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I'm going to be putting this together tomorrow, super excited to see the benchmark results for it.
The purpose of this build is to provide 7680x1440 surround gaming for racing and flying simulators. I'm not 100% confident with the kind of frame-rates i will get with this but if this cant do it, nothing can, or maybe more titans? :/
Hardware:
Processor: i7-5930k with H100i cooler 2x SP120 fans in push config
RAM: 16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum @2800 DDR4
Mobo: Rampage 5 Extreme
GFX: 2x Titan X
PSU: Corsair HX1050
Storage 2x Samsung 840 Evo 500Gb SSD's, 1x Samsung 840 Pro 250Gb SSD
Case: Corsair 750D
Front fans: 2x AF140's
Rear fan: 1x AF120
Bottom fans: 2x AF120's
Peripherals:
Cabels: Corsair red individually sleeved power cables
Monitors: 3x ROG Swift 27"
Audio: Razer Leviathan 5.1 Sound Bar
Game Controller: Thrustmaster Wharthog HOTAS, Logitech G27 Racing Wheel, Logitech G35 Headset
Keyboard: Razer Blackwidow 2014 Ultimate
Mouse: Razer Ouroboros
Some of this stuff is already in place as this gaming setup has been somewhat a work in progress but im finally there!
Will post the benchmarks and images tomorrow afternoon for both stock and OC, wish me luck, I will cry if this doesn't work lol
Update 9th April 2015 - 21:35GMT
The initial benchmark for stock CPU settings and the H100i were very promising. Under a 50 minute stress test the*temperature*never went above 56 degrees on any*core with the coolant holding at 33.3 degrees (Click image to enlarge)
The current stable overclock is 4.5Ghz, 1Ghz over base clock speed and a 25% overall performance increase. This was achieved through disabling any turbo features due to voltage variations when using turbo. Im fairly confident that 4.6 and 4.7 are achievable with this particular chip.
The max temperature achieved was 74 degrees under a 50 minute stress test which defiantly leaves room for high clock speeds.
Please do give your thoughts on any OC improvements you think could be made.
Update 10th April 2015 - 09:30GMT
A sight in its own right...
Update 10th April 2015 - 14:28GMT
Well this was something I wasn't expecting, the GFX card is sitting on the SATA ports, good job they are horizontal ports! The card is properly secured but there is contact there.
With the ROG Swifts unpacked and set up, its time to do some quick benchmarking on stock settings. I will post the results shortly.
Update 4 - Benchmarking and testing
As a base level I will be using Firestrike Ultra 1.1 with all stock setting on this rig. I will then proceed to over-clock both the CPU and GPU's until a stable and sustainable overclock is found. Then I will run various benchmarks including another Firestrike Ultra 1.1 for comparison.
Firestrike Ultra 1.1 4k on Stock Settings
A score of 7027 was achieved on stock settings. for comparison my overclocked 970 SLI score comes in at 5285 on the same test. Both tests can be viewed on the link below:
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/4533489/fs/4549613
CPU*Overclock
For the purposes of this being a test of Titan performance and not CPU performance I have used the Rampage 5's "6 Core Gaming" preset in the bios. This is approximately a 25% performance increase.
Pushing a Titan*Overclock
Nvidia have stated that they believe any Titan X can get a 40% base overclock with the reference cooler so our target is to get a 1400MHz boost clock speed. With the memory frequency I will take what ever I can get.
After hours of trial and error I managed to get a stable overclock of 1262 base clock and 1336 boost clock (wish it was 1337 lol) Details below:
The issue became thermal throttling, if I pushed it towards the 1400 base it would just throttle. The ambient temperature is a little warm here today which may have been a factor but this OC is very stable and overall i am pretty happy with it although I will continue to push it further as time goes on.
Firestrike Ultra 1.1 4k OC
With these setting I achieved a whopping score of 8668
Comparison of stock vs OC*http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/4549613/fs/4550240
Metro: Last light benchmark
The setting used for this test are in the image below.
This test really surprised me when I saw the graph at the end. This is where G-Sync shines when frame rates were so variable I really couldn't notice it.
http://i.imgur.com/hhC9nRjh.png[img]
I have included a video of this benchmark running just because it was quite the experience on 3 27" monitors.
[youtube]https://youtu.be/p0vo_vVRcTg[/youtube]
[b]Unigine Valley[/b]
An absolutely stunning thing to see on this setup with better than expected results:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/XbWmbSCl.jpg
Full size view (click to enlarge):
And the results:
Gaming Experiences
Titanfall
Average FPS: 80
Low: 70
High: 120
On a side note when you are in the Titan the wrap around of the cockpit looks amazing.
Elite: Dangerous
What an experience, again due to the size of the monitors this will pretty much give you motion sickness but man its fun to fly like this!
Min FPS: 90
Max FPS: 120
Average FPS: 100
Conclusion
At the beginning of this project I was concerned with running a resolution of 7680x1440 and maxing out the graphics settings in games but the reality was the opposite and left me wanting for even higher detail settings. You may notice that I have left Anti-aliasing off in the tests, personally at 1440p i could barley tell the difference whilst gaming, it was only apparent that it was off from taking screenshots and trying to find the jagged edges, it may well be game specific though.
The G-Sync effect on triple monitors is simply outstanding and hitting over 100 FPS in games was just not a big deal at all.
I will continue to test other games but I have to say that this setup, my dream machine, is simply the best gaming experience I have ever had and was worth every penny invested.
