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***Haswell -E Owners Thread***

So it would appear the missing lanes do cause issues. I would surmise ATM that those issues mostly arise when you step to 4k. However, the irony is that the 5820k is pretty much a 4k CPU, yet there isn't a single card powerful enough yet to run 4k games smoothly. Not sure how the 295X2 would do though?
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-5960x-haswell-e-cpu,3918-6.html

I think this shows that at least up to 1440p it certainly makes no difference with the missing lanes and I cannot find a single review that gives us a 2-wawy sli set-up and the 5830k @ 4k res for gaming to see anything that shows the extra lanes are needed.

4k and 3 way sli, yes I could see the need for the lanes though. Have you seen something else that suggests there is a big difference? Or just off the back of that one statement?
 
Gazb said:
Is the 28 PCIe lanes not likely to become an issue when you start adding in 1 or 2 fast PCIe SSDs (like Intels recent ones) along with 1 or 2 GPU's?
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I just asked the same question (well similar!) on this thread here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=26843094#post26843094

also asked here:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18601792&page=39

Bit confusing imo but check the first link it appears to be a motherboard thing, am still not 100% clear on it but from the review posted on the first link they showed the z97 M2 x4 SSD performing pretty similar but the x99 had better speeds due to more bandwith so the M2 x4 SSD performed better.

Not by a hugh margin but certainly like the review suggested if they release a PCI express addon card with 4x M2 sockets to make use out of the pci bandwith am sure it would suck it all right up.

Not that the casual PC user would require or notice it !
 
Curlyriff said:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-5960x-haswell-e-cpu,3918-6.html

I think this shows that at least up to 1440p it certainly makes no difference with the missing lanes and I cannot find a single review that gives us a 2-wawy sli set-up and the 5830k @ 4k res for gaming to see anything that shows the extra lanes are needed.

4k and 3 way sli, yes I could see the need for the lanes though. Have you seen something else that suggests there is a big difference? Or just off the back of that one statement?
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They only used one GPU. Two GPUs mean X16 X8 which does affect performance. It's around 5% at 1080p, but no one knows if it will have the same effect on 4k.

The only way to saturate the lanes is with data. The higher the resolution the more data you are throwing around.

Ed. As for the statement? I can only go on what I read. Bit tech say for more than one GPU go with the 5930k and Anand say that it's fine with two 770s @ 1080p. However, do note that both have pointed out 1080p and are not committing themselves to saying the same about 4k.
 
Tech power up looked at pci-e scaling back when the pci-e 3.0 spec launched. They showed that frame rate rather than resolution caused the biggest difference in scaling so expect less difference at 4k not more.

They also showed that 3.0 x16 to x4 was <5% hit in fps on a 680 or 7970. So I'd say you'd need to sli/xfire cards twice as powerful as these to notice at 3.0 x8/x8 speeds. Today that means 7990, 295x or titan z. If you're dualing cards like this then you surely don't care about the £150 difference between a 5820k and 5930k anyways?
 
DavieJG said:
Tech power up looked at pci-e scaling back when the pci-e 3.0 spec launched. They showed that frame rate rather than resolution caused the biggest difference in scaling so expect less difference at 4k not more.
They also showed that 3.0 x16 to x4 was <5% hit in fps on a 680 or 7970. So I'd say you'd need to sli/xfire cards twice as powerful as these to notice at 3.0 x8/x8 speeds. Today that means 7990, 295x or titan z. If you're dualing cards like this then you surely don't care about the £150 difference between a 5820k and 5930k anyways?
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That would make sense as once the data is in vRAM no need to throw it around PCIe, but more fps will lead to more frames being sent to the gpus.
Although AMD's new bridge-less crossfire will add more to the data being transferred over PCIe. Be interesting to see the effect if they or others retest.
 
Come on people I need some more persuasion as I'm still leaning toward keeping my X79 setup and just doing a graphics upgrade. Reading the reviews I'm not convinced that I'll gain a lot over my 3930@5Ghz.

I'm running 7920x1440 so looking for an upgrade path from TriSli 670 4GB's and was thinking of going the whole hog and replacing it all but not convinced yet :(
 
Is any of you guys using MSI x99s sli plus mobo?
Any opinions?
I've read reviews and they are good.
I jumped the gun and bought it, hope it's a good board.
So, opinions?
 
For gaming stick with what you have, there aren't any games that will take advantage of 6/8 cores properly yet

See this an i7 4790k performs the same in current games at 1080p and 1440
 
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elrasho said:
For gaming stick with what you have, there aren't any games that will take advantage of 6/8 cores properly yet

See this an i7 4790k performs the same in current games at 1080p and 1440
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Lol GPU limited much, no FPS gains over several CPU's standard and overclocked, some people really do believe what they want to believe.
 
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Just finished getting new system setup. MSI X99S SLi Plus, 5930k and Crucial PC4-17000C16. Impressions so far are good. Have clocked to 4 ghz with relative ease. Temperatures are oddly low. I am pretty sure that all the sensors are reporting correct. Perhaps I haven't pushed it hard enough..

What would be a "safe" voltage for 24/7 usage? I see someone pushed theirs to 1.4v volts on some pretty heavy duty water cooling. I have mine at 1.15v at the moment which is on a pretty basic WC loop, with the temps following a stress as follows...

http://i57.tinypic.com/fbyop0.jpg

Image is too wide, use spoiler tags if it's over 1280X wide.

I will push the vcore higher :)
 
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