core i9 with 4 hd 5870's 3d vantage records.... DAAAAMN!!!

thenjwaslike · Post by **thenjwaslike** » 07 Oct 2009, 18:08

http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/25681/

holy cow.

kiselk · Post by **kiselk** » 07 Oct 2009, 18:35

OMG is that a doc tape holding them together?

thenjwaslike · Post by **thenjwaslike** » 07 Oct 2009, 18:37

yeah thats funny, i just noticed that too

BlackHat · Post by **BlackHat** » 07 Oct 2009, 21:03

Sick scores :shock:

whismerhill · Post by **whismerhill** » 08 Oct 2009, 00:29

I'm not very impressed in fact, 22% increase only over an Intel Xeon W3540 at 5048 MHz with four GTX 285s in SLI...

YouTube · Post by **ViciousXUSMC** » 08 Oct 2009, 05:38

Core i9?? I didnt even know we had those yet.

So much money in that setup... 4 cards, a killer quad crossfire mobo, the cpu, the cooling.

Id love to see that run the crysis benchmark loop :D

I think the i9 may be the straw that broke the camels back and make me upgrade from my q6600 if it can do like 4ghz on high end air and its not ultra expensive I am sold.

With the 32nm shrink it should OC better than the i7 even with the 2 extra cores. Of course the 2 cores extra probably means lower clock speed and thats bad news for games that do not support the cores but after OC that wont matter anymore :D

H264 encoding in half the time!

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 08 Oct 2009, 11:54

Core i9 already has samples out to the overclockers (obviously) although there are no chips available retail. ;) Also, Core i9 is apparently going to be sodding expensive. Although I really don't have any idea just what that means in real money. ;)

That's damned impressive. As for 'only' a 22% increase... when you're talking about scores that high, even 5% is impressive. It's not like 99.99% of people are going to be running their computers on LN2. ;)

thenjwaslike · Post by **thenjwaslike** » 08 Oct 2009, 23:28

yeah thats im saying, only 22% increase? come on lol

core i3 core i7 core i9 core iwastedmoney

whismerhill · Post by **whismerhill** » 08 Oct 2009, 23:48

That's damned impressive. As for 'only' a 22% increase... when you're talking about scores that high, even 5% is impressive. It's not like 99.99% of people are going to be running their computers on LN2. ;)

what I mean is that the hardware upgrade is pretty damn impressive
xeon => core i9
5 Ghz => 6 Ghz
GTX285 => HD5870

I'm just a little dumbstruck that for so many important upgrades, the score only takes 22% ...

and I wonder what's not shown in this news that means this difference :
for example :
-is the GTX285 more overclocked (percentage wise) than the HD5870 ?
-is the xeon architecture more efficient clock for clock ?

I'll say it another way around, I expected more from the HD5870 (more so with a core i9) ..

cybereality · Post by **cybereality** » 09 Oct 2009, 01:51

Now that is just overkill.

Post by **BHawthorne** » 09 Oct 2009, 03:07

Now that is just overkill.

To enthusiasts, there is no such thing as "overkill". :wink:

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 09 Oct 2009, 10:10

what I mean is that the hardware upgrade is pretty damn impressive
xeon => core i9
5 Ghz => 6 Ghz
GTX285 => HD5870

I'm just a little dumbstruck that for so many important upgrades, the score only takes 22% ...

and I wonder what's not shown in this news that means this difference :
for example :
-is the GTX285 more overclocked (percentage wise) than the HD5870 ?
-is the xeon architecture more efficient clock for clock ?

I'll say it another way around, I expected more from the HD5870 (more so with a core i9) ..

I won't make excuses, but I'd imagine that the drivers aren't quite perfect yet. And if ATi do the same as they did for the 3000 and 4000 series, they don't really bother about 3D Mark as much as they used to. They seem to have grasped that people play games, not benchmarks. ;)

I would also suspect that Vantage doesn't scale well above quad core CPUs... :)

And hey, there are more than enough people out there (enthusiasts) who will spend hundreds of dollars more for an extra 5-10% performance.

Post by **Downtown1** » 10 Oct 2009, 05:38

What's a core i9?

DaFox · Post by **DaFox** » 10 Oct 2009, 06:15

What's a core i9?

Six-core nehalem.

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 10 Oct 2009, 14:14

Intel's (unreleased) latest and greatest CPU.

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