If anyone would like me to test a specific game please let me know and I will add it to the post.
The purpose of this build is to provide 7680x1440 surround gaming for racing and flying simulators. I'm not 100% confident with the kind of frame-rates i will get with this but if this cant do it, nothing can, or maybe more titans? :/
Hardware:
Processor: i7-5930k with H100i cooler 2x SP120 fans in push config
RAM: 16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum @2800 DDR4
Mobo: Rampage 5 Extreme
GFX: 2x Titan X
PSU: Corsair HX1050
Storage 2x Samsung 840 Evo 500Gb SSD's, 1x Samsung 840 Pro 250Gb SSD
Case: Corsair 750D
Front fans: 2x AF140's
Rear fan: 1x AF120
Bottom fans: 2x AF120's
Peripherals:
Cabels: Corsair red individually sleeved power cables
Monitors: 3x ROG Swift 27"
Audio: Razer Leviathan 5.1 Sound Bar
Game Controller: Thrustmaster Wharthog HOTAS, Logitech G27 Racing Wheel, Logitech G35 Headset
Keyboard: Razer Blackwidow 2014 Ultimate
Mouse: Razer Ouroboros
Some of this stuff is already in place as this gaming setup has been somewhat a work in progress but im finally there!
Will post the benchmarks and images tomorrow afternoon for both stock and OC, wish me luck, I will cry if this doesn't work lol
Update 9th April 2015 - 21:35GMT
The initial benchmark for stock CPU settings and the H100i were very promising. Under a 50 minute stress test the*temperature*never went above 56 degrees on any*core with the coolant holding at 33.3 degrees (Click image to enlarge)
The current stable overclock is 4.5Ghz, 1Ghz over base clock speed and a 25% overall performance increase. This was achieved through disabling any turbo features due to voltage variations when using turbo. Im fairly confident that 4.6 and 4.7 are achievable with this particular chip.
The max temperature achieved was 74 degrees under a 50 minute stress test which defiantly leaves room for high clock speeds.
Please do give your thoughts on any OC improvements you think could be made.
Update 10th April 2015 - 09:30GMT
A sight in its own right...
Update 10th April 2015 - 14:28GMT
Well this was something I wasn't expecting, the GFX card is sitting on the SATA ports, good job they are horizontal ports! The card is properly secured but there is contact there.
With the ROG Swifts unpacked and set up, its time to do some quick benchmarking on stock settings. I will post the results shortly.
Update 4 - Benchmarking and testing
As a base level I will be using Firestrike Ultra 1.1 with all stock setting on this rig. I will then proceed to over-clock both the CPU and GPU's until a stable and sustainable overclock is found. Then I will run various benchmarks including another Firestrike Ultra 1.1 for comparison.
Firestrike Ultra 1.1 4k on Stock Settings
A score of 7027 was achieved on stock settings. for comparison my overclocked 970 SLI score comes in at 5285 on the same test. Both tests can be viewed on the link below:
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/4533489/fs/4549613
CPU*Overclock
For the purposes of this being a test of Titan performance and not CPU performance I have used the Rampage 5's "6 Core Gaming" preset in the bios. This is approximately a 25% performance increase.
Pushing a Titan*Overclock
Nvidia have stated that they believe any Titan X can get a 40% base overclock with the reference cooler so our target is to get a 1400MHz boost clock speed. With the memory frequency I will take what ever I can get.
After hours of trial and error I managed to get a stable overclock of 1262 base clock and 1336 boost clock (wish it was 1337 lol) Details below:
The issue became thermal throttling, if I pushed it towards the 1400 base it would just throttle. The ambient temperature is a little warm here today which may have been a factor but this OC is very stable and overall i am pretty happy with it although I will continue to push it further as time goes on.
Firestrike Ultra 1.1 4k OC
With these setting I achieved a whopping score of 8668
Comparison of stock vs OC*http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/4549613/fs/4550240
Metro: Last light benchmark
The setting used for this test are in the image below.
This test really surprised me when I saw the graph at the end. This is where G-Sync shines when frame rates were so variable I really couldn't notice it.
http://i.imgur.com/hhC9nRjh.png[img]
I have included a video of this benchmark running just because it was quite the experience on 3 27" monitors.
[youtube]https://youtu.be/p0vo_vVRcTg[/youtube]
[b]Unigine Valley[/b]
An absolutely stunning thing to see on this setup with better than expected results:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/XbWmbSCl.jpg
Full size view (click to enlarge):
And the results:
Gaming Experiences
Titanfall
Average FPS: 80
Low: 70
High: 120
On a side note when you are in the Titan the wrap around of the cockpit looks amazing.
Elite: Dangerous
What an experience, again due to the size of the monitors this will pretty much give you motion sickness but man its fun to fly like this!
Min FPS: 90
Max FPS: 120
Average FPS: 100
Conclusion
At the beginning of this project I was concerned with running a resolution of 7680x1440 and maxing out the graphics settings in games but the reality was the opposite and left me wanting for even higher detail settings. You may notice that I have left Anti-aliasing off in the tests, personally at 1440p i could barley tell the difference whilst gaming, it was only apparent that it was off from taking screenshots and trying to find the jagged edges, it may well be game specific though.
The G-Sync effect on triple monitors is simply outstanding and hitting over 100 FPS in games was just not a big deal at all.
I will continue to test other games but I have to say that this setup, my dream machine, is simply the best gaming experience I have ever had and was worth every penny invested.
If anyone would like me to test a specific game please let me know and I will add it to the post.
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