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So originally I was planning on dumping my old Z77/3770K platform in favor of X299/Threadripper but in all honestly I haven't been to impressed with what I've seen and I figured I would get more enjoyment out of maxing out my current system even if it wasn't the most cost effective thing.
I have an ASUS Z77 Sabertooth motherboard with dual Titan XP's. At the resolutions I game at (3440x1440, 4x AA, 150% resolution scaling, 60fps), the video cards are still the bottleneck even in SLI. They run at x8/x8 but still don't saturate the PCIe bus. The CPU, which I recently delidded, is no longer a bottleneck now that i have it running at 4.7 GHz and chilly. The 2400 MHz Corsair Dominator DDR3 was a nice upgrade too. I'm also running on an M.2 SSD that runs through an x4 PCIe bus on the 3rd x16 slot thru the chipset. All in an HTPC case which works surprisingly well with all its vents and stuff. The CPU is cooled by an H110iV2 and with dual 3000rpm Notcua iPPC 120mm fans which serve as the case air intake. The video cards then suck in that same air in addition to thru the vents and then exhausts it out the back of the case.
Not bad for a Z77 system, but I'm trying to see if there is some way to squeeze out just a little more performance. The CPU I think is maxed out. I think probably my main limiter is the thermal throttling of the video cards but I'm not sure if there is a fix for that given the stock cooler.
What do you guys think - anything else I can do to make this PC run any faster??
I have an ASUS Z77 Sabertooth motherboard with dual Titan XP's. At the resolutions I game at (3440x1440, 4x AA, 150% resolution scaling, 60fps), the video cards are still the bottleneck even in SLI. They run at x8/x8 but still don't saturate the PCIe bus. The CPU, which I recently delidded, is no longer a bottleneck now that i have it running at 4.7 GHz and chilly. The 2400 MHz Corsair Dominator DDR3 was a nice upgrade too. I'm also running on an M.2 SSD that runs through an x4 PCIe bus on the 3rd x16 slot thru the chipset. All in an HTPC case which works surprisingly well with all its vents and stuff. The CPU is cooled by an H110iV2 and with dual 3000rpm Notcua iPPC 120mm fans which serve as the case air intake. The video cards then suck in that same air in addition to thru the vents and then exhausts it out the back of the case.
Not bad for a Z77 system, but I'm trying to see if there is some way to squeeze out just a little more performance. The CPU I think is maxed out. I think probably my main limiter is the thermal throttling of the video cards but I'm not sure if there is a fix for that given the stock cooler.
What do you guys think - anything else I can do to make this PC run any faster??
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