NVIDIA to release GeForce Titan

Guess what arrived today?

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EVGA has upgraded their cables it seems.


Stock speeds on air in Unigine... for some reason Unigine thinks these things only have 4GB VRAM.


Waterblocks arrive tomorrow. Can't wait!

And goddamn are these things loud. Well, at least in comparison to my 3 GTX 680s on water.
 
I'm happy that NVIDIA is no longer advertising 4-way SLI as it's nearly useless. I think they realize that. It works, it's there...but 3-way or lower is the way to go. I was amazed when DICE said they never even tested 4-way SLI with BF3...but then again, why should they? What are there, 100 4-way SLI setups running today? Anyway, I digress.

I wonder if they'll release a dual-GPU on a single card Titan like the 690?
 
Performance PC's has these with waterblocks pre-installed:

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=37107
I'm happy that NVIDIA is no longer advertising 4-way SLI as it's nearly useless. I think they realize that. It works, it's there...but 3-way or lower is the way to go.

I wonder if they'll release a dual-GPU on a single card Titan like the 690?
The reason why it was possible with the 690 was due to the power envelope of the GK104. Two GK110s on a single PCB is some serious wattage. They'd end up having to massively downclock them like they did on the 590 I'd imagine.
 
The reason why it was possible with the 690 was due to the power envelope of the GK104. Two GK110s on a single PCB is some serious wattage. They'd end up having to massively downclock them like they did on the 590 I'd imagine.

Makes sense. The Titan uses less wattage than a 580 though, right? So at least we should get 90% or better per Titan. Although I guess why would they release a $2000 card...even if they discounted it at less than that...crazy.
 
Seriously. What kind of nut would spend $2k on rendering power for games?

Yeah, I mean...even $1k is crazy, er...I mean cray. :)

Speaking of that...getting ready to do my upgrades this weekend. Finally home!



Samsung 830 SSD 512GB (add in for RAID0), 3930k, and 3x vanilla EVGA Titans with the EVGA 3-way SLI connector.
 
Wow. In stock at my local Microcenter. Shit just got real. Probably more likely to get one there since they're charging 1100-1200. Now to convince myself I don't need to upgrade my reasonably new 680 for my 1080P setup, which you'd think would be easy.
 
Wow. In stock at my local Microcenter. Shit just got real. Probably more likely to get one there since they're charging 1100-1200. Now to convince myself I don't need to upgrade my reasonably new 680 for my 1080P setup, which you'd think would be easy.
An easy way to justify it would be to pick up a 120/144Hz monitor in the same trip. Done deal!
 
I still don't know how to read the fram time tables:

99% percentile in AC3: Titan - 7.2 ms.

99% of the frames took less than 7.2 ms to render? took exactly 7.2ms to render? Max render time for every frame was 7.2ms? Every single frame or average frame time of all frames?
 
I still don't know how to read the fram time tables:

99% percentile in AC3: Titan - 7.2 ms.

99% of the frames took less than 7.2 ms to render? took exactly 7.2ms to render? Max render time for every frame was 7.2ms? Every single frame or average frame time of all frames?
99% of all frames were rendered within 7.2ms.
 
These people haven't played in 2560x1600 either.

Pretty much

Sethos and I stand united

No but for real 1080 is a low resolution to me now. I think it hit me when I was playing Crysis 3 and then I said to myself that mkenyon is WRONG. 1440p+ or bust

#truthbomb
 
Yeah, I do see the benefit of the higher resolution.

I mean, if you're bad at games and just want to look at pretty pictures, then paying the price in input lag and a choppy 60Hz panel isn't much of a loss.

*edit*

In all seriousness, I am completely perplexed at the lack of a 1440p 120hz panel. WTF LG/Dell/ASUS/Samsung. Gimmie one.
 
Pretty much

Sethos and I stand united

No but for real 1080 is a low resolution to me now. I think it hit me when I was playing Crysis 3 and then I said to myself that mkenyon is WRONG. 1440p+ or bust

#truthbomb

Yeah, all these old people that can't even see the difference between 6 and 60 FPS in the first place, playing on their post-it note sized monitors that costs less than 1/3 of our, frankly, godly IPS monitors. We are basically the Spartans and they, the Persians. Then again, some form of eyesight is probably required to enjoy the full, rich and accurate colours of such a panel and the crystal clear IQ and pixel density.

*cough*
 
Yeah, I do see the benefit of the higher resolution.

