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[Silent-Runner]

i want that Wall-E!

[DigitalDemon]

i want that Wall-E!

This guy?



I keep him in my office, but I have about 9 more versions of him around the house. I like robots

[Progression]

Ok, where can I buy that WallE?

[Silent-Runner]

9 ??? Versions.....???

..i hate you ....

[DigitalDemon]

Link for this exact version:

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=50637926&cp=&parentPage=search

[bill dennison]

I want one that crushes beer or pop cans

[Cream]

Case fan update..














Aluminium ring with stainless steel mess insert,
BitFenix Spectre PRO 230mm Fan , Don't know how they work that out as the fan is actually only 180mm?

temps down about 7-8 deg.

[Meteor_of_War]

Been a while but couple images with my new 980 Ti Classified.

[nycdarkness]

Started WC on the secondary pc tonight

Far from done. PPC order coming in tmr, will allow me to finish the main and secondary this weekend. Then gonna finish my bench...

What use to be my main has become the gpu testing station.....




Gonna be on that casselabs goodness come Saturday!!!

[logical]

Started WC on the secondary pc tonight

Far from done. PPC order coming in tmr, will allow me to finish the main and secondary this weekend. Then gonna finish my bench...

So... where are the pictures ...

[Megaman]

So... where are the pictures ...

You need to imagine it....


Looks good NYC

[ShaidarHaran]

I thought I posted these already but I guess not. Here's my rebuilt setup back to Z97 and single GPU 980 Ti. X99 5960x + Tri-SLI 980 wasn't useful for anything other than benchmarks so I sold off my gear and downgraded.

[nycdarkness]

useful/need/downgrade hmmmmm.. Not words of the enthusiast!

[ShaidarHaran]

useful/need/downgrade hmmmmm.. Not words of the enthusiast!

I thought I had a good use case for it (flight sim) and that turned out not to be true.

[Hapatingjaky]

Started WC on the secondary pc tonight

Far from done. PPC order coming in tmr, will allow me to finish the main and secondary this weekend. Then gonna finish my bench...

What use to be my main has become the gpu testing station.....




Gonna be on that casselabs goodness come Saturday!!!

I don't know who's case is more of jumbled mess, yours or Kac's.

[nycdarkness]

I don't know who's case is more of jumbled mess, yours or Kac's.

I think you missed the part where I am in transition, where KAC is more of a I am done.

[KAC]

When did I say I am done?
I still have to install the second classified, fix a second 200mm fan on top, possibly water cool one of the classifieds, put an SSD and fix the wiring.

[nycdarkness]

Hmm guess it's txs instead. x4 or x3 Prolly go with 3 since I have 3 on hand atm.

[Hapatingjaky]

That's how you watercool a card KAC.

[nycdarkness]

PPC package came half fcked up. Made some decision changes. 2 pcs are up

[KAC]

Gay, there is jizz in your tank.

[Sazar]

Potato picture while cleaning stuff out today.

I think this was half way through coz the front fans are still dusty



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Bonus pics of attic/loft office setup. Been working on setting up the tables and stuff today (yep, relatively inexpensive table-tops... why? because I like the surface area )







Left side, my personal setup. Right side, my office workstation.

[Dave]

That ceiling...I can see myself banging my head every time I get up.

[Sazar]

That ceiling...I can see myself banging my head every time I get up.

Heh, yah

My old desks were against the wall and I did that a few times.

Now, with the angle and where my chair is, I have enough clearance I don't have to stoop. And with the desks sort of in the way, I always have the standing room channel available

It's about 4 foot at the wall, and about 6'4" in the middle.

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Will likely be slapping the 850pro in there this week/weekend so might take another picture or two. Clean install of Windows 10 planned. Wish me luck

[shadow001]

I'm disappointed with the Asus service regarding support for 4 way crossfire using 4 separate cards, and have been waiting for months for an updated bios, after I informed tech support of the issue back in march, so without further ado, meet the supermicro X9DRG-qf:


This is the motherboard may be changing towards, as the current Asus board also has some limits relative to memory capacity ( 8 slots, 256 GB memory capacity maximum), since I plan on adding at least another 128 GB of ram, but don't want to scrap the existing memory, which with it being registered and ECC is not exactly cheap, and it needs to be a board that can support 4 GPU's at full PCI-e 3.0 X16 speeds, so without further ado:





16 memory slots with a 1 TB ( yes, 1024 GB) memory capacity, and I plan on plugging in my current cards and either a pair Intel E5 2690's (10 core / 20 thread , 3 Ghz base, 3.8 Ghz turbo mode, 25 MB L2 cache), or a pair of E5 2697's (12 core / 24 thread, 2.7 Ghz base, 3.5 Ghz turbo mode, 30 MB of L2).


Even with 4 cards plugged in ( 4 R290x 8GB cards which I already own, water cooled), still has enough lanes open for an additional LSI SAS card for storage ( I already have it ), and a Creative THX sound card ( already own that too)....


It's a much larger board than the usual ATX standard, but I have a case that can handle the beast just fine (XSPC cube case, with the motherboard laid out horizontally...)....Clocks in at 15.2" x 13.2" (38.6cm x 33.5cm) size wise. so it really is proprietary.


Main thing is the memory, with the ability to pack up to 1 TB, and handling up to 24 cores / 48 threads well it's safe to say that an upgrade after this isn't coming any time soon....LOL


Checking all the information available before pulling the trigger, but it seems like the best option out there....

[Dave]

Only thing I see being an issue is that top PCI-E 16x slot might have problems with long graphics cards and the memory slots next to it.

[shadow001]

Only thing I see being an issue is that top PCI-E 16x slot might have problems with long graphics cards and the memory slots next to it.

