Hi there,
I have a query about two machine's i own. Just to provide some background, I purchased rig one back in 2015 from scan computers pre-built. At the time I was travelling quite a lot back and forth with to my gfs and wanted a machine at hers rather than transport my machine which was a pricey system at the time. I had an old acer machine which had the same PSU as rig two and an r9 270, and I had never put a machine together before so thought I would give it a shot and invested in new board, ram, cpu etc over the years and now have another rig.
Please see the specs for both rigs below:
Rig one (pre-built)
Asus X99-A/USB3.1 motherboard
i7-5820k OC 4.2 @ 1.344V
16GB DDR4 RAM Quad Channel
256GB M2 SDD
Gigabyte RTX 2080 Super
RMi750W GOLD certified
I've recently purchased the RTX 2080 Super and I am pretty pleased with the performance on higher resolutions such as 2k / 4k is awesome in comparison to my 980.
Rig two
Asus Z170-K Motherboard
i5-6600k OC 4.6 @ 1.35V
8GB DDR4 RAM Dual Channel
128GB M2 SDD
4GB EVGA GTX980 SC ACX2.0 PCIE
Corsair CX750
I read that in terms of 1080p res, I shouldn't see much of a difference as the 980 is still capable of a lot of games at 1080 at high/ultra settings.
But when I bench marked a few games, e.g. DOOM and Batman Arkham Knight, I noticed that the fps was higher on the Rig two, particularly on Doom.
To provide this, I tested the same arcade mode zone which was just the first one level (think it's called 'The UAC') and in some areas I was getting up to 200 FPS on rig two. I thought it might be that DOOM is more CPU bound and therefore benefiting from the higher clock speed on rig two, or maybe not utilising all the cores, on the 5820k.
I just wondered is this expected behaviour based on the specs above?
The cpu cooling on the 5820k (rig one) is Pure Rock CPU Cooler (same as rig two actually), would it be worth trying to increase the overclock and invest in better cooling?
I never really considered switching the cards round and mainly gaming on rig two, but is that actually the better system. Would be a shame if it was - Rig one burnt a big hole in my pocket.
I have a query about two machine's i own. Just to provide some background, I purchased rig one back in 2015 from scan computers pre-built. At the time I was travelling quite a lot back and forth with to my gfs and wanted a machine at hers rather than transport my machine which was a pricey system at the time. I had an old acer machine which had the same PSU as rig two and an r9 270, and I had never put a machine together before so thought I would give it a shot and invested in new board, ram, cpu etc over the years and now have another rig.
Please see the specs for both rigs below:
Rig one (pre-built)
Asus X99-A/USB3.1 motherboard
i7-5820k OC 4.2 @ 1.344V
16GB DDR4 RAM Quad Channel
256GB M2 SDD
Gigabyte RTX 2080 Super
RMi750W GOLD certified
I've recently purchased the RTX 2080 Super and I am pretty pleased with the performance on higher resolutions such as 2k / 4k is awesome in comparison to my 980.
Rig two
Asus Z170-K Motherboard
i5-6600k OC 4.6 @ 1.35V
8GB DDR4 RAM Dual Channel
128GB M2 SDD
4GB EVGA GTX980 SC ACX2.0 PCIE
Corsair CX750
I read that in terms of 1080p res, I shouldn't see much of a difference as the 980 is still capable of a lot of games at 1080 at high/ultra settings.
But when I bench marked a few games, e.g. DOOM and Batman Arkham Knight, I noticed that the fps was higher on the Rig two, particularly on Doom.
To provide this, I tested the same arcade mode zone which was just the first one level (think it's called 'The UAC') and in some areas I was getting up to 200 FPS on rig two. I thought it might be that DOOM is more CPU bound and therefore benefiting from the higher clock speed on rig two, or maybe not utilising all the cores, on the 5820k.
I just wondered is this expected behaviour based on the specs above?
The cpu cooling on the 5820k (rig one) is Pure Rock CPU Cooler (same as rig two actually), would it be worth trying to increase the overclock and invest in better cooling?
I never really considered switching the cards round and mainly gaming on rig two, but is that actually the better system. Would be a shame if it was - Rig one burnt a big hole in my pocket.