Greetings! First off love this place, I read up all the time and learn more and more everyday!
First off I'll start with my current rig before explaining:
intel 980x extreme
gigabyte x58a-ud3r ( Pretty sure this is bottlenecking)
24gb ram 2000 series(Can't remember if corsair/crucial + crap heatsync ( if any) taking recommended suggestions for replacement )
196GB SSD Corsair
2TB SATA6 x2 Storage
eVGA Titan
Cosmos Case
That out of the way heres the issue/undermining decision.
My board is almost 4 years old. I just upgraded from SLI 470's to 1x Titan and thinking of getting another ( or returning it today for 2x 780's (sep thread) )
Anyways I'm playing some semi old MMO's "Tera Online" and other games such as Skyrim , TR, and running benchmarks, and it feels like I"m not getting the performance I should.
When I say performance I mean FPS goes up and down, and in many situations plummets under 30fps ( no AA or MSA)
I've performed a clean install of drivers, using driver sweeper from Phyxion and Ensured my PC was clean, also recent windows install still plagues this. I could just be overexpecting from the giant but after reading up on PCI Lanes, better b/w management and the setbacks of 1366 boards, I started to consider either 1) something was bottlenecking, or 2 possible south bridge failure due to slow speeds on HDD, GPU, and USB at certain times.
So my question to everyone is I"m looking to grab a socket 2011 board today along w/ an i7 3960x core ( its about 590$ at my local store as they're getting rid of stock ) if not either 3770k or 3930x depending.
I've justified most of my needs for upcoming hardware upgrades with this board. I'm passing on Haswell as well as Haswell-E and going to wing it till Skylake honestly, as I feel this small upgrade should suffice until late 2015.
My question is which Motherboard would be recommended best for this as I was looking @ reviews for both the MSI Big bang 2 and the ROG and RIVE from ASUS.
I'm a Gigabyte fan but the lackluster of additional SATA ports and USB 3.0 pushes me towards the other 3 choices though I do miss having the mini PCI-E slots being by themselves vs in between the graphics slots.
That + your recommendations on the CPU as I've stated above + additional boards I may have missed!
And before I forget, and before someone asks "What are your normal needs" Let me answer that too.
I normally have upwards 50+ chrome tabs open , as well as 10+ firefox
As I do web design.
I use photoshop for heavy editing
I use Lightroom for rendering
I'm learning Maya/3DS
I'm drawing a comic currently ( shouldn't matter what I use for this )
Gaming, sometimes surround dependent on support and looking to do a tri setup later once prices come down ( if any )
I like to have max settings though I can do w/o MSAA as I haven't noticed a huge change with it. I want to support whats coming and I don't want to be throttled.
I'm not a heavy O/Cer but getting more and more into it. Not ready for Hydro cooling yet, but looking @ phase coolers.
Here's a shot of my current setup (scheduled to change ) Appreciate your input and sorry for the long read! Hoping to buy this today! Also just bought a samsung 840 pro SSD to install 7 on once I get one of these!
http://s16.postimg.org/x7rpz86at/lunacave5.jpg as the pic may be to big for the screen.
First off I'll start with my current rig before explaining:
intel 980x extreme
gigabyte x58a-ud3r ( Pretty sure this is bottlenecking)
24gb ram 2000 series(Can't remember if corsair/crucial + crap heatsync ( if any) taking recommended suggestions for replacement )
196GB SSD Corsair
2TB SATA6 x2 Storage
eVGA Titan
Cosmos Case
That out of the way heres the issue/undermining decision.
My board is almost 4 years old. I just upgraded from SLI 470's to 1x Titan and thinking of getting another ( or returning it today for 2x 780's (sep thread) )
Anyways I'm playing some semi old MMO's "Tera Online" and other games such as Skyrim , TR, and running benchmarks, and it feels like I"m not getting the performance I should.
When I say performance I mean FPS goes up and down, and in many situations plummets under 30fps ( no AA or MSA)
I've performed a clean install of drivers, using driver sweeper from Phyxion and Ensured my PC was clean, also recent windows install still plagues this. I could just be overexpecting from the giant but after reading up on PCI Lanes, better b/w management and the setbacks of 1366 boards, I started to consider either 1) something was bottlenecking, or 2 possible south bridge failure due to slow speeds on HDD, GPU, and USB at certain times.
So my question to everyone is I"m looking to grab a socket 2011 board today along w/ an i7 3960x core ( its about 590$ at my local store as they're getting rid of stock ) if not either 3770k or 3930x depending.
I've justified most of my needs for upcoming hardware upgrades with this board. I'm passing on Haswell as well as Haswell-E and going to wing it till Skylake honestly, as I feel this small upgrade should suffice until late 2015.
My question is which Motherboard would be recommended best for this as I was looking @ reviews for both the MSI Big bang 2 and the ROG and RIVE from ASUS.
I'm a Gigabyte fan but the lackluster of additional SATA ports and USB 3.0 pushes me towards the other 3 choices though I do miss having the mini PCI-E slots being by themselves vs in between the graphics slots.
That + your recommendations on the CPU as I've stated above + additional boards I may have missed!
And before I forget, and before someone asks "What are your normal needs" Let me answer that too.
I normally have upwards 50+ chrome tabs open , as well as 10+ firefox
As I do web design.
I use photoshop for heavy editing
I use Lightroom for rendering
I'm learning Maya/3DS
I'm drawing a comic currently ( shouldn't matter what I use for this )
Gaming, sometimes surround dependent on support and looking to do a tri setup later once prices come down ( if any )
I like to have max settings though I can do w/o MSAA as I haven't noticed a huge change with it. I want to support whats coming and I don't want to be throttled.
I'm not a heavy O/Cer but getting more and more into it. Not ready for Hydro cooling yet, but looking @ phase coolers.
Here's a shot of my current setup (scheduled to change ) Appreciate your input and sorry for the long read! Hoping to buy this today! Also just bought a samsung 840 pro SSD to install 7 on once I get one of these!
http://s16.postimg.org/x7rpz86at/lunacave5.jpg as the pic may be to big for the screen.