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TRI SLI FERMI on Vantage

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hi folks,

had a quick benching session with a set of GTX 480 samples we have

gained some interesting results

heres a bit of a clock, nothing too special [around 4.2 on the 980X]

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this is 4.53GHz with a bit more on the cards, broke the 40K

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gained some impressive HWBOT scores


then there is this as everything topped out at 4.8GHz and the dominator GT at 2000+MHz

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hardware bot result
 
Minstadave said:
Got to go subzero to get much further.

Is that on water Rjkoneil?
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it was on water

admittedly we have not bothered with sub zero in this case. in all fairness the chip was a very poor overclocker and had an average memory controller.

it struggled to get the dominator GT at rated speed no matter what i did with it.

i must say, the board i used was excellent. especially given its price.

i will be taking advantage of the rampage III when i get a sample and going for a quad 480 run on a good 980. 40k in vantage is simply not good enough.
 
Need to treat yourselves to an EVGA SR-2 and dual CPUs.

It's amazing how overclocking was once dabbling with cheap processors on a flakey motherboard. Now if you want to roll with the big boys its a grand a piece for CPUs, 2k on GPUs and the rest. It's really lost some of the fun.
 
Minstadave said:
Need to treat yourselves to an EVGA SR-2 and dual CPUs.

It's amazing how overclocking was once dabbling with cheap processors on a flakey motherboard. Now if you want to roll with the big boys its a grand a piece for CPUs, 2k on GPUs and the rest. It's really lost some of the fun.
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i would like an SR2
but EVGA stock is very scarce at the moment.

either way, i agree with your comment. of course i am lucky enough to be able to test samples in this way. competing in high end overclocking is a very silly endeavour on your own, the guys with the big scores get all of their equipment for free. a 40k vantage score is not worth the £3000 price tag at all. i still prefer making clarkdales and thubans go fast :D

johny dolan said:
Just to let you know quad sli is not possible with the ASUS Rampage III Extreme if you were thinking of trying.
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i am thinking of trying that. there will be some results for you soon hopefully
 
hmm this has got me thinking, i had a benchmark but forgot to bookmark it but anyways without physx what would say a 4.0GHZ i7 score in the cpu bit? 25k?

i ask as i have this thing where all future upgrades are now going to be cost effective and rely on a good CPU to power 2-3 years of graphics cards and upgrades, if the 980x @ 4.0GHZ is scoring 40k, a well balanced system without bottlenecks would probably have matching scores of 40k in each section (GPU+CPU) like he did?

and if that monster is bottlenecking 3 way sli fermi's it gives an idea of how many years down the line ill run into a cpu bottleneck surely? if 3 is a bottleneck then whats the optimal 2x fermi's?

sli fermi would give an indication of whats going to come out a year down the line (fermi II ) so thats 1 year off 2 years with moores law would be about the perfomance as 3 way sli fermi, perhaps more so the 980x might not cut it for that long?


confused tbh
 
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