Friday, Oh Friday...

[jeffdamann]

Friday, oh Friday...

I already have an ASUS Crosshair V Formula but Friday I will be receiving:

2X G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000)

4X Sapphire HD 6970's

Corsair Professional Series Gold High-Performance 1200-Watt Power Supply


RAZER DeathAdder RZ01-00152500-R3M1

Saitek Cyborg V5 Black USB Wired Gaming Keyboard

Blu-Ray Burner

2X 1.5 Terabyte HDD

Intel 320 80GB SSD

Cooler Master Haf-X

Plus a few aesthetic extras(I.E. Matching colered fans. Etc

Is my rig becoming impressive yet?

I will post a build log on overclock, so when I do Ill correspond in this thread as well.

[DarkFang]

4X Sapphire HD 6970 (in Crossfire I'm expecting) is just complete overkill, not to mention a waste of money.

[jeffdamann]

Not if you fold my friend(And also not if you apply 32x edge detect AA with 16x ANisotropy and triple buffered opengl with v-sync on every 3d app you run.)

Makes ps1 and 2 look WONDERFUL

[Hellbringer616]

But PCSX2 doesn't use SLI/Xfire (i don't think ePSXe or PCSX do either)

[sl1982]

That is absolute overkill. You might want to read this article:
http://hardocp.com/article/2011/05/19/quadgpu_performance_review_nvidia_vs_amd/

There are major compatibility problems with quad crossfire systems compared to triple setups (yes i know they used dual gpu cards but the same still applies. The just run crossfire on the card between the two chips as well.) And if you are not planning on using eyefinity then those two extra cards are pretty much useless.

[jeffdamann]

But PCSX2 doesn't use SLI/Xfire (i don't think ePSXe or PCSX do either)

The svn builds of pcsx2 does, but your right, the other ones dont(who needs more than 2 gigs of video mem on ps1 anyway.)

Also as stated Im a folder, I fold 20+ hours a day, I might even bitcoin with these things. Who knows.

I will only have tri-fire until I get my ROG XPander, and I cant order that till friday and it comes from hong kong, so I can expect it at about the end of july...(enables 16x-16x-16x-16x crossfire)
I meant to have the most overkill pc I can afford, and I would say Im well on my way. Add 2 custom waterloops and Bulldozer and Ill be set(Also am going to sleeve my cables and get my case powdercoated.

[sl1982]

With that amount of heat output then you might want to look into a triple loop. Running more then 2 high wattage components on one loop is not really ideal.

[Hellbringer616]

Which SVN builds? I've been following them for a while now and have yet to receive the performance boost with SLI. I am using build 4702 At the moment.

[jeffdamann]

The PCSX2 playground versions if I recall correctly. Im havent emulated in a while so When my new build gets here and put together Ill find it again.

[jeffdamann]

It's Friday!










BTW 2 FREE DIRT 3 Codes for the first comers!(I have to know you as well, sorry new members)

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[DarkFang]

One again, overkill.

[Kudistos Megistos]

>spending $9001 on over-powered foldan rig
>AMD processor

This makes no sense at all.

I'm seriously going to lol hard if this rig uses an Athlon II

[jeffdamann]

Thats a crosshair 5 formula. AM3+... BD will CRUSH intel. Right now its just a shitty Phenom X4 955 @ 4.0 GHZ 1.45 VCORE

[DarkFang]

An AMD quad-core is on par with an Intel dual-core. Their shit is weak.

If you wanna go all out on a computer buy the Intel i7 990X and overclock that bitch to 4.2GHz or more.

[Vgr]

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Wow, that's amazing!

[sl1982]

Dont get your hopes up with Bulldozer. Rumor states that at best it will be on par with sandy bridge. Sandy Bridge E is just around the corner as well as Ivy Bridge, which should blow the socks off anything amd has at the time.

[Kudistos Megistos]

Dont get your hopes up with Bulldozer. Rumor states that at best it will be on par with sandy bridge. Sandy Bridge E is just around the corner as well as Ivy Bridge, which should blow the socks off anything amd has at the time.

This.

AMD can't compete in the high performance market; it doesn't even try. Their role is to produce CPUs that are good enough for gaming and don't cost too much.

If you feel the need for absurd levels of performance, you should be getting a Sandy Vagina. Spending all that money on your rig and then putting a Bulldozer in there is like buying the Palace of Versailles and filling it with furniture from Ikea.

[jeffdamann]

This.

AMD can't compete in the high performance market; it doesn't even try. Their role is to produce CPUs that are good enough for gaming and don't cost too much.

If you feel the need for absurd levels of performance, you should be getting a Sandy vag*na. Spending all that money on your rig and then putting a Bulldozer in there is like buying the Palace of Versailles and filling it with furniture from Ikea.

Go Over to overclock.net to argue these points. BD is CONFIRMED to have 4.2GHZ Turbo, so it will overclock WELL beyond that(possibly 5ghz)

Live in the now!

In other news...






/Rape


Wouldn't you agree?

[Covarr]

Using clockspeed as a major comparison point... What is this, 1998?

A game benchmark doesn't mean a whole lot, because the vast majority of speed hit is going to be based on graphics card, not on processor.

[jeffdamann]

The reasoning behind that covarr, is I see a TON of intel fans saying that a Phenom II WILL  bottleneck anything higher than a 5770 or crossfire configurations of the 5XXX series or above.

I believe I have proved that fatally wrong.

[Kudistos Megistos]

The reasoning behind that covarr, is I see a TON of intel fans saying that a Phenom II WILL  bottleneck anything higher than a 5770 or crossfire configurations of the 5XXX series or above.

I believe I have proved that fatally wrong.

Pfft.

Is "it won't bottleneck your GPU" the best AMD can promise?

Now try doing some video editing with that thing. Or anything else that puts more strain on the CPU than the GPU.

Better still, try running PCSX2

[sl1982]

I believe you should prove that using games not canned benchmarks. Uningine his heavily GPU dependant anyways, moreso then CPU.

[Kudistos Megistos]

BTW, Jeff, if you want to take screenshots of webpages in Firefox, use this extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/screengrab/

It can take a screenshot of the whole page rather than just the visible portion (so you don't have to take multiple shots of long pages) and it works with Firefox 5.

Unfortunately, this reminds me of something else I have to tease you about

>firefox
>2011



I seriously hope you guys don't do this

[jeffdamann]

Lol, thanks kudistos.

Yeah this thing is by far not as good as intel, dont get me wrong. It just isnt as crappy as people would have you believe.

I can actually crush most pcsx2 titles with my old 5770 cf system. The added intstruction set in intel chips would benefit me greatly though.

Ive been playing some games cause I dloaded the valve, battlefront, magicka, and starwars packs off of steam.

I played some BF:BC2 and had some mouse issues, it was very....not laggy, but rigid? No smoothness to the movements? Its like you cant fluidly move around, but rather your mouse jumps to the location specified. Is this a common symptom for this game? It runs 60fps with Vsync, 16x EQ SSAA, 16X Anisotropy, max everything. But the camera in cinemas and sometimes models(boat in first scene is really the only one) are really shaky.
My other games are downloading so Maybe its just the game.

Also if you have steam add me!
steam userID:jeffdamann

[DarkFang]

I pwn your ass at CS:S.