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[wint0nic]

These are my computer specifications:

✔ Intel Core i7 980x - 4.8GHz / 6 Core
✔ [ASUS] 4x GTX680 2GB Quad-SLI
✔ G.Skill Ripjaws 6GB DDR3 2000mhz
✔ ASUS X58 Rampage III Extreme 4-Way SLI @ ASUS ROG Expander
✔ 3x Corsair Performance Pro 256GB, 1x Corsair Force GT 120GB, 1x Seagate Barracuda
✔ Dell u3011
✔ Seasonic 1050w
✔ Heatkiller / 3x 360 RAD & 1x 120 RAD
✔ Logitech G930 Headset
✔ Logitech G300 Mouse
✔ Windows 7 Professional Edition 64 bit

imgur PC images: http://wint0nic.imgur.com/

The clocks for my 680's are all at 1300mhz, and my processor is at 4.8ghz. Game looks great, but future it will support SLi.

[Giverous]

why so little ram?

[DocBach]

why does he need regular RAM when he's got 8gb of video ram?

Edited by DocBach, 07 August 2012 - 08:29 AM.

[Fomorian]

So what was the price damage on that monster?!

[wint0nic]

Well, 6 gygs of ram allows for higher overclock ability, the more ram you have, the harder it is to overclock. (:

@Fomorian, about 7k with everything.

DocBach, on 07 August 2012 - 08:29 AM, said:

why does he need regular RAM when he's got 8gb of video ram?

Actually bro, SLi mirrors the ram so I only have 2 gygs available, but still, games don't use more then 2 gyg's, not even Crysis 2, and I play on a 2560x1600 resolution.

Edited by wint0nic, 07 August 2012 - 08:32 AM.

[Desyth]

We put our desktops in those Mountain Mod cases here at work. Luckily I was able to take one home and save a few hundred bucks. I'm due a remodel for MWO and GW2. My life is going to be over when that FedEx truck pulls up on Monday..

What you need to do is take that thing into work to 'show it off' but really put a GPU Bitcoin Miner on it and use it to 'recover' some of that $7k.

[EdyP]

can i have some of your money.... since you're burning it all away.


on a serious note, even though its a bit too rich for my taste i love the final look of the build.

[Giverous]

wint0nic, on 07 August 2012 - 08:30 AM, said:

Well, 6 gygs of ram allows for higher overclock ability, the more ram you have, the harder it is to overclock. (:

@Fomorian, about 7k with everything.




Actually bro, SLi mirrors the ram so I only have 2 gygs available, but still, games don't use more then 2 gyg's, not even Crysis 2, and I play on a 2560x1600 resolution.

Nice to see someone who understands how SLI works With the ram, I'm just used to chewing up huge amounts rendering cad, so in my mind 6gb seems insane. I guess memory size is a little different when you're on a board with 3 channels, but personally if i was dropping that much cash i'd have gone with 3X4gb.

Can you link any articles regarding the amount of memory affecting overclock ability? I'd never heard that one and it might explain some differences i'm seeing between 2 machines i'm currently working on.

*edit* also, im only seeing 3-way sli in that monster and was also also wondering - why not 2 X 690?

Edited by Giverous, 07 August 2012 - 08:41 AM.

[johnhenry4]

I am very proud to announce that i just recieved my Maurader from digital storm and it shreds everything i play. I got the level 4 for the future (Mechwarrior) games i will play and only paid 1300 for it. Having said that, and reading your specs above, I think your computer would eat mine and still be hungry:) see you on the battlefield.

[Astarot]

Most games may only use only 2gigs of ram, just don't forget a-number of facts, the smaller amount of ram you have, the more you need to reset your computer and let it 'rest' due to the fact that even though it is random access memory, programs tend to reserve ram space, so for example, you run one game and the decide to quit, even though you quit, certain things are reserved in your ram space, then when you start a diffrent game, it will do the same, it will start to build, other programs will also do the same thing. (thats why it normally a good idea to turn off all start up programs except the ones you truly need, cause even if you close them, they reserve ram space.)

Edited by Astarot, 07 August 2012 - 09:49 AM.

[wint0nic]

Giverous, on 07 August 2012 - 08:39 AM, said:

Nice to see someone who understands how SLI works With the ram, I'm just used to chewing up huge amounts rendering cad, so in my mind 6gb seems insane. I guess memory size is a little different when you're on a board with 3 channels, but personally if i was dropping that much cash i'd have gone with 3X4gb. Can you link any articles regarding the amount of memory affecting overclock ability? I'd never heard that one and it might explain some differences i'm seeing between 2 machines i'm currently working on. *edit* also, im only seeing 3-way sli in that monster and was also also wondering - why not 2 X 690?

I been overclocking for 10 years so in all the tests I've ran, the more RAM you have the harder it is to overclock. I'm sure I can link you to an article. If anybody has battlefield, I also have that as well. What are the specs for your Maruder? I never took pictures of getting the 4th one, I redid with a 4th one and added a ROG Expander, that is how I achieved 4way on RIII. When I had 12 gygs of ram, max stable overclock was 4.4, cut down to 6gygs and was able to achieve 4.8 stable.

Edited by wint0nic, 07 August 2012 - 12:53 PM.

[Lightdragon]

i dont see the point of this thread... is he stroking his ego in front of all of us, all i see is "i have invested as much as someone would in buying a small car into my pc bow down befoere my wallet"

[wint0nic]

Why the hate? If you don't like my thread go somewhere else, I started this thread to obviously show off my rig just like everyone else is doing. So do us all a favor, and stay off threads that you can't bring any positive feedback to.

