Future proof gaming system

Ummm...
/looks at ocuk benchmarks.
My 780s clock and score higher than some Ti's and 290x's.
But as far as it's supposed to be 'futureproof' Doomedspeed is right, go for single Ti and add one more later.
I would go for evga though, mostly because of customer support, warranty and watercooling.
 
It's too early for future proofing.

AMD is not future proofing at all... DX12 is compatible with practically every Nvidia gfx card from 400 series upwards. Mantle is not the future despite what AMD fans keep saying...AMD are not the cards to get for future proofing.

You guys spend way too much on PSU's and there's no point in getting SLI/xfire

the 770 would be future proofed for 2-3 years for excellent gaming. By then 4k will be mainstream and you can upgrade to another med-high card that performs 3x better and can do 4k gaming for less cost than you're sli/xfire/ high end cards

The i7, well tbh even my OC'd 870 @ 3.6Ghz will do fine for a few more years yet really... So devil's i7 is a great 8year + investment, but! wait a little longer and get an E-series for superior multi performance. Otherwise broadwell is only 2015...
 
Svyper1 said:
It's too early for future proofing.

AMD is not future proofing at all... DX12 is compatible with practically every Nvidia gfx card from 400 series upwards. Mantle is not the future despite what AMD fans keep saying...AMD are not the cards to get for future proofing.

You guys spend way too much on PSU's and there's no point in getting SLI/xfire

the 770 would be future proofed for 2-3 years for excellent gaming. By then 4k will be mainstream and you can upgrade to another med-high card that performs 3x better and can do 4k gaming for less cost than you're sli/xfire/ high end cards

The i7, well tbh even my OC'd 870 @ 3.6Ghz will do fine for a few more years yet really... So devil's i7 is a great 8year + investment, but! wait a little longer and get an E-series for superior multi performance. Otherwise broadwell is only 2015...
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Well AMD aren;t saying that, they are saying:

Raja Kadouri today announced that AMD will be supporting the DirectX 12 API on all of their GCN (Graphics Core Next) hardware solutions. This is good news for owners of AMD Radeon graphics cards, AMD APUs and even Xbox One game console owners that use GCN hardware. This means that AMD will have full compatibility with DirectX 12 on day one and be able to give users an instant performance boost on DX12 applications thanks to the lower API overhead.
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Posted back in March.

Why is there 'no point in having SLI/Xfire'? Of course there is.
You may have a bad impression of it from older generations like the ATI 5*** and AMD 6*** but the 7*** and R9's have much better Xfire performance and now a lot of big title games support it too, i don't know many that don't.

A single GTX770 at 4k? I think not. You'll hit the VRAM limit in seconds. Even at 1080p (on some titles) the 770 will hit the 2GB VRAM limit and for the price of a 4GB version you can get a R9 290 which is by far a better GPU.

And How can you mention Mainstream intel (devils canyon) and Enthusiast Intel ('e-series') in the same breath, the price difference is astronomical (from a 4 core to a 6 core).

I don't feel you're posting helpful advice for the OP.
 
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** faceplam ** clearly you didn't understand what i said.

You don't need 4k gaming. To get you need to spend a lot. 770 at high res that is NOT 4k is completely fine and excellent for today's standards.

in 2-3 years you will have med-high gfx cards that can do 4k as easily as high end's now so whats the point in spending a bucket load of cash on something that is not worth it at all for the price...

No there is no point for sli/xfire. The cost goes up for performance you don't need. doubling the energy consumption, higher temps and much worse price for performance ratio than upgrading med high cards in 2-3 year spans.

btw basically r9 AMD cards are compatible with dx12. so Anyone getting any AMD cards that are not these then it's a poor investment. AMD does not have the relationship with microsoft that nvidia has which is why nvidia cards are better future proofing

current i7's are DDR3
e- series are DDR4 compatible therefore better future proofing

I bet you I can make a better e-series comp that is a better future proofing comp than your rediculously expensive item computers...
 
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Doomedspeed said:
Thanks.

Well i'll level with you, i've never been a radeon fan either (actually only own one AMD (its was ATI back then) GPU and it wasn't amazing (no issues but OC'ed like a brick). Moved to Nvidia and never looked back.

A friend of mine did the opposite recently. He switched his GTX 570 (which was the same card as i had) and went to a 7970 (which is now an R9 280) and he was blown away. He had no issues, OCed like a demon and was cool and calm.

Appearently the R9 series are more stable, than their 7 series counter parts too.

For the money i'd say give it a go but i see your concern. I think you will be impressed though.

If you are going Nvidia though, don't get 2 x 780's get a single 780ti and keep the money to add a second later if you feel you need to.

The 780's come no-where near the 780ti's.
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As you said, I shall go with the single 780ti for now and run everything at 1080p because 4k is very overrated and overpriced right now :( . The reason why I am going with Nvidia is the relationship between them and Microsoft as it's been mentioned in the previous comments and also because I want a "fresh start" hehe.
 
CosminGCole said:
As you said, I shall go with the single 780ti for now and run everything at 1080p because 4k is very overrated and overpriced right now :( . The reason why I am going with Nvidia is the relationship between them and Microsoft as it's been mentioned in the previous comments and also because I want a "fresh start" hehe.
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I think that's fair. Id set the rig up for SLI though with a 850w-1000w PSU.
 
Yes, I will definitely set up the system for SLI and I'm not really sure about investing in a very high resolution monitor for now. I'd rather wait a bit more (1 year or so) until the new graphics cards will start laughing in front of a 4k screen. For now I'm quite happy with 1080p as long as I got good quality and FPS.
 
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Yes, I will definitely set up the system for SLI and I'm not really sure about investing in a very high resolution monitor for now. I'd rather wait a bit more (1 year or so) until the new graphics cards will start laughing in front of a 4k screen. For now I'm quite happy with 1080p as long as I got good quality and FPS.
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Good times.

I'd atleast consider a 144hz monitor.

They are excellent. :)
 
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Yea I might as well go for a 144Hz one since I will be getting more than 60 fps in most games I will be playing.
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You will. A 'ti' is certainly over-specced for just 60FPS.

The £200 one (144hz monitor) is the spec above has good reviews and I've heard some good things about from users. :)
 
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