To further confuse things I just got this in an email from Asus Tech Support:
Thank you for contacting ASUS Technical Support.
We are writing back to you regarding the issue with the board.
I checked and found that it is a motherboard design limitation, So two GPU, it will drop to...
I just got confirmation from someone in another thread using exactly the setup I want and it is working just fine. So the person who posted about the M.2 and U.2 throttling his first slot must have had something else going on
I found the manual for the UPS and figured out the issue - I had narrowed the band on the voltage sensitivity too much and it caused it to kick over to battery. Evidently my voltage goes up at night
I replaced my battery today after 3 years and suddenly the UPS is no longer connected to AC. After I first replaced the battery I ran a self test and it passed. I then updated the battery change date in the Power Chute Software. After about a half hour I shut down the PC and walked away...
I am looking at this board for a new build using a 6850K but have am concerned at PCIe lane allocation.
If I put GPU's in slots 1 and 3 and connect U.2 drive will the GPU's run at x16? I saw on another forum that using U.2 turns on M.2 as well and may drop the slots to x8.
For my new build I will be using:
Core i7-6850k
2x EVGA GTX 1080 FTW
an NVMe drive - preferred drive is 1.2TB Intel 750, could use Samsung 950
Since the CPU supports 40 lanes I want to have the GPU's at x16 and the drive at x4. I am currently looking at three motherboards and was...
I was at Nano for Defense last fall a done of the speakers was DR Stanley Williams from HP R&D. He pointed out that we are approaching a physical limit and suggested that we are heading towards specialized processors. So more competition from AMD may help get a boost from Intel but without a...
My current PC is 4 years old and the only change I made was to replace the 690 with a 980Ti. I am playing Fallout 4 at 4K with no issues so long as AA is off. My daughter is using my previous build from 2007 with some added memory and new videocard (8800GTX to SLI 8800GTX to 750Ti) She plays...
Since it is a card limitation and not a chipset / cpu one then I would expect the newer cards to show more improvement. The 980Ti showed a slight improvement. I believe the 1080 can handle more data flow than the 980Ti so it should show greater improvement. If I want to be capable of taking...
I am curious as to why x16 only gives a slight increase over x8. As an engineer this makes me think that either the card can't handle the x16 speed or the system can't feed it at x16 . I went and did some searching and it looks like even PCI 2 to 3 made little difference.
The Guru 3D review...
Yes that is exactly what I was talking about. Somehow I missed those bottom two comments in his post when I first read it. So two video cards at x16 and one SSD at x4 means I am using 36 lanes. If I change to the z170 then I would be running the GPUs at x8.
As for the memory issue I was...
Thanks for the input.
Current CPU is i7-3770K
I am not really concerned about the cost more about performance. I figure for once go for the best regardless of price. I could see myself never possibly replacing the new build since as I get older I seem to game less.
I will look into those...
I was going with X99 over z170 to get the 40 PCIe lanes instead of 20. That will allow me to run both video cards at x16 and the Intel HD at x4.
I didn't miss something there did I?
As for the RAM I figured half fill it so that I can upgrade later if need be without needing to get rid of any.
t has been 4 years since I built my last PC and the only internal component I have upgraded was the video card (GTX 690 to GTX 980Ti). Below is a notional build. I am looking for any and all input on what it is good or bad. I am located in NY.
Time frame - By the end of Jul (spare Windows 8...
OK so teh game shows no improvement past two cores then woudln't that mean that one core fro OS and two cores for the game should show best performance?
Ok I am getting ready to build a new high-end system. Primary use will be gaming though I will do some image editing, web design and CAD work as well. The big question is whether I go dual (E6600) or quad core (QX6700)? I know at present games are not utilizing the extra cores but I would like...
To begin with my CRT runs at 1600x1200 @ 75Hz not 1280x1024.
Looking at the results the GTS did do well but a single GTX of course did better. Toms Hardware has an article on the 8800's with 1600x1200 benchmarks. In Oblivion (the game I play most), the GTX is almost 10 FPS faster than the...
Not only do I wnat to be Quad Capable but I want to be SLI capable as well.
I shoudl have said that I want to work at 1600 x 1200 or above. So for a widescreen I would need to go to a 24" one. If I rebuild my POC desk then I will probably leave room to go to a dual screen setup. I ahve...
The GTX is longer than the GTS. You are supposed to be able to fit in the GTX if you remove soem optional airflow directing part.
I looked at the 22" widescreens but the resolutions didn't seem high enough to make it wirth switching. I liek working at 1600 x 1200 but they only seemed to go...
19" CRT. I thought about going to an LCD but I can't get a 24" widescreen in my computer desk so I didn't see any reason to upgrade.
From things I have been reading it sounds like the Antec 900 is a tight fit for the 8800GTXs. Also a litlle concerned about running teh wires from the botom...
This is what I am thinking about building:
CPU: Intel E6700 (or maybe but less likely QX6800)
MB: eVGA 680i (or Asus Striker Extreme board?)
Memory: Corsair Twin2X2048-8500C5
Case: Antec 900 or Thermaltake Kandalf or Coolermaster Stacker 830
Video: 2 XFX 8800GTX
Power: PC Power and...
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