampage iv boards can be slow to get to the boot loader then from there its only 30-40 seconds or so till I can se the OS.

real bench , 3d mark , and prime 95 these are just the ones recommended to me by a friend so that's what I went with
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There may be a 'Fast Boot' option, you may want to enable that. It stops USB initialisation so the devices don't get run through until your OS starts. Also there will be a disable logo etc option which will stop the 'ROG' logo coming up in favour of a simpler screen (just some text at the top and bottom). These should be accessible in the BIOS

Can you bench on Prime95? Never knew that... never seen anyone do it either!

I believe 3DMark can make use of all cores available, so you might want to jump ship to a 4930k?
 
Can you bench on Prime95? Never knew that... never seen anyone do it either!

I believe 3DMark can make use of all cores available, so you might want to jump ship to a 4930k?[/QUOTE]

no I use that more for stress testing but I think from memory there is a process timer ?
 
Image editing 497,
encoding 494 ,
multitasking 666,
system score is 552.

How can I get these numbers up they seem a shy low realbench version is 1.1 not the new one ill try that later.
 
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