It's the last 4 slots that i'll be using for the cards, stating from the one just below the lower set of memory slots on the outermost CPU socket.


The first three slots (pair of X8 ones and the X16 in between the pair) will be for sound cards, SAS controllers, etc...Hardware that the PCB on them is quite a bit shorter to begin with...

[Ford Freak]

What are you planning on using that computer for?

[shadow001]

What are you planning on using that computer for?

Professional applications that leverage all the cores for sure, but in more broad terms, pretty much anything it wants for years and years without ever worrying if an application is too demanding....

[demo]

LoL @ board

[Ford Freak]

Professional applications that leverage all the cores for sure, but in more broad terms, pretty much anything it wants for years and years without ever worrying if an application is too demanding....

lol. I was wondering. I was thinking "he is going overkill for gaming/general computer use or overkill for doing something like audio, video or photo processing." I'm curious what the benchmarks will be like.

[shadow001]

lol. I was wondering. I was thinking "he is going overkill for gaming/general computer use or overkill for doing something like audio, video or photo processing." I'm curious what the benchmarks will be like.

Did run 3D mark and paid special attention to the physics score, since it is heavily multi threaded, and I scored ~ 27 000 points, with the FPS being near the 80 Fps range on that test.


Seems you need an unlocked I7 5960X running upwards of 5 Ghz (Meaning LN2 land) to get that kind of physics score, and I can do that every day for hours and completely stable, not just a few minutes before something is about to melt....



While I ran windows 10 for a few hours, I also did the draw call test ( again heavily multi threaded ), and hit 35 million draw calls per second in DX12, while I could only do 1.2 million per second in the DX11 draw call test, which is single threaded so only 1 core is being used.


20 core / 40 thread performance examples, so when the application is multithreaded, hold on and enjoy the ride.....LOL.

[demo]

So I was curious and ran the draw call tests.

35 mil in DX12 is very impressive shadow, almost double the score of my 4770k.

On the other hand, I doubled your DX11 score at 2.4 mil.

Interesting results. Now, less peen more pics.

[DeathKnight]

New case

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=34023722

[AdamK47]

Nice setup.

What's the deal with the exhaust fans?

[shadow001]

So I was curious and ran the draw call tests.

35 mil in DX12 is very impressive shadow, almost double the score of my 4770k.

On the other hand, I doubled your DX11 score at 2.4 mil.

Interesting results. Now, less peen more pics.

DX11 is the past and DX12 is the future.....

[Ford Freak]

Nice setup.

What's the deal with the exhaust fans?

Fan boosting a fan? Maybe something like Ford did with that POS 6.4L diesel they had, turbo boosting a turbo.

[demo]

DX11 is the past and DX12 is the future.....

Well, DX11 is still the present for now.

What those figures tell you is, this 4770k platform has been running games significantly faster, at double the capability of a dual IVB-EP config for the last two or three years. It's had quite a good run but could do with an upgrade. Looking towards Zen or Skylake-E.


Your DX12 3dmark score is nothing short of impressive, but at the same time have you looked at recent DX12 game benchmarks? Pretty interesting stuff for 2 reasons:

First, despite half the cores 6700k is actually a little faster than 5960x, and 4770k/4790k are roughly on par if not slightly behind. Even though DX12 is far better at utilising multiple cores, it seems games still need to be programed and optimised to run more cores. This could mean Devs are likely to optimise for the core count found in consoles, which is 8, but 2 of those are dedicated to other tasks like OS, leaving 6 cores available.

Secondly, it seems (or is speculated) AVX2 instruction set is being used in these DX12 benchmarks. AVX2 is found in Haswell or newer and doubles FPU throughput. Double precision and single precision floating point operations per core are up from 8 and 16, to 16 and 32, which is double previous gens as well as AMD CPU's. In DX12, a dual core i3 Haswell is beating an 8 core FX8370 and 6 core FX6300. It's still early days though, this DX12 game isn't enough to draw conclusions from yet. interesting times ahead.

[aviphysics]

New case



http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=34023722

I hate cases with front doors, but the interior sure is nice.

[shadow001]

Well, DX11 is still the present for now.

What those figures tell you is, this 4770k platform has been running games significantly faster, at double the capability of a dual IVB-EP config for the last two or three years. It's had quite a good run but could do with an upgrade. Looking towards Zen or Skylake-E.


Your DX12 3dmark score is nothing short of impressive, but at the same time have you looked at recent DX12 game benchmarks? Pretty interesting stuff for 2 reasons:

First, despite half the cores 6700k is actually a little faster than 5960x, and 4770k/4790k are roughly on par if not slightly behind. Even though DX12 is far better at utilising multiple cores, it seems games still need to be programed and optimised to run more cores. This could mean Devs are likely to optimise for the core count found in consoles, which is 8, but 2 of those are dedicated to other tasks like OS, leaving 6 cores available.

Secondly, it seems (or is speculated) AVX2 instruction set is being used in these DX12 benchmarks. AVX2 is found in Haswell or newer and doubles FPU throughput. Double precision and single precision floating point operations per core are up from 8 and 16, to 16 and 32, which is double previous gens as well as AMD CPU's. In DX12, a dual core i3 Haswell is beating an 8 core FX8370 and 6 core FX6300. It's still early days though, this DX12 game isn't enough to draw conclusions from yet. interesting times ahead.

All that conjecture and reasoning and hoping developers do this and do that, that lower count CPU's perform like this and like that, and little old me not having to worry a damn thing about any of that at all and guess what, my current board can handle up to 36 CPU cores / 72 threads, and 1 TB of ram onboard......It is flipping insane, here it is:





It's fast now, it can become even more brutal later on.......I got CPU power for flipping years to come, regardless of application so I don't care about how things develop at all......Power is intoxicating, and you know it....