Reply 380 of 804, by kithylin
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Makes me think maybe when I (some day) build a LGA-775 SLI system, I might pay more and go up for the EVGA 790i motherboard that uses entirely polymer caps on the entire board for this reason. That and getting DDR3 would be nice, maybe. I don't know if the extra ram bandwidth would benefit those CPU's any.
For comparison for you, this is my "Best ever to date" 3dmark 2003 score: 133k using my big x58 i7 system with quad core cpu @ 4.4 ghz and pair of jacked up gtx 470's: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm03/6519023
Not too far above yours, and the 580's are supposed to be slightly faster than my jacked up 470's point for point, so a pair of em should be running faster than what I've come up with in 2003. So I think you're hitting the cpu bottleneck there, most likely. I think you already know that though.
Also I picked up a 1KW Silverstone power supply today for $27 and was able to squeeze a few more MHZ out of my amd 939 system. Apparently even though the 750 watt one was only showing 300-400 watts draw @ outlet with a kill-a-watt, it was holding back my 939 system. Or it's just inferior in general. Switching over to this 80+ silverstone 1KW let me push the chip a little further, and I do believe this is the fastest I'm ever going to get out of this K8 system, at least until I can maybe get a 2MB dual core into it some day.
Running a pair of GTX 260's in Asus A8n32-SLI-Deluxe.
2001se:
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