Upgrading my PC to a X79 motherboard and 3930k
 
Current motherboard is http://www.asus.com/Mothe...S_Revolution/#overview
Current CPU 2700k overclocked to 4.7 ghz
 

 
I bought a https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P9X79E_WS/

 
New motherboard has PCI Express 3.0 x16 @ x16/x16/x16/x16
Current motherboard is running 2.0 x8 with my 3 GTX 680's
 
I am going to install the new motherboard tomorrow morning and start running some benchmarks, my question is, are there any benchmarks anyone would like me to run?   First with 3 Way SLI 680's on 2.0 x 8 , then compare with 3.0 x 16
 
I'll need a few hours to install new gear and overclock the 3930k, but as an example this is my highest benchmark on Valley with current PC :
 

 
I guess im hoping for something like a 10% increase in performance with the extra bandwidth , what do you guys think?
 
P.S. also...... I just found out a couple days before I bought these parts that socket 2011 doesn't officially pci 3.0 without a registry edit..... http://forums.evga.com...;m=1607292&mpage=1
 
and this kindof makes me mad, that I didn't find this out until after I ordered the motherboard..... but we shall see what Gpu-z says on startup.

3DMark11 : X9726
 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6827378
 
 

3930k @ 4.7 ghz
highest benchmark I could get with new motherboard and cpu
4766 on pci 2.0 x 8
4806 on pci 3.0 x 16
same overclock on GPUs 115% / +66/ +240
I used the force enable gen 3 registry hack...... seems like extra bandwidth didnt translate into more points
This valley benchmark is basically GPU limited for me, conclusion : pci 2/3, x8/16 makes very little difference in performance.
 

 
 

What resolution do you play at and do you notice in game performance difference?