Tom's Hardware Superposition Benchmark Thread

[aquielisunari]

How much does the CPU influence the score?

It shouldn't, it's a GPU benchmark.

You rich people and your money. Pah!

*Sits back and smiles.*

 

[SverreMunthe]

How much does the CPU influence the score?

It shouldn't, it's a GPU benchmark.

You rich people and your money. Pah!

Yeah, I was. This was the last PC-build for a few years. Emptied the bank account on this one.

 

[SverreMunthe]

 

[aquielisunari]

This thread is for the posting of Superposition Benchmark scores. There are other pages for showing the goods.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/310222-31-hardware-member-system-gallery is the thread for posting builds.

Did you recently buy an EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrid like I did? http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3272328/show-newest-system-upgrade-components.html is the thread for newest upgrades.

Then there are those who love to talk shop. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1980287/member-systems-discussion-thread.html is the thread for that.

Just an FYI

 

[EquineHero]

The connectors at the bottom of the back-panel I had to mount on an acrylic plate and cut an opening where I screwed it on.

It's running on distilled water. Will empty it today and fill it with Dr. Voigts DP Ultra red.

The C-drive is connected directly on the MB. The SSD on the front (D-drive) is installed software, the folders normally under c:\users\name and user files. There's another SSD on the back (E-drive) for games. another 4 HDD's for movies, series etc.

yeah, I'd appreciate it if you limited build pictures in this thread. 1 or 2 like others have posted is fine, but spamming my fairly organized thread with that kind of cable management is downright insulting.

You call that cable management? I call that lazy networking.

 

[SverreMunthe]

This thread is for the posting of Superposition Benchmark scores. There are other pages for showing the goods.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/310222-31-hardware-member-system-gallery is the thread for posting builds.

Did you recently buy an EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrid like I did? http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3272328/show-newest-system-upgrade-components.html is the thread for newest upgrades.

Then there are those who love to talk shop. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1980287/member-systems-discussion-thread.html is the thread for that.

Just an FYI

Sorry about that, serious lack of brainpower.

 

[SverreMunthe]

yeah, I'd appreciate it if you limited build pictures in this thread. 1 or 2 like others have posted is fine, but spamming my fairly organized thread with that kind of cable management is downright insulting.

You call that cable management? I call that lazy networking.

Deleted it, except 1 picture.

Actually, the picture with the cables was one I took, for sending to Cooler Master, to tell them that there's a serious lack of possibilities for cable management, if you have much more than the bare minimum.

 

[Rogue Leader]

I wouldn't be embarassed by the cables back there, thats prettymuch most systems, unless you are able to custom cut and fit exact wiring there is no way to make that look good with varying length cables. You just hide it as best you can.

 

[SverreMunthe]

I wouldn't be embarassed by the cables back there, thats prettymuch most systems, unless you are able to custom cut and fit exact wiring there is no way to make that look good with varying length cables. You just hide it as best you can.

Some of them are custom made, for this build, most are reused or new. Didn't bother making every cable as they aren't visible, like they have been in my other (insanely large) builds. I found that if I can remove the radiator from the case, I don't need a double or triple tower case. And the good thing with an external radiator is that I can put it in the storage room, right next to the "office" and forget about everything called noise (the cabinet shouldn't get warm when the radiator is outside it).

 

[Rogue Leader]

I wouldn't be embarassed by the cables back there, thats prettymuch most systems, unless you are able to custom cut and fit exact wiring there is no way to make that look good with varying length cables. You just hide it as best you can.

Some of them are custom made, for this build, most are reused or new. Didn't bother making every cable as they aren't visible, like they have been in my other (insanely large) builds. I found that if I can remove the radiator from the case, I don't need a double or triple tower case. And the good thing with an external radiator is that I can put it in the storage room, right next to the "office" and forget about everything called noise (the cabinet shouldn't get warm when the radiator is outside it).

Its a very very sweet trick setup. Definitely share it in the other threads, lots of pictures and full info.

 

[EquineHero]

I wouldn't be embarassed by the cables back there, thats prettymuch most systems, unless you are able to custom cut and fit exact wiring there is no way to make that look good with varying length cables. You just hide it as best you can.

*ahem*

Back on topic. As soon as my new Quadro 4000 v1 comes in I'll post some Superposition scores. Having my DDR3 at 2400MHz shouldn't hurt the score that much, might be able to even beat my 460 SLI score.

 

[SverreMunthe]

I wouldn't be embarassed by the cables back there, thats prettymuch most systems, unless you are able to custom cut and fit exact wiring there is no way to make that look good with varying length cables. You just hide it as best you can.

*ahem*

Back on topic. As soon as my new Quadro 4000 v1 comes in I'll post some Superposition scores. Having my DDR3 at 2400MHz shouldn't hurt the score that much, might be able to even beat my 460 SLI score.

Ahem here and ahem there. Try with 8 temp sensor cables, 5 internal USB cables and 5 Aquabus cables, in addition.

The thing is that there are nowhere back there where they have made special places for cables. And the cable from the front panel earphone/mic is too short, at least for me, so I had to order some male pins, to make an extension cable. In addition to all that, they actually didn't add a USB3 hub, so all 4 USB3 ports could be connected together. Not many MB's these days has 2 internal USB3 ports. I ordered a Y-splitter, it should work on USB3 (it doesn't on USB2).

 

[SverreMunthe]

Back on topic. As soon as my new Quadro 4000 v1 comes in I'll post some Superposition scores. Having my DDR3 at 2400MHz shouldn't hurt the score that much, might be able to even beat my 460 SLI score.

