High end gaming system Oct/November 2013

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Abaddonn

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Potential build: http://gyazo.com/81ee900e690134b1a24f7ba0324c30fe

Its time for me to finally make a (close to) top of the range pc, been gaming for years on crappy specs so now I have had a few promotions etc and have a little cash to spare its way over due that I make a beast machine I can be proud of, and I need advice. I play MMO's, Witcher2, type game mainly but also want to do Crysis 3, BF4 on Ultra in 1440 rez.

Budget: $2000 - $2500 if needed

Monitor: Im thinking of ordering a 27" Qnix 1440 from Korea and over clocking it to 100hz.

GPU: 1 x 780 now, one more in SLI when prices soon drop

CPU, Storage, Motherboard, etc: open to suggestions.

Cooling: I live in Australia in a top floor apartment in Sydney that gets hot in Summer with the sun shining on it, and no air conditioning in my room, just fan. With 2 GPU's will I need liquid cooling? Happy to get great cooling, but....is it loud?

Thanks for any input!!

 
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Abaddonn

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The temperature can be whatever it is outside....but with less airflow. So up to 35 degrees for eg. :-o

The thing with the Qnix is that its a 27" 1440 monitor but can also be overclocked to 120hz. I though that was unusual, though I am no expert on monitors.
 
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Abaddonn

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Australia. Everything is more expensive here. :(

I was thinking of getting a 780 now, and getting another for SLI when the prices drop soon due to the new AMD card.

I was hoping to future proof it a so I dont need to worry about upgrades for a bunch of years, though yeah, I may drop the i7. The motherboard just looks real cool ;)

What would you suggest as a more reasonable motherboard?
 
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Well "future proofing" is pretty meaningless. Paying $400 for a motherboard does not necessarily mean that your system will be "future proof". It just means that you paid $200 for a motherboard when you didn't have to pay $200. As far as the CPU goes the i7-4770K and the i5-4670K are nearly identical in terms of performance. Any CPU hierarchy chart on the internet will tell you that.

AMD FX8350 beats All the non extreme i7 in render time. But i7 4770k is also a very good choice. Get a dual r9 280x and it will definitely beat the dual gtx 770.
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No it doesn't. If it does, then point to the links where it proves that an FX-8350 will do the same job as an i7-4770K overclocked. Dual R9s will *NOT* beat a dual GTX 770 in SLI, there's no benchmark on the internet that will prove this.
 
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Having just read the reviews on it I checked out the R9 290X prices......and they seem to be selling for just over $100 more each than the 770!

http://www.centrecom.com.au/gigabyte-nvidia-geforce-gtx-770-4gb-edition-n770oc-4gd-windforce-3x-450w

http://www.centrecom.com.au/gigabyte-amd-radeon-r9-290x-with-battlefield-4-pre-order

If I drop a few $100 on other items, such as i5 and motherboard, going dual Crossfire that would be killer, no? It seems so cheap for outstanding perforrmance compair to Nvidia.....
 
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