Intel i7 3960X EE / Asus P9X79 Deluxe / 32GB Corsair Vengeance (1600mhz) Review

1. Introduction2. Intel i7 3960x Extreme Edition3. Intel Active Thermal Solution (RTS2011LC)4. Intel i7 3960x & RTS2011LC (Super High Res Gallery)5. Corsair 32GB Vengeance (1600mhz) DDR36. Corsair 32GB Vengeance (Super High Res Gallery)7. Intel DX79SL Extreme Series Motherboard8. Intel DX79SL Extreme Series (Super High Res Gallery)9. Asus P9X79 Deluxe Motherboard10. Asus P9X79 Deluxe (Super High Res Gallery)11. Testing Methodology12. Synthetic: PCMark 713. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage14. Synthetic: 3DMark 1115. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra16. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.5 64 bit17. Synthetic: SSD Performance18. Image Quality: HQV Benchmark19. Real World: 3D Rendering20. Real World: Media Encoding21. Technical: Bios & Overclocking22. Overclocking Results: Cinebench23. Overclocking Results: SiSoft Sandra24. Overclocking Results: Media Encoding25. Overclocking Results: PCMark 726. Overclocking Results: 3DMark 1127. Overclocking Results: Gaming Performance28. Technical: Power Consumption29. Closing Thoughts30. View All Pages

V2011 is the first release of 3DStudio Max to fully support the Windows 7 operating system. This is a professional level tool that many people use for work purposes and our test will show any possible differences between board design today.

Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011 software offers compelling new techniques to help bring designs to life by aggregating data, iterating ideas, and presenting the results.

Streamlined, more intelligent data exchange workflows and innovative new modeling and visualization tools help significantly increase designers’ creativity and productivity, enabling them to better explore, validate, and communicate the stories behind their designs.

Major new features:

• Slate: A node based material editor.
• Quicksilver: Hardware renderer with multithreaded rendering engine that utilizes both CPU and GPU.
• Extended Graphite Modeling Toolset
• 3ds Max Composite: A HDRI-capable compositor based on Autodesk Toxik.
• Viewport Canvas toolset for 3D and 2D texture painting directly in the viewport
• Object Painting: use 3D geometry as ‘brushes’ on other geometry
• Character Animation Toolkit (CAT): now integrated as part of the base package
• Autodesk Material Library: Over 1200 new photometrically accurate shaders
• Additional file format support: includes native support for Sketchup, Inventor
• FBX file linking
• Save to Previous Release (2010)

We created a new 8200×3200 scene and recorded the time for the hardware to finalise the render.

We are beginning to see how much power is on tap from the new architecture, reducing the overall time by 42 seconds when compared to the 990x.

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