i7 920 bench off? GTX 970 SLi.

[Tom Hanks]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomb Raider
SLI 980: 204 FPS GTX 1080: 164 FPS

Shadow of Mordor
SLI 980: Average 153 FPS GTX 1080: Average 146 FPS

Heaven Benchmark
SLI 980: 3455 GTX 1080: 2992

Valley Benchmark
SLI 980: 4939 GTX 1080: 4590

Firestrike Extreme
SLI 980: 12,168 GTX 1080: 11,461

Stream VR Benchmark
SLI 980: 9.5 @ 9600 GTX 1080: 11 @ 17,200

 

[UnitD77]

So even a 920 is still fast enough to not significantly bottleneck a 980 SLI. Interesting.

 

Edit: 4.4Ghz i7 lol thats why it isn't bottlenecking. OCed af.

My i5 550 at 2.6Ghz was a bottleneck.

[Dresta]

3 minutes ago, UnitD77 said:

So even a 920 is still fast enough to not significantly bottleneck a 980 SLI. Interesting.

Indeed very interesting...

[glitchmaster0001]

those CPUs are very good for their time and still are to this day. now i reget selling my dual Xeon X5650 system.... 

[UnitD77]

It was OCed. 4.4Ghz 

[Tom Hanks]

If you wanted to go cheap, XEON E5640 is the 32nm 12MB L3 version of this chip, but is significantly binned better and uses way less power, also runs cooler.

 

 

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, UnitD77 said:

It was OCed. 4.4Ghz 

still an X5650 Xeon would easily hit 4.4Ghz on all 6 cores 12 threads and also cost only $60 and best part is that it will work on the X58 motherboard nativity without no cut motherboard socket and make a custom bios kind of bs 

[UnitD77]

2 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

still an X5650 Xeon would easily hit 4.4Ghz on all 6 cores 12 threads and also cost only $60 and best part is that it will work on the X58 motherboard nativity without no cut motherboard socket and make a custom bios kind of bs 

Just saying that i don't see any CPU bottlenecking at 4.4Ghz regardless of age.

[Dresta]

2 minutes ago, Tom Hanks said:

If you wanted to go cheap, XEON E5640 is the 32nm 12MB L3 version of this chip, but is significantly binned better and uses way less power, also runs cooler.

 

 

Thank you for this benchmark bringing back many memories and history!

[glitchmaster0001]

2 minutes ago, Tom Hanks said:

If you wanted to go cheap, XEON E5640 is the 32nm 12MB L3 version of this chip, but is significantly binned better and uses way less power, also runs cooler.

 

 

yes you can buy those chips for as low as $15 and its an OCing GOD on the X58 motherboard. though if you already have an i7 920 why get an e5640 when both chips perform nearly the same even when oced the only differnce is the xeon is binned higher, uses less volts and has a lower tdp 

[Tom Hanks]

4 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

still an X5650 Xeon would easily hit 4.4Ghz on all 6 cores 12 threads and also cost only $60 and best part is that it will work on the X58 motherboard nativity without no cut motherboard socket and make a custom bios kind of bs 

All first gen XEON's will easily go over 4ghz, they usually top out around 4.4ghz, the best going even up to 5ghz.

[Dresta]

2 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

yes you can buy those chips for as low as $15 and its an OCing GOD on the X58 motherboard. though if you already have an i7 920 why get an e5640 when both chips perform nearly the same even when oced the only differnce is the xeon is binned higher, uses less volts and has a lower tdp 

it seems both you and me like quotes of famous people...<3

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, UnitD77 said:

Just saying that i don't see any CPU bottlenecking at 4.4Ghz regardless of age.

youd be suprised, im a big believer in the LGA 775 and LGA 1366 platform since both offer serious price to performance if you know which CPU and board to pick on them

[glitchmaster0001]

2 minutes ago, Dresta said:

it seems both you and me like quotes of famous people...<3

lol yeah i put my quote for inspiration 

[Dresta]

1 minute ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

lol yeah i put my quote for inspiration 

I personally dont love the Al Capone one since it promotes violence and will remove it but LOVE tupac quotes - They have money for cant feed the poor !!! i put mine to try to make myself upgrade and be better at everything and make other people's live better with love!

[glitchmaster0001]

5 minutes ago, Tom Hanks said:

All first gen XEON's will easily go over 4ghz, they usually top out around 4.4ghz, the best going even up to 5ghz.

yeah my older LGA 771 X5460 hits 4.0GHz and can go much higher but my PSU, memory, and cooling solution are holding me back. still if you ever want to upgrade the CPU id say get an X5650 and OC that thing sky high on all its 6 true cores. at stock speed the CPU is already a god. 

[ARikozuM]

I don't find this very surprising. Synthetic benchmarks (unless you used an in-game path) usually know how to fully utilize both parts for best results. 

[Dabombinable]

13 minutes ago, UnitD77 said:

Just saying that i don't see any CPU bottlenecking at 4.4Ghz regardless of age.

I had the same with my lone GTX 970 when I ran my Xeon X5450 at 4.5GHz (it was unstable AF however due to heat-should have gone with the E5450 as its rated for 80W not 120). No bottlenecking at all.

[glitchmaster0001]

4 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

I don't find this very surprising. Synthetic benchmarks (unless you used an in-game path) usually know how to fully utilize both parts for best results. 

i had a dual xeon x5650 setup and i played BF4 and GTA V on it on ultra without any bottlenecking. (unfortunately GTA V only supports 1 CPU) but still the second CPU was used to do lossless recording so beast of a computer. 

[Dresta]

2 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

I had the same with my lone GTX 970 when I ran my Xeon X5450 at 4.5GHz (it was unstable AF however due to heat-should have gone with the E5450 as its rated for 80W not 120). No bottlenecking at all.

May have just killed the sillicon lottery?

[Electronics Wizardy]

17 minutes ago, UnitD77 said:

Just saying that i don't see any CPU bottlenecking at 4.4Ghz regardless of age.

Put out your pentium 4's then.

[Dabombinable]

1 minute ago, Dresta said:

May have just killed the sillicon lottery?

Well that's kind of the main point with Xeons, its very easy to judge before hand whether or not it will be a good overclocker. (My X5450 for example being the C0 stepping isn't, as well as not being the higher binned E variant)

[UnitD77]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Put out your pentium 4's then.

Welp.... let me just go find an old computer...... and nope don't have one.

[Tom Hanks]

Just to make this clear, AMD FX cannot even cope that well with 1 970.

[Dabombinable]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Put out your pentium 4's then.

Oh god, don't make me have to do a comparison with my Pentium 4 631 and 516.