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LeoNatan
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| LeoNatan wrote: | | Well, I do want to play what I do play on my native 2560x1440 or more when I get a new display down the road. The 680 is no longer holding it at 1080p. Now, not even one single 980 can run demanding games at these resolutions, while two 970s are the same price almost as 980. |
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Also, I might be able to run GTA5 at 24fpx 1080p with them 970 SLI  |
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jan 2015 13:37 Post subject: |
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| LeoNatan wrote: | Corsair HX1000i - Paul  just want to have the headroom to connect all my HDDs |
Why do people _still_ mention HDDs as a factor nowadays? Even the worst hard drives now consume a whopping 8W or so under full load. Even if you have 10 of those bastards, that's still just 80W if you have all 10 of them fully peaked out 
SSDs barely hit 3W - if you manage to somehow push them to the maximum of their ability.
As for your overclocking headroom, an 850W unit already gives you headroom because you'll be lucky to hit 800W. A 970 can hit maybe 230W when overclocked. With the CPU, you might hit 250W if you push it very hard. That puts it at 710W, leaving you 90W for your motherboard and that 20-disk HDD array of yours And that's all still under extreme overclocks with 100% load on everything, good luck ever achieving that  |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jan 2015 13:59 Post subject: |
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Give me good 850 PSUs. The reason I go for the 1000 is because no one has the HX750i in stock.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jan 2015 13:59 Post subject: |
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BTW, your CPU estimate is incorrect. People have posted the CPU can go 300-400 depending on clocking and load (CPU alone )
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jan 2015 14:00 Post subject: |
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And I will eventually move the HDDs to a NAS.
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jan 2015 14:47 Post subject: |
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| LeoNatan wrote: | | BTW, your CPU estimate is incorrect. People have posted the CPU can go 300-400 depending on clocking and load (CPU alone ) |
Might be, I haven't really looked at Haswell-E much (I lost interest in the Extreme poo years ago), the above was just a guesstimate based on my own EE and from what I remember from the last few EE's I looked at. My EE is nowhere near that bad, it does about 220-230W now (mild overclock to just over 4 GHz). Its TDP is 10W lower than the 5960X, but if that can hit 400 without resorting to nitrogen, that's pretty terrible 
That's the only good thing about my EE though, it is now 9 years old and still going strong. For the past 5 or so it's been running at speeds around 4 GHz. Runs hot as hell, it's hardly efficient and I should've replaced it years ago, but I just can't be bothered  |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jan 2015 15:34 Post subject: |
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Yes, that's why I waited for so long. Now it could be dead, could be PSU but I don't care.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jan 2015 15:38 Post subject: |
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I had a launch 930, running at 4 too, if not more. So long since I touched it, I don't remember.
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jan 2015 16:13 Post subject: |
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EVGA G2 850W is very good unit aswell, also very cheap.
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Jan 2015 09:51 Post subject: |
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Also go and buy a surge protector. All my electronics are connected in surge protectors (paranoia, but better safe then sorry).
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |

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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Jan 2015 15:53 Post subject: |
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| dingo_d wrote: | | Also go and buy a surge protector. All my electronics are connected in surge protectors (paranoia, but better safe then sorry). |
That is a good idea. Any recommendations?
I ordered a NAS as well, will not put all the HDDs in the case, just the SSD. |
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Jan 2015 16:10 Post subject: |
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if you care about surge protection might as well go all out and get a UPS for full protection for your hardware and data.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Jan 2015 20:03 Post subject: |
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So I think I fell on a good sample. I can go 4.5GHz stable with 1.2v just fine, it BSODs on 4.6GHz. I read everywhere that I should start overclocking Haswell-E with 1.3v, but I don't see the point, I don't think I want more than 4.5GHz for now, and at 1.3v I just see higher temperatures. I mean, even at 1.3v I see maximum CPU temp at 69°c, but still. Might go with some 1.21v or 1.22v to make sure there is enough juice for 4.5GHz, but no more. The only test I didn't run was the AVX1/2 torture tests (newer Prime95 or Asus AI Suite 3 AVX test); I just don't see the point of such a test. Any software that uses AVX would not be such a torture test anyway. I will take the risk of CPU throttling or BSOD on AVX software for now.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Jan 2015 20:04 Post subject: |
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And of course, the wonders of multi GPU gaming.  Dragon Age Inquisition is flickering like crazy in SLI mode.  Crysis 3 ran 60fps smooth, that was quite amazing. Next, the Metro Redux games, I guess.
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Jan 2015 01:37 Post subject: |
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Finally you got all the parts Leo, congrats
It's a shame that after all this time, Nvidia hasn't sorted out the problems with SLI, it brings back unpleasant memories from your 4870x2 experience   . Hope everything will get fixed soon, because it is annoying indeed and makes you want to change that 'Nvidia can write drivers' thread xD
In all seriousness though, buying two of these babies was a good decision, since I noticed that a single one is definitely not enough for 60fps gaming at anything >1080p with the more recent (some unoptimized as hell) games.
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