hmm wonder how rampage IV gene will be like it .. lol.. updated with the pic with his detail workflow.

yeah i am considering when i update on haswell to do this. more efficient. Only con i see is maybe limited to one normal hdd at the back and two ssds. def cannot use WD blacks as they are hot so have go green i guess.

btw silverstone tj and ft series are pro look full alu casings that dont shout out gaming plastic mould overpriced ALX.

just sayin. TJ11. Once u have u will love it.

This post has been edited by cstkl1: Apr 5 2013, 06:43 PM

Dunno y that casing makes me miss my old 830 with my 8800ultras on it.

Agreed. Cause then the jump worth it. Sandy was good but pcie 2.0 n limited sata 3 n no default trim raid 0. Support.
Ivy..hmm heat is a concern.

Haswell avx2 n hopefully a buttload of other features on the mobo is what i am aiming for. Titan i got a feeling its gonna be like my 8800 ultras all over again. Short lived. Imagine a 8800gt overclocked was beating the crap out of it n its just a single slot card. Lol.. Only after 6months.

its not the bandwidth.. pcie 3.0 has better latency and efficiency. its like u running 2000 cl 10 and i am running at 2000 cl7.

Look at 7970 on skyrim , witcher 2.. 4-5fps...

its definitely not the bandwidth. Here is a better question y is the PLX chip that communicates between both cores on the 690 a pcie 3.0??
remember until now the way of testing pcie bandwidth saturation is by gaming fps difference. nobody i know actually quantified and check whats the real world max ( like sata 2/3 n usb 2/3 specs vs real world rates)

dude meaning the theoretical speed.

in theory ure usb 2.0 is rated 480mbps and u should be able to do 60mb/s.

samething here on pcie 2.0 and 3.0. Ppl are comparing on spec sheet but nobody i have seen actually tested the max attainable bandwidth.

sata 2 was 300Mb/s but max i ever seen was 230Mb/s

This post has been edited by cstkl1: Apr 6 2013, 01:00 AM

Bro 1kw def enough say a silver/gold/plat.. The question is ure dell 1kw. Is it good n reliable enough. In the past they were using pc power cooling. Now i dont know.



This post has been edited by cstkl1: Apr 6 2013, 02:40 PM

not really overpriced but rather more limited.

its the quality of the casing .. ram etc that makes ppl cheezed off. Also the mobo's they use and the quality of the chokes etc. Ure expecting ROG quality atleast.

Good is always a nice thing to hear but nothing is definitive until its measured.

most of high end rigs here cost more than ure rig without a (extreme proc)

just hit me up and will intro u to a few mad fellas i know living arnd kl .

This post has been edited by cstkl1: Apr 6 2013, 04:41 PM

pm ya.

Not that simple.

Ram modules as per GDDR5 is openly traded in taiwan to a point of speculative pricing etc to in almost the same fashion as debt instruments.

GDDR5 at moment which lower nm rating has already hit 7ghz at 1.5v with Hynix and Samsung which is y u see a lot of the 79xx revision this year .. the mems are clocking high. Most probably on their bulk forward pricing buys ...that all the card manufactorers do.

thats on pricing

on tech GDDR5 is based of DDR3 but the memory controllers are different
DDR3 is based of current cpus 64bit per channel
with GDDR5 based of controllers with 32bit. (16bit input and output)
The main difference after this comes with the number of 32bit I/Os it uses.. like 384bit on the 7970 has 12x32bit I/O's.

So its mainly a bit thingy, I/O's and also cycle. Afaik DDR3 modules handle read n write per cycle while GDDR's can do both at the same cycle.

The supply is a lot infact. Pricing always comes up when new tech comes in. With Intel still favouring DDR3 in haswell so just like SSJBEn said dont think anything will change. These modules takes up hardly a fraction of the cost of a GPU. So doesnt make sense on big increases. I am looking at a single digit increment if there was any at all.

