Good rig for 4K gaming performance?

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grhand82

grhand82

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Aight..... so here is the rig I want to throw togethor.

Questions are:
Will this give me 4K gaming capabilities or am I still under powered?
Should I go with higher quality/clocked memory?
Water cool?
Second GPU necessary?
Build suggestions?

Here is the build:
CPU - i7-6700k Skylake
GPU - Single Asus GTX 980 TI Strix DC3oc
PSU - EVGA 120-G1-0750-XR 80 PLUS GOLD 750 W
CPU Fan - Deepcool Gammax 300
MOBO - Asus Rog Maximus VIII Ranger LGA 1151
Mem Kit - HyperX Savage 16gb DDR4 2133
Case - Corsair Carbide Series Air 540
OS - Windows 10 Home
2 additional 120mm exhaust fans
Storage - 1x Crucial BX100 500GB SSD + 3x Adata Premier 240GB SSD

Go to town!
 
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At this point 4K is very difficult to achieve with current generation hardware. You basically need 2x GTX 980 TIs (or maybe 390x cards in a pinch) to get a reasonable framerate and even then it's not going to be mindblowing enable every option under the sun good.

If 4K in a reasonable budget is your plan I'd give it about 6 months, within 6 months the next-gen graphics cards should be out and since they skipped an entire fab process they should be significantly more powerful than the current ones.
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At this point 4K is very difficult to achieve with current generation hardware. You basically need 2x GTX 980 TIs (or maybe 390x cards in a pinch) to get a reasonable framerate and even then it's not going to be mindblowing enable every option under the sun good.

If 4K in a reasonable budget is your plan I'd give it about 6 months, within 6 months the next-gen graphics cards should be out and since they skipped an entire fab process they should be significantly more powerful than the current ones.
 
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I also think that if you really want 4k graphics you should wait it out until Pascal arrives. Also as you might already know the sli support for a lot of last year's big titles has been sketchy at best. With a large number of games not supporting.

If pascal keeps up with the rumors and expectation it could provide a fast enough card for 4k gaming.
 
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For good 4K performance, a GTX 980 Ti can do it, although it will not be able to max out games at 4K. For trying to max them out, it requires SLI, which has many bugs and isn't recommended by myself. You should wait until Pascal arrives, because you're going to be looking at some major improvements performance-wise, and for energy effeciency. This boost could go all the way to 50% in terms of performance, but either way they will make Maxwell GPUs like the GTX 980 Ti seems slow and maybe even a bit outdated. If you are THAT desperate for 4K performance you could go for 980 Ti SLI, but I would strongly go against it, in your current standpoint.
 
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grhand82

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Ok. So it sound's like 4K isn't a real option at this point. In the meantime, gaming at 1080p, this rig will work well? Looks like SLI is also out of the question, as $$ may as well not drop that kinda dough. Another main concern, will that 2133 DDR4 do the trick or should I go with a different DDR4? I think for the moment, the 16gb is enough. From my research, there is no point on spending more $$ on a different memkit. Correct?

So, is this a decent rig or would you recommend other components?
 
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On 1080p you will do as follow: 1)Open game 2) Settings 3) Max the crap out of everything 4)Done.

The only think that I would change is the power supply in case i wanted to do sli in the future. An EVGA G2 850W it is a safer option for 980ti sli. And purely personal opinion i would change that cpu cooler for a high end quiet Noctua. Even if you won't overclock the cpu, a d15 would keep the system exceptional cold and quiet. But if your temps are fine then it is ok.
 
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