You should wait for Pascal man, it's looking like the GTX 1080 is only a couple of months away and Nvidia is claiming 2x perf/watt on it vs Maxwell. If true even with a 150W GTX 1080 that would be like a 20% improvement over the 980 Ti.
I doubt they'll launch GP100 for a while in the GeForce series, you'll probably only see it in Tesla and Quadro for 2016. They probably want to be able to charge people $550-$650 for a while for the 1080 like they did with the 980 before launching their flagship chip. I'd be surprised if it isn't really cut down too like GTX 780 was vs the full GK110 GTX 780 Ti. That's been their release model ever since GTX 680.
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with my 960 at home though, I can wait a bit... I'm looking at the $400 price point though, so I think it's gonna be a 104 anyways
clam man, you got it twisted, Random is building the Riva Turbo X of PCs.
Yawn...
Waiting for Windows 10 to download on my Tower. I first cloned my drive, and am now downloading.
Silly me, I was going to clone it on a SSD, but bought a m.2 by accident when the tower need a regular mSATA.
Oh well... happens. I can always reclone to the right SSD.
I have at least 5 weeks before I'll have the funds to spend $3k+ on a new system. Anyone know the expected price for it when it comes out?
Unless someone has some worthy opinions, I will likely do the build I mentioned in my earlier post. I would especially like opinions of different components that will make it even faster. In a rush, I found components for an under $4k budget, as I may go two G-cards or 128 GB. probable get a case that will hold 6 or more HD's and put my video collection on it.
I want a modular power supply, so I have no unused cabling in the case. Something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-SuperNOVA...n%3A6906988011
Anyone have pros or cons on this one or others like it?
Check JohnnyGURU.com for power supply reviews. The EVGA G2 models tend to usually be better than the G1 (G2 are made by a better OEM, Super Flower, the G1 are made by FSP), which is probably why they have double the warranty.
dp...
oh.
carry on
Wow, the Pascal GP100 chip has 15 billion transistors according to the CEO of Nvidia. GM200 (used in the GTX an X and GTX 980 Ti) was 7 billion by comparison.
GP100 will be a bigger die than GM200. GP100 is 600mm^2, while GM200 was 561mm^2.
, the Tesla GP100 card won't be available until Q1 2017. So much for a GTX 980 Ti successor in early 2017.
God, the boost clock for Tesla P100 is 1480 MHz. No wonder it's a 300W card.
No news on the GP104 chips though, so the speculation that we could see them in late May is probably bull .
According to this bench from techpowerup in their testsuite of games the reference 980 Ti is about 69% faster than a single 780.
Since SLI scaling seems to usually be 50%-90% for a second card it looks like a single 980 Ti vs SLI 780 is going to be a real mixed bag. I guess forget my advice to wait for Pascal, their CEO said nothing about GP104 today so these reports of Pascal GeForces in May sound a whole lot less reliable now.
Wow Quantum Break is such a piece of . Can't even get a locked 50 fps at 720p with a ing an X. Microsoft is such a company.
^ read a lot of complains about DirectX Windows Store-based apps. For example, the API doesn't do "real" exclusive mode fullscreen, there's no overlay support, and it currently doesn't allow turning off VSync. I heard they're working on fixes on some of that, but basically what you're getting is a XBox One version of the games.
The recent Gears of Wars release was another Universal Windows Platform disaster. ing game from 2006 couldn't run at 60 fps on an R9 390, what a joke.
Well, that SSD I bought with the M.2 connector... They are far faster than SATA III speeds. Faster than the standard mSATA also. I just ordered a board adapter, and it will attach to the motherboard data bus. Not only do they lack the physical seek speed. If I looked at the data correctly, the one I bought is about 8 times faster than SATA III. The one I listed in my probable build is another 3 times faster yet.
Only if it's a PCIE SSD... you can get SATA III in M.2 form factor (uses the SATA bus, not the PCIE 4x lane). Not sure what you got, but you could check. But yes, PCIE SSDs do outperform SATA III ones.
Let me know what kind of disk speeds you get. You can probably use CrystalDiskMark for that.
It might be just SATA speed. I know the 950 I listed is a 4 lane. I guess I'll find out later. I'm thinking of getting that 950 Pro in the 512 GB just because it would save me from messing with the files, or removing programs.
According to Passmark, the one I bought has a rating of 4790. The 950 Pro 512 is at 13402. They say the Crucial you bought is 3475, and the 2-1/2 850 EVO Baseline recommended is 4241.
Probably is just SATA.
I had to order the adapter card, gave up trying to find one local. It should be here Tuesday.
Passmark has the original 1 TB (ST1000DM003-1ER162) from my XPS 8700 at 1176, and the 1/2 TB Barracuda (ST3500418AS) I cloned to, that came out of my Lenovo at 737. I notice the slowdown, but this is just a temporary home for my OS.
Just uninstalled it after playing like 5 missions... It's not a bad game, but it's like a poor man's starcraft, IMO... Or, like startcraft but you build tons of ships, and basically you attack (or are attacked) in waves after waves after waves... it gets kinda repe ive and annoying after a while...
OK, I haven't cloned anything yet, but I have the SSD in the system. Didn't have any options in the OS to make the OS see it. The BIOS saw it on SATA 5. It is just a regular SATA SSD, so the speeds are going to be regular SSD speeds. I was finally able to initialize it through Disk Director 12, which I bought for my cloning.
I then ran tests. I already had a baseline Passmark test baseline from October when I installed my 32 GB memory.
1TB baseline/today/2nd drive/SSD. The original drive in the computer and the baseline today reflects the change from Windows 7 to Windows 10 as well.
Mark: 1285/1073/539/4698
Sequential read: 170.3/174.4/81/505
Sequential Write: 177.8/114.9/61.9/472.0
Random Seek: 7.0/7.3/6.2/321.8
I never tested the 2nd HD under windows 7, and I'll seat it again later. Right now, I'm moving my large do ents folder, and doing some housecleaning before cloning. It's funny, my new laptop is in my locker at work, and I broke out my old Win XP laptop o make this post while waiting for the computer to do its thing.
I'll want to retest the 1TB drive again. See if the drop from 177.8 to 114.9 was a fluke or from the Win 7 to Win 10 change.
Time to clone in a few short...
yeah ~500 is what you'll see on a regular SSD... they're the ing bomb... never going back to an HDD, at least for the OS...
It's the random seek that really makes a difference when you have multiple files to load.
Now that I'm comfortable with the software, I'm going to buy two more SSDs. It will be maybe three weeks or so before I splurge the approximate $620 for the two, but I will likely get the 1 TB mSATA version of the Samsung 850 EVO for my laptop, and the 512 GB m.2 Samsung 950 Pro 4 lane PCIe to add to my Tower. The adapter card I bought holds two M.2 SSD cards. One SATA, and one PCIe. Learning as I go. Anyway, I want that extra speed, and capacity. So... Why not have two SSDs in my tower?
I retested the 1 TB HD, and never got better than 153 on the sequential write.
I wonder what Windows 10 does to slow that down by so much?
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