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Okay, so just as a general question, as well as the INSANE rendering performance of a 12 core Opteron would it also handle games like bf3/4 well when paired with dual gtx 760s?
 
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that's actually not true. the majority of modern games do not make efficient use of all the extra cores on an i7 extreme edition chip, and all you typically get is maybe an extra 1-5% of...
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you'll get reasonable performance, but no better than a cheap four or six core chip. this is mainly because each core in the Opteron is clocked lower, and most modern games can't really utilize a CPU more than 4 cores well. This is the same reason why Intel's 5970k doesn't show a gaming performance boost over their consumer i5 or i7 (4770k) chips
 
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Okay thanks for the reply... but obviously the 12 core would just be a beast at things like 3D rendering, right?
 
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It will have more processing threads to spread the load around, but as vmem said... the lower clock speed will hobble you a bit. In this arena, and along the same price lines, look toward the Intel LGA2011-3 platform with an i7 5820k. That is a six core (twelve processing threads with hyperthreading enabled) monster and would outperform the Opteron all day long.
 
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Sorry, but this statement is flat out wrong. In just about any SLI setup any i7 extreme edition chip is better than a 4790k because it has more PCIe pipelines to delegate to each card.
 
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that's actually not true. the majority of modern games do not make efficient use of all the extra cores on an i7 extreme edition chip, and all you typically get is maybe an extra 1-5% of performance with a greater frame rate variance (bad). this is even demonstrated here on Tom's back when the review on Haswell-E was out:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-5960x-haswell-e-cpu,3918-6.html

What you're describing would only be true with the newly released gtx 970 or 980 cards where we might be saturating an PCIe3.0 8X slot. this is a highly special case, and does not apply since the OP asked about SLI 760s (this cared doesn't get anywhere near saturating the bandwidth)

 
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