Nice. Did you get the 5:6 ratio by default, or did you have to tweak your RAM's latency settings and/or overclock your processor?
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mine is 5:6.......... but thats running fairly old tech
I just bought my x99 motherboard though...... upgrade soon
Nice, I'd like to upgrade to x99 too, but I've got to save the full cost of upgrading first, after that I can sell the old parts so that I don't end up waiting without a working computer for a while. Luckily though I can upgrade the graphics card beforehand since it doesn't require any other changes.
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Wow the Kingpin's have fallen a good bit in price: Amazon.com: EVGA EVGA GeForce GTX 780Ti Classified Kingpin 3GB GDDR5 384-Bit Dual-Link DVI-I DVI-D HDMI DP SLI Graphics Card 03G-P4-3888-KR Graphics Cards 03G-P4-3888-KR: Computers & Accessories
Thanks to the new series of cards, no doubt.
Thanks to the new series of cards, no doubt.
That's incredible!
The one thing I've learned, is to wait one year for the "current" gen cards to drop in price before picking them up. Then you'll be able to take advantage of discounts, rebates, and free game voucher codes that you can sell on Ebay. I think I might buy a second GTX 780 Direct CU II in a few months. I've looked at reviews and benchmarks, and it seems to have amazing performance in SLI.
Brainiac
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Yeah I recently just bought my GTX770 Classified and a Corsair 760i, so I dont really need to buy the full computer to upgrade. I just have to get the Motherboard, CPU and RAM. I'm gonna buy just regular Crucial budget ram until the Corsair Platinum DDR4 come down in price, they are almost $1K now
Brainiac
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No thats just default, I havent really felt the need to change anything or overclock the CPU, everything performs just fine
I wonder how long DDR 3 will still remain relevant. It has been around for a while, but I just hope that the transition to DDR 4 isn't to abrupt. I'm not ready to build an entirely new PC just yet 
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Brainiac
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I wonder how long DDR 3 will still remain relevant. It has been around for a while, but I just hope that the transition to DDR 4 isn't to abrupt. I'm not ready to build an entirely new PC just yet
looks like I'm skipping DDR3..... so its not very relevant to me
I think it will be around a while longer. I don't full expect the new stuff to be standard for another few years, plus the prices of DDR4 are still high, and not everyone is keen to upgrade everything. Like you say it might be too soon for most people and DDR3 is still pretty decent, right now I think power usage is the only real advantage of DDR4
but when DDR4 reaches 4000+Mhz and 16GB DIMMS become more available, I think more people will upgrade, but thats 2017/18
Yeah, it'll be a while. Most people don't care that much and 1600mhz has been the popular one for a while. I think DDR4 2133mhz will be the next most popular.
The only problem with higher bandwidths is that it increases the latency and memory timings of RAM. There's a tradeoff to a certain point where you might actually see performance degradation and slowdowns in your applications.
It's a good thing I don't plan on upgrading my mobo for another three years, so I guess I'll be okay until then.
looks like I'm skipping DDR3..... so its not very relevant to me
I think it will be around a while longer. I don't full expect the new stuff to be standard for another few years, plus the prices of DDR4 are still high, and not everyone is keen to upgrade everything. Like you say it might be too soon for most people and DDR3 is still pretty decent, right now I think power usage is the only real advantage of DDR4
but when DDR4 reaches 4000+Mhz and 16GB DIMMS become more available, I think more people will upgrade, but thats 2017/18
It's a good thing I don't plan on upgrading my mobo for another three years, so I guess I'll be okay until then
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GTX 980 is pretty awesome--Got a steady 60fps on Mordor (capped at 60), before with the GTX 770 it would dip down to 30fps. Full settings of course. Downloading Ryse right now to see how that does. It'll be more interesting to see how the next-gen games do, COD, Assassin's Creed Unity and Far Cry 4
It'll eat up the new COD and creed. Not sure about far cry. Didn't FC3 splurge on CPU / GPU resources?
Impressive. What resolution are you playing on?
I think his 980 would be able to handle Far Cry 3 very easily, but it's known for testing any of the top-tier graphics cards, and I don't know if 60 fps is even possible for that game on 1440p or 4K. Battlefield 4 and Crysis 3 are two other games that eat up resources.
That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, I know it's not as crazy as those two games you mentioned.
Man, how does your pair of R9 290Xs handle things in Crossfire?
I think you should be able to breeze through any game with that configuration.Man, how does your pair of R9 290Xs handle things in Crossfire?
I just have the plain 290. The cards ate up alien isolation like nothing. For BF4, I cap things at 60 FPS, playing online. Every so often, it'll drop to 59 at the lowest, I think. I've been keeping the metric displays on while I play.
It did far cry 3 really easily. Same with evil within. I haven't tried shadow of Mordor yet. Or FF13 with the hack.
1080p, considered getting that Samsung 4k monitor, but I really don't need it. As for Far Cry--Ryse is on Cryengine also, so the performance challenge should be pretty similar. Assassin's Creed Unity has ridiculous requirements so it may be very unoptimized.
Can you can go 4K and turn off all AA?
Ryse should be able to, but not all games give that option. I think though you'd need to do some processing to get a better result when supersampling, there's some algorithms for resizing an image that will help. Nvidia has that as a feature now if a developer wants to integrate it into their game.
Brainiac
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Sounds good, I will definitely have to upgrade
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