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One Xeon, 12 cores

Ok. I was looking at cases, and considering all the items needed to fit a server mobo w/ two CPUs, etc., and to save hassle and space, maybe I'll just go w/ the e5-2670. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117475 12 cores and 24 threads :) Good point about the energy...

Ah. This will be my at-home machine, not work machine, so It'll be mainly used for gaming, experiments with real-time raytracing, and some rendering in Blender/Cycles.

Odd, is this correct? Answer/reply Is this correct? So when rendering something, it'll only use 8 cores instead of 16? :confused: From the benchmarks, that doesn't seem correct. It's in the Q/A part here, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113306

Cool. From that report it appears the dual AMD Opteron 6376 is about 27% faster than than the dual Intel E5-2660 CPUs, and it appears to be about 38% cheaper setup (just in reference to the CPUs, i.e. two Xeons 2650 at $2300 vs two AMD Opteron 6376 at $1440.

Not running 100% of the time, this is for realtime ray tracing mostly.

Xeon E5 2683 V3 sounds interesting, though in theory, wouldn't two 16-core AMD cpus be faster (i.e.-32 threads). Don't get me wrong, I love intel CPUs.

This is mainly for some raytracing-related code I'm writing in my spare time. It's currently in C++, and I'll try to vectorize as much as possible for use with SSE2 or AVX. System RAM will be probably around 16 to 32gb, as the data sets will not be necessarily too huge.

Quad CPU AMD board sounds cool too.

The Phi coprocessor can't run all, regularly x86/x64 code can it? It sounds neat, but only if it can run games too (mostly older PC games).

What do you think? Parallel usage will be pegged at 100%, regardless of number of cores. Would like to spend less than $1500 for the CPU, though the cheaper the better. Do you think a two-CPU mobo would be good? Looking to have at least 20+ threads available. 16 core AMD? ($719), or two of...

Well, I'm quite sure it's the power supply at this point. Ordered a new PSU, let's see how it goes. :)

It wasn't showing 24v before. The motherboard won't let it boot because of it (there's a safety option I left on that won't let it boot under certain conditions). Motherboard is, ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131790

Don't have a multi-meter, I could guy buy one if you have any recommendations. And yes, the GPU is uninstalled, just running video off the 2600k.

So, my wife accidentally dropped a water bottle about a foot away from the computer case, and somehow a little drop of water made its way through the case vent, into the computer onto the graphics card (AMD 7950). I'm just glad she's ok. I know what she was really doing, she knew I was wanting...

I'd like to install the Windows 8 Preview, but don't want to go through the install if I there aren't any drivers for the 7950/7970. Anyone try it yet? :)

Process seems to be going fast. :)

Yeah, I don't mind a return/replacement, I like the card, just want it to work longer than 30 days, of course. :D It is awesome with gaming, this little built in 2600k GPU just isn't cutting it. :( ;)

My 7950 seems to be going south. I notice weird dots all over the screen with any application that is GPU/hardware accelerated. Owned this card for about 31 days, so I can't return it to Newegg at this point for a replacement. Any information about Sapphire? Already entered a ticket.:o...

If I set it to 1920@1080@ 60hz or 1920x1080 @ 59hz, the image scales down, showing about 1-2"s of blank space on each side. At 1920x1080@50hz, it works correctly, but it's 50hz.:p GPU: Sapphire 7950 Screen: Asus 21.5" IPS LED panel (two) Monitors have one DVI connection, one VGA connection...

Going to be ordering all the parts in about two weeks, and just hoping supply will be there. Newegg is currently sold out. Probably going with an Asus 7970.

3dsMax will use multiple cores depending on what you're doing. If you're using some older features in 3DSMax (i.e.-Blobmesh) or vanilla Particle Flow, it'll be rather slow. However, I think Cebas Thinking Particles do much better with multithreading. In regards to rendering, Mental Ray, which...

8800gt, you can play through Crysis on Very High, until about the last level, then it goes to 8-9fps a lot.

What GPU do you have now?

LOL. Crysis is already optimized, for the most part, the only "optimization" that can be done now is removing shader instructions (i.e.-make it look worse), changing MIP settings to 1 instead of 0 (i.e.-reduce texture size by two), etc.

I don't know it, I'm going back probably tomorrow to check it out, and wasn't sure if there were any external features or certain numbers on the LCD or its box that would determine it, like a range of numbers within the serial number, etc.

I need color accuracy over response time, so I'm just curious how to find out if the Dell LCD has the better color accuracy then the other panels? It's a thin LCD with a black housing around it, and I think the price was around $400 or so. Thanks. :)

Using an Asus P5B Deluxe wifi with an 8800gt, and have used it with an 8800gtx and 7950gx2, and no big problems. Great motherboard. :)

If only the people that complain about Crysis knew all what was going on and what was being rendered, you'd recant your "poor coding" remarks. :)

8800gt for sale at various places (like Newegg sometimes) for $120. Why would you want a 9600?

If you think Crysis is poorly programmed, you're probably a console noob anyway. :p

Try VLC player, if it won't play with VLC, rename it to <filenamehere>.mkv or something like that. :)

This is done in any in-game cinematic (or should be), that's also why you have "cinematic" characters for Gears of War and regular characters. Same as UT3, but Epic took a dump on PC players and made them all pre-rendered in-game cinematics, which just look hideous.

I have a decent 20.1" Sceptre LCD, great and cheap monitor, however, it has some color grading issues. So I'm looking for a, I guess you call it, 16.7 million color LCD monitor, 17" 1280x1024 LCD? This is for art, so I'm looking for color accuracy more than resolution/size. I have...

(1) Make sure your drivers aren't overriding anything and adding any stuff (anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering) (2) Is this Vista? (3) Have you tried new drivers? (4) Is it slow/bad in games? (5) Use CPUz to make sure your PCIx16 link width is at 16x and not 1x. ;) etc. :)

I think my 7950gx2 sometimes did that. Good card for a replacement though. :)

Now you're going to make me spend more time overclocking my stuff just to hit 15k. :p

It depends on the game and what effects, etc. that is used. There may not be that big a difference between a e6400 and a e6600, however, don't be fooled into thinking a 3800x2 is on par with a e6400 with gaming, etc. The slower the CPU, the less frames it can process even when the GPU is...

Try 690 on the core, 1637 on the shaders, and 970 on the memory, with fan speed at 100% and go from there. :)

Stock speeds, who cares about those? :p OC now I tell you, hurry! :p