Masada02

Bottlenecking is a blanket statement which generally means "I don't know what I'm talking about."

Someone buy me this so I can not fully utilize it.

Someone buy me this so I can not fully utilize it.

Someone buy me this so I can not fully utilize it.

Someone buy me this so I can not fully utilize it.

Well, if you want performance per dollar, the 980 Ti (if you can get it to 1.5 GHz), is pretty powerful. I had a 1070 (2.1 GHz) and a 980 Ti (1.5 GHz) and the 980 Ti would pull ahead, however at usually 100-150W more. In rendering the 980 Ti really pulled out a win over the 1070.
 
But if you have a 3440 x 1440 screen and want to game at that resolution, I think even a 1080 will struggle with that. That's quite a lot of pixels.

At that resolution your best bet is going to be getting the most powerful GPU you can get. I'd say the 980TI is a better deal, but it's not going to be enough for the monitor. Having said that, neither is the 1080 if you expect to max out settings. Either of these GPUs is going to be a shit ton better than your 960 so I imagine you'll be happy regardless.

I will when I get some more time. Been a busy week so far. 

Scoreboards updated.

If you are running on a 60hz monitor with no adaptive sync I'd argue that SLI with any GPU is not worth it. There's many times where you'll get excessive tearing or stuttering on supported games and to me that's just not something I want to deal with anymore. However, if your monitor supports G-Sync I'd say it's absolutely worth it. G-Sync basically fixes all of those little bugs that SLI systems have and makes the experience so much better. With G-Sync and SLI, you get all of the benefits of the extra horsepower and none of the drawbacks of multiple GPUs (except maybe heat output).
 
Full disclosure: I've run dual/triple/quad GPU setups from both AMD and Nvidia solely since ~2005. Only now with adaptive sync being common would I say the experience is refined enough for the average user. Whereas before there was a lot of tweaking of fiddling needed to get things running well. That is not the case now.

Scoreboards updated.

Ethereum. Just like the original article talks about. 1080's get between 25-30 most of the time due to the loose memory timings. TI's are only up to around 35.
 
For Vega to get 43.5 at 250ish W (or 40 at 200 W according to the article) is super impressive. At least the GPU is good for something, because gaming isn't exactly its strong suit.

That's quite the amount of horsepower. Gonna have to beat @Cheddle's 4-way 1080TI score though

Why buy an extreme edition and not do extreme things? 

Why buy an extreme edition and not do extreme things? 

I'm just glad Intel is finally doing another real extreme edition. The 6950X was okay, but really didn't warrant the title. Now, we get a fully unlocked 18 core chip and people complain that it's too crazy. The extreme edition on the enthusiast platform is too much for normal people to handle according to a ton of people, and that's somehow a bad thing 

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I really don't know how to pronounce your name. Sorry Susan.

I'm just glad Intel is finally doing another real extreme edition. The 6950X was okay, but really didn't warrant the title. Now, we get a fully unlocked 18 core chip and people complain that it's too crazy. The extreme edition on the enthusiast platform is too much for normal people to handle according to a ton of people, and that's somehow a bad thing 

You aren't going to get 4266mhz with that CPU. Best option is to run at 4000 with tighter timings. 
 
When I had my 7800X it wouldn't run at 4266, max I could hit was 4133 or something but that still wasn't stable.
 
You are going to have to dial it in manually, no XMP.

Updated, let me know if I missed anything.

Updated, let me know if I missed anything.

Clearly the answer is to buy my last 5960X and OC the wee out of it 
 
Aside from my sales pitch, I really do think that staying on X99 and switching to a 5960X is the way to go. It's going to be your cheapest upgrade, will perform better than all Ryzen 8 cores, and is only 8-9% off of a well OC'd 7820X with more PCIE lanes for more GPUs. With the savings, grab another 980TI and enjoy tons of frames at whatever res you play.

Let's all complain about the first real enthusiast chip on the market in years...
 
Clearly the 7980XE is not for the average user. It is the EXTREME edition on the enthusiast lineup. Complaining that you need good cooling for it is basically a moot point because OFC you're going to need it.

That TIM is only there to force enthusiasts to delid thus voiding warranty so Intel doesn't have to pay for bad overclocking errors. That's really the only thing I disagree with. Once delidded it will be fine.

Psssshhhh. That 7800X should get to 4.6-4.7 easy. Pushing further with start to require some luck.
 
7800X doesn't get hot either. It's only 6 cores. When I had mine (briefy) at 5.0ghz it would draw around 200W in Cinebench. That's not difficult to cool at all. 
 
Gaming performance will be hit and miss until people start updating things for the new cache design. And by "miss" I mean still better than a 1600, but not as good as a 7700K. Also, this really only matters at really high framerates, if you're not there then it's not going to matter.
 
OP, start at 4.5 and 1.3v with AVX -3 and AVX512 -5. Then just up the multiplier until that voltage won't cut it anymore. Once that happens, drop back down to the last multiplier that worked and start reducing voltage from there until you find the point where it becomes unstable.