OcUK Ultima Finesse Blackhole Gaming PC Review

Luke Hill March 31, 2015 Featured Tech News, Gaming PC

3DMark

We used 3DMark‘s ‘Fire Strike’ benchmark which is designed to be used on gaming PCs. We opted for the Normal setting, NOT the Extreme mode.

Sandra Processor Arithmetic

Sandra Memory Bandwidth

We have already reviewed Intel's Haswell-E Core i7 5820K and found it to be notably quicker than the slightly cheaper 4790K. Those same findings hold true when OcUK's X99-based machine is pitted against Z97-based contenders.

3DMark heavily rewards the Ultima Finesse Blackhole for its pair of GTX 970 graphics cards – the Fire Strike score hit almost 17,000 points. Quad-channel, albeit relatively slow and with loose timings, memory gives the Blackhole a distinct advantage when it comes to pure memory bandwidth.

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KitGuru Games: DLSS 5 misses the point

It would be hard to argue that NVIDIA’s DLSS technologies haven’t been a net positive to the PC space, with the machine-learning based upscaler successfully translating lower resolution inputs into a final image which is perceivably sharper while hogging fewer resources. Though somewhat more contentious, the next evolution of DLSS came in the form of Frame Generation, using ML in order to generate additional frames for high-refresh rate gaming. Both techniques can have their issues, but generally speaking they’ve allowed for more people to experience higher-end titles at increased frame rates. DLSS 5, however, takes a sharp pivot, with a very different end goal in mind than the performance-boosting versions that came before.

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