I mean, if you're bad at games and just want to look at pretty pictures, then paying the price in input lag and a choppy 60Hz panel isn't much of a loss.

Well I guess if you like washed out colors that look like they could use a touch of Tide that's cool. Or you like wasting money cuz the eye can only perceive 70fps.Gaf told me.
 
Well I guess if you like washed out colors that look like they could use a touch of Tide that's cool. Or you like wasting money cuz the eye can only perceive 70fps.Gaf told me.

The eye actually only sees 25FPS, which is a cinematic framerate - You don't need any more.

GAF told me as well.
 
Yeah, I mean...even $1k is crazy, er...I mean cray. :)

Speaking of that...getting ready to do my upgrades this weekend. Finally home!



Samsung 830 SSD 512GB (add in for RAID0), 3930k, and 3x vanilla EVGA Titans with the EVGA 3-way SLI connector.

Are you some sort of millionaire?


If so, can I have your old card(s) at a heavily subsidized price? I'm a worthy charity case, I barely ever play PC games because my GPU just isn't up to scratch these days... You'd be doing PC gaming a favour by welcoming back her estranged friend in me.

@sethos... the eye doesn't have a fixed framerate, as it is a steady stream of information going up the optic nerve... but to equate it to any sort of framerate metric you have to consider the medium/material being viewed... lots of slow moving, sharply rendered scenes look worse at low framerate than high... scenes with a lot of movement and motion blur look better at low framerate, because the brain "fills in" what it misses due to the motion blur... http://100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm
 
Yeah, I mean...even $1k is crazy, er...I mean cray. :)

Speaking of that...getting ready to do my upgrades this weekend. Finally home!



Samsung 830 SSD 512GB (add in for RAID0), 3930k, and 3x vanilla EVGA Titans with the EVGA 3-way SLI connector.

lol 830. 840 or gtfo.
 
@sethos... the eye doesn't have a fixed framerate, as it is a steady stream of information going up the optic nerve... but to equate it to any sort of framerate metric you have to consider the medium/material being viewed... lots of slow moving, sharply rendered scenes look worse at low framerate than high... scenes with a lot of movement and motion blur look better at low framerate, because the brain "fills in" what it misses due to the motion blur... http://100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm

You really didn't pick up on the fact that we were just being sarcastic?
 
Yeah, I mean...even $1k is crazy, er...I mean cray. :)

Speaking of that...getting ready to do my upgrades this weekend. Finally home!



Samsung 830 SSD 512GB (add in for RAID0), 3930k, and 3x vanilla EVGA Titans with the EVGA 3-way SLI connector.
Might I haveth thou olde machina my goode sir?


Holy hell, though. I still have a variant of the 8800GTX. ;;
 
lol 830. 840 or gtfo.

I know...using old parts. I'm "paring back" this year. Times is hard. :)

Are you running hardware raid controller ?

Because doind raid 0 on ICH10R seems absolutly pointless as it caps around 700mb iirc.

Good point. Running some benches now. Annnd you're correct. Damn. I have always been anti-RAID0 because it's idiotic and here I am...just blowing it out cuz I can and joining that group.

No RAID on left (single Samsung 830 512GB), RAID0 (2x Samsung 830 512GB) via Intel C600 mobo RAID (ASUS P9X79 Pro) on right. Ah well, at least I get ~1TB in one.

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FYI: NVIDIA's lack of PCIe 3.0 support on the X79 platform continues with the TITAN. :(

http://1pcent.com/?p=257

The good news is that the "force-enable-gen3" hack that NVIDIA released for Kepler GK104 fixes things. Pretty disappointing.


(after running NVIDIA's fix)
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So trash

Been a busy week for me haven't had a chance to play with the titans at all. Gonna fix that by being a bum this weekend.
 
Finally...I have the perfect BF3 rig. I have been searching for this since the games launch. 2-way SLI 580s, tri-SLI 680s, 4-way SLI 680s (reference, FTW+, Classified), 2-way SLI 680s (Lightning, 690) with varying CPUs (2500k, 3820, 3930k, 3960x) all clocked over 4.5 GHz...all it took was 3-way SLI TITANS to do it, lol.

1080p/120hz - flawless, butter smooth, no dips below 110...usually around 180-190 fps. 3930k @ 4.7GHz for the CPU. It's unbelievable. So happy right now. I don't even know if I am going to try NV Surround (3x 1080p/120hz aka 5760x1080/120hz) since it will be unlikely that I can achieve this nirvana at that resolution...I guess in another gen or two. :)
 
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