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Intel 980x

970 expected 3rd Quarter of this year which I think will have a 24x max multi as its 3.2ghz @ stock

EDIT: Its what I'm also waiting on :)
 
Cheers for the update. Won't it be pretty expensive, £400 ?

Its where you make the jump, ummm. Just building my new watercooled rig so it would be nice to do it now. But may be I should just wait and go Rampage 3 when the 970 comes out.
 
Been reported the 970 will be around 500 Quid, i hope not as i want this chip as well.. but that price is a Tad high.
 
Any body had problems with throttling on the 980x?

Looks like most of the Asus boards throttle at high overclocks. Last thing I want is issues with the chip. May be time to buy a RE3 too :D
 
the 980x throttles on asus boards because people who complain about it on the internet obviously have very little knowledge of how to set up a bios.

if they had read their motherboard manuals they would be aware that the asus boards have lots of thermal protection features. by turning these off the chip will not throttle.

gulftowns run cool anyway and generally require no more voltage than bloomfield chip to overclock to the same speeds.

if you have high end air or good watercooling you can overclock the chip with the thermal protects enabled and still not see throttling.

the rampage III is still very hit and miss. out of every three good ones i see one bad one. asus need to get the bios on this motherboard in order immediatly.
 
rjkoneill said:
if they had read their motherboard manuals they would be aware that the asus boards have lots of thermal protection features. by turning these off the chip will not throttle.
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Interesting. A few people on XS running under water with good temps have reported throttling.

Just trying to pickup a good batch at the moment. Just want a low voltage 4.4 G for 24/7 use under water.
 
rjkoneill said:
tbh asgard, every 980x i have seen so far will do 4.4

you are looking at around 1.35v max
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Always better if you can to get a known decent batch especially when your paying this sort of money.

3003 A/B seem a good batch. Got the option on 3005F213 3013A562. The 3005F seems good on ln2 but needs more volts so not so good for me.
 
If you need that kinda power now... buy now. If you can afford to wait... wait. :) The future will always bring advances so you can get double the power and speed for half the money, but it just depends if you can wait? :)
 
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Stickman said:
If you need that kinda power now... buy now. If you can afford to wait... wait. :) The future will always bring advances so you can get double the power and speed for half the money, but it just depends if you can wait? :)
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Just spent an additional £600 on water gear. Pretty much no expense spared so adding the processor just finishes the job. It's mainly going to be used for software development and the CPU makes a big difference to build time. I'm on SSD so I'm maxed there. If it increases productivity and reduces frustration then I don't mind spending the money for the company :D
 
The Asgard said:
Just spent an additional £600 on water gear. Pretty much no expense spared so adding the processor just finishes the job. It's mainly going to be used for software development and the CPU makes a big difference to build time. I'm on SSD so I'm maxed there. If it increases productivity and reduces frustration then I don't mind spending the money for the company :D
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surely a dual cpu setup would have been a smarter move if you are gunning for out and out power, money being no object?
 
james.miller said:
surely a dual cpu setup would have been a smarter move if you are gunning for out and out power, money being no object?
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I wouldn't say money no object but I would like an efficient, fast and key, quiet system. Dual CPU would kill the quiet side of the system although the 95 watt xeon do look interesting.
 
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