Spec me - ~£1k Eyefinity Gaming Rig

stulid · 14 Mar 2014 at 07:44

Matthew check your email please.

paulstung · 14 Mar 2014 at 14:05

stulid said:
That's no longer relevant with Hawaii based cards.

Cool that's good to now.

Matthew.M · 21 Mar 2014 at 20:23

Danny75 said:
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.

Danny75 · 21 Mar 2014 at 20:27

Matthew.M said:
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.

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

Matthew.M · 21 Mar 2014 at 20:29

Danny75 said:
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.

Danny75 · 21 Mar 2014 at 20:30

Matthew.M said:
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.

Thanks, and yeah, exactly. Good on you.