New pc beast ordered

[tanknspanker]

Hey hey!
Today I made my new pc order
Hardware stuff :
- 1050 w psu
- asus 9X79
- intel i7 3930k (liquid cooled)
- asus 590gtx
- 16GB ram
- 2Tb HD
- SSD OCZ 256GB Octane ( for superduper fast startup of pc/ game)

I hope with this setup I'll be able to 5box
On super resolution+ fraps the whole thing
:-D
Atleast the price told me it would ..

Let me know what you think

Greetz
Tank

[pinotnoir]

What is the asus 9x79?

[tanknspanker]

I understand ur question.. I cannot find it on google..
I was told the motherboard..

Just giving the specs the vendor gave me

[dancook]

http://ie.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_2011/P9X79/

Something like that

[tanknspanker]

http://ie.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_2011/P9X79/

Something like that


yep, thx dancook, was looking for it also
that might be the one ;-)

[Lyonheart]

I just got this http://www.digitalstormonline.com/comploadode.asp?id=597328 .. it does what you want yours to do..5 WoWs at max res..in the city i was staying above 30FPS, all windows on ultra..if i started fraps video capture it went down to 20s.

With my main on max settings, and alts on fair with high view distance i stayed maxed FPS ( i have it set to max at 45FPS and 30FPS while capturing video with fraps.

Your rig is overkill for 5.. you could 10 box on that on high settings easy I'm sure.

My rig playes BF3 ..single player or multi on ultra with zero slow downs.. even in heavy combat areas. So your rig is future prrof 8)

[Esca]

The 590 GTX is not the optimal video card for multiboxing. The better choice is a GTX 580 with 3 GB.

[jstanthr]

The 590 GTX is not the optimal video card for multiboxing. The better choice is a GTX 580 with 3 GB.

^^^ second that

[tanknspanker]

But isnt the 590 GTX a newer version than the 580 ?
why would they make it less better then a previous vid card?

[MiRai]

But isnt the 590 GTX a newer version than the 580 ?
why would they make it less better then a previous vid card?
The 590 is a dual-GPU card. There are two underclocked 580 GPUs on a single board and they're in SLI
unless you manually turn it off, in which case, you're left with a single underclocked 580 GPU. Most, if not
all, 590's are marketed at 3GB and none of them are. The 3GB of RAM is shared between the GPUs
meaning each GPU only gets access to 1.5GB at any given time.

[Lyonheart]

The 590 is a dual-GPU card. There are two underclocked 580 GPUs on a single board and they're in SLI
unless you manually turn it off, in which case, you're left with a single underclocked 580 GPU. Most, if not
all, 590's are marketed at 3GB and none of them are. The 3GB of RAM is shared between the GPUs
meaning each GPU only gets access to 1.5GB at any given time.

And two 570s in sli are faster in most cases, and cheaper than a 590. But WoW and sli do not work, it might be good for a lot of other games though. My 580 1.5g ram is more than enough for anything out right now. I will upgrade when 680s come out 8)

[MiRai]

And two 570s in sli are faster in most cases, and cheaper than a 590.
2x 560Ti's in SLI are actually faster than a single stock-clocked GTX 580 in most cases and I heard there is
actually a new 560Ti coming out at the end of this month that's going to be on par with the GTX 570 (same
amount of CUDA cores or something). nVidia did the same thing with the 460's last year to match the 470's.

But WoW and sli do not work, it might be good for a lot of other games though.
Technically speaking... my SLI tests did work but, I didn't test it thoroughly. What I found super annoying
with SLI while trying to multibox is that the mouse cursors flicker like crazy when repeater was enabled.

My 580 1.5g ram is more than enough for anything out right now.
This statement is definitely on a per use basis. Speaking from a non-multiboxing single game client point-
of-view, as an example I was able to crank up TERA Online's multisampling to 32x and actually play the
game smoothly with my 3GB GTX 580's in SLI. Doing so required about (from what I remember) about 2GB
of video RAM and something like 70% GPU usage (sorry for the estimates this was months ago when I was
making my last TERA video). I wasn't able to achieve smooth results like that w/o the cards in SLI.

There are also those people that like to play games using nVidia Surround or ATI's Eyefinity which easily
increases the RAM usage above 1.5GB if the eye candy is applied. Even 2560x1600 resolutions on a single
30" can exceed 1.5GB of video RAM.

I will upgrade when 680s come out 8)
I can't wait for 28nm Kepler either but, I think I might just invest in a 3rd 3GB GTX 580 to help hold me over
for an extra year or so until the 7xx series. When the 6xx series comes out I can hopefully pick up a third
5xx card for cheap.

[Lyonheart]

Yea, i was talking about the games i have played, or will play. I use a 24inch screen, 1920,1080 res. but have cranked BF3.. Skyrim ( with enhanced mods ) Crysis2 all up and have not noticed any FPS dips below 40ish? I have been tempted to buy http://www.asus.com/Display/LCD_Monitors/VG278H/ .. and i know I would need sli for that. Just not sure i would use the 3D that much. I don't think ill ever do the multi monitor thing either.

