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Oh, that title is very confusing. Should change that to "(*8GB or more VRAM required)"

Faster than X5450 at 3,6GHz 

Better board, a biut better score for my QX6850
R15 : 


My main issue however is this :

How does ^that work ?
20C difference is kinda big.
Also, my CPU at ~1,47V Vcore "eats" around 240W of power on 8-pin EPS (when tested by IBT).
@Dabombinable @Jumper118 
Did you experienced the same issue with yours QX6850s ?

CPU thinks in points (for triangles) in space. And does AI, phys sim, etc. stuff in spare time
GPU thinks in triangles to pixels exchange.
CPU doesn't see pixels (more or less), it only does driver usage and other stuff mentioned earlier.
In short : 

IQ = Image Quality
^This is the general idea everyone should have.
And Yes, I know there are graphics options that can impact both (like render distsance).
You can also add RAM speed (latency/bandwidth), next to CPU on Y-axis.

Sure. You don't lose anything (unless you do manual OC).

Higher frequency helps everytime. % difference depends on clocks.
In your case you will see at most 1/44 x 100%, "% difference" between 4,4GHz and 4,5GHz. In short : Nothing at all*.
*You need synthetic tests to not be in "error margin" territory.
As for per core OC : It's meaningless under 6 cores at least.
Games/OS moving stuff arround in the background makes it impossible for 4 core CPU to ever be in 3 core idle state (or 2 core idle state for that matter).
Basicly : You can view 4 core turbo as your normal clock (in Quad Core CPU) and single core frequency as something you need to stabilise when OC'ing (since CPU can boost that high). 
Assuming you want to have boost/turbo enabled when doing OC.

Biggest CPU bottleneck I did so far : 

CPU bus (that connects it to RAM/chipset), is slower than PCI-e 1.x x16.
@GabenJr Can you show this to Linus ? 
I would like to know if it's slower than that Xeon Phi
Also, here's Fire Strike score : https://www.3dmark.com/fs/15587676
"Better than 3% of all results"... someone likes to be optimistic
Fire Strike Ultra (required 2GHz clock) : 
https://www.3dmark.com/fs/15492596

I'm using push-pull Delta 38mm PWM fans on my main PC

Fans I use : 
FFC1212DE-SP09 ("push" fan),
AFB1212SHE-5J1N ("pull" fan).
FFC is connected directly to Molex 12V (and gets PWM signal from MB header).

But why Kelvin, when AIDA64 clearly uses °C ?
97°C max on Noctua (@3:03) vs. 73°C on Delta fan (@5:20).
Air cooling can't go lower than room temperature (#Physics).
So measuring to absolute zero (or −273,15°C) is stupid.
Now, with 20°C room temp as "0" we get 77°C and 53°C for Noctua and Delta.
53°C = ~0,73 fraction of 77°C, or 77°C is 1.45x higher than 53°C.
^At least in decimal system

PS. 25% of 373,15 = ~93,3.
So a 25% absolute temp drop from 93°C, would get you to -0,3°C
Remember : °C = K (they simply put "0" at different places).

No. It should get to 90%+.
GPU temp and VRM temps are two different things.
NV GPU's don't have sensors near VRM* (that are readable in 3-rd party programs).
*iCX from EVGA is exception

You can turn the fans up, but here's an idea :
Use Single Monitor setup and see what it does.

Also, can your game be "judged" as power virus by the driver (like Furmark is) ?
Because that can also cause PWR limit to kick-in before GPU Temps go sky high.

How high is CPU temp at full load (8 threads) ?
What cooling ?

Normal cooler (for me that's Intel BOX), can't do 60C load after OC.
Also, how high is your UnCore (NB Frequency in CPU-z) ?
Is PCI-e for GPU running at x16 2.0 speed ?

Got myself a proper Xeon now (X3370) 
Valid : https://valid.x86.fr/9zit93

Cinebench 2003 :


Cinebench R11.5 :


Cinebench R15 :


I think I did good with Air cooling (TRUE + Delta AFB1212SH fan) and X48 chipset based MB

It still has UHD 630 inside : LINK

A 750 Ti would be a beautiful companion for that processor.

