- Sep 14, 2014
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G'day everyone!
Let me first paint you a words picture... (feel free to skip to the -QUESTION- if you got a lot on your plate)
As of the beginning of the year I had only used computers as a tool for murdering everyone I could see in FPS games/DayZ mod. While I was/am better than decent in this regard and was blissfully happy in my ignorance I have realized that I've been at a severe disadvantage due to my relatively sharted gaming laptop that I had to rest frozen peas on to cool the GPU!!! A sad sad situation as I now realize and no... unfortunately I'm not kidding... frozen peas... sniff sniff...
Suffice to say that my change of standards for a new gaming computer have been born out of my laptop farting a stinky smoke of death... perhaps due to the defrosting peas on my GPU...
Fast forwarding to now and I've been creepin all over this forum for a few months now (leaching up all the info as a non-member) but I've now reached an expertise barrier relating to Mobo/GPU to Monitor compatibility.
I'm simultaneously attempting to build two mid to high end gaming/semi professional photo editing pc's (One for me and one for my missus) while remaining in a reasonable budget. Only a few months ago I had intended to build a bang for buck budget rig but now my brain has been infected with ideas like future proofing and zero lag gaming. Now my reasonable budget has been squashed to a bloody pulp under the weight of my greedy pipe-dreams.... I digress.
I have heard nothing but praise for the Asus Z97-A as a mid to high end Intel suited Mobo and I'm very keen to stick with it due to its competitive price and decent features. However, as I mentioned, my rig has grown more and more beastly with each day and I'm now starting to worry (due to my lack of experience) that it might not do the job.
-QUESTION-
I want to know I the Asus Z97-A/Intel i5 combo paired with either a 290 or 770/780 (still undecided)
and the appropriate PSU, peripherals etc (fairly versed on those) will run effectively:
Rig A : A BenQ XL2420Z 24in LED 144Hz Gaming Monitor
& (Not or as I need two separate monitors for separate rigs)
Rig B : A LG 25UM65-P 25in UltraWide IPS Monitor
Do I have the necessary cable/ports inputs/outputs for the use of these systems as well as the necessary grunt to run these monitors ?
For those of you who dragged your eyes over my whole post to here I thank you for your patience and any advice you care to share for a first PC build would always be appreciated (be it on topic or otherwise)
Cheers a bunch.
Agra.
Let me first paint you a words picture... (feel free to skip to the -QUESTION- if you got a lot on your plate)
As of the beginning of the year I had only used computers as a tool for murdering everyone I could see in FPS games/DayZ mod. While I was/am better than decent in this regard and was blissfully happy in my ignorance I have realized that I've been at a severe disadvantage due to my relatively sharted gaming laptop that I had to rest frozen peas on to cool the GPU!!! A sad sad situation as I now realize and no... unfortunately I'm not kidding... frozen peas... sniff sniff...
Suffice to say that my change of standards for a new gaming computer have been born out of my laptop farting a stinky smoke of death... perhaps due to the defrosting peas on my GPU...
Fast forwarding to now and I've been creepin all over this forum for a few months now (leaching up all the info as a non-member) but I've now reached an expertise barrier relating to Mobo/GPU to Monitor compatibility.
I'm simultaneously attempting to build two mid to high end gaming/semi professional photo editing pc's (One for me and one for my missus) while remaining in a reasonable budget. Only a few months ago I had intended to build a bang for buck budget rig but now my brain has been infected with ideas like future proofing and zero lag gaming. Now my reasonable budget has been squashed to a bloody pulp under the weight of my greedy pipe-dreams.... I digress.
I have heard nothing but praise for the Asus Z97-A as a mid to high end Intel suited Mobo and I'm very keen to stick with it due to its competitive price and decent features. However, as I mentioned, my rig has grown more and more beastly with each day and I'm now starting to worry (due to my lack of experience) that it might not do the job.
-QUESTION-
I want to know I the Asus Z97-A/Intel i5 combo paired with either a 290 or 770/780 (still undecided)
and the appropriate PSU, peripherals etc (fairly versed on those) will run effectively:
Rig A : A BenQ XL2420Z 24in LED 144Hz Gaming Monitor
& (Not or as I need two separate monitors for separate rigs)
Rig B : A LG 25UM65-P 25in UltraWide IPS Monitor
Do I have the necessary cable/ports inputs/outputs for the use of these systems as well as the necessary grunt to run these monitors ?
For those of you who dragged your eyes over my whole post to here I thank you for your patience and any advice you care to share for a first PC build would always be appreciated (be it on topic or otherwise)
Cheers a bunch.
Agra.
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