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wolfwoods25 said:
Excellent thanks

Will that power unit be enough to run this current planned custom full deal, an 4k monitor and eventually two SLI Nividia Cards ?
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Yes, don't worry about the monitor - that has its own power supply and doesn't receive power from the PC power supply.

1000W is plenty - I have a similar system, (check sig) as well as a watercooling pump and 7 hard drives all run off a 1000W PSU.
 
Sorry Wolf but not read the whole thread but concerning 4K, the bit I find great is the fact you don't need all the settings maxed out for the games to look better than 1080P. I have had mine a couple of months and no buyers remorse at all. I did some testing on a single card and frames were very good when I turned settings down and still looked better than 1080P.
 
Gregster said:
Sorry Wolf but not read the whole thread but concerning 4K, the bit I find great is the fact you don't need all the settings maxed out for the games to look better than 1080P. I have had mine a couple of months and no buyers remorse at all. I did some testing on a single card and frames were very good when I turned settings down and still looked better than 1080P.
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More good news :)

When we have confirmed the right stuff that looks good and is neccesary, then Ill print the information pages out, then take them to (mandm computers) for them to confirm they would have no problem setting it up for me ;)
 
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Gregster said:
Sorry Wolf but not read the whole thread but concerning 4K, the bit I find great is the fact you don't need all the settings maxed out for the games to look better than 1080P. I have had mine a couple of months and no buyers remorse at all. I did some testing on a single card and frames were very good when I turned settings down and still looked better than 1080P.
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Greg, out of interest and apologies if you answered this previously - how does your monitor handle scaling down of res? Does it become a blurry mess at anything other than native or does it do a good job of scaling to lower 16:9 resolutions.

Reason I ask is that I might be interested in going 4K at some point, but 780Ti SLI 3GB makes me think VRAM will become a big issue, so in that case in certain games could potentially lower res as a means of dealing with that until such time as I upgrade cards to more 4K friendly cards in perhaps 12-18 months.

Cheers.
 
Five.Stars said:
Greg, out of interest and apologies if you answered this previously - how does your monitor handle scaling down of res? Does it become a blurry mess at anything other than native or does it do a good job of scaling to lower 16:9 resolutions.

Reason I ask is that I might be interested in going 4K at some point, but 780Ti SLI 3GB makes me think VRAM will become a big issue, so in that case in certain games could potentially lower res as a means of dealing with that until such time as I upgrade cards to more 4K friendly cards in perhaps 12-18 months.

Cheers.
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Nah bud. I still play BF4 at 1080P (I seem to do better over 4K) and it looks perfect. I did quite a few games at 1080P and none of them look wrong/blurry but 4K with lower settings does make them look better IMO. As for VRAM, I am sure if you tone down AA (which isn't needed to be on max), you will be fine with 3GB.
 
Gregster said:
Nah bud. I still play BF4 at 1080P (I seem to do better over 4K) and it looks perfect. I did quite a few games at 1080P and none of them look wrong/blurry but 4K with lower settings does make them look better IMO. As for VRAM, I am sure if you tone down AA (which isn't needed to be on max), you will be fine with 3GB.
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Great stuff mate. Something to contemplate. Was really looking forward to ROG Swift, but price and stock levels on launch aint looking good.
 
Five.Stars said:
Great stuff mate. Something to contemplate. Was really looking forward to ROG Swift, but price and stock levels on launch aint looking good.
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Yer, I would love that monitor to try G-Sync but very bad news. I am sure they will start to fly out in the coming months though.
 
AlamoX said:
thats really a bad idea xD
1-TVs often have higher latency = bad for gaming
2-Tvs most often have refresh rate of 30hz = all games run at 30fps that sux
3-i dont know of 4K movies, or tv channels, everything is 1080p, so if you are not buying it for games(which it isnt great) buying it for movies and stuff, would be a wast of money, because there is practicaly no 4k content other than gaming.
as said above use the money to upgrade Mobo and CPU, also add some Ram 16Go would do it, and if you still planing on sli/3way you might consider getting a 1200watt PSU.
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yeah 4k tv is pointless atm, some 4k tvs have hdmi 2.0 which supports 4k @60 fps, but currently there is no gfx cards that have hdmi 2.0 ports, if you want 4k 60hz you need to use the display port on the gfx card which no 4k tvs have!

..on a side note as far as i was aware 60 fps has been fine on most if not all 1080p tvs for a very long time
 
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jamiehavok said:
yeah 4k tv is pointless atm, some 4k tvs have hdmi 2.0 which supports 4k @60 fps, but currently there is no gfx cards that have hdmi 2.0 ports, if you want 4k 60hz you need to use the display port on the gfx card which no 4k tvs have!
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Is there some sort of displayport to hdmi 2.0 adapter mate?
 
Yes mate, a recent generation chip and mobo such as the ones I linked to will give you the ability to get best out of a couple of 780Ti's - trust me ;)

Again though, don't just jump in and buy the exact components I linked to necessarily - do a bit of your own research first so that you can get all the features that you are looking for.

But certainly my recommendation would be a

Z97 motherboard
Socket 1150 I7 CPU (4770, 4770K, 4790 or 4790K)
1000W PSU

and if budget allows some faster RAM. Haswell loves fast RAM and although the IMC on the chip only offically supports 1600Mhz RAM, it will run faster RAM without problems. Mines is 2133Mhz. 8GB is plenty.

Best of luck.
 
Five.Stars said:
Yes mate, a recent generation chip and mobo such as the ones I linked to will give you the ability to get best out of a couple of 780Ti's - trust me ;)

Again though, don't just jump in and buy the exact components I linked to necessarily - do a bit of your own research first so that you can get all the features that you are looking for.

But certainly my recommendation would be a

Z97 motherboard
Socket 1150 I7 CPU (4770, 4770K, 4790 or 4790K)
1000W PSU

and if budget allows some faster RAM. Haswell loves fast RAM and although the IMC on the chip only offically supports 1600Mhz RAM, it will run faster RAM without problems. Mines is 2133Mhz. 8GB is plenty.

Best of luck.
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Also if I got these component upgrades, when you said bottleneck performance, I assume that with all of these with my current single 780ti, the card would work much better and handle more Graphic punch to the games I currently play ? :)
 
wolfwoods25 said:
One last thing I am curious about, if I get the SLI sorted out with this deal, then can I get an higher graphics card like the 800s series to work with my 780ti ? :confused:
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No only cards from same generation are compatible with each other in SLI.

If you want to go SLI with a 780Ti it has to be another 780Ti.
 
Five.Stars said:
No only cards from same generation are compatible with each other in SLI.

If you want to go SLI with a 780Ti it has to be another 780Ti.
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Thanks, I've tried to install an new game today on steam called Enslaved and it freezes in the cutscenes despite only full hd settings, I suppose this is an further problem, that my old basic tech is falling apart inside :( :mad:
 
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