PART 1: The Unboxening (980 Ti HOF)
Part 2: The Build, SLI and Benchmarks
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Benchmarks:
Build Log: X99 SLI 980 TI HOF Build Log
In this video, we’re going to put together a lot of components we’ve reviewed previously into a beastly gaming rig. You can, of course, swap out components to suit your needs and preferences.
Be sure to check out the review of the 980TI HOF individually here:
For the rest of the build:
Monitor:
https://teksyndicate.com/videos/a399u-affordable-4k-gaming-monitor
It’s 39 inches of glorious 3840x2160 and has HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2. The only thing that would make this display better would be if it supported FreeSync; rumor has it one such revision is on the way.
Motherboard:
https://teksyndicate.com/videos/asrock-x99-ws-e10g-10-gig-ethernet-onboard
This is a really nice X99 motherboard from ASRock with a lot of I/O and, of course, 10 gigabit Ethernet.
CPU Cooler:
http://global.gamerstorm.cn/product/lucifer/
Power Supply:
http://www.deepcool.com/product/powersupply/dq/2014-02/33_795.shtml
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L0YLK2M/?tag=teksynd-20
We’re going to be using that with Crucial DDR4 2133, a Plextor M.2 SSD and of course, our SLI graphics solution:
The KFA2 980 Ti HOF edition graphics cards:
http://galax.net/KFA2/980ti_hof.html?referral=teksyndicate http://www.amazon.com/GALAX-NVIDIA-GEFORCE-GTX-HOF/dp/B011WGMZMQ/?&tag=teksynd-20
Our review is in Part 1, Above.
NOTE: “Real” DirectX12 drivers just came out – we decided to move these to a separate video. Thanks!
Question: For the becnhmarks, is this kind of format okay? Is it clear that the green line represents where in the benchmark that fraps was doing its screen recording?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://teksyndicate.com/videos/kfa2-nvidia-980-ti-sli-benchmarks