Old case- New rig (X99 Xeon 14-core ES rig) (Finished Build)

Cavemanthe0ne · July 29, 2016, 3:58am

I've perhaps gone crazy, but decided to geta Xeon E5 2683 V3 Engineering Sample CPU and a motherboard+ram to go with it. Full list of parts is here:
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/WP76RG
On to the photos...

Old rig:
http://i.imgur.com/fOAjHAx.jpg

Motherboard and CPU arrived for the new rig:

New Rig:

(a bit messy, but it works well)

Heres my current full setup:
http://i.imgur.com/6FSt90m.jpg

(due to winning one the 390X Devil, the total cost of this rig was/is around $1000 but if you were to build one like it it would be more like $1200 if you take into account eBay pricing of the 390 and 390X now compared to when I bought/got them )

Now... for some benches... The Cinebench score of this 14 core is absolutely AMAZING :D 1538 in CB R15.

Gaming wise, this CPU isn't all that great. The turbo speed of it (being an ES CPU) only will hit 2.6 Ghz, but it also only goes down to a minimum of 2.3 Ghz on all cores. Compared to a 3970X at 4 Ghz I saw a drop of about 5-15% in a wide variety of games, which is not too bad but not great either. (some poorly optimized games are a lot worse in performance).

I do have a couple of Timespy runs ready though, the first is with my 3970X and only 1 GPU being used(strange bug in my drivers, idk why only 1 GPU):
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/20494

And this one, also with only 1 GPU being used, but with the ES CPU:
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/156364

The CPU score difference is quite impressive- 3970X w/ 5331 and the 14-core at a score of 7871)

Also a random bench of 3dmark11 with the 14-core:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/11444681

This PC is an absolute BEAST for rendering, and for game-streaming without even breaking a sweat (I bet this thing could stream 4k easily with little to no impact on gaming- I just have no way to test that out :P ) and for gaming, it's very powerful because of the GPU's and the quite decent processor. Will probably post more pics/benches as time goes on if anyone's interested.

anon56517415 · July 29, 2016, 5:00am

Gaming benchmarks please?

Cavemanthe0ne · July 29, 2016, 5:27am

I'll get there :) just trying to fix my GPUs not running in xfire on some tests... oddly, most games work fine.
Will run through the random titles I have that are worth testing tomorrow or at some later point :)

kewldude007 · July 29, 2016, 10:20am

Run the CPUZ benchmark and make me cry

Cavemanthe0ne · July 29, 2016, 1:02pm

My score is the one in the lighter red, the darker red is a 5960X score
https://forum.teksyndicate.com/uploads/default/optimized/3X/6/8/68bf6bd98ffe3b7f88525d958a06bc84f859a7b5_1_660x550.png

kewldude007 · July 29, 2016, 2:25pm

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So much rekt

Cavemanthe0ne · July 29, 2016, 2:33pm

What games are you wanting to see? I have a lot :P I was thinking

Tomb Raider 2013
Thief
Crysis 2 Dx11
and others, but heres my steam library you can see what I have (also wtf discourse why u be like dis i don't want them zoomed in like crazy :P):

I also have BF3, BF4, and the Witcher 2 EE.

tinybolt · July 29, 2016, 2:53pm

Talking about an old case, iv been working on this Antec P190 (From 2007) for a while now :P
There is a mixture of new and second hand parts but its coming along! Its not finished but i need to save for the second round of parts!

Cavemanthe0ne · July 29, 2016, 2:56pm

Mt previous case was this thing from 1998 lol:
https://forum.teksyndicate.com/uploads/default/optimized/3X/0/f/0f8644126d0e916938b1b082af900239dccd1fc1_1_720x406.jpg

The CM 690 II I got because it has awesome water-cooling and fan support, and was pretty inexpensive. I think it's from 2010? 2009? Tbh I'm not even sure :P

anon56517415 · July 29, 2016, 4:58pm

Whatever games take advantage of extra cores would be interesting to see but 14 cores eh there is no game out there right now that takes advantage of that many. LOL!