Oops - didn't realise I should have used Shanghai
I'm probs at a bit of a disadvantage as you both have six cores.
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780 x 2 possible with this PC?
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I'm probs at a bit of a disadvantage as you both have six cores.
Sorry keep thinking you're on the main rig. Force of habit old boy.
That's still in pieces
Proof or it didn't happen
I'll never get good gpu usage on metro regardless of API because of the engine limit at 200fps. Nonetheless Mantle still manage to provide a more consistent experience and better usage even though i was forever bouncing off the 200 fps limit.
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The big spike drops on both DX and Mantle are me taking screenshots using the ingame command btw.
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Oops - didn't realise I should have used Shanghai
Proof or it didn't happen
Just had to nip out. Will give it another test in a bit. Give Shanghia a quick test and let me know what's the lowest usage you dip down to.
Just had to nip out. Will give it another test in a bit. Give Shanghia a quick test and let me know what's the lowest usage you dip down to.
Just did
Similar to you - low 60's
Just had to nip out. Will give it another test in a bit. Give Shanghia a quick test and let me know what's the lowest usage you dip down to.
Just did
Similar to you - low 60's
Told ya.
You both need yourself some mantle.
Indeed. If a six core beast like Gee's cpu is troubled, and well clocked i7's like mine and scotts get troubled, then a older gen i7 is going to struggle even more. In Angst's defence though, i believe the issue more reflects how poor DX is, rather than how poor the i7 cpu is. Sure the cpu is old and will hold back 780's, but if the API was better it would not be half as bad as it is.
I will be building a all new haswell-E rig next year But atm my i7 960 is at 4.4 turbo's to 4.6 or so ,have had it to 5ghz but then my old H50 cant cope 
One 780 is fine but have been toying adding another while i wait for new gen cards and haswell-e at say 4.6GHZ or even 5ghz if i want to change cooler how much of a bottleneck would my old x58 system be still?
One 780 is fine but have been toying adding another while i wait for new gen cards and haswell-e at say 4.6GHZ or even 5ghz if i want to change cooler how much of a bottleneck would my old x58 system be still?
I will be building a all new haswell-E rig next year But atm my i7 960 is at 4.4 turbo's to 4.6 or so ,have had it to 5ghz but then my old H50 cant cope
One 780 is fine but have been toying adding another while i wait for new gen cards and haswell-e at say 4.6GHZ or even 5ghz if i want to change cooler how much of a bottleneck would my old x58 system be still?
If you are going to do it, run max settings to keep the fps down and even a bit of resolution scaling if needed. The lower the fps are the less work the CPU has to do and the more work remains on the GPUs.
All this bottleneck stuff confuses me, so to make sure... since im looking to upgrade my GPU from a 7950 to either a 780 or a 290, will my 2500k I5 at 4.5ghz bottleneck either of those cards? or am i fine as long as i dont get 2 and crossfire/sli?
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As a single card, any of those cards will be fine.
IMO people yell bottleneck a bit too fast !
I ran 3x580 with Ci7 870, 3x 670 with Ci7 3820/3930K all stock clocks and that at 1920x1200 in the beginning and I still got great scaling and very good boosts - running with 16x or 32xQCSAA has been a bless.
Now going to 2560x1440 on my own PB278Q the 3x 670 and now 3x 780 really show their worth and the scaling is even better in higher res'. I'm still running stock speed and yes I could get more performance with OC'ing - you always can !
Bottleneck or not I'm still getting stellar performance with 3x 780 and a stock clocked 3930k and I'm very happy with that.
My advice is don't listen too much to all those bottleneck answers because you will always hear them and no matter how powerful setup you put together there's always some kind of bottleneck to find.
I've been running SLi setups permanently since 2006 and only one setup I had extremely overclocked (AMD 64 X2 4600+ [email protected] on Corsair Nautilus 500 H2O, MSI GeForce 7900GTO SLI@Voltmodded core 872MHz, Mem 1020MHz) to "overcome bottlenecks", but hereafter I've been only running stock clocks because I still feel I get great performance. All the time (endless stability testing) and effort (also read money) I put into the extreme OC'ing didn't really make games run "better" than with stock clocks, they just ran faster.
With a good amount of GPU grunt you can always turn on the additional eye candy that the driver allows or via SweetFX. Higher levels of AA or combined AA models make jaggies a thing of the past... and I really don't like jaggies !.
I ran 3x580 with Ci7 870, 3x 670 with Ci7 3820/3930K all stock clocks and that at 1920x1200 in the beginning and I still got great scaling and very good boosts - running with 16x or 32xQCSAA has been a bless.
Now going to 2560x1440 on my own PB278Q the 3x 670 and now 3x 780 really show their worth and the scaling is even better in higher res'. I'm still running stock speed and yes I could get more performance with OC'ing - you always can !
Bottleneck or not I'm still getting stellar performance with 3x 780 and a stock clocked 3930k and I'm very happy with that.
My advice is don't listen too much to all those bottleneck answers because you will always hear them and no matter how powerful setup you put together there's always some kind of bottleneck to find.
I've been running SLi setups permanently since 2006 and only one setup I had extremely overclocked (AMD 64 X2 4600+ [email protected] on Corsair Nautilus 500 H2O, MSI GeForce 7900GTO SLI@Voltmodded core 872MHz, Mem 1020MHz) to "overcome bottlenecks", but hereafter I've been only running stock clocks because I still feel I get great performance. All the time (endless stability testing) and effort (also read money) I put into the extreme OC'ing didn't really make games run "better" than with stock clocks, they just ran faster.
With a good amount of GPU grunt you can always turn on the additional eye candy that the driver allows or via SweetFX. Higher levels of AA or combined AA models make jaggies a thing of the past... and I really don't like jaggies !.
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IMO people yell bottleneck a bit too fast !
I ran 3x580 with Ci7 870, 3x 670 with Ci7 3820/3930K all stock clocks and that at 1920x1200 in the beginning and I still got great scaling and very good boosts - running with 16x or 32xQCSAA has been a bless.
Now going to 2560x1440 on my own PB278Q the 3x 670 and now 3x 780 really show their worth and the scaling is even better in higher res'. I'm still running stock speed and yes I could get more performance with OC'ing - you always can !
Bottleneck or not I'm still getting stellar performance with 3x 780 and a stock clocked 3930k and I'm very happy with that.
My advice is don't listen too much to all those bottleneck answers because you will always hear them and no matter how powerful setup you put together there's always some kind of bottleneck to find.
I've been running SLi setups permanently since 2006 and only one setup I had extremely overclocked (AMD 64 X2 4600+ [email protected] on Corsair Nautilus 500 H2O, MSI GeForce 7900GTO SLI@Voltmodded core 872MHz, Mem 1020MHz) to "overcome bottlenecks", but hereafter I've been only running stock clocks because I still feel I get great performance. All the time (endless stability testing) and effort (also read money) I put into the extreme OC'ing didn't really make games run "better" than with stock clocks, they just ran faster.
With a good amount of GPU grunt you can always turn on the additional eye candy that the driver allows or via SweetFX. Higher levels of AA or combined AA models make jaggies a thing of the past... and I really don't like jaggies !.
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