Your Damn straight I will with some EVGA GTX 580 Classified HC cheescake! until gtx 780's come around
Oh calm down Farnsworth! What are you going to think of next, a telescope looking device that can sniff astronomical distance's? Suppose your going to call it the Smell-O-Scope are you?
Have you decided which processors you'll be using? I'm aiming for a pair of E5-2687W, but to get the system working before the summer may have to buy a couple of cheaper processors initially and upgrade a few months later. Oh well, more hardware to benchmark For GPUs I'll probably be going for the 680/780 classifieds as well. Double precision flops (folding power) is my main goal with this system I'm even considering building a mini-itx system in the base of the main system to control the cooling system and double as a dedicated firewall
Haha, I just read the TDP of the E5 - 2687W Yeah I'm probably going for a pair of those too, although initially I was thinking E5 - 2670, just depends how much money I have at the time, reckon I'll have enough for a couple of 2687W though and that sounds like an epic idea, I did see someone doing that who was using a Phase Charge Cooling unit, using a mini itx system to do something with it, can't remember where I saw the bloody video now
Rig is not in my sig... yet http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/548956 Only cost £300 for 600 points. I don't know about you guys, but that is a god damn bargin right there!
This: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/1811091/2011-intel-xeon-update-holy-socket-trinity Makes for interesting reading.
Well, I just installed my shiny (Literally) new HD 6870. I know Geekbench doesn't test the GPU, but I think taking the load off my CPU should help raise my score a little bit. I'll be checking if it makes any difference at stock speeds, and if anyone beats my score by less than 500 points I'll find out if it will help me get a higher benching OC.
Yep. Stock 2500k Edit: Just for comparisons sake, http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/548956 ^Is the same memory as I used for my Phenom II here
I doubt it will make any difference. Geekbench doesn't touch the GPU, and no matter what GPU you have, it's more than capable of displaying a desktop without needing help from the CPU.
I'd disagree slightly. If you're on Integrated graphics; The overhead from it could slow the system down, even if it doesn't impact the processor, but I wouldn't think it would be worth no more than 50 points, at most.
Fair point. Past about a GT 210; The GPU upgrade isn't going to mean anything to the CPU. Unless AMD finally get their unified system design working and offload calculations onto the GPU; it probably never will.
Actually I WAS on integrated before I got this card. That was the only reason I expected any change. I had some rather surprising results actually. My overall score went up about 200 points. I didn't have a great baseline for my scores on integrated, just one results file saved from my first run at benching. So it may have been somehow dampened, though I cant think of any changes to my setup since then. my integer sub-score was ~400 points higher (this bounced around while I ran and re-ran the benchmark, +400 was just the largest discrepancy I saw) my Floating Point sub-score was consistently 200 points lower but both memory and stream sub-scores were consistently 300 points higher. Obviously there is some inconsistency in the data, and there may be some small changes to my system I can't think of at the moment. That being said, I get the feeling the switch opened up some bandwidth on some system bus somewhere and boosted my memory scores. integer and floating point look like they vary a lot more between tests than memory and stream, and while I was looking at the detailed results I noticed that the score difference for integer and floating point usually came from a few tests in favor of one system with the rest about even. While the memory scores were universally in favor of the system with the new card, by about the same amount each time. Once I get over the excitement of playing games again I'll pull the card, get a better baseline, put it back in, make a few runs, and then put the results into a spreadsheet so I can get a better statistical analysis of the results rock.
