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Hello everyone,

First let me explain my background story etc, to make some things clear.
I moved 3 years ago from 1 country to another country. Back in my home country I had a very heavy loaded gaming desktop, custom build all done by myself.
I am a professional hardware specialist. I worked back in my home country for 11 years as hardware specialist.

My old system (back in my home country) specs:
Asus P6T-SE (X58 Intel chipset)
12Gb RAM DDR3 1333Mhz (oc'ed to 1600Mhz)
Intel i7 975 (oc'ed to 4.5Ghz)
2x AMD Ati 6990 in crossfireX
1x SSD, 4x 1tb HDD 7200rpm
42 Inch LCD screen attached to watch movies
26 Inch Samsung LCD 2ms for gaming
Antec 850W PSU
Antec 1050b (modified), with 12 case coolers installed
Windows 7 64bits Ultimate

Now my questions:

1.) What is the best motherboard to get for gaming these days, I did a small research I see the Asus Sabretooth Z87, and the Asus Maximum VI Formula scoring very good. I always used Asus motherboards and I am happy with the performance / quality. So what is the best motherboard now (March 2014)?

2.) I want to buy an Intel processor. AMD is good in money/performance wise, but Intel is still the better one in performance tho. So I was looking into the Intel i7 4th Gen processors.
Which is the best, I know the fastest processor of Intel is also always a lot more expensive then let's say 2 steps down, and performance wise the difference is minimal. So which one do you guys suggest
a.) Intel® Core™ i7-4860HQ
b.) Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ
c.) Intel® Core™ i7-4910MQ

3.) For graphics cards, I used both Nvidia and AMD cards, so I have no favorite here. I don't want to use an SLI / Crossfire setup anymore. I noticed 3 years back the support towards SLI/Crossfire was terrible. Most games didn't support this, and even now in 2014 many many many games still don't support it.
So I decided to go for 1 single card. Any good suggestions?
 
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Like previously stated, 3) All depends on your budget, but side note SLI/Crossfire has come a long way in 3 years. If you have the money AMD R9 290X or nVidia 780TI/titan black

All depends on your budget. A 770 or 280X will do fine at that resolution.
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1) The motherboard you choose from ASUS all depends on what you need, ports available, size of case, what you plan to slap on it. I personally use the ASUS Max VI Hero and couldn't be happier as it is good for overclocking and fits my needs.

2) Those are moblie processors, are you building a desktop? If so you will want to be looking at a i7-4770k (fastest LGA1150 cpu) or for budget sake and if you don't need anything for encoding or other CPU intensive stuff and just want a fast CPU for gaming something like the i5-4630.

3) All depends on your budget, but side note SLI/Crossfire has come a long way in 3 years. If you have the money AMD R9 290X or nVidia 780TI/titan black
 
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Thanks for the reply Devballs,

My mistake about the processors, I looked wrongly on the Intel website. It even stated in the processor specs...
Feels stupid. Oh the i7-4770k is still the fastest. I go for that one then.

Also I know that SLI/Crossfire grew in those 3 years, but the games I tend to play, I see people post on their forums asking questions when the game will get support for SLI/Crossfire.
Sure big games like BF4 etc, those games do support SLI/Crossfire. I remember I played BF3 with my old system with 140fps everything maxed out, and supported my Crossfire.
But for example Diablo 3 has a lot of issues with Crossfire/SLI setups, so yeah I just go with the most expensive single card :). So would you go for Nvidia or AMD?
 
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780 Ti/Titan black are the fastest on the market right now. Titan black has 6 gig vram instead of the 3gig for the 780ti. However the Titan black also includes high-speed double precision for the NVIDIA CUDA.

The other option is the R9 290x which has 4 gigs of VRAM and better for minig if thats your thing.

Personally I prefer nVidia cards.
 
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Thanks I already got my number 2 and number 3 answered because of your replies.

1.) Motherboard, I still being pulled towards the MAXIMUS VI FORMULA or the Sabretooth Z87. Reason why I need to have a motherboard that can handle hot environments. The place I live now it is the whole year long, 28 degrees Celsius up till 36 degrees Celsius. Example last 2 months, it has been 34 degrees Celsius (RealFeel 38 degrees Celsius), and it hasn't rain for 2months either. So I need a motherboard that can cool very good, which I saw on the website those 2 I just named don't get very hot.

2.) Intel i7 4770k
3.) 780Ti/Titan Black
 
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I'd recommend compairing them on ASUS website and see which features appeal more to you, side note formula has wifi, sabertooth doesnt. After browsing google it seems that people enjoy both and it all boils down to what you need out of the board.
 
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I just checked the price of the Titan Black, personally I find it way to overpriced for that card.
So I am wondering what graphics card can run everything maxed out on a 26" screen (1920x1200).
So for all the games that are available right now, and for the upcoming 1 year? (would be nice if it could hold up for 2 years)
 
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Like previously stated, 3) All depends on your budget, but side note SLI/Crossfire has come a long way in 3 years. If you have the money AMD R9 290X or nVidia 780TI/titan black

All depends on your budget. A 770 or 280X will do fine at that resolution.
 
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@ Devballs, thanks a lot for all your replies and suggestions. You helped me out a lot. I wish I could give you some + votes here.

Really nice to see some nice people here. Respect mate.

I will go for the gtx 770ti.

So all my answers got answered by you. Thanks again
 
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Just and update. I did some research today.

Is this a nice setup?

Case: Corsair 550D
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Formula
Processor: Intel i7 4770K
RAM: G-Skill RipJawX 2133MHz CL10 (16gb kit)
PSU: Seasonic m12II 620W
Graphics card: Gigabyte GTX770 4Gb
Monitor: Asus 23” VX238H
Harddisks: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD SATA3 / WD Black 7200rpm 3TB
 
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Unless you are doing multimonitor or SLI, there is no real need for the 4gb version of the 770 so I would say either go for the 770 2gb and save some money or jump up to the gtx 780 (non-ti, around $500). Everything else looks good to me. Have fun!
 
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Yeah I read that the 4Gb only is useful for SLI or multimonitor. I thought I just go for the 4Gb version instead of the 2Gb version because it is only 40 dollars difference.
 
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