Hardware and Software used, temperatures
Hardware and Software used, temperatures
Mainboard
- EVGA Z370 FTW (bios 1.08)
Processor
- Intel Core i7-8700K (Coffee Lake)
Graphics Cards
- AORUS Waterforce GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G
Memory
- 2 x 8 GB DDR4 3200 MHz XMP and 3500 MHz Tweaked tested
CPU cooler
- NZXT Kraken X62
Power Supply Unit
- Seasonic Prime Titanium Plus 850 W
Mass storage
- OCZ RD400 512 GB
Monitor
- AOC AG241QG up to 2560 x 1440
OS related Software
- Windows 10 (latest patches & updates installed)
- DirectX 9/10/11/12 latest End User Runtime (Download)
- Nvidia GeForce driver latest (Download)
Following benchmarks were tested in theoretical part:
- 3D Mark FireStrike
- 3D Mark TimeSpy
- 7-zip 16.04
- Aida64 5.97
- Cinebench R15
- Corona 1.3
- CPU-Z 1.85
- Frybench
- Handbrake 1.1.0 2017
- RealBench 2.56
- Thaiphoon
- WPrime 2.1 (1024 M)
In practical part the following games were used, with FullHD (1920 x 1080) resolution, to avoid bottleneck caused by VGA (yeah, 1080 Ti is not a weak card, but still can limit FPS):
- Battlefield 1- Ultra/TAA/DX11;
- Deus Ex: Mankind Evolved - Ultra/AA x2/AF x16/DX 11
- F1 2016 - Ultra, SMAA + TAA, AF x16;
- Fallout 4 - Ultra, TAA, AF x16;
- GTA V - V.High, AA x2, AF x16;
- Watch Dogs 2 - Ultra/HMSSAO/SMAA/DX 11;
- Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Ultra/HBAO+/AA/Hairworks OFF/DX 11
To measure the number of frames (average fps), the RTSS was used. The results presented in the graphs are the average of the results obtained in 3 runs. We will show you this setup running at 3200 and 3500 MHz (overclocked) later on in the article. Last thing on this page. Thermal performance was measured with the pyrometer, as the modules don’t show the temperature in monitoring utilities (like for example G.Skill TridentZ which I personally use).
We used the HCI Design MemTest Pro 6.0 for 15 minutes. The memory kit was operating at XMP profile. At idle it was about 35° degrees Celsius when it was under stress testing - it reached 10 degrees more. Room temperature, in the moment of testing, was about 25° degrees Celsius.
