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The GTX Titan X owners thread.

Not really bud. I would be happier being 1 card lighter for 1440P but because a lot of games are API/CPU bottlenecked, 2 cards for 1440P is overkill. I will stick with it, as I am watching the Asus 4K monitor with interest and that will remove the bottleneck (or should do) or I could go 5960X or I could just wait it out and see what DX12 gives....

I should have stood by my original thoughts and got the one really but the devil on the shoulder beat the angel in that argument :D

One card looks lonely on its own though :) especially if you have been sli for a longtime :)
 
Not really bud. I would be happier being 1 card lighter for 1440P but because a lot of games are API/CPU bottlenecked, 2 cards for 1440P is overkill. I will stick with it, as I am watching the Asus 4K monitor with interest and that will remove the bottleneck (or should do) or I could go 5960X or I could just wait it out and see what DX12 gives....

I should have stood by my original thoughts and got the one really but the devil on the shoulder beat the angel in that argument :D

One more card and 4K Gsync :cool:

One card looks lonely on its own though :) especially if you have been sli for a longtime :)

Very lonely ;)
 
One card looks lonely on its own though :) especially if you have been sli for a longtime :)

LOL True that.... I did make a point of running the most intense games on max settings prior to taking out the 290X and it was slideshow city for some but the TX eats them for breakfast :D

2 for 1440P is a little overkill and especially if you are running G-Sync.

One more card and 4K Gsync :cool:

I will be watching your testing when you get the second for 4K Nick.
 
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Kapp, what's the 1080p heaven result with 4x?

Heavily bottlenecked I would imagine :D

I got about 5450 with the CPU @4.0 and no oc on the cards but it is a massive bottleneck.

If I overclocked the CPU the score would go over 6000+ but it is still a massive bottleneck, not even a LN2 cooled CPU would be fast enough.
 
LOL True that.... I did make a point of running the most intense games on max settings prior to taking out the 290X and it was slideshow city for some but the TX eats them for breakfast :D

2 for 1440P is a little overkill and especially if you are running G-Sync.

I might leave getting a 2nd then was heavily considering it, just upgraded to the 5960x though lol

I'm not convinced by 4k I had some issues with the Samsung and the asus screens ... And I love the swifts high refresh and g-sync 1440p is great for current gem games imo
 
I might leave getting a 2nd then was heavily considering it, just upgraded to the 5960x though lol

I'm not convinced by 4k I had some issues with the Samsung and the asus screens ... And I love the swifts high refresh and g-sync 1440p is great for current gem games imo

Yer, knowing what I know, I would stick with the 1 card and the swift and pretty much set for the next couple of years. In your case though, you have the CPU to cope better (so long as the game is optimised for more cores) and you might well see more from some of them...

Get a second and let me know :D
 
Yer, knowing what I know, I would stick with the 1 card and the swift and pretty much set for the next couple of years. In your case though, you have the CPU to cope better (so long as the game is optimised for more cores) and you might well see more from some of them...

Get a second and let me know :D
Lol don't think my bank account can handle the pressure for a while
 
Is the bottleneck the CPU speed or the number of PCIe lanes it provides? Do you have a i7-5960?

The PCI-E lanes are the same between the Sandy Bridge-E (3930K - 3960x etc) and the Haswell-E (5960x) 40 lanes total on PCI-E 3.0.

It's got more to do with the cores 6 vs 8 (12 vs 16 threads). The 3930K for example can get better single core performance (usually clocks higher) while the 5960X has more cores (albeit slower) unless you have a golden chip.
 
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Hello Kaapstad,

love table mountain :)

I have a very large panoramic shot taken from the table.

I play a lot of batlefield games and I have some TX's on order.

I have three swifts and will be playing in surround do you have any benches with bf4 or hardline to see if its worth getting a forth ?

Many thanks

love the sig

I have just had a quick go on the training ground with 2160p and 135% resolution scaling which is about the same pixels as three swifts. Everything maxed using about 11 million pixels I was averaging about 120 fps.

I tried playing a multiplayer game but kept getting kicked out, I don't think it liked the resolution I was using.
 
No problems here with three cards on 5960 @ 4.4 :)

I have used backplates with my blocks and I don't think it has made much difference to the memory performance, in the short time I have had it running the chips don't seem to be getting to hot.


I also found out that GPUTweak is again total crap with these cards, sometimes it forgets to set the memory overclock on all the cards. Afterburner is much better and works fine.
 
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