If it's going to be something along the lines of War Thunder or Team Fortress, something like a GT 740 or a GTX 760 will do. Right now, if all you're going to play is around that intensive, you don't need anything more expensive than an i3 or an i5. I'm still running along with a Core 2 Duo and a GTX 760 I added not too long ago.
If it's something like Battlefield 4, then you'll need something with the power of a stronger i5 or an i7. GPU wise, a 7 series will fit the bill for 2 or 3 years.
(01-31-2015, 11:41 AM)Echo 7-7 Wrote: A game that needs more than 3.5 GB of VRAM? Seriously?
Star Citizen
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Apparently the 970 I have [url=http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-strixgtx970dc2oc4gd5]listed[/list] has 4 GB of memory, so I guess I'm covered there. Let's be realistic though - for the price range of my rig, I'm not going to have a PC that's going to be running SC at 4K with 120 fps. It should at least get over the min specs, though, and it'll handle most of the stuff I play now just fine.
Re: SLI; noted, will not do that. Might save up for a new GPU maybe 2 years from now, far easier than the hassle of two cards. Also read up on the issues with stuttering, so no thanks. What if I want to run multiple monitors in the future though?
With all the suggestions I've received I'm currently making a spreadsheet of all the various parts and comparing orices, performance etc. Will eventually post a revised build once that's done.
Can't help you with building your PC. because i'm building mine for 4250$... After 0.5-1 year i'll complete it.
PC that i'm making now is:
Motherboard: MSI BIG BANG-XPOWER II
Processor: Intel Core i7-4690X Extreme
RAM: HyperX Beast 4 of them (32gb)
Cooler: Noktua Nh-D14
Video Card: Inno3D iChill GeForce GTX 780 HerculeZ 3000 (2 of them)
HDD: WD Red 3 TB NAS Hard Drive
Box: Cooler master cosmos 2
Power: seasonic x 1280 go for gold x series.
If anyone can give me any advice about that also, you free to say. Maybe i'm building something wrong...
(02-01-2015, 09:12 AM)Echo 7-7 Wrote: Re: SLI; noted, will not do that. Might save up for a new GPU maybe 2 years from now, far easier than the hassle of two cards. Also read up on the issues with stuttering, so no thanks. What if I want to run multiple monitors in the future though?
Both modern AMD and Nvidia cards support at least three displays for multiple monitor setup, with various AMD cards supporting six displays (Eyefinity). There are some drawbacks when combining SLI setup with multiple displays as I had encountered, like focus display for SLI sometimes picking wrong monitor and such.
@Future Indastries: Not sure if you're trolling or just being ignorant by wasting money on such awful and inefficient build: top tier haswell-e (oh wait, that's just ivy-e! ) for what purposes? no ssd lol? 1k+ psu where nothing there to draw that much power? 780 sli, ho ho? all around WTF?!.
I just want my PC to support avery game on full power, max video support. Maby i should take 1 video card. And also 1 special HDD for system. and this 3Tb as support role.
Already have motherboard, Processor and RAM. Video Card is real expencive...
(02-01-2015, 01:40 PM)Future Indastries Wrote: I just want my PC to support avery game on full power, max video support. Maby i should take 1 video card. And also 1 special HDD for system. and this 3Tb as support role.
Already have motherboard, Processor and RAM. Video Card is real expencive...
I'd say you made a mistake by already purchasing that CPU and motherboard. X79 platform ain't good for your goal, it had already been replaced by X99 for Haswell-E. In fact for gaming there are no tangible benefits to using those 'extreme' compared to more traditional Haswell setups on Z97 platform. If you're concerned about fewer PCI-E lanes for GPU then don't - even high end cards today can't saturate PCI-E 3.0 x8 lanes, so even with dual cards you will not be bottlenecked.
Look, if you really got $4k burning down your pocket then at least pick up current generation stuff. Or better wait a bit for 980ti and buy that one instead. Because unless you're going with 4k resolution there ain't need for multiple card setup and then having to deal with their issues. Now if you do intend to go 4k then yes you'll need multiple graphics card but these 780 will not do for it. Get yourself a good 500gb+ SSD while at it, HDD is just for storage. Seasonic PSUs are good (original manufacturer too, not a rebrand) but modern GPUs are very energy efficient and aren't power hungry monsters of the past generations and this tendency to reduce power draw will continue so a ~750W psu will be more than enough, heck if you want a very quiet build pick a good fanless passive PSU. I'd just top it with custom water cooling loop but that's just me.
Money doesn't really seem to be an issue when you're aiming at 4000$
I suppose GTX 980 is going to be quite sufficient for gaming needs. When you're aiming for high end, definitely get an SSD unless you're more than fine with high(er) loading times. The PSU is definitely overkill though.
(02-01-2015, 09:12 AM)Echo 7-7 Wrote: What if I want to run multiple monitors in the future though?
Buy single 34" ultra wide screen and use it only for gaming, if you need second monitor for work find something suitable at same hight.
However I personally would not consider buying one now- may be in 2-3 years time when both Nvidia and AMD GPUs fix screen tearing and all game developers adopt the standard. Currently little to no games support it and it is AMD only thing, the technology is called AMD FreeSync. 4k ultrawide mass gaming is still in theorycafting. It could be good idea after 3-4 years when you retire the PC that you build now.
Personally I cannot see any real benefit for multi-monitor for gaming while I do work on 2 old 19" and laptop 15,6 when I need to do a lot of spreadsheets. I game on 24" and it suits me perfectly for now.
Most of the games are not optimised for multi-monitor setup and I find the edges of monitors kinda annoying and it is huge dealbreaker for me.
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