No. It's 8PENXP R2.0 : LINK and yes it does have DPS2 module installed 
It OCs good, however I didn't tested it thoroughly yet (was preoccupied testing AGP stuff and then installing OS on NVMe drive with my other PGA 478 board ) :

(^and yes, I know that is a 64-bit PGA 478 CPU , here's valid : https://valid.x86.fr/2g58sg)

However, back to topic from the begining, I got few examples on my first board as well :
1) Pentium 4 1,6GHz (ie. Willamette 180nm)

Example 2 : Pentium Extreme Edition 3,2GHz (130nm)
I didn't pushed P4EE quite as far as I could, because I want it to last a few years.
 
With Gallatin and 64-bit PGA 478 in my collection (and I do own LGA 775 Gallatin as well ), I bet it's less than 3 seconds now 
Just FYI, I ALSO own :
 

You don't know it yet but you're like 5 seconds away from getting robbed... wait shit now you know... owell just hafta put you down.

I have an Athlon 64 3200+? and an Athlon 64 X2 4400+ right now in rigs.
 
Those were the days  

Nope
I'm glad you guys like it tho 
Here are my Socket 939 CPUs :


One of my 775 boards (naked, because more fun - it works, I removed heatsinks personally) :
And a PGA 478 one :
And one more AMD CPU
 

Hello.
Voodoo is a reminder for anyone to know from where all that GPUs came from 

As for GIgabyte card... here's a big hint :

My collection huh... OK (pics taken 2016-2017)
Basics :
PCI-e GPUs (4870 is almost dead tho :() : 
AGP GPUs :
PCI (NON-E) GPUs :

Creative Sound Blaster (modern, ie. EAX 3.0+) :
Creative legacy + compatible (emulation) : 
MIDI update to Creative legacy :
Raptor HDDs :
LGA 775 CPUs (because I love that platform ;)) :

Collection is a bit bigger now (GPU/CPU pics are from late 2016).

Advanced, a.k.a. "Madness" PC (Core i7 980X + Rampage II Extreme with DOS/Win98SE/2k/7/etc. boot platform, on picture beneath is using my 6800 GT Reference "Blue LED". from ASUS) : 
PS. And here are newest members of my PCI-e GPU collection  :
 

My collection huh... OK (pics taken 2016-2017)
Basics :
PCI-e GPUs (4870 is almost dead tho :() : 
AGP GPUs :
PCI (NON-E) GPUs :

Creative Sound Blaster (modern, ie. EAX 3.0+) :
Creative legacy + compatible (emulation) : 
MIDI update to Creative legacy :
Raptor HDDs :
LGA 775 CPUs (because I love that platform ;)) :

Collection is a bit bigger now (GPU/CPU pics are from late 2016).

Advanced, a.k.a. "Madness" PC (Core i7 980X + Rampage II Extreme with DOS/Win98SE/2k/7/etc. boot platform, on picture beneath is using my 6800 GT Reference "Blue LED". from ASUS) : 
PS. And here are newest members of my PCI-e GPU collection  :
 

Hello.
Voodoo is a reminder for anyone to know from where all that GPUs came from 

As for GIgabyte card... here's a big hint :

My collection huh... OK (pics taken 2016-2017)
Basics :
PCI-e GPUs (4870 is almost dead tho :() : 
AGP GPUs :
PCI (NON-E) GPUs :

Creative Sound Blaster (modern, ie. EAX 3.0+) :
Creative legacy + compatible (emulation) : 
MIDI update to Creative legacy :
Raptor HDDs :
LGA 775 CPUs (because I love that platform ;)) :

Collection is a bit bigger now (GPU/CPU pics are from late 2016).

Advanced, a.k.a. "Madness" PC (Core i7 980X + Rampage II Extreme with DOS/Win98SE/2k/7/etc. boot platform, on picture beneath is using my 6800 GT Reference "Blue LED". from ASUS) : 
PS. And here are newest members of my PCI-e GPU collection  :
 

My collection huh... OK (pics taken 2016-2017)
Basics :
PCI-e GPUs (4870 is almost dead tho :() : 
AGP GPUs :
PCI (NON-E) GPUs :

Creative Sound Blaster (modern, ie. EAX 3.0+) :
Creative legacy + compatible (emulation) : 
MIDI update to Creative legacy :
Raptor HDDs :
LGA 775 CPUs (because I love that platform ;)) :

Collection is a bit bigger now (GPU/CPU pics are from late 2016).

Advanced, a.k.a. "Madness" PC (Core i7 980X + Rampage II Extreme with DOS/Win98SE/2k/7/etc. boot platform, on picture beneath is using my 6800 GT Reference "Blue LED". from ASUS) : 
PS. And here are newest members of my PCI-e GPU collection  :