My build

[DiscipleAtom]

Hey new around here just wanna show off my rig, i started buying parts in 2012 so yea i know my rig is old <.< but i finally got around to finishing it earlier this year

 

Ive only had one issue, my pcie slot 1 is screwed (i think) and the gpu drivers were constantly crashing, since using slot 2 i havnt had a single crash. Im overclocking my cpu to 4.6ghz it reaches around 75c under a constant 100% load. I'm hoping to upgrade my gpu in the near future but atm i dont need too, would really love a new titan

 

Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 DELUXE
Graphics card: Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom 4GB Video Card
CPU:     Intel Core i7 3930K Unlocked 6-Core LGA 2011 Processor
CPU cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Multi-Socket PWM CPU Cooler
Ram: G.Skill Trident X F3-2400C10Q-32GTX 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3
Case: Thermaltake Chaser MK-I Full Tower Chassis
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 650W G1 80+ Gold Modular Power Supply
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5" SATA III SSD + Samsung 850 EVO 1TB 2.5" SATA III SSD

[johnwshek1218]

deff a great build man, yes a little old, but still will kick ass. If it does what you want it and need it to do, its kick ass, its not about having the best and the greatest, if its what you want and need, it is bad ass. Also, you want to make sure with that board to make sure if the 2nd slot is a full 16x slot, if not you are well throwing away gpu power, which i think you are. 4.6 is very high for that pc. So what i am thinking is that when having you gpu in your first slot, myou are giving it the max potential it can take, and when your cpu is overclocked so high, the system crashes, and since you put it in the second slot, the gpu isnt "getting all its horses" if you will, so it allows the system to boot and post etc. so try turning down your overclock to something modest like 4.3 or 4.4  and put your gpu in first slot, and i bet your system wont crash.

[DiscipleAtom]

na i tried for about a month with the gpu in the slot 1, nothing i did made it completely stable, i never got a BSOD, the gpu would just crash for a second before the drivers came back on. Im fairly certain the slot im using is x16

 

I get 100-110fps on the hd client of wot and around 100fps on bf4 on ultra settings

[johnwshek1218]

yeah afterr looking at your board, i see its a high end bad ass workstation, i actually want one of those boards, and yeah you are right, the slot youy are using is deff 16x, if it was any other board well most other boards it wouldnt be 16x, so honestly the setup you have is dope, and i would contact asus to replace it, unless you are fine with how it is.

[DiscipleAtom]

i doubt after 4 years i would get a replacement haha, yea i love it. I wanna buy doom to test vulkan but im a little confused with vulkan, do more cpu cores get better benefits from it or is it just gpu's it influences?

[johnwshek1218]

its really well both and not, vulkan is basically the new mantle its just an API like direct x 12, there are not many games that support vulkan though, so yes if the game is made on that platform yes it will have better fps and whatnot, like doom does on vulkan rather than direct x 12, vulkan and direct x 12 do not really have an impact on performance, i mean they do, but it is circumstantial to whatever you are doing. Like if something is made for direct x 12, it will have worse performance on vulkan and vice versa, you know. It is hard to explain API is hard to explain on fundamental grounds. but your hardware, not to be offensive, is too old to support either, and even if it could, you wouldnt see much of a difference anyways. and i wish i could buy gainward gpu's and HIS, and all those brands you dont see in the u.s.