enough grunt for 4k gaming?

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seriously tempted to push the boat out and snap up a 4k samsung monitor once they land,


only concern is would my system be able to push enough pixels through to make use of it.

gpu wise i'm torn between a pair of 780's and a pair of 290(x)s depending on what will be enough


but will the rest of my system be up to the task


2600k running at 4.2 ghz
8 gig ram
ssd boot and 2tb mechanical storage
 
Either of those card setups will work from what we've read so far. There's a few discussions like this at the moment already so have a search.

2600k shouldn't be bottlenecked by those 2 cards so I'd have thought you'd be fine.
 
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seriously tempted to push the boat out and snap up a 4k samsung monitor once they land,


only concern is would my system be able to push enough pixels through to make use of it.

gpu wise i'm torn between a pair of 780's and a pair of 290(x)s depending on what will be enough


but will the rest of my system be up to the task


2600k running at 4.2 ghz
8 gig ram
ssd boot and 2tb mechanical storage
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Your RAM is fine, id personally go for the 290's / 290x's their great cards absolutely love AMD's new card your CPU might need an upgrade if it did id wait till the new Intel line comes out which has already been announced so..
 
I want to go 4k gaming and have a similar setup as you:
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8gb ram
670 2gb SLI

I know that I need to change my graphics cards I was looking at the Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X in this week only offers.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-348-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

Thinking of getting 2 in CF but even then I really don't know if they would get good fps on the Samsung 4k monitor. My motherboard wont fit 3-4 of these cards or psu wouldn't cope so a whole system upgrade might be needed.
 
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In all honesty I would wait for just one more generation. Both 780ti SLI and 290x crossfire still struggle to run games at 4k. The below links show you benchmarks of both cards on a few games.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gtx_780_ti_sli_geforce_review,22.html
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gtx_780_ti_sli_geforce_review,23.html

I appreciate they just about manage it, but as buying the monitor and two cards is going to cost the best part of £1500 I would be pretty gutted when all the new stuff lands and you realise you cant even max the current generation of games, let alone whatever comes out next.
 
I've also been thinking about the whole 4K upgrade, but I think I'm going to hold of for at least a year or so, to let it all settle in a bit further. There are so many new products launched these days, I don't see the point in jumping in feet first any more, cos between gen 1 and 2 there may be only a few months apart, at least you no that the cobwebs are ironed out by then, and the drivers are up to the task, but more importantly the prices are more realistic.
 
Doogles said:
Have a heart attack and die? :p In all seriousness you wouldn't even be able to run it at low and have decent framerates on any newish games I wouldn't think.
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well that sucks donkey love toys :mad:,gonna cost me a small fortune now

is OCUK gonna have 1 of these sammys on show at the gadget show ??
 
dawnyworld said:
How would my Asus 7970 matrix cope with a 4k monitor ,its running 3x24" monitors at 5780x 1080 at the moment
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You're 3/4 of the way to 4k already, it would only be like adding another 1080p monitor to the mix. My math isn't great at the minute, but i'd say take 25% off your current fps and it wouldn't be far off.

that said however, i would personally run crossfire as a minimum for 4k (maybe even tri-fire for a decent lod/fps)
 
Until Maxwell appears 4k is a waste of time unless your running atleast 3 Titan blacks or more. Its expensive atm GPU wise and tbh it will only get better.
I wont bother yet, hope a 4k 120hz is released, now that will be a killer on the GPU.
 
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