[ORIGINAL SteelWolf]

Intel Core i7 980x - 4.8GHz / 6 Core

I too have an I7 860. It is an 8 core version.

Nice speed on the latest generation of I7.
http://ark.intel.com...-GTs-Intel-QPI) Yours
http://ark.intel.com...Cache-2_80-GHz) Mine.


Specifications
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Processor Number i7-980X
# of Cores 6
# of Threads 12
Clock Speed 3.33 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency 3.6 GHz
Intel® Smart Cache 12 MB
Bus/Core Ratio 25
Intel® QPI Speed 6.4 GT/s
# of QPI Links 1
Instruction Set 64-bit
Instruction Set Extensions SSE4.2
Embedded Options Available
No
Lithography 32 nm
Max TDP 130 W
VID Voltage Range 0.800V-1.375V
Recommended Customer Price TRAY: $999
BOX : $1059
Datasheet Url Link [/color]
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Memory Specifications
Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 24 GB
Memory Types DDR3-1066
# of Memory Channels 3
Max Memory Bandwidth 25.6 GB/s
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ECC Memory Supported
No [/color]
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Integrated Graphics
No [/color]
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T_CASE 67.9°C
Package Size 42.5mm X 45.0mm
Processing Die Size 239 mm²
Sockets Supported FCLGA1366
Low Halogen Options Available See MDDS [/color]
[color=#515357]
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Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology
[color=#FFFFFF]Yes[/color]
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
[color=#FFFFFF]Yes[/color]
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology
No
AES New Instructions
[color=#FFFFFF]Yes[/color]
Intel® 64
[color=#FFFFFF]Yes[/color]
Idle States [color=#FFFFFF]Yes[/color]
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology
[color=#FFFFFF]Yes[/color]
Intel® Demand Based Switching No
Thermal Monitoring Technologies No
Execute Disable Bit [color=#FFFFFF]Yes[/color]
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) [color=#FFFFFF]Yes[/color] [/color]

Edited by ORIGINAL SteelWolf, 08 August 2012 - 08:00 AM.

[GamingWithVersarius]

To the OP You can't run quad sli with 680s they only go to triple sli.

[wint0nic]

@Versaruis, you can run quad with 680's, only 670's cannot be ran in quad.

Articles:
http://www.google.co...Bi4hnDXpCii3yeg
http://www.theverge....erformance-test

Anything else?

Edited by wint0nic, 08 August 2012 - 08:20 AM.

[Catamount]

Oh, you can run 680s in quad SLI, there's just no reason to

http://www.slashgear...d-sli-23219787/


Most games give great scaling for dual GPUs, but more often than not, the scaling will mirror what's seen there with 3dMark Vantage: the third and fourth GPU basically sitting around, twiddling their thumbs. Even 3dMark11, which seems to scale relative well, showed marginal gaines from the third and fourth card (2500 and 3500 points respectively, or put another way, a quarter of a full 680 and a third of a full 680, respectively).

That article shows that Crysis 2 does nothing with the third and fourth GPUs, either, except in situations of extreme resolution (basically, triple monitor setups). So MWO might (might, I stress), take advantage of a quad SLI setup, under certain circumstances. Most games will not.

From the sounds of it, a bunch of 7970s would have been the smarter purchase, as they scale better more of the time. Wint0nic's own article linked above (the second one) mentions as much. I still wouldn't consider it practical, but hey... who needs practical when you can stimulate the economy by buying ALL the GTX680s

Edited by Catamount, 08 August 2012 - 08:28 AM.

[wint0nic]

Catamount, I know that, but I have them just for the e-Peen, and I am an overclocker/bencher, so this is why I got the 4th one.

[Catamount]

wint0nic, on 08 August 2012 - 08:27 AM, said:

Catamount, I know that, but I have them just for the e-Peen, and I am an overclocker/bencher, so this is why I got the 4th one.

Hey, fair enough,but then, this is probably why people are reacting negatively. When others have posted builds here, it's to show the end result of discussions and planning on these forums with the community, or to discuss upgrades, or to take pride in getting a system together for the first time. You're basically just boating about having thousands of dollars in disposable income.

Do I care? Not at all, by all means, go for it. I certainly am not going to congratulate you for having the money to buy uselessly extraneous hardware, but I won't criticize you for it either, nor will I for making a post about it. However, this is probably why some others are; epeen displays are generally looked down upon on forums, at least in my experience.


For my part, I hope the benchmarking goes well for you.

On a side note, why not upgrade to the highest Founder level? It's not like you won't use that in-game currency over the entire course of playing MWO. I certainly would -and quickly-, I just lack that kind of disposable income as a poor college student (oh how I yearn for my days of carefree moneymaking... oh well).

Edited by Catamount, 08 August 2012 - 08:53 AM.

[wint0nic]

I totally understand, but keep in mind if you had the same system you would want to show it off! I take pride in the builds that I make and I don't have loads of money but PC builds is something I am passionate about, and I saved up for at least a year to be able to build it. As far as upgrading, I will be upgrading to Legendary as soon as I get comfortable with playing the game. The benchmarking is going well, currently, with a custom BIOS, my 680's are all running at 1300mhz, which when I start doing LN2, it should be much much higher overclockability. I hope I didn't offend anyone with my build, my intentions were to show it off and maybe get a few good job I love the build, but I guess that's not the case!