Category: Computer Builds

DALL·E Fight scene of Shredder versus Kingpin in cel-shading art style.

KINGPIN vs SHREDDER

CPU Mark Test KINGPIN SHREDDER PerformanceIncrease Integer Math (M Ops/Sec) 41,682 191,437 +359% Floating Point Math (M Ops/Sec) 34,643 140,992 +307% Find Prime Numbers (M Primes/Sec) 46 295 +541% Random String Sorting (K Strings/Sec) 26,282 76,952 +193% Data Encryption (M Bytes/Sec) 4,296 41,533 +867% Data Compression (M Bytes/Sec) 194 699 +260% Physics (Frames/Sec) 800 3,584 […]

SHREDDER

My newest gaming rig, retiring KINGPIN. Component Product Price Vendor Audio Audio-Technica ATH-M50xSTS XLR StreamSet $149.99 Amazon Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen USB Audio Interface $89.99 Amazon Brainwavz Velor Memory Foam Earpads $19.99 Amazon Biometrics Kensington VeriMark Desktop USB Fingerprint Reader $75.99 Amazon CPU Intel Core i7 14700K $419.00 Newegg Case Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic […]

Far Cry 5 on Nvidia RTX 3070

Two years later, I swapped the two Nvidia GTX 1080 FE cards in SLI for a single Gigabyte RTX 3070 Aorus Master 8G. A 19.3% improvement in average framerate. (35.3% vs a single GTX 1080)

NVMe SSD vs SATA SSD vs SATA HDD

Far Cry 5 on KINGPIN

When running @ 1440p with Ultra graphics settings, on average enabling SLI results in an additional 19 frames-per-second (an increase of 24.7%). Worth it? Even with a 144 Hz G-Sync monitor, probably not. Here’s the fancy output from the game’s built-in benchmark with SLI enabled.

KINGPIN

My newest gaming rig, retiring DARKHELMET.