night.fox writes:
> ... Oh boy, you bring me down one more slot . Curse those 980's lol
It'll be very interesting to see how thw P7P55 WS behaves. P55 has a lower latency arch overall than
X58 from that era, but the NF200 adds latency. We shall see. Just sorting out the CPU oc atm, though
turns out I fitted the board with an 870, not an 875K (must have stuck the latter on something else).
No matter, initial testing looks like 4.3GHz should work fine (I could push it a lot higher of course,
but I don't want to risk a burnout, trying to keep vcore below 1.4, atm it's 1.38).
> 980's are really a beast.
I'm struggling not to make those few easy clicks for a 4th.
Damn online shopping... 6 clicks and
it's in my house tomorrow! Must... resist...
> But it wont make me still want to replace my 290's. I like them as now although I have more itch now for extreme platform
Addictive isn't it?
One thing that's perhaps holding back my pushing the 980s is the slot spacing on these boards, typically
2-slot, so of course they sit right next to each other, making it a bit difficult to get fresh air into the middle
card and the one next to the CPU. However, one board I've not yet done much with could change that,
namely an Asrock X58 Extreme6, for which I have a 990X I've not yet done anything with. This board has
tri-slot spacing for all three main PCIe slots; here's a
good picture. With three GPUs, they run at x16/x8/x8
(same as the P7P55 WS) vs. x8/x16/x16 for the M4E. I bought one because of the spacing, but while waiting
to source a CPU, I managed to bag a boxed M4E for the insanely low price of 87 UKP (this was several years
ago) along with a well priced 2700K, so I left the Extreme6 alone; got a 990X eventually, but not had time
to do much with it.
However, that's for the far future if I can ever be bothered to pull the 980s out for more testing.
Most
likely I'll mess about with three 580s on the Extreme6 to begin with. Atm it just has a XEON X5570 which I
need to get rid of.
Ian.