You're cooling 2 1080's yeah? 

In the PC yeah.

 

Ended up only going the single GPU in the laptop - got a good deal on an Alienware 17inch unit - decided to be "sensible"

That should last for a good while then. It's a good time for building a pc and will only get better.

bloody moderators have too much money these days sheesh

On 30/06/2017 at 6:14 PM, Rab said:

In the PC yeah.

 

Ended up only going the single GPU in the laptop - got a good deal on an Alienware 17inch unit - decided to be "sensible"

Ill sell you my m17x if you want lol

 

On a side note looking at building a pc,  ryzen 1800x fairs very well specially considering its a fair bit cheaper than the i9 equvivelnt and benchmarks are extremely good to current i7 models but ill prob stick to i7 7700k in the hope that the new i7 7740k will drop prices on it a bit. 7740 is only 499rrp but im not sure there is any big benefit over the 7700k. 

 

Will be mainly gaming so wil be looking at 1080 options in sli either ti or standard. Overall performance in sli im not sure ti will be worth it. 

 

Thoughts, comments,  doubtful points?

 

On 29/06/2017 at 0:42 PM, Ezy2Confuze said:

Anyone jumped ship from Intel to AMD lately?

Amd thrashes i7 in video editing aspects and is proven around ~10fps slower on games in ultra settings which is nothing when fps are over 60 constantly anyway. This has been heavily proven in the last month or 2 and may be worth a look if you want to pay a little more

Not sure how much you know but here's some of my thoughts on your comment;

 

If you're mainly gaming then you want a higher single threaded performance rather than overall performance. Having 16 cores is good for stuff all if a game is only using 1 or 2.

 

If you do need or want that higher processing power that more cores provide then maybe hold on until amd's Threadripper cpu's are released shortly. This doesn't apply to gaming though.

 

As far as choosing a gpu goes it is generally accepted that for gaming the best single chip gpu you can afford is the best choice. 

 

The reasoning behind this is;

some games don't support sli or crossfire so the second card will be idle sometimes, there are frequently issues with microstuttering, a second card never scales 100%, more power is used, more heat is created, more noise is created if air cooled, more cost and therefore more heart wrenching depreciation takes place, a better/more expensive psu and mobo are needed etc. I'm sure there is some stuff I forgot. 

 

I've found that my 1080ti is sufficient at 1440p and even when scaled to 4k plenty of games are pushing 100fps.

 

Anyway there's some basic info for you to consider. 

30% increase in performance for 30% increase in price with the TI vs the GTX (as far as I can tell).

As far as cost/benefit goes that's pretty decent as far as computer stuff goes.

 

Unless you're running 4k or triple screens maxed then the single card should be fine.

 

Scaling these days is much better than it was in the past, but since DX12 less developers seem to be optimizing for SLI

 

15 hours ago, MBAF said:

Ill sell you my m17x if you want lol

Depending on the generation (if it has the GPU port and CPU/RAM isn't too bottlenecked), the Alienware external box for the GPU may be a decent option to breathe more life into the beast (seems to only be a ~10% performance cost when setup properly compared to desktop)

I had a GTX 1080 Gigabyte G1 in the shopping cart at MSY, Had registered an account, gone through and checked to make sure all was correct.

I was just seconds away from clicking the buy button and something stopped me

Started mucking around with my (I thought cacti) GTX 690 

cut a long story short - - -  one of the DVI connectors on the end of the card is faulty

 

she's up and running again

been gaming all afternoon and it's rock solid with max temps at 40°C 

 

Today I bought an 8TB hard drive for bulk porn and a 1TB nvme drive for even quicker porn.

 

You think it'd be simple to get sh*t sorted but no. 

 

At the very least my computer could grow a set of lips so it could give me a kiss before it farks me. 

 

Farken farker.

New gaming laptop for the boy. razor.

 

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NEW-7th-i7-7700HQ-16GB-512GB-SSD-Razer-Blade-14-FHD-nVIDIA-GTX-1060-6GB-Laptop-/361984899550?hash=item5447fb39de:g:8oEAAOSw32lYrB10