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**Official 3D Mark 11 scores**

Nvidia Titan @ 1175mhz core 1563mhz memory.

3930K @ 4.6Ghz

Score P14817

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6150376

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If I am honest, I have not even been looking at IVY-E but will be giving it a peruse. If Nvidia are pushing 3 way Titans as much as they were sending them out to reviewers, this could interest me at a much later date and I imagine needing a stronger clocked CPU to push them.
 
Gregster said:
If I am honest, I have not even been looking at IVY-E but will be giving it a peruse. If Nvidia are pushing 3 way Titans as much as they were sending them out to reviewers, this could interest me at a much later date and I imagine needing a stronger clocked CPU to push them.
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For gaming 4.0ghz is enough, but then there is benching.......
 
Gregster said:
This is very true though. I enjoy benching but primarily I enjoy gaming. Not sure I would chuff up £800+ for a CPU just for bench results.... Then again... :)
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The CPU to get for benching when it hits the shelves is the 8 core SB-E providing it can reach good overclocks like the hex cores.

I don't think IB-E if it ever gets launched will offer much over the SB-E hex cores.

For gaming I find if I max the settings 4.0ghz is plenty, even if I find a game that does get bottlenecked at that speed the FPS are going to be so high it really does not matter.
 
You need to try games like Hitman. The more I pumped the CPU clocks, the higher the frame rates. This was at 5760x1080 and not sure if the same is evident at lower resolutions.

It was good for 4.6Ghz and any higher didn't make any difference but lower and it did.
 
Gregster said:
You need to try games like Hitman. The more I pumped the CPU clocks, the higher the frame rates. This was at 5760x1080 and not sure if the same is evident at lower resolutions.

It was good for 4.6Ghz and any higher didn't make any difference but lower and it did.
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I have just been looking at Hitman (I got it free with my HD 7970s) and was maxing out all the settings and, oh bugger now I am in trouble its got a benchmark.:D

So I ran these with everything maxed @2560 x 1600

CPU @4.0 3 x Titans @stock
Min 52.52, max 95.33, avg 72.54

CPU @4.9 3 x Titans @stock
Min 52.52, max 103.11, avg 77.35

So by ocing the CPU I got a bump in the average and a bigger bump in the max.

I don't know anything about Hitman are these figures ok.
 
Just poked my head in here to check how the Titans are doing..... You guys are sick and wrong.

Kaapstad said:
The CPU to get for benching when it hits the shelves is the 8 core SB-E providing it can reach good overclocks like the hex cores.

I don't think IB-E if it ever gets launched will offer much over the SB-E hex cores.

For gaming I find if I max the settings 4.0ghz is plenty, even if I find a game that does get bottlenecked at that speed the FPS are going to be so high it really does not matter.
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The thing it will offer is a kick-ass IMC, that's the main thing i'm looking forward too. On top of that, probably 5-10% better clock for clock than the SB-E.

Most probably no unlocked 8-cores though, like SB-E.
 
Kaapstad said:
I have just been looking at Hitman (I got it free with my HD 7970s) and was maxing out all the settings and, oh bugger now I am in trouble its got a benchmark.:D

So I ran these with everything maxed @2560 x 1600

CPU @4.0 3 x Titans @stock
Min 52.52, max 95.33, avg 72.54

CPU @4.9 3 x Titans @stock
Min 52.52, max 103.11, avg 77.35

So by ocing the CPU I got a bump in the average and a bigger bump in the max.

I don't know anything about Hitman are these figures ok.
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Those results sound terrible tbh mate

I think it's time you looked at an upgrade :d

:P
 
{SAS}TB said:
Those results sound terrible tbh mate

I think it's time you looked at an upgrade :d

:P
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I am, in a couple of weeks I should have the 4th card up and running.:p

Heres a useless bench I did the other day running minesweeper, 2 x GTX 690s 31fps, 3 x Titans 30fps.

So if you want to max minesweeper the 690s have it.:D
 
Rossi~ said:
Most probably no unlocked 8-cores though, like SB-E.
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Sandy-E processors are spun as 8 core (for Xeons) but have 2 cores disabled for desktop... Ivy-E is going to be 12 core Xeon... I would be very surprised if they DIDN'T do an 8 core desktop part... in fact there is supposed to be an unlocked 8 core Sandy-E coming out in the next couple of months, with Ivy-E in Q3
 
Missed the Core i7-3980X in the news apparently.

Quite shocked that they're going to unlock those 2 cores for consumer, i suppose it will come at quite a cost (£1000+) as per tradition.

I assume then that IvyBridge-E will have the 8-Core X chip on release. But would put money on the standard range being 6 core max.
 
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