Hardware & Technical Dell 990 Optiplex MT for EDH

[[VR] optimal_909]

It depends what permanent means, while normal playing sessions, the GPU has time to cool down while in space (kind of logical ), where the load is low.

 

[D.D.Hariman]

I have a TV pc box . It's a HP/Compaq 8200 elite SFF with an I5 2400 I bought for peanuts .. I stuffed 16 gb ram and a 1050ti in it and removed all 12v gadgets from it like the CD/DVD burner and the 12v 3.5" drive .. replaced them with 2 2.5" 5v ssd's and pow.. It runs everything ..

Humnnn,, I can understand where changing out to SSD's would help. But since the DVD/CD stuff isn't running when I play the game, not sure what help that would be.

 

[D.D.Hariman]

It depends what permanent means, while normal playing sessions, the GPU has time to cool down while in space (kind of logical ), where the load is low.

I agree with you but I understand where shadow is coming from. Since I play solo and avoid combat, the biggest load on my GPU is when docking at a busy station.
On the other hand, someone regularly spending a lot of time in a HI combat zone might find things getting warm. The nice thing is the case on the 990 is huge and you can basically look through it from the front and out the back so an external fan is an obvious possibility to get more cooling.

 

[Morbad]

I've just glanced over specs for that i7 CPU, and it says PCIe 2.0 only...that means it won't even run anything like 960 at it's full speed, which requires PCIe 3.0 x16 lol. Forget about it

PCI-E bandwidth is not a going to be a bottleneck in this scenario. Even my 1080 ti isn't losing any performance from 2.0 16x or even 8x, in a single card config.

High-end SLI/CFX setups is where PCI-E bandwidth starts to matter because coherency of VRAM contents must be maintained across PCI-E, and in the case of AMD, all frame compositing data is over PCI-E as well. None of that matters in a single card setup and it takes a pretty anemic interface to cause performance issues that would be noticeable (say a 1080 ti on a 4x 2.0 link hanging off the southbridge/PCH).

It doesn't max out because 2500k is a bottleneck in this case You can max out 2.0, especially with something as ridiculous as 1080ti.

A quad core Sandy Bridge is fast enough to not be a bottleneck for EDH running on a GTX 960 either.

EDH is almost entirely GPU limited past fairly modest settings. I have older CPUs that aren't the weak link even in systems with much faster GPUs than a 960.

If I am hitting the RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS,, I am not sure why there is doubt that the game will be very playable for many, many years.

4GiB of main memory is a problem even now and load times without an SSD are problematic, especially when memory constrained, but an i7 2600 and a GTX 960 will run the game fairly well.

It depends what permanent means, while normal playing sessions, the GPU has time to cool down while in space (kind of logical ), where the load is low.

If you have vsync or a frame limiter on, sure. Otherwise load in space is about the same, cause the frame rate just goes up.

 

[D.D.Hariman]

Any thoughts about the Seagate 1TB FireCuda Gaming SSHD ??