The last poster wins

[slayerpaul]

:dance:

[Thor.]

 

now that's a big heat sink, still not as big as a corsair h80

Which reminds me, how low does the water-cooling system keeps the FX 8350's temperature under load? I found a Corsair H100i for some 50$ so I'm wondering if there's any gain by going the liquid-cooling way. :unsure:

 

And do you by any chance know what is the stock voltage for the FX 8350? I'm pushing the 8320 to 4.4GHz (8350s Turbo) and it appears stable at x22 multiplier, but I wish to check if the voltage is the same (1.32V), just to be on the safe side. :smile:

 

And funny thing, the more I overclock it without overvolting, the less it heats up, it's now sitting on 4.4GHz at 40^oC max, compared to 42^oC at 4GHz. Raising the multiplier by one reduces the temperature by one, mind-boggling. :blink:

 

 

 

EDIT: Hmm, three hours and I still win, where is everybody? :ermm:

 

Well on idle it sits around 24c, on heavy load around 42c. i have it on stock turbo around 4.30ghz even then its stays stable at that temperature, wattage is 125 without overclock.

I load crysis 2 in 3 seconds on my ssd.

 

I feel like getting a nvidia card now is kind of pointless when seeing the disappointing fps in crysis 2 vs titan. Sigh i get around nearly 200fps at times, never goes below 100fps ever, even when there is stuff happening, i almost feel like getting crysis 3 for to see what fps i would get then. I played around with the the beta and the fps was similar. Tessellation the radeons really do shine.

 

Forgot to mention thats maxed out with the texture packs and enhanced ini settings. It still refuses to dip below 100fps.

Edited October 12, 2013 by Thor.

[BlackRampage]

It still refuses to dip below 100fps.

 

What do you use as a monitor then?

[Thor.]

I do it for the benchmark, i still play it with v,sync.

[Iv000]

http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/aVOY0dw_700b.jpg

 

I'm heaving a career crisis here, because I am most of both of these.

 

And it's well known that it's almost impossible to be both a designer and a developer.

 

Oh god I feel like my life's at stake here I love doing both t-t Buddah help me find the light.

 

(Seriously though I'm debating this for years and years and still haven't made up my mind fully.)

Edited October 12, 2013 by Iv000

[Thor.]

Google officially has a quantum computer.

 

 

 

found here

http://www.dailytech.com/Google+Uses+Quantum+Computers+to+Optimize+Android+Plots+World+Domination/article33536.htm

 

We are officially in the quantum computing era.

Edited October 13, 2013 by Thor.

[billyro]

Where has everyone been? Thor has been winning for over 7 hours!

[Thor.]

sad fact, its not far i tell you :sad:

 

hmm i was doing some research on the gtx780 on a pci e2 motherboard,and they say the results are near identical to the I7 when placed with a overclocked amd 8350 like mine. Curious and the fps has improved over the last benchmarks i have witnessed on youtube oddly enough.

 

i am 70% almost convinced i will buy a gtx780 or ultra if they come out before Christmas. And some enb benchmarks with skyrim and so on vs the 7950 has a dramatic fps difference with the same setup.

 

Any amd board is pci e 2.0 so that's good start to see what the difference is compared to a Intel board with pci e 3.0.

Skyrim and valley benchmarks where none biased which was a great idea. The titan also won with valley as well vs amd's radeon which i own at max tessellation.

 

compared to the radeon 7950 the valley scored around 170fps maxed out tessellation vs the radeon maxed out tessellation. about a 80fps difference.

 

people say they have a fps higher increase with Intel is because they have monopoly over the pci e 3.0, which has a higher bandwidth then amd stuck at 2.0, sad fact but true.

so the benchmarks between the I7 and the amd 8350 is biased because of that one sad fact when gaming benchmarks with cpu's. it should be solely number crunching.

Edited October 13, 2013 by Thor.

[BlackRampage]

Bump

[Werne]

Well on idle it sits around 24c, on heavy load around 42c. i have it on stock turbo around 4.30ghz even then its stays stable at that temperature

Then you either have the stock 1.35V VCore or you overvolted, I undervolted on 4.4GHz, stock voltage is 1.344V and I had it on 1.294V stable, 39.1^oC peak temperature on air cooling. Had to turn the voltage back to stock when I hit 4.6GHz though. With both CPU and graphics at 100% load it goes up to 42.7^oC and I only have one system fan (Arctic Cooling F9 Pro) that spins at 1600RPM and pushes air out of the case.

 

Any amd board is pci e 2.0 so that's good start to see what the difference is compared to a Intel board with pci e 3.0.

None of the today's cards will gain much, if anything at all from the PCI-E 3.0, and that's been proven a bunch of times. PCI-E only has increased bandwidth (on x16 that's 16GB/s vs 32GB/s) but unless you intend to use 16384x16384 textures or bigger on everything, the card will not be bottlenecked by reduced bandwidth. And by the time it gets bottlenecked by PCI-E 2.0, you'll need a new PC anyway.

 

As a side-note, I heard rumors that AMD's Steamroller will be implementing PCI-E 3.0 controller so you may see PCI-E 3.0 on newer boards. And Sabertooth GEN3 R2 already has PCI-E 3.0 which kinda does support the theory of Steamroller introducing the new PCI-E rails.

Edited October 13, 2013 by Werne