This post has been edited by cstkl1: Apr 10 2013, 07:06 PM

the saga of the 8800ultra unfolds and repeats as predicted if this comes to lite. expect a GTX760ti to out do this cards by end of the year.

blame it on design and weight issue. hence y brackets for gc's are totally recommended. unless lol..
get a ft02, tj11 and do a vertical. atleast then ure cards warping issues wont be a contributing factor.

if the gtx780 is 30 percent faster than gtx680.. thats titan territory already.

also hmm ti is not "titanium". its a internal moniker but somehow ppl started calling them ti based on periodic table.

ti's on 660 are rejected binned 670's chips that has less ROP and paired with lower bandwidth mem. Pure shader counts are the same. So depending on the game its pretty close to the 670 and hence pricing also is almost there since the cost to produce is abt the same except for the cheaper mem.

so how is a 760ti possible to be a rebrand version of 670. it should be a failed bin of a 770.

hmm but so far for certain is the gtx780 will be back with direct compute and 384bit mem. as seen from 7970 theres a lot of benefit.

the merits of this article .. one should take a full nuclear silo worth of salt.

one thing is sound. the 7series will be refresh of kepler. which every news seem to lead there unless the 8970's are are monsters n game changer .. and then will be seeing nvidia releasing a new architecture. With microsoft stopping at directx 11. Wonder where gc's are heading now. Past few years gc's capabilities were totally dependent on directx development. afaik from sapphire rep..after inquiring on ref 7970's.. they said eol since they are waiting for the new designs from amd for the 8 series.

so one can conclude.. 4k gaming is the only aim they have.

This post has been edited by cstkl1: Apr 23 2013, 07:23 PM

dude u should set a budget based on the reso u want to game with a few game titles that peak ure interest.

then based on that go with a gaming setup that fits that requirement with a budget constraint.

whats more interesting about the new refresh will be the massly introduction of nvidia gpu boost 2.0. this is gonna be a game changer ....with ppl this time buy better casings and throwing away overpriced crappy plastic steel craps and not worry about overclocking the card. with this ppl can set the boost to temp target compared to the existing model based on tdp target. so far on the titan its still kindda limited with a allowance of 106% tdp increase with around 2-3 increase in vid. ...should be because of a phase limit. their tdp so far has complied with pcie-sig.

thats the other thing looking at how all amd/nvidia are going with the low power states.. its time they go with vid clocking which sandy n above has been doing.

This post has been edited by cstkl1: Apr 24 2013, 12:02 AM

Not true. This is the best nvidia can do atm. Low frametime, no runts etc. Dont see how unless theres a way to make direct compute be a factor.
Best kepler can offer.

Would reall like to see a indepth review of the frame metering inbuilt algorithm.

This post has been edited by cstkl1: May 1 2013, 06:44 PM

4.0 is heavy on tessellation and is 100% gpu bound and supports SSDO so expected.

http://www.sirjamesd.com/unigineheaven4

see the diff. also he noted some issues he solved with his 670

This post has been edited by cstkl1: May 2 2013, 08:11 PM

Awesome
Thats more like the nvidia we knew and showed a middle finger to.

Keep it up

noob review by a corsair fan.

"XSPC GTX Titan Waterblock Review"

Flow Rate?? Heat Dissipation?? Block Comparison?? VRM, Mem temps??

just a guy showing a 360 rad with a push config with ap120's (should be xspc rx360) can cool a gtx titan and a sandy-e proc. half the time just justifying his cooling choices.

and noob on gddr5 hynix/elpidas a lot of them are rejected binned 1.5v 7ghz. so u can do more than 6ghz at stock.

just a noob justifying his purchase and cooling.

nothing really review on the block or oc thats on the vid

lets see on what he wrote
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_dis...rblock_review/1

This post has been edited by cstkl1: May 3 2013, 11:39 AM

seriously it all depends on ure asic, vrm quality and limit.

wc is always been foremost on noise first performance second.

btw looking at his review his oc is flawed. theres throttling somewhere and he didnt even notice that on the fps.

looking at heaven.

This post has been edited by cstkl1: May 3 2013, 11:35 AM

hahaha that fella is born on the same day as me.