Hi everyone, I have been running this board 24/7 for the last 7 years.
I run it extremely hard, primarily for 3D rendering, dynamics simulations, and visual effects, often times rendering for 140 to 200 hours at full CPU load none stop.
I am always running the latest OSX on it (currently on Sierra)

I recently wanted to give it an update, and dropped in a GTX 1080TI SC hybrid. (It had a GTX 680 Classified)

I am however only getting 58fps on cinebench R15 on the new card, while I got about 55fps on the GTX680.
I have other machines running at about 130fps on GTX 1080ti's on the same OS, but on newer, but less powerful single sockets. (i7 7700k)

It's really, really disappointing to get this low performance on the EVGA SR-2
A little relief is found in Octane render (GPU 3D render engine) it scores closer to newer machines, pretty much on par. (GPU computation over frames per second)

I just wanted to see if anyone else is running the GTX 1080ti on their SR2s, and what cinebench OpenGL score they are getting. Since most people will be running Windows, by process of elimination, I am trying to see if it's an Mac OS thing, or simply that the GTX1080ti just runs this slow in cinebench OpenGL on 1366 architecture.

The reason the cinebench score matters to me is because I literally work in Maxon's Cinema 4D for my work... so it's a practical benchmark for me. I was really expecting double the performance I am getting now, albeit a little slower obviously, than on newer boards.... but only 2fps faster than an old GTX 680 is either fishy or just very disappointing.

Any help on this would be appreciated... I'm hoping to extend my beloved SR2 another few years.


System set up:
CPU: Dual Xeon X5650 @ 3.2Ghz
GPU: GTX 1080ti SC hybrid
RAM: 1866 24GB Memory
OS: Mac OSX 10.12 "Sierra"
Samsung EVO 1T SSD
1000W PSU
(Original BIOS I think)


Thanking you in advance
Regards
Chris

This board is build for Windows.
maby u get better help on hackintosh SR2 forums

Cinebench is absolutely CPU limited (single core speed limited even), you are not testing your GPU when you run it, you're testing your CPU, which is why the systems with newer CPUs perform better and you see little difference between the 680 and 1080ti.

 
You do realize that he is talking about the OpenGL (= gpu) test ?

Hm, I get 90 FPS with a 1080 (no Ti) on a EVGA X58 FTW3 with the same cpu, but on Windows.
Theoretically I have Hackintosh installed on my second SSD but I highly doubt that it is going to boot since I installed it with other hardware (Z97 with i5-4690k, GTX 970). I can try tho ..
 
Edit: But I don't know if its relevant for you as I don't own the SR2, just a single socket mainboard (on the same platform tho).

My tests says GTx 780 and forward no good on SR2 for cuda rendering.
used to run 7 gtx780 in One sr-2.
( It did work )
In theory it would give a rendering boost
With cuda.
But they did not.
My sr2 is back with a new build: with 7 watercooled GTX580, new watercooling setup, bigger radiators faster pumps and 19" Rswe chassi,, it render fast as hell.

U probably need to
Buy a newer mobo that works with the gpus.

Robbanswe
Where might I find the hackintosh SR2 forum ?
Use Google

Just getting back to you.
I used goggle.
I couldnt find a hackintosh SR2 forum. I even tried advanced search tools.
Seems like there are not a lot of SR2 hackintosh people that have an SR2, running as a hackintosh, and willing to make a forum.I did find a thread somewhere called the "hackinbeast" but that was mainy a bragging rights thread. Pretty impressive though.
 
Be it as it may, iv had a new issue.
My machine reboots without warning sometimes. It always doesnt boot up sometimes after shutting down on its own. Its does a very very, very short momentary light up, then just dies, then does it again, over and over and over. Each little burst of power is like half a second, then it completely shuts down.
 
Have any of you ever seen this?
My suspicions are potentially bad ram, failing power supply, or non-use of the optional two 6pin power supply next to the CPUs?
IV never run the optional power, so i dont know why it would become an issue now, unless somehow, the new 1080ti is drawing more power than the machine is used to?
I also added a new 4K monitor to the mix. I wonder if it has anything to do with that?
I will run it with my old dual 30" Apple cinema displays next week and see if the reboots/shut downs go away.
I had added the other ram slots with another 6 modules, filling up the stacks, but after removing them again, the issue persists. I had thought the addtonal ram was pulling just enough power to go beyond the threshold whereby i would need the additional 6pin power.
As of right now, the machine is running what it has run for the last 7 years except for a new 1080ti and 4K monitor.
The machine worked flawlessly after adding the 1080ti for a few weeks, so im dont think its the 1080ti...... very confusing.

My Multimedia SR-2 ,,x5690 4680mhz,,, working flawless.
4x256GB SSD in raid 0
2x clonebackups on 3,5HDs.
Fantastic maschine

LKrieger
only for the stats:
my machine is on 110,05 fps in the cinebench. One core was on around 85% usage.
 
X5680 @ 4,12 GhZ
1x Titan X Pascal
 
 

That's a very fine score.

Seems like something with the bios and or this board, the x5650 clocks to 4ghz in the bios but is stock in windows 10, it's like the buss is locked at 133mhz and only turbo's up to 2.9ghz 
They were saying I would need the i7 980x unlocked chip to overclock actually.   But like the Sabertooth or UD3R and whatever evga board I think can clock it....blows man. 
Need to find a good deal on a board, I know the chip is good.  O well, should be having the Z boards back soon enough. 
 
I ordered too Supermicro's take on the z270 also looks like a cool board and is powerful too in the vrms. So I'll have like 3 z boards should be a retailer lol

Use overclocking tool.
Set 2D speed same as 3D all time.
usually 2D is 50-200mhz low power.and 3D is over 700mhz max power.
If running Cinebench in windows and 2D/3D is on 3D mhz setting u will get a better score.
because cinebench uses 2D mhz setting .

single cpu 1366 can hold 2070 fine.

oOCLouDeDOo
well my system isn't a single 1366, it's a dual 1366 but if a single handles a 1366, I may go that route.  do you play any BFV?  what kinda FPS do you push on games that you do play?  don't notice any bottlenecks with 2070?

With a single 2070, you're going to be leaving ~20% behind depending upon the title and resolution compared with newer CPUs.  SLI will only exacerbate it. You'd probably gain more performance going with a single 2070 and updating to a new platform versus going SLI for the vast majority of use cases. At some point, the X58 becomes a sunk cost.
 

oOCLouDeDOo
thanks for the response but I don't use this for just gaming.  the reason as to why I still want to keep this dated system is because I love the speedy core / thread count for VM tasks.  I just love being able to game on it as well.  I am asking about how this specific MB with higher end Pascal / Turing GPU does in gaming is for pure curiosity after I use the additional GPU computing power for AI / ML.

I realize that, being around here for a long time.... But clearly, your SLI question is intended for GAMING, so that is the context in which I answered. And within that context, what I posted is accurate.

have not benchmark it with battlefield v, from the fps i have enabled on the screen i see fps go from 70 to 100+ all on ultra with DXR disabled.my cpu goes 90-95%.its the only game i see go so high the cpu.
wolfenstein 2 uses 50-70% cpu only on ultra.
for gaming sli is not needed ,get the 2080 for sure you will be able to handle it.

what's the max amount of drives you've run on your 2X SR-2?  I tried to install a RAID card and the 8 drives I currently have disappear and only the 8 drives on the RAID show up, is 8 the allowable max?