The ASUS P9X79 Pro motherboard has enough space for three dual-slot graphics cards when the time comes for testing 3-Way SLI and CrossFire and 8 DIMM slots should we want to go up from our current setup of 16GB of Corsair Vengeance memory. There are still going to be some games that could use more speed (Skyrim comes to mind) but for our purposes this is as good as you get without getting into any kind of overclocked settings. The Intel Core i7-3960X gives us the fastest consumer-level CPU on the market to help eliminate the possibility of any processor-based bottlenecks in our testing (whenever possible). Obviously that meant going with the new Intel Sandy Bridge-E processor and X79 motherboard – by combining support for 40 PCI Express lanes and 3-4 full size GPU slots it makes for the perfect GPU base.įrom this point on, our reviews will based around the following system:Ĭorsair DDR3-1600 4 x 4GB Vengeance memoryġ200 watt Corsair Professional Series power supply Zotac GTX 660 Ti AMP! Edition – 1033 MHz Base / 1111 MHz Boostįor the Radeon HD 7970 3GB review (and all those going forward) we decided it was high time we replaced the somewhat dated Nehalem-based infrastructure (even though honestly, it was fast enough) with something a bit more current. Let's see what the vendors provided for us – just to tease! For our testing today though we took the MSI option and set it at reference speeds. Retail Cards and the GPU Testbed – Sandy Bridge-E, X79, New GamesĪs I mentioned earlier, we did receive a handful of GTX 660 Ti cards for testing and we'll be doing a roundup of them soon. Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Multi-GPU Testing.Batman: Arkham City – Multi-GPU Testing.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Multi-GPU Testing.
Retail Cards and the GPU Testbed – Sandy Bridge-E, X79, New Games.NVIDIA has yet another GPU based on the GK104 Kepler chip for us today – the 660 Ti 2GB at 9!.
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