Triple Screen PC Build advice

Ninja-Pizza · Oct 8, 2014

So I'm still looking around for PC Desktops that will be good for triple screen PC Gaming.

I'm not too knowledgeable in to building my own so that's out of the question. My budget is around £2000 + £400 (for the screens)

I've found this and just wanted to know if this will support what I'm after.

http://www.chillblast.com/Chillblast-Fusion-Dragon-Z97-Haswell-PC.html

Standard Specs.

Graphite Series 760T Case in Black or White
Intel Core i7 4790K CPU Overclocked to 4.4GHz
Corsair H100i Water Cooler
Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1 Motherboard
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780Ti 3GB Video Card
16GB DDR3 1600Mhz Memory
Samsung 840 EVO SSD 250GB
2000GB Seagate HDD
24x DVD-RW Drive
Corsair RM 850W Power Supply
Microsoft Windows 8.1 64 bit or Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.

Ports on rear of system: *

4 x USB 2.0 ports
4 x USB 3.0 ports
Audio outputs
Optical SPDIF
2 x 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet for network
2 x DVI outputs
1 x HDMI
1 x DP

* May vary if configuration is altered!

Ports on case:

2 x USB 2.0 ports
2 x USB 3.0 ports
F P audio

dominirican3351 · Oct 8, 2014

From having a very similar pc to yours I can tell you it will play bf4 on three 1080p screens on medium 60fps If you want to max out games you will need to sli.

TheAterix · Oct 8, 2014

dominirican3351 :

Just to add onto the guy above, i would highly recommend you go with a custom build, just do some research and im sure you can build your own, its not too tough, trust me, once you get going, it may take 10 hours to get it built and ready to go, but once its going, you will be over the moon with yourself, and will feel so happy, everytime you look at that pc, saying 'i built that beast'
Honestly, for what your getting there, thats a massive waste of money, i would recommend going custom and giving it a go... thank me later on that...
IF you want to go custom, here are some specs you may want
Trying to stick to that pc quite alot
Intel 4790k
Corsair H100i (there is better coolers but it is nice and quiet)
Asus Maximus VII Hero Intel Z97
2x GTX 970
250/512GB SSD (whatever suits your budget better)
As big a storage drive as you want, dosent really matter
DVD drive if you will need it
SuperFlower Leadex Platinum 1000W Fully Modular
Get windows if you have no other way of getting it, i recommend 7 from personal experience, though 8 is faster to use...

If you are wanting your triple monitor Max settings BEAST, go with my build, but if your wanting a 60fps medium settings, still pretty beast, go with your prebuilt...

Ninja-Pizza · Oct 8, 2014

TheAterix :

As some one who plays Titanfall and Mass Effect 3 of the likes, I figured this would be the case.

dominirican3351 :

I must confess I have toyed with the idea before, but I've never really been confident enough. But I can be happy with medium settings I guess...

Thanks for the advice though, I appreciate it.

GOM3RPLY3R · Oct 8, 2014

TheAterix :

The only thing about that I personally find is the 2x 970 part. I currently have one 970 and even on ArmA 3 on the Ultra Preset @ 1080p, I am getting a minimum of 75 FPS and a maximum of 90 FPS on a single monitor.

Factors you have to note are:

- What games you play
- How many Hz is your display (usually 60 Hz)
- What you expect from this machine
- Are you worried about aesthetics?

If you aren't worried about asthetics, then I'd say save the money and go for this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132118
My friend has a Sabertooth z77 board, and the best thing that came out of it was the better cooling it supplied for a week before it became full of dust under the plastic cover. The "armor" is a good idea, but it's kind of a scam when you have to clean it out every week from the fans under the cover.

For the RAM, if you are only gaming, you should only need 8 GB. I have almost maxed out my 8GB only when I used photoshop, other than that, the highest it really got to was 5.5 GB, except that was with numerous applications open.

Other than that, if you decide to go for a single card (probably a GTX 980 for the price, maybe even a GTX 970), you really do not need a 850 watt PSU at all. Even with both my GPU and CPU overclocked (i5-3570k and GTX 970), I am not pulling more than 400 watts out of the wall with a TX850M. I bought this however for the far future if I do need to SLI (which so far is proving to be useless ^_^). I'd say get a corsair RM450 or RM550 (I assume you want to keep the fully modular part of it).

That should save you I think about £270 if you go with the RM 550, GTX 980, 8 GB of RAM, and the other motherboard (I'm from America so the prices may differ a bit). You can use that money to literally buy a whole other GTX 980 to SLI (if you want to SLI).

GOM3RPLY3R · Oct 8, 2014

Ninja-Pizza :

TheAterix :

As some one who plays Titanfall and Mass Effect 3 of the likes, I figured this would be the case.

dominirican3351 :

I must confess I have toyed with the idea before, but I've never really been confident enough.

But I can be happy with medium settings I guess...

Thanks for the advice though, I appreciate it.

Honestly, I was very unsafe building my PC by a beginners guide standards. I wore socks, I was on a carpet (parts on a table of course), and other things, but my PC came out of it amazing. As long as you ground yourself (touch the case every what, 15 minutes), you shouldn't build up enough static to even scare a mouse >.> . The other thing is that you will save yourself the up sale and labor cost that you are paying when you normally buy from a retailer.