[tanknspanker]

hey hey, so i got my new pc and its actually a 6core i7
and Graphic card is a ati 6990

however this should've been an overkill, my wow clients cannot run on ultra ...
1 on ultra and others on low, and still have small issues of lag..
isboxer is set at round robin for the processors
but still i dont have a freakin clue how to get my stuff on ultra :S if this setup aint working then i have no idea what to do ..
greetignz

[MiRai]

hey hey, so i got my new pc and its actually a 6core i7
and Graphic card is a ati 6990
Pretty sure that's a dual GPU card. Dual GPU video cards don't work well with multiboxing... we've been saying this for years.
nVidia lets you turn off SLI on their dual GPU cards and, as far as I know, ATi does not have an option to turn off Crossfire.

Also, playing on Ultra x5 is complete and utter overkill.

[tanknspanker]

Pretty sure that's a dual GPU card. Dual GPU video cards don't work well with multiboxing... we've been saying this for years.
nVidia lets you turn off SLI on their dual GPU cards and, as far as I know, ATi does not have an option to turn off Crossfire.

Also, playing on Ultra x5 is complete and utter overkill.

I just contacted the person who has build my pc.,
He's telling me that my pc shouldnt see the crossfire, normally.
I might try with another gpu, but i dont wanna throw any money away.

[MiRai]

I just contacted the person who has build my pc.,
He's telling me that my pc shouldnt see the crossfire, normally.
I might try with another gpu, but i dont wanna throw any money away.
Apparently you can turn off Crossfire... see post #3:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/332772-33-experience-dual-cards-5970-6990

[tanknspanker]

Under the Performance Tab, there is a "AMD CrossFireX" page. If you were running say 2, 3 or 4 6970s, you can pick how many gpu's you want to run in crossfire, or just use one GPU. This was neat for a game like Black Ops which ran ok with 2 GPUs but *** the bed with 3. With a 6990 there is no options whatsoever. None.


Still he says for the 6990 there isnt an option ..
:-(

[MiRai]

Still he says for the 6990 there isnt an option ..
:-(
Oh, haha... -1 Internet to me for not reading everything.

I know nothing about ATi so you're at the mercy of someone here who has a 6990. I'll try a few more searches later
after I'm done with this boring homework of mine.

[tanknspanker]

Oh, haha... -1 Internet to me for not reading everything.

I know nothing about ATi so you're at the mercy of someone here who has a 6990. I'll try a few more searches later
after I'm done with this boring homework of mine.

+1 for doing the effort to help ;-)

[tanknspanker]

Still there should be a solution..
If i check the specs of my GPU and other single GPU's
the diffrence is crazy..
If my GPU was a robot it would kill aaaallll the others :S
SO WHY ISNT THIS WORKING!

This one costed my 563€..
This should be worth his money though

lets pretend its the gpu, and i insert an other GPU single one,
things will be solved?

greetingz

[ebony]

The 590 is a dual-GPU card. There are two underclocked 580 GPUs on a single board and they're in SLI
unless you manually turn it off, in which case, you're left with a single underclocked 580 GPU. Most, if not
all, 590's are marketed at 3GB and none of them are. The 3GB of RAM is shared between the GPUs
meaning each GPU only gets access to 1.5GB at any given time.

i had a dual GFcard before It does not LIKE window mode at all was a nightmare infact my 9800gtx worked better.

ok it was a ATI but same thing i would stay away from it (at the time could not turn of Crossfire)

i later updated to a 6950 and its a great card my ram/cpu let me down maxxing up the settings but av yet to use the full card (in wow)

[MiRai]

Still there should be a solution..
If i check the specs of my GPU and other single GPU's
the diffrence is crazy..
If my GPU was a robot it would kill aaaallll the others :S
SO WHY ISNT THIS WORKING!

This one costed my 563€..
This should be worth his money though

My guess as to the solution would be to disable Crossfire and apparently that cannot be done on a 6990. Fact of the
matter is... you shouldn't be running your clients on Ultra anyway... it's complete overkill. Also, If you've enabled
Multisampling you can expect to bring your system to a crawl.

There have been many posts in this hardware forum that have warned users about dual-GPU cards and their side
effects towards multiboxing. Hardware sites are fine for reviews and benchmarks but, those charts don't exactly
reflect results you will get while multiboxing. Review sites don't open up multiple copies of Battlefield 3 or Crysis 2
and test the videos cards. They open up one fullscreen version of the game and do their benchmarking that way. So
while a dual-GPU card looks nice on a chart for a single fullscreen game, in reality they're not as good as a single-GPU
card that will need to power multiple games in windowed mode.


lets pretend its the gpu, and i insert an other GPU single one,things will be solved?
I don't know the answer to that. If you can eliminate any software as the culprit then your next bet is to start looking
at your hardware. I'm not going to say "yes, spend more money on another card" when you may actually have your
video settings cranked up too high or your CPU affinity set incorrectly.