Building a top gaming rig, money no object

you can get triple screen 3D. its called Nvidia 3D vision surround. however, there are quite a few people who find 3D really gimmicky and, after a few weeks leave the 3D galsses in a draw never to be used again, except for showing off to mates. that, coupled with the numerous reports of people getting migraines and sickness after playing in 3D for a while makes me hesitant to recommend it.

however, if its something that you really truly want, then your going to need the best computer you can get, because in the majority of games the already quite low framerate that you would have got in standard eyefinity will be halved. some games have got this down to ~30% reduction, but its still going to need one hell of a PC

YOUR BASKET
2 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 OC Special Edition 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £359.99 (£719.98)
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £183.98
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £155.99
1 x Silverstone RV02W-EW Raven 2 Evolution Windowed Case - White £155.99
1 x OCZ ZX Series 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £149.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £139.98
1 x GeIL 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP38GB1600C9DC) £59.99
Total : £1,582.39 (includes shipping : £13.75).
(keeping your current cooler, hard drives and DVD drive)


however, the sensible thing is to just get a second 5870, a bigger PSU and some amazing monitors for eyefinity. oh, and shop around. i cant list any competitors, but i can tell you that the price of the 5870 has skyrocketed recently at OcUK. even with the deal thats on i can find it for £143 at some competitor sites
 
Thanks for all your input, guys. It's cool to see that even if money were no object you'd still say pretty much just get another 5870 and go from there, I like that. I might do that anyway...

There's only one thing I don't get about building a rig however,
What do you do with SSDs?
Load games on them for fast loading?
Does it truthfully affect gameplay because buying a 512GB SSD just to fit all your games on is insane... money wise. Even if I can afford it it's the principle.
 
The primary principle of an SSD is to put your OS on it. Unbelievable boot times, snappier performance in just about everything. Can't go wrong.

Other popular things to put on are commonly used apps- your internet browser, your media player, your IM client, that kind of thing. Again, it just makes them snappier, and they load near-instantaneously.

SSDs don't affect gameplay in the sense that FPS is unchanged. Installing a game onto your SSD means that it starts faster, and loading times are reduced to near-zero. For most games, this just means less time spent on loading screens. For MMOs however, this is a big help- you're constantly loading world info, and it'll speed your game up nicely.
 
Money no oject?
Revo drive for storage, 1tb at 500 quid for 1000mb/s reads is phenominal prices compared to what dream pcs of only 1 year ago could afford.
3D vision surround,You have either 3 3d nvida power badboys or upto 6 ati powered displays. IMO eyefinity is best with 5 monitors in portrait, would allow for wide field of veiw in ****pits, full field of veiw for over the should, behind the hed, large hud for RTS, its brilliant.
But saying that the immersion of 3 3D monitors is just so much more epic you have to go nvida :D
 
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