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Just finished building new gaming computer! CW to get playing far cry 4/unity :D
ECNetworks
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Hey guys!
Just finished rigging up the new beast, got some nice stuff in this tank
CPU: Intel Core I7-5960X
RAM: 32GB DDR4 2133MHz (proof of ram and cpu: http://prntscr.com/5wdyi2)
Storage 1: 120GB HyperX SSD
Storage 2: 2TB WD HDD (proof of storage: http://prntscr.com/5xt8x8)
GPU: dual GEForce GTX 980 SLI (Another two may be added soon, not sure when!)
PSU: AX1200i
Gonna be awesome for gaming!
Thanked by 1sonic
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Not sure why it's showing up as only 111GB free on the SSD and 1.81TB free on the HDD
Far cry 4 runs smooth as a babies bottom on this thing although for some reason unity is lagging like a dogs end.
Any ideas?
Because binary information is stored in GiB (Gibibyte) and not GB. But the storage are sold in SI (GB) Units so you bought 120 Gigabyte and you got 111 Gibibyte so all correct.
Thanks sepei, any ideas why Unity is lagging so badly? I looked it up and it seemed to be a driver issue but i can't find the drivers for the 980s on ASUS (I have two ASUS OC moddle 980)
I have a raspberry pi
I use it for programming scratch which i love making small game like things in 
don't they have an ARM11 processor?
Whew! You have a beast of a machine. My main workstation nowadays is a Raspberry Pi.
And that I7 is being an ass to cool, the standard cooler wouldn't work so i had to go out and buy a seidon 120v liquid cooler for it
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/1786056
amazing single core performance.
Try the ones off nvidias main site. If your running SLI then you may want to hunt the few previous releases too as some can be funky at times about SLI profiles.
xD I didn't buy it for single core performance, I'm not running a minecraft server lol or anything that needs single core.
Looking at that it's actually really (BAD?) I aint good with benchmarks but cmon those scores are low for single thread.
Well I dont know why its lagging but I also got a very high end machine, maybe its a bit slower then yours because i just got a 6 core and I also lag like a hell. Games are often bad opimized for SLI or CF. Get the driver direct from nvidea. Normally drivers on hardware manufacturers are old.
Oh and wych i've found the issue. I actually enabled SLI in the nvidia control panel and downloaded the latest drivers using my AWFULL 500KBps download speed (Im not even kidding). Turns out the drivers i got off the ASUS disk where not optimised for unity.
amd's best FX scores around 2400. yours scores 4222
so yeh it's awesome lol
Oh, so it's okay then? I have another computer in the house with an AMD FX-8350 and an R9-280X which performs really well for playing games to but i needed an upgrade.
So my single core performance has gotten better, thank goodness.
yeah unity runs smooth as a babies bottom now. Thank heavens for that. Only one issue, do you guys think i'd get BETTER performance out of just one 980?
That's a nicely spec'd machine you got there, OP. Now preserve it's dignity and install a Unix Type OS On it!
Congrats you just wasted alot of money.
I beat you, 4x 120GB SSD, 2TB HDD, 64GB DDR3, 20 Threads @ E5-2670v2 and a intergrated GPU (you know, text editors and terminals). I use it for totally nothing :-)
@ECNetworks
How much did you made it for ?
Eh around 2k. TBH Im adding another 32GB of ram, making 64GB DDR4 ram, I don't use server processors in a desktop, and i have a 2TB Samsung 850 Evo sitting on my desk that i plan on using in the future.
And DalekOfSkaro I will be dualbooting debian on this machine soon. For any games that support it i heard NVidia's OpenGL rendering is slightly faster in linux.
The 850 EVO only goes up to 1TB.... the 2TB variant is not publically available.
Why do you need 64GB of RAM on a desktop?
Yep
To open more porn websites than you can imagine, on the same time
I cried a little bit when I thought about how much beer one could buy with the money you spent on this thing.
2kUSD buys you 4000 beer here in Austria...
My i3-4130(iGPU) haswell with 16Gb ram, m550-128Gb-SSD has plenty of grunt for what I shelled out.
(I love the power savings from removing a big ass nvidia card from inside my chassis)
+Rsync Backup to TomatoUSB based 1-disk NAS(2TB now)
+Hyperthreading gives you 3-core performance for desktop/developer workloads.
If I had to build a budget gaming machine I'd just upgrade this workstation to an E3 cpu with ECC ram and use the i3 cpu +current ram+ $200 Nvidia Gtx960 graphics card(windows only gaming right?)
The diminishing returns on increased investment on 'gaming-quality' hardware, has made me very cynical about the topic. (perf/watt && perf/dollar)
Edit: changed ATI to nvidia gtx960 'sweet spot' after discovering it now via Google.
lowend-hardware.com ?
P.S @ECNetworks : Congratulations on getting the only card that can do 60fps@1200p on Crysis 3 ('the humility machine')
Just watching live gameplay on that would be worth it.
Added another 32GB DDR4 ram and OVERCLOCKED the ram to 2600MHz or somewhere around there.
I have ordered another two 980s and a 4 way SLI. This should be fun!
@vimalware is 60fps@1200p on crysis 3 bad?