Help Spec 2100£ Build for 144hz 1440p Gaming Rig

[stulid]

Well fortunately techpowerup done another review today about PCI-E lanes on GTX980 - http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GTX_980_PCI-Express_Scaling/ going from PCI-E3.0 8X to 16X does very little.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus PG278Q ROG Swift 27" G-Sync 144Hz Gaming Widescreen LED Slim Bezel Monitor - Black/Red £629.99
1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 980 "Herculez X3 Ultra" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N98V-1SDN-M5DNX) £399.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£35 Saving** £367.98
1 x Crucial MX100 512GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter CT512MX100SSD1) £154.99
1 x Corsair Graphite 780T Full Tower Case - White (CC-9011059-WW) £144.95
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11T3K2/16) £129.95
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £109.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
Total : £2,101.26 (includes shipping : ).



So this board above does two GFX cards at 8X/8X.

Free delivery - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18630207

5yr warranty motherboard and upgrade within 3yrs - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18631511


So I think that looks "aesthetic thing" for you.

There are lots of great cases, here is few and your original choice of 750D will fit all of the above in it still,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - White £129.98
1 x Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW) £124.99
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - Black £119.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Arctic White (CC-9011048-WW) £104.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black (CC-9011030-WW) £98.95
Total : £618.38 (includes shipping : £32.90).





You can even get RAM with some bonkers LED lighting effects,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Avexir Golden Blitz 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U24001008G-2BZ1SE) £149.99
1 x Avexir Core White Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331108G-2CIW) - White Light £129.95
Total : £289.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[sastusbulbas]

My only concern now is just the PCI-E lanes as I can't seem to think of any other features X99 would be useful for in a pure gaming rig)

As said by others the lanes are a lot less important than some may think, I have no links but there have been a few showing that regardless of 16x, 8x, 4x, PCIe3 or PCIe2, you will barely see a difference in most set ups.

In fact I am aware of no GPU set up for gaming with current GPU's that would saturate the PCI lanes of any current Z87/Z97 and even 990FX set up. The reasons given for X99's 40 PCI lanes being so much better have went over my head, but I bet a few have bought an X99/5930K systems based on it being "better" for 4K gaming and such when there is no current benefit over Z97. Funny enough, 990FX has more PCI lanes than Z87 yet no one touted that as a big thing.

Three 290's will give you 4K gaming capability for a reasonable cost on a Z97 or X99 platform, last review I read the new Nvidia's were not scaling well so I have no idea how things have changed with new drivers.

In fact it makes me regret not going full ATX on my last build, as I would quite like to have tried three 7950 or 290's with a 4K monitor. But alas, I have a piddly MicroATX build.