The GTX Titan X owners thread.

andrewohare · 29 Mar 2015 at 10:34

Gregster said:
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

One card looks lonely on its own though

especially if you have been sli for a longtime

africanos23 · 29 Mar 2015 at 10:36

Gregster said:
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

One more card and 4K Gsync :cool:

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

Very lonely

Gregster · 29 Mar 2015 at 10:36

andrewohare said:
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

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

africanos23 said:
One more card and 4K Gsync

I will be watching your testing when you get the second for 4K Nick.

Kaapstad · 29 Mar 2015 at 10:39

VincentHanna said:
Kapp, what's the 1080p heaven result with 4x?

Gregster said:
Heavily bottlenecked I would imagine

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.

andrewohare · 29 Mar 2015 at 10:40

Gregster said:
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

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

Gregster · 29 Mar 2015 at 10:43

andrewohare said:
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

andrewohare · 29 Mar 2015 at 10:45

Gregster said:
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

Lol don't think my bank account can handle the pressure for a while

Quartz · 29 Mar 2015 at 10:45

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

Is the bottleneck the CPU speed or the number of PCIe lanes it provides? Do you have a i7-5960?

Silent_Scone · 29 Mar 2015 at 10:47

No problems here with three cards on 5960 @ 4.4

snips86x · 29 Mar 2015 at 10:48

Gregster said:
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

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

Well I could be pursuaded if you decide to sell one

Gregster · 29 Mar 2015 at 10:53

snips86x said:
Well I could be pursuaded if you decide to sell one

Not going to happen.

africanos23 · 29 Mar 2015 at 11:00

Quartz said:
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.

Kaapstad · 29 Mar 2015 at 11:08

fatlenny said:
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.

Kaapstad · 29 Mar 2015 at 11:11

Quartz said:
Is the bottleneck the CPU speed or the number of PCIe lanes it provides? Do you have a i7-5960?

Yes to the 5960X

The 1080p CPU bottleneck is just down to the number of fps.

@2160p it is not a problem.

Kaapstad · 29 Mar 2015 at 11:16

Silent_Scone said:
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.

andrewohare · 29 Mar 2015 at 11:26

Precision x (steam version) seems to work well too

chroniclard · 29 Mar 2015 at 11:28

Still awaiting a competitor to the Swift!

chaparral · 29 Mar 2015 at 11:32

easyrider said:
To Gregster wife...how does it feel being 1700 quid lighter on the cards ? Happy ?

Fixed...

Kaapstad · 29 Mar 2015 at 11:42

4 x TitanX @1400/2002

5960X @4.5

1440p

Still bottlenecked.

africanos23 · 29 Mar 2015 at 11:45

Kaapstad said:
4 x TitanX @1400/2002

5960X @4.5

1440p

Still bottlenecked.

These cards really need to be paired+ and on a 4K monitor to shine...