Kingpin Quad GTX 680 SLI Testing

[Don Karnage]

Source

http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1825

 

[joshhedge]

Don, that makes your efforts of overclocking seem infinitesimal!

 

[Don Karnage]

Don, that makes your efforts of overclocking seem infinitesimal!

I'm not into the extreme cooling methods because they're a waste of time. I'm your "average" overclocker who overclocks on cooling 99.9% of people are using.

 

[joshhedge]

I'm not into the extreme cooling methods because they're a waste of time. I'm your "average" overclocker who overclocks on cooling 99.9% of people are using.

Can you even game properly while using LN2, or is its use purely for extreme benchmarking?

 

[Don Karnage]

Can you even game properly while using LN2, or is its use purely for extreme benchmarking?

It'll evaporate too fast. Its only logical application is benching

 

[Tempered81]

Nice 680 classifieds

 

[Tempered81]

Looks like Kingpin is gonna beat the 7970 Quadfire World Record in no time.

 

[Will Robinson]

Wow,that's hardcore!
I wonder how it would stand up against GTX470s in SLI
or my own HD5850

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Probably wouldn't matter with that cpu bottleneck you've got!


Ohhhh!

5850 is half the card the 470 is, and by half I mean DX10 and below.

 

[Don Karnage]

Probably wouldn't matter with that cpu bottleneck you've got!


Ohhhh!

5850 is half the card the 470 is, and by half I mean DX10 and below.

Welcome back stranger

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Been busy playing Diablo 3 too much

Grats on the 670 SLI, that's a nice setup.

 

[Will Robinson]

Probably wouldn't matter with that cpu bottleneck you've got!


Ohhhh!

5850 is half the card the 470 is, and by half I mean DX10 and below.

Not quite sure what you mean by "half" the card
If you are referring to pre DX10 performance the AT Bench results across a variety of titles suggest they are fairly well matched.
The 470 being faster probably reflects it's far higher release price.

DX9 at my resolution:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/295?vs=311

DX10 at my resolution:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/295?vs=311

 

[3DVagabond]

Not quite sure what you mean by "half" the card
If you are referring to pre DX10 performance the AT Bench results across a variety of titles suggest they are fairly well matched.
The 470 being faster probably reflects it's far higher release price.

DX9 at my resolution:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/295?vs=311

DX10 at my resolution:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/295?vs=311

Probably was referring to power usage.

 

[Don Karnage]

Been busy playing Diablo 3 too much

Grats on the 670 SLI, that's a nice setup.

Thanks Bro

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Probably was referring to power usage.

Nah I was talking about the 58% overclocks that actually scaled, and tess performance capable of driving even the most demanding titles like Crysis 2 and Batman in 2012 while 5850's upgraded. :thumbsup:

Thanks Bro

Welcome, I saw you were looking at surround. If you play a lot of FPS (BF3), go for it. And your cards will do well enough, 2GB might be somewhat limiting in BF3 (I run it with 1.28 in surround) but other than dropping some textures or AA you should be fine with just two cards.