ATI and NVIDIA updates

If you don't know how to flash your bios, I would not recommend flashing your bios. Many newer systems come with windows programs to do it for you... Much, much safer.

 

That being said... There will be some bios' here... http://www.overclock.net/t/1232473/official-nvidia-gtx-680-owners-club beware most are overclocks, though usually pretty safe.

 

Flashing bios is not the big bad monster it used to be.

Fact is if you want UEFI ( Fast Boot ) and your video card is not UEFI you will have to flash it or buy a new video card.

 

It was a big bad monster even for we more advanced users... It's not so big and bad for us now... Still not a novice thing to be doing. Just some fair warning.

 

im on win7 so il just stick with it and not touch bios. tyvm for your help guys much appreciated.

 

Yep no advantage with W7


lool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLCVtfON4VA


What a Nob boot faster lool ....do you see some of the garbage he is running ? ......must be 40 apps in startup lol

My startup below...... nadda.


That is the top utube search for Fast boot windows 7 ................ you got to be kidding. lol

 

Droooool....

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X99 OC Formula/index.asp?cat=

 

Ya that's awesome. I wonder how much better it is than my board.

 

Light years I'm sure... DDR4 up to 128gb of Ram? More then you could even dream of using... PCI-E 30 x16 lanes for miles... 18 CORES.... MMMmmmmmm....

 

I have the X99X Killer Fata1ty board. Also capable of 128 GB DDR4. Also capable of 40 PCI-E 3.0 lanes. It's just a slightly lower model board than the OC Formula.

Xeon processors aren't great for gaming because low frequencies/clocks and many cores is the opposite of what games like. Games like less cores and high frequencies/clocks

8 GB of RAM is fine for 99.9% of gaming nowadays, and 16GB should cover you for that last 0.1%.

DDR4 has shown to hardly make a difference in games.

This board will hardly do anything your "standard" X99 board can't do when it comes to gaming. The board probably has higher quality components which may allow you to reach higher stable overclocks but we're talking maybe 4.7 instead of 4.5 GHz or something, and it may not even make that much difference; the difference may only come into play when using liquid nirogen, or something, for extreme cooling and overclocking (like overclockers trying to break records and such).

 

Well I render for a living... So both Xeons and tons of ram do me all kinds of good. Plus the power regulation and connection quality is pretty nice. but I don't have the money for any of that and there's a good chance I'd come close to matching it anyway.

 

Ya, the 18 cores (36 threads total?) would make a big difference then. Totally. Same with 128 GB of RAM VS 8/16/32/64, and DDR4.

 

Most of them read CPU's... Like Vue, one of my favs reads CPU's as seen in the attached screenshot. you can see that my lil i5 2500k @ 5ghz is going to take roughly 3 hours to render this simple scene.

That system would probably bang it out almost instantly. But, unlike most rendering programs, Vue allows you to work on other things with your box while rendering.

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Regardless, rtight now it's more cost effective for me to just spin up a dedicated server on rackspace and spend like $8 and use this monster box to render and then just turn it off afterwards. 32cpu's/60gb of ram $2.50 an hour.

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[TD]128 GB[/TD]
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Why not look for a used 5960X (or even a 5930k, or at-least a 5820k) and throw it on a not-so top-end X99 board? Combine it with 32 GB or at-least 16 GB (4 x 4GB) of 3000 MHz, quad-channel, DDR4 RAM? You'll have a beast of a system at a quite affordable price especially if you go with the 5820k, 16 GB (4 x 4GB), and a low-price board.



P.S. ASRock's entire line of X99 boards including their Mini-ATX and even their Mini-ITX models all support 18-core xeon processors . They almost all support 128 GB of RAM as well except their mini-ITX model (two DIMM slots - dual channel).

 

Geforce 353.30 WHQL

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/86504

 

Heard the 5820k only has 28 lanes?

 

Are you going to do it? and if so why?

 

Why not ?

I installed on a W8.1 OS.

Finally worked out why rF2 was stuttering........ needed to set GPU sync was all .........doh.

W7 I had no vsync and was smooth as silk ....... in W8.1 it is was horrible. lol

 

Yes, 5820k 28 lanes not 40.

Instead of making the lowest model have 4/8 cores/threads and 40 lanes like Intel did with the 3820k and 4820k, they kept the 6/12 cores/threads but reduced the lanes to 28.

 

You set the GSync? Or the gpu sync in rfconfig?