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Has anyone gone x99 ?
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Yep, and those you can get have risen in price. I have a p6 x58 de. Terrible board for sli. I daren't test my 780's in it as they will cook. Spacing is too tight. Heck its poor on the uber expensive Z87 board in my sig.X58 mobos are like rocking horse *****
I need to sell the 12 gb patriot viper first....mate..
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Maybe, I ran MSI 970 SLi on a Silverstone Strider 650w Gold with the sys in my sig no problem (but I thought even I may have been on the edge...)
Lol, if you do let me know what its like. Tbh mate I have considered it. Bit not really worthwhile coming from a 4.7ghz 4790k. I'll only ever do dual sli, don't encode video a lot. Bit if blu ray conversion which the current chip copes ok with. Sure it might clock higher, possibly 4.9 but theres a temp trade off on haswell. They run extremely hot under any high oc with certain programs.
If I sell my ram in MM I'll get 3 sticks of 4gb ...flash the P6T SE with a P6T bios
to allow sli....if that all goes well....I'll consider sli when I upgrade my monitor in March...I'm sort of attached to this x58 system...lol
Might get three of these http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-024-TG&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1180
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Whilst i still use my x58 setup, but its only for light gaming, video work that i do overnight as i dont like leaving the spec in sig running for long periods unwatched, (haswell runs very very hot). Unscalped this chip will hit mid 90's on p95, encoding h264 would be pretty high too. Haswell is factory gimped, poor quality powder paste below the ihs compared to proper soldered chips. Delid and your into a whole new ball game of very high cpu, cache and ram oc's. But warranty on the cpu is gone.
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Proof please. With a 2 card setup a 5820K will push a pair of 970s a lot better than a 5680
2 card sli gaming, your probably not gonna notice a big difference over a 4790k, a 5820k or any modern AMD cpu. If overclocking is your thing and you like to tweak a cpu and ram. Go for the 4790k on a good Z97 board.
ive gone from
i7 3770k @ 4.8
16GB DDR3 1600mhz
MSI MPOWER z77
2x 980GTX's 1x 16 1x 8
Few 128GB SSD's
HX850W
ROG SWIFT
To
i7 5930K @ stock
ASUS x99 WS-E
32GB 2400mhz TeamGroup
2x 980GTX's (both running at 16x)
2x 128GB 1x 250GB SSD 1x 1TB SSD
1300w Superflower PSU
ROG SWIFT
not much FPS difference but it does mean i can run stock 5930 & get the same fps as running i7 3770k @ 4.8 ghz & running mutiple games seems smoother
i7 3770k @ 4.8
16GB DDR3 1600mhz
MSI MPOWER z77
2x 980GTX's 1x 16 1x 8
Few 128GB SSD's
HX850W
ROG SWIFT
To
i7 5930K @ stock
ASUS x99 WS-E
32GB 2400mhz TeamGroup
2x 980GTX's (both running at 16x)
2x 128GB 1x 250GB SSD 1x 1TB SSD
1300w Superflower PSU
ROG SWIFT
not much FPS difference but it does mean i can run stock 5930 & get the same fps as running i7 3770k @ 4.8 ghz & running mutiple games seems smoother
I'm not convinced it would be a huge a difference...
We need a test to take place...
Both run the same bench mark?
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I'm not convinced it would be a huge a difference...
We need a test to take place...
Both run the same bench mark?
I'm not convinced either. Not one bit. Its all crock of ****.
Once your at 1440p and beyond its all about GPU grunt.
An overclocked Xeon is more than enough.
Plus with DX12 around the corner having more CPU power will be even more irrelevant.
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While saying things like that is fine I'd like to see some definitive benchmarks to really back up that claim. While a 5680 at 4.5-4.6 is fine for a single gpu in a multigpu setup its going to fall behind to the 5820K even at 4K.
Reason I say this because I was running an SR-2 setup before jumping to the 5820K and I can notice a huge difference especially in Min fps over a pair of 5680's at 4.6Ghz
I used to run Quad SLI (two 295 single PCB) on a 625w Enermax Modu II with a E4500 running 3.4ghz and saw no ills.
The 970 uses less power than one of the 295 cores and I was running four of them lol.
If it's a good PSU you will have no issues IMO. All good PSUs output far more than stated any way.
I wouldn't have risked it, but, found a review on Guru3D where they loaded up the same PSU with the same GPUs only running a Quad Extreme and it was fine.
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must have been something serioulsy wrong with your previous setup then.
I'm running a single [email protected] with a pair of 7970's (gfx not overclocked) and my min frames per sec is very good, I play mostly BF4 smooth as silk at 1440p ultra settings. 100-150+fps.
Roll on 390X.
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390x will be further limited by the PCIEV2 on your motherboard, since it doesn't support PCI-E v3.
Is the bandwidth even saturated yet? I'm running a gtx 970 in a pcie 2 slot with no loss in performance
I run SLI Titan Black on PCIE2 and I see no difference when compared to other rigs running the same on PCIE3.
It's really, truly, not something to worry about. If you were going three way or quad? then sure, I would at least think about it.
X58 spec is almost as good as my X79. It's only really missing SATA 3 and PCIE3. But, my Titan Blacks won't allow the PCIE3 hack to work any way so I'm stuck on 2.