So I decided to redo my Display Setup

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NoOther

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I am moving away from my 7680x1440 triple display setup and going to 3860x2160 single display setup. I got an LG OLED55C6, and now just ordered 2 Titan XP cards to power it. So much insanity going on, but I was tired of games not displaying properly on the triple monitor setup. I actually had more trouble with games displaying across the three monitors than I did with SLI. So I have decided to go to a single screen and power it with XP SLI.

I was going to redo the rest of my system, but it seems there isn't necessarily that much of a performance boost going from PCIe 2.0 to 3.0 and there aren't any CPUs that give me much of an upgrade over my 2600k atm. So with the GPU boost I figure I am still good for another 8 months or so to see what happens in the CPU market.
 
wra18th said:
Nice. Be sure to post some pics. Or it didn't happen.
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It is about time I posted some updated pics of my setup, I have changed quote a bit recently. I will see if I can get this all done this weekend. Depends on when I receive the cards. I also need to cleanup the Den as its pretty crowded at the moment with a bunch of crap.
 
Very nice. I have an LG 65" E6 OLED and I love it. Haven't got anything powerful enough to push it at this stage, so it's for TV and my kids PS4 only. Maybe Vega or the 1080Ti might be good enough. Colors and Black levels are insane on an OLED.
 
I got a triple 80" OLED XRT 180 #R@#$R$#TR power by my fusion XP57#R#$R#$ reactor. I can play 99999999 FPS with .00001 millisecond!!!!

/sarc

Ignore me, I am jealous! :joyful:
 
**Update**

Got the cards and some new fans and fan controller in yesterday to upgrade the system, shipping was slightly delayed. I am going to do the upgrade this weekend (barring any unforeseen circumstances during the upgrade) and will get pictures of everything and post them up here.
 
NoOther said:
I am moving away from my 7680x1440 triple display setup and going to 3860x2160 single display setup. I got an LG OLED55C6, and now just ordered 2 Titan XP cards to power it. So much insanity going on, but I was tired of games not displaying properly on the triple monitor setup. I actually had more trouble with games displaying across the three monitors than I did with SLI. So I have decided to go to a single screen and power it with XP SLI.

I was going to redo the rest of my system, but it seems there isn't necessarily that much of a performance boost going from PCIe 2.0 to 3.0 and there aren't any CPUs that give me much of an upgrade over my 2600k atm. So with the GPU boost I figure I am still good for another 8 months or so to see what happens in the CPU market.
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I did this exact same thing a few months ago.. ditched my 3 G-Sync 27" 1440P setup for a single LG OLED55C6 and I couldn't be happier. Whereas I would never go with a curved TV for TV watching it works perfect on my computer desk as a PC Monitor. I know purists will hate the input lag but I don't really notice anymore.. I'm too old these days to keep up with the kids in online FPS games anyway.
 
bjornb17 said:
I'm running something similar with Ivy Bridge. If he has a high enough overclock on his i7 it may work nicely.
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It's about degrees or lack of gain, from generation to generation and with SB that is a LOT left behind. He'd have to clock somewhere around 5ghz and then there's the pcie bottleneck. 16 lanes at pcie 2.0 is a serious gimp. Do the math, that is only x8 pcie 2.0 per titan. I normally don't ever go on about pcie lanes because at 3.0 theres usually more than enough to go around in a given application. However in this case, he's gonna be starting out with a very small pipe and Titans are the most capable of any gpu on the market of getting close to pcie saturation. And in this configuration that is equivalent to pcie 3.0 at x4. I would worry about this.
 
thesmokingman said:
It's about degrees or lack of gain, from generation to generation and with SB that is a LOT left behind. He'd have to clock somewhere around 5ghz and then there's the pcie bottleneck. 16 lanes at pcie 2.0 is a serious gimp. Do the math, that is only x8 pcie 2.0 per titan. I normally don't ever go on about pcie lanes because at 3.0 theres usually more than enough to go around in a given application. However in this case, he's gonna be starting out with a very small pipe and Titans are the most capable of any gpu on the market of getting close to pcie saturation. And in this configuration that is equivalent to pcie 3.0 at x4. I would worry about this.
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How does that compare to my setup? Do I have the same limitations (I'm not being a smartass, just curious of your assessment)? Seems like my cards hit a thermal wall before running out of bandwidth.
 
bjornb17 said:
How does that compare to my setup? Do I have the same limitations (I'm not being a smartass, just curious of your assessment)? Seems like my cards hit a thermal wall before running out of bandwidth.
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Your Ivy chip is pcie 3. You'll also be running at x8 but at pcie 3.0 it will be double the bandwidth of pcie 2.0. To sum up, you will be fine. Yea, the cooling... as you guess when going this serious you should start to plan for a full watercooling loop. There is a lot of performance that is restrained by the stock Titan cooler and overbearing powerlimit in place.
 
I don't really think the pcie bandwidth is going to be a problem there are ton of articles that show maybe 5% loss at pcie 2 8x vs pcie 16x. Also looking at this article https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Skylake-vs-Sandy-Bridge-Discrete-GPU-Showdown
Which does not have 4k data and only evaluates 980s in sli, really the problems that may pop up are minimum frame variance and minimum fps.

