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The official 990X overclocking thread!

AdamK47

AdamK47

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Since nobody has created one yet, I'm creating one now. This is for all of you with a retail (no ES) 990X to share their overclocking experiences.
 
Too expensive and does not make sence to purchase it now, when sandy bridge costs 1/3 of the cost, and can almost keep up with this demon.
 
what astonishes me is the fact the 990x is only 50 bucks more expensive than the 980x...i was honestly hoping it would bump down the price of the 980x to at least 550.
 
Mopetar said:
Overclock a 980X and that should give a good indication of performance. Unless I'm mistaken, the only difference is a clock speed bump.
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there were small fab process changes that allow for better yields and in some cases higher oc's
 
mnewsham said:
there were small fab process changes that allow for better yields and in some cases higher oc's
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Which suggests that there won't be much difference. If you know what the stock performance is, and if you know what oc'ed performance is like, it should be fairly easy to determine how much more performance you'll get from additional over-clocking.

The process is more mature so the yields are better and the silicon can be pushed a little further at the top end. It's not a significant improvement in design so the results should be in line with what we've seen from the 980X. One may be able to clock the chip higher, but there aren't going to be magical performance gains beyond that.
 
ThatsABigOne said:
Too expensive and does not make sence to purchase it now, when sandy bridge costs 1/3 of the cost, and can almost keep up with this demon.
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You are thinking like a gamer. Not everyone buys a PC to play games on it. Believe it or not theres people who buys who does professional work on it and time means money.

So lets break down to what you say.

980X is 9 sec faster than the 2600k in video encoding

Now lets be generous and say every second means 1 dollar.

9 seconds per encoding. How much will that be per day. How much will that be per month. How much will that be per year?

So tell me would the 700 usd not be worth it when those 700usd more let you make thousands of dollars more?

Before you go post some CS4 benches which is like testing the SB on 3Dmark 2001 against the E8600 and whatch it loses coz you tied the SB hands up with the older software. Heres a valid link and see what the time differences is. Those are systems of people who use their CPUs proffesionally to make money with. Most of them.

http://ppbm5.com/Benchmark5.html

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AdamK47 said:
This is for all of you with a retail (no ES) 990X to share their overclocking experiences.
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*goes off kicking my can*

^_^

im curious on how many are actually going to get one.. lol..

LiuKangBakinPie said:
You are thinking like a gamer. Not everyone buys a PC to play games on it. Believe it or not theres people who buys who does professional work on it and time means money.

So lets break down to what you say.
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waittttttttttttttttt..

if your professional u shouldnt be getting a 990X

u should be getting dual gulftowns in a 5520 chipset.
Simular to this...
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*sigh* i wish those were ULV Westmeres.
 
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LiuKangBakinPie said:
Now lets be generous and say every second means 1 dollar.

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Can I have that job? $1 per second? I'd like to assume that's not USD otherwise that person would make more in one week of work than most people make in an entire year. Hell, they'll make as much in a day as many people will make in an entire year.

Let's work from the assumption of someone who's damned good and worth $40 USD per hour, which is quite a lot for someone who actually has to get their hands dirty. That makes their time worth $0.0111 per second. So assuming that the render is 9 seconds faster, that's a savings of $0.10 per render. In order for the cost to balance out they would need to render 7000 times in one year, or approximately 20 times every day, including weekends.

Of course you could stretch out the cost over two or more years to make it more feasible, but if your time is worth that much you'd want to be on a fairly tight upgrade cycle anyways as next years processor is always going to be better.

2600K is probably good enough for 99.5% of the people at this point. Prior to its release you could make a different argument, but right now there's no good reason to buy a 990X for most people. Eventually the 6+ core SB parts will get released and we'll be looking at a completely different argument, but at this point in time, the 990X is only for someone whose time is worth more than most of us can afford.
 
Mopetar said:
Can I have that job? $1 per second? I'd like to assume that's not USD otherwise that person would make more in one week of work than most people make in an entire year. Hell, they'll make as much in a day as many people will make in an entire year.
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86400 / day..

300 day year = 25,920,000 b4 taxes

Where do i sign up too? :biggrin:
 
aigomorla said:
*goes off kicking my can*

^_^

im curious on how many are actually going to get one.. lol..



waittttttttttttttttt..

if your professional u shouldnt be getting a 990X

u should be getting dual gulftowns in a 5520 chipset.
Simular to this...
IMG_1619.jpg


*sigh* i wish those were ULV Westmeres.
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i might get one in year to year and a half when they are around $300 but not till then 😀
 
aigomorla said:
*goes off kicking my can*

waittttttttttttttttt..

if your professional u shouldnt be getting a 990X

u should be getting dual gulftowns in a 5520 chipset.
Simular to this...
IMG_1619.jpg


*sigh* i wish those were ULV Westmeres.
Click to expand...

Now THAT'S the REAL shizzle! One 990X.... why that can barely run Solitaire...
 
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