Ninja-Pizza · Oct 8, 2014

GOM3RPLY3R :

The only thing about that I personally find is the 2x 970 part. I currently have one 970 and even on ArmA 3 on the Ultra Preset @ 1080p, I am getting a minimum of 75 FPS and a maximum of 90 FPS on a single monitor.

Factors you have to note are:

- What games you play
- How many Hz is your display (usually 60 Hz)
- What you expect from this machine
- Are you worried about aesthetics?

If you aren't worried about asthetics, then I'd say save the money and go for this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132118
My friend has a Sabertooth z77 board, and the best thing that came out of it was the better cooling it supplied for a week before it became full of dust under the plastic cover. The "armor" is a good idea, but it's kind of a scam when you have to clean it out every week from the fans under the cover.

For the RAM, if you are only gaming, you should only need 8 GB. I have almost maxed out my 8GB only when I used photoshop, other than that, the highest it really got to was 5.5 GB, except that was with numerous applications open.

Other than that, if you decide to go for a single card (probably a GTX 980 for the price, maybe even a GTX 970), you really do not need a 850 watt PSU at all. Even with both my GPU and CPU overclocked (i5-3570k and GTX 970), I am not pulling more than 400 watts out of the wall with a TX850M. I bought this however for the far future if I do need to SLI (which so far is proving to be useless ^_^). I'd say get a corsair RM450 or RM550 (I assume you want to keep the fully modular part of it).

That should save you I think about £270 if you go with the RM 550, GTX 980, 8 GB of RAM, and the other motherboard (I'm from America so the prices may differ a bit). You can use that money to literally buy a whole other GTX 980 to SLI (if you want to SLI).

Like I said originally I'm not too knowledgeable, I mean I know where the things go in the right holes and such but when it comes to the really technical stuff that's where I start getting confused.

GOM3RPLY3R · Oct 8, 2014

Ninja-Pizza :

Lol it comes with time. Simply put, for the GPU, you can look up some benchmarks and see which one you want to get price / performance wise (which will probably be either a GTX 970 or 980).

Other than that, you can ask us anything, we can help you with whatever you need. If you would like to actually build your own, we're open to answering anything to get you the right parts and the know how on it.

To start, there are tons of build guides on YouTube that you can look at. Here's a few I find to be the best:

Austin Evans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsyxM_j3Y4U

LinusTechTips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roFb3TNePIg

EasyPCBuilder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bUghCx9iso

They really come in handy, even when I was starting to build my own.

Really they are just delicate Legos. If you just read up on what to buy and how to generally build it, you should have your kick-ass gaming pc in tune. ^_^

TheAterix · Oct 9, 2014

GOM3RPLY3R :

Ninja-Pizza :

Lol it comes with time. Simply put, for the GPU, you can look up some benchmarks and see which one you want to get price / performance wise (which will probably be either a GTX 970 or 980).

Other than that, you can ask us anything, we can help you with whatever you need. If you would like to actually build your own, we're open to answering anything to get you the right parts and the know how on it.

To start, there are tons of build guides on YouTube that you can look at. Here's a few I find to be the best:

Austin Evans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsyxM_j3Y4U

LinusTechTips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roFb3TNePIg

EasyPCBuilder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bUghCx9iso

They really come in handy, even when I was starting to build my own.

Really they are just delicate Legos. If you just read up on what to buy and how to generally build it, you should have your kick-ass gaming pc in tune. ^_^

Honestly, there isnt really anything too technical other than making sure your cpu is seated correctly which personally, was my scariest moment, as that idea got me worried leading upto it, but i just went for it, and its easier than it looks, im 14, and ive built both of my pcs and put a few friends pcs together, so if a 14 year old can do it, anyone can

but in all seriousness, give it a shot, worst comes to worst, it dosent boot, which if that happens, you boot your other pc or phone and come on here and get help, which someone will respond too within an hour tops and we can get it going in no time at all...

GOM3RPLY3R · Oct 9, 2014

TheAterix :

GOM3RPLY3R :

Honestly, there isnt really anything too technical other than

making sure your cpu is seated correctly which personally, was my scariest moment,

as that idea got me worried leading upto it, but i just went for it, and its easier than it looks, im 14, and ive built both of my pcs and put a few friends pcs together, so if a 14 year old can do it, anyone can

but in all seriousness, give it a shot, worst comes to worst, it dosent boot, which if that happens, you boot your other pc or phone and come on here and get help, which someone will respond too within an hour tops and we can get it going in no time at all...

Same exact thing here lol. I literally had a heart attack when it "snapped" into place when I put the cover on. After watching a couple YouTube videos, apparently this is ~ normal, lol.

Ninja-Pizza · Oct 16, 2014

Sorry to bump an old post but I've decided to go for a custom build, using some of the guidance from here I think I've created something special, either that or it's a miniature Frankenstein. Please let me know what you guys think of the revised specs...

Case: Zalman H1 Full-Tower - Black
Mother Board: Asus Maximus VII Hero Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Power Supply: Corsair RM Series RM 1000 '80+ Gold' 1000W Power Supply (CP-9020062-UK)
Graphics Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II OC Strix 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card x2
Memory: Corsair XMS3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX16GX3M2A1600C11)
External Hard Drive: Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 3.5" 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive
Solid State Drive: Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW)
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Fx OEM (CL-30SB157000001)
Optical Drive: OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit DVD - OEM (FQC-06949)

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