With that being said you are spending a crap ton on your equipment so why not upgrade the cpu ;).
 
rhansen5_99 said:
I don't really think the pcie bandwidth is going to be a problem there are ton of articles that show maybe 5% loss at pcie 2 8x vs pcie 16x. Also looking at this article https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Skylake-vs-Sandy-Bridge-Discrete-GPU-Showdown
Which does not have 4k data and only evaluates 980s in sli, really the problems that may pop up are minimum frame variance and minimum fps.
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That doesn't really apply as a single Titan XP is like 3 980s or something to that effect. We're talking a lot more saturation than was possible with merely sli 980s. *It may work out fine for him, who knows.

rhansen5_99 said:
With that being said you are spending a crap ton on your equipment so why not upgrade the cpu ;).
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Nods...
 
Yup, if you don't want to spend piles of cash on the upgrade, you can get a 6700k motherboard bundle from Microcenter for about $75 less than the 7700k. Cause the 7700k is just an overclocked 6700k. And the z170 chipset is exactly the same x4 PCIe 3.0 DMI bandwidth as the z270, so those "extra" four device lanes they added are pure marketing fluff.

http://www.microcenter.com/site/brands/intel-processor-bundles.aspx
 
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thesmokingman said:
Wait you're gonna run twin titans on a 2600k?
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Yes, because despite all your hate, there doesn't seem to be as much gain for me to upgrade from my current 2600k to anything newer with the price. However, upgrading the Titans to the Titan XPs is a major upgrade in performance.

That being said, mostly this is due to the fact that I am waiting on the next generation of CPUs to come out and see how they do. As it is during the swap of parts, fans, new CPU cooler etc, I seem to have killed a memory lane. So I will probably be upgrading sooner than later now anyway.
 
Now for a few pictures of the new setup:

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Sweet! I just can't give up my triple monitor setup right now so I have the triple monitors still with a 4k hooked to the same rig on the other side of the room. There's still a lot of games that work with Surround, even a few still with 3D Surround though I use 3D mostly for 3D BDs these days.
 
heatlesssun said:
Sweet! I just can't give up my triple monitor setup right now so I have the triple monitors still with a 4k hooked to the same rig on the other side of the room. There's still a lot of games that work with Surround, even a few still with 3D Surround though I use 3D mostly for 3D BDs these days.
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Yeah, I had a sweet triple monitor setup at 7680x1440, but had issues in a number of games doing surround and just never quite worked the way I would like. That is why I switched over to the 4k single display setup. I still have the monitors, I think I am going to hook 2 of them up to my laptop and place them on either side of the 4k. Unfortunately they do not do portrait mode though.
 
Yeah, I feel you. I have triple 27" 1440p on my main rig and it's an insane experience when everything is working. Sadly, though, it's sort of a crap shoot if things will actually work. I have 3D glasses too, adding another compatibility variable, so I had trouble with glitches and slow performance and such.

Recently, I got a 40" 4K TV and heavily upgraded a spare computer I had, so now I have a sweet 4K gaming rig. Honestly, a single large high-res screen ends up being a better experience. At least in the sense the *games actually work* without question, or glitches, or hacks. No nonsense.

However, I do sometimes miss the immersive aspects of 3D Vision Surround, and also the 144Hz refresh (though I still will use this monitor for online games). Also, the triple screen is just much better for working, 3d programming and such, so I still use the 3 screens for production.
 
If you wanted "games that actually work" you wouldn't have invested money in an SLI setup either ;). (Looks at XCOM2 not supporting it out of the box, yet both older games do.)



...But seriously. Surround Gaming. I never got that to work right with any games I played. It's nice for productivity like spanning various adobe products... but otherwise. meh. It's bling.
 
RogueTadhg said:
If you wanted "games that actually work" you wouldn't have invested money in an SLI setup either ;). (Looks at XCOM2 not supporting it out of the box, yet both older games do.)



...But seriously. Surround Gaming. I never got that to work right with any games I played. It's nice for productivity like spanning various adobe products... but otherwise. meh. It's bling.
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My XCOM 2 works with SLI enabled. Whether it truly uses SLI is another thing. With the surround setup on the other hand, there were literally games that crashed or would be completely unplayable with the surround, so I had to make adjustments specifically for those games. I have dealt with both SLI and surround for a long time now, SLI tends to work better than the surround setup though.
 
NoOther said:
My XCOM 2 works with SLI enabled. Whether it truly uses SLI is another thing. With the surround setup on the other hand, there were literally games that crashed or would be completely unplayable with the surround, so I had to make adjustments specifically for those games. I have dealt with both SLI and surround for a long time now, SLI tends to work better than the surround setup though.
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Oh yeah. By far. Surround gaming was something that didn't work most of the time. SLI, like you've mentioned, probably will work however the game may not take advantage of it. XCOM2, didn't work for me out of the box for SLI. This is what I mean :)
 
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