Xeon E3 1230V3 Hasswell - Impressive with Vray renderer.

[SUPERKAMES]

Hello everyone.

Recently, I have some quick test with Xeon E3 1230V3, a Hasswell base CPU with a famous 3D renderer : Vray
I used 2 version of 3dsmax & Vray to do my tests.

1. Vray 1.5SP5 & 3dsmax 2011
2. Vray 2.40.03 & 3dsmax 2012

The rendering time to finish the render tasks of Xeon E3 1230V3 are really impressive compare to the previous gen CPUs.

I did my tests with 2 3dsmax scenes from Evermotion.


Archinteriors 01 - vol 01:


Archinteriors 03 vol 16:



My hardwares :

1. Intel Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell LGA 1150
2. Crucial Single 16 chip 8GB ( 2x4GB ) bus 1600
3. Gigabyte H87M-D3H - LGA 1150
4. Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
5. Sparkle NVIDIA GTX 650
6. Corsair Builder VS450
7. Zalman CNPS 5X Performa
8. THOR Athena Mid-Tower Gaming Case

The results:

All screenshots can be downloaded here : http://www.mediafire.com/download/v6...Screenshot.rar


And the charts:

Archinteriors 01 - vol 01::


Rendering time (second): lower is better.

Archinteriors 03 vol 16::


Rendering time (second): lower is better.


Archinteriors 03 vol 16 - Rendering time (percent) compare with Xeon E3 1230V3:







Vray 1.5SP5 & 3dsmax 2011 vs Vray 2.40.03 & 3dsmax 2012

3dsmax 2011 + Vray 1.5SP5:


3dsmax 2012 + Vray 2.4:


Vray 2.4/3dsmax 2012 seem a little faster than Vray 1.5SP5/3dsmax 2011.



And the temps:

My ambient temp ~ 25-26 Celsius degree:

Rendering temp:


LinX non AVX


IBT-maximum + AVX:



Thanks for watching.

[zir_blazer]

I don't consider the no-IGP Xeons a good purchase. If I was you, I would have paid the 20 U$Ds difference to get a E3 1245 V3 instead, that is 100 MHz faster and also got the integrated GPU. You never know if it and/or QuickSync would come handy, and the price difference is quite small.
Have you considered to undervolt it to reduce temperatures?

[SUPERKAMES]

@zir_blazer: i don't need the integrated GPU.

Undervolting:

1st attempt, down the Vcore from 1.015 vol to 0.985 vol (in BIOS):





2nd attempt, down Vcore to 0.970 vol:





3rd attempt, down Vcore to 0.950 vol:






04th attempt, down Vcore to 0.930 vol:
--> Failed this time with BSOD code 000124.



5th attempt, raise Vcore to 0.940 vol:



It seem ok now.