Spec me - ~£1k Eyefinity Gaming Rig

[Matthew.M]

This system is for one thing only - playing iRacing and Assetto Corsa and any other racing sims I get into. I have a work laptop for work and an iPad for general browsing. So this is all it needs to do!

I've come up with this:

Any thoughts? I'm at the upper limit of my budget so anywhere I could save money would be appreciated. Don't care about chasing max graphics either - just want it smooth across the 3 displays at medium or above settings.

I have a 1Tb storage drive and a Win 7 Pro license I can recycle from my old machine.

Many thanks!

 

[Matthew.M]

The retail CPU is currently cheaper.

Thanks. I put the spec together last night so I'm 24hours out of date!

 

[Matthew.M]

Ok so a GPU change and PSU change Thanks for the input so far.

Not sure on the monitor - I was initially attracted to the "slim bezel". I may have to go find some in a store locally to have a look if that actually makes much of a difference.

 

[Matthew.M]

With a 120GB SSD and different monitors (IPS):


YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-03-40G) £323.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £167.99
3 x iiyama Prolite XU2390 23" Widescreen Slim Bezel LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £125.99 (£377.97)
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £65.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x EVGA 600W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (100-B1-0600-KR) £43.99
1 x Zalman Z3-Plus Midi-Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Deepcool GAMMAXX S40 CPU-Cooler - 120mm £19.99
Total : £1,211.90 (includes shipping : £27.55).

I'm going to order this but with the Corsair case I originally specced as I prefer the look and the Samsung SSD as I prefer that brand.

Many thanks for all of your help everyone!

 

[Matthew.M]

Sorry last question as I was ordering - I've noticed the motherboard has one PCIE at x16 and one at x4. Would this impede crossfire if I did decide to add another card in the future? I have no plans to at the moment but it would be useful to know.

 

[Matthew.M]

I was just curious more than anything, I've read lots of issues around crossfire and eyefinity so I'm going to stick to a single card. I also really don't feel the need to chase maximum graphics settings.

Thanks again all

 

[Matthew.M]

With a 120GB SSD and different monitors (IPS):


YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-03-40G) £323.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £167.99
3 x iiyama Prolite XU2390 23" Widescreen Slim Bezel LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £125.99 (£377.97)
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £65.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x EVGA 600W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (100-B1-0600-KR) £43.99
1 x Zalman Z3-Plus Midi-Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Deepcool GAMMAXX S40 CPU-Cooler - 120mm £19.99
Total : £1,211.90 (includes shipping : £27.55).

Just a follow up on this. I'll post a separate build log for the full machine over the weekend as it's now built. However, the monitors are having to go back as the bezel isn't really suitable for eyefinity gaming setups where the screens are at an angle to each other - it protrudes forwards at the bottom which means when they're arranged together there's a 3-4mm air gap which is very distracting unless in a pitch black room:

Nevermind. I'll slum it on my old monitor for a week or so until the refund hits my account and then I'll look at different models.

 

[Matthew.M]

I see what you mean. Thank you for letting me know, and my apologies for speccing those monitors, for what it's worth.

No problem, there's no way of knowing without using them and I didn't even realise until I had the second one out Hopefully anyone else considering the same searches for the right keywords and finds this thread.