I was told by the guys that makes Superposition that SLI isn't supported (which I knew) and that the work around doesn't necessarily give a correct result. But if you divide my result with 2 and add a little, because 2 GPU's never gives twice as good result, it's still high up. I actually bough 2 just because I had a bit of money, last fall.

 

[bjornl]

I was told by the guys that makes Superposition that SLI isn't supported (which I knew) and that the work around doesn't necessarily give a correct result. But if you divide my result with 2 and add a little, because 2 GPU's never gives twice as good result, it's still high up.

Coulda, woulda shoulda.... until you do that I remain the fastest with a supported config (not SLI).

 

[EquineHero]

Ahem here and ahem there. Try with 8 temp sensor cables, 5 internal USB cables and 5 Aquabus cables, in addition.

why do you even need all that useless junk?

 

[SverreMunthe]

I was told by the guys that makes Superposition that SLI isn't supported (which I knew) and that the work around doesn't necessarily give a correct result. But if you divide my result with 2 and add a little, because 2 GPU's never gives twice as good result, it's still high up.

Coulda, woulda shoulda.... until you do that I remain the fastest with a supported config (not SLI).

Seriously? My score divided by two is almost as high as yours. Ergo, one of my cards will run circles around yours. For Superposition I ran both cards above 2100MHz. I won't be able to do that with 3DMark. I also have problems with Heaven, although I do get through it in between.

 

[SverreMunthe]

Ahem here and ahem there. Try with 8 temp sensor cables, 5 internal USB cables and 5 Aquabus cables, in addition.

why do you even need all that useless junk?

I hear people ask stuff like that, all the time, so, here goes. Why do you over clock? Do you need to do it? Are you so poor you have to buy a 5 year old CPU and GPU and then overclock the hell out of them? Of course not, you do it for fun. And water cooling, why even bother thinking about it? Because it's double the fun. And if you do it, why the hell won't you go all the way? I watch Jayztwocents, and every time he builds a PC I wonder (and have asked, without any answer) why the hell doesn't he go all the way? I don't even think he adds a single termp sensor, he just runs the damned pump at full speed and adjust the fans a little. I would never ever bother building something as unsophisticated (can you use that word) as that. I think I would just buy a CPU air cooler and let the MB take care of the fans. And then I would wonder, why the hell I did that and didn't just buy the cheapest gaming PC I could find in the shopping mall. It would be much cheaper, both in money and work, and if it broke, I could just scream for help.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Ok that's enough guys, cool off. If this thread derails again I'm going to have to unsticky it.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

^
And, if the personal attacks and snide comments continue there will be fewer people in this thread. Keep the comments civil. This will be your only warning.

 

[bjornl]

I was told by the guys that makes Superposition that SLI isn't supported (which I knew) and that the work around doesn't necessarily give a correct result. But if you divide my result with 2 and add a little, because 2 GPU's never gives twice as good result, it's still high up.

Coulda, woulda shoulda.... until you do that I remain the fastest with a supported config (not SLI).

Seriously? My score divided by two is almost as high as yours. Ergo, one of my cards will run circles around yours. For Superposition I ran both cards above 2100MHz. I won't be able to do that with 3DMark. I also have problems with Heaven, although I do get through it in between.

As those lovely folks in Missouri like to say: "Show Me". You did what you did with an unsupported config. Claims as to how it will preform in a supported config is just speculation. No one knows if taking 1 of those cards gives you 55% or 45% of the score. Don't you want to find out? I do.

I ran at or around 2100 as well and had the memory pegged (max OC allowed without a bios hack)..... and I could run heaven, 3d mark, etc in my tests without issue. The only hitch I hit was a weird one. Every utility and game tested worked fine at 1440 and 4k. Except Divinity 2. It worked great at 1440p, but to get it to run at 4k for more than 5 minutes I had to throttle down significantly. Of course that game is one seriously buggy piece of code.

To quote my friends with sports cars... talk's cheap, lets race.

 

[COLGeek]

Just as a reminder......

We un-stickied this thread once before. Next step will also include closure.

 

[EquineHero]

Well this got out of hand quickly. Time to add another entry to the rules.

 

[poah]

msi gaming X rx480 with kraken G12
1525mhz
2250mhz
crimson 17.11.2

 

[EquineHero]

msi gaming X rx480 with kraken G12

Slightly better than a GTX 980 at stock. Too bad mine literally caught on fire when I overclocked it and ran Superposition.

 

[EquineHero]

So here's a thing. If I try to OC my PNY 1070 outside of SLI and outside of core spec, it freezes my computer. I thought the method of OC (MSI Afterburner) was at fault so I tried NVInspector. No dice.

I took it apart to replace the thermal material and clean the fans - and whaddya know. There are two points on the rear of the board that control overclock protection and overvolting protection. Connecting the solder points seemed to fix my problem - I ran Superposition at +400 memory and about +50 on core in addition to the +100 of my modded BIOS.

Unfortunately my temperatures drove the clocks down, but I'm getting a liquid cooler for it soon so I can get to the 2100MHz my Founder's Edition card managed to achieve.

Neither this PNY card nor the EVGA card that I sold for $850 could touch my old Founder's Edition until it exploded.

Here's some images of the OC/OVP switches on the card. It also has contacts for a multimeter to monitor voltage on vCore, memory, and the GPU clock generator (PLL)!

I'm not going to submit a score for this card until my water cooling comes in - but when it does I'm coming you, SinxarKnights.