Which motherboard/graphics cards combination should I choose.

[xpureskills]

Hi there so I'm building a high end gaming pc and I'm not sure which setup I want for my motherboard and video card/s.

Here is everything but the cards and motherboard:

CASE: Thermaltake Level 10GT Full Tower Wide Body Gaming Case (black color)
I love this case, it spoke to me when I saw it.

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4820K Quad-Core 3.70 GHz 10MB Intel Smart Cache LGA2011 (All Venom OC Certified)

HDD: 128GB ADATA SP900 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s - 550 MB/s Read & 520 MB/s Write (Single Drive)


HDD2: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD [+24] (Single Drive)

MEMORY: 16GB (4GBx4) DDR3/1866MHz Quad Channel Memory (G.SKILL Ripjaws X)

CC: Avermedia Live Gamer HD 1080p Capture and Streaming Hardware Encoder Card

COOLING: Asetek 570LX 240mm Liquid Cooling Extreme Performance CPU Cooler

OS: Microsoft® Windows 8.1 (64-bit Edition)

OVERCLOCK: Extreme OC (Extreme Overclock 20% or more)

POWERSUPPLY: 1,000 Watts - AZZA Titan 1000W 80 Plus Bronze Active PFC Power supply (I might upgrade to fully modular)


Now my two options are going with an ASRock X79 Extreme4 ATX motherboard with two AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Cards

Or going with a better motherboard like the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme EATX and a single NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card. If I take this route i will add a second 780 Ti once I got my tax return (end of February). Would this suffice for decent fps on mid-high graphics for most games till then?

Both of these options are roughly 3500 (I'm not building it so I'm paying a premium) which is a tad more then I wanted too, but if it performs well then it's all worth it to me.

Which do you think is the better option and how much better could you do with a 3000-3500 budget.

I'm not keen to building as I have no knowledge and I don't want to be the responsible party if something goes bad but I'm willing to if it's needed. My cousin builds cp's and does IT work so worst case scenario is I pay him to help build it.

 

[Thanatognomonic]

Even if you did just go with the single 780ti, that'd do you fine for years. The second 780ti is really just the extra kick.

 

[xpureskills]

Even if you did just go with the single 780ti, that'd do you fine for years. The second 780ti is really just the extra kick.

Thanks. That's defiantly the plan. I also love the rampage motherboard and managed to get the same memory at 2133 MHz for just a tad more. I'm fairly confident in this build and look forward to buying it.

 

[jsad3]

Because of mantle coming soon and games that will support it, I would go with the dual 290's as long as you have enough airflow in you case and buy 290's that do not have the cooling system that the cards launched with because you will have heat and noise problems go with MSI or Gigabyte because of their cooling systems being the best.
MSI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127774
Gigabyte http://us.ncix.com/products/?usaffiliateid=1000031504&sku=93517&vpn=GV-R929OC-4GD&manufacture=Gigabyte&promoid=1101

 

[Gee Bee]

yes and no with regards to mantle. OP with an high end Intel CPU option can expect no more than 10%, most likely less. Amd however, dependent on CPU can expect up to 300%. It appears that mantle has very little to do with GPU card based on this write up:

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/175676-amds-mantle-finally-emerges-turns-out-its-actually-for-boosting-low-end-cpus-not-gpus/2

Time will tell i guess.