Ultimate gaming rig GTX 780ti SLI - £2400

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jackeet

Active member
Ok so after many hours of changing parts and recieving help from people on the forum, i am a few hours away from ordering this beast. Any input from the professionals, what I could change or modify? Please let me know.


Thanks, Jack

Case
COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4820K (3.7GHz) 10MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® SABERTOOTH X79: SOCKET 2011, R.O.G
Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 Ti - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 Ti - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
1st Hard Disk
240GB KINGSTON V300 SSD, SATA 6 Gb (450MB/R, 450MB/W)
2nd Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1000W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card
Asus Xonar DGX 5.1-Channel Gaming Audio Card
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
DVD Recovery Media
Windows 8.1 (64-bit) DVD with paper sleeve
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 7 to 9 working days
Miscellaneous
FREE WATCH DOGS with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
Quantity
1
 
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Cadwah

Rising Star
I would steer away from the V300 SSD, they have performance issues, get the samsung 250GB. The 4790K is clocked higher than the 4820K and it is also available on the cheaper motherboards than the X79 sockets. If you are absolutely certain that you need 780Ti's in Sli I would go for the below... I take it you will be overclocking this beast and calculating the trajectories of local asteroid fields or something equally taxing otherwise I think you might be "slightly" overdoing it if this is purely for gaming :)

Case
COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® SABERTOOTH Z97 MK1: USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, THERMAL ARMOR
Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 Ti - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE WATCH DOGS with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
2nd Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 Ti - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE WATCH DOGS with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1000W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£139)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£89)
Sound Card
Asus Xonar DGX 5.1-Channel Gaming Audio Card (£27)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 7 to 9 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £2,347.00 including VAT and delivery.

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-haswell-pc/eU2wjZAetD/
 
vanthus

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace
For gaming it's way overkill in my opinion,but your choice,you could save yourself quite a bit of cash though and still have a gaming computer that will perform just as well.
 
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SlimCini

KC and the Sunshine BANNED
Put your build against a one half the price and I bet you wouldn't tell the difference on the screen ;)
 
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TheGeeza

Guest
Why do you want 16GB of ram?
It is completely pointless even for a gaming rig of this calibre. Anything over 8GB really won't make any noticeable difference unless you are doing stuff that is particularly ram intensive. I understand you want it to be "ultimate" but to be honest the extra ram would be sitting there not doing anything and it's money that could be spent on something that could actually make a difference.
I would drop to 8GB and try to upgrade the warranty. I know I would want good warranty if I was spending this much on a build :)
 
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Cadwah

Rising Star
SlimCini said:
Put your build against a one half the price and I bet you wouldn't tell the difference on the screen ;)
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Agreed, a single Ti would beast any game, the only difference you will notice is when you run benchmarks, your eyes can't tell the difference between 150 and 250fps lol

In the hope of bringing you to your senses and saving you some cash, how about this:
Case
FRACTAL DESIGN ARC MIDI R2 MID-TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790 (3.6GHz) 8MB Cache
Motherboard
Gigabyte Z97X Gaming 3: ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, XFIRE/SLI
Free Item
Corsair Raptor HS30 Gaming Headset ***GIGABYTE PROMO ***
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 Ti - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE WATCH DOGS with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£89)
Processor Cooling
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler (£29)
Sound Card
Asus Xonar DGX 5.1-Channel Gaming Audio Card (£27)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 7 to 9 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,503.00 including VAT and delivery.

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-haswell-pc/UuuxruK_Za/
 
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jackeet

Active member
Ok thank you very much for the re-configuration mate, I will use that one. And i understand this could be way overkill however take into account I have a 4k monitor, would you say this is a fair build?
 
J

jackeet

Active member
Do appreciate the input guys this is what I need as I am computer savvy however you guys have a far better idea on this, so I do appreciate it.
 
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TheGeeza

Guest
jackeet said:
Ok thank you very much for the re-configuration mate, I will use that one. And i understand this could be way overkill however take into account I have a 4k monitor, would you say this is a fair build?
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You are probably still going to struggle to achieve a constant 60 fps at 4K even with this beastly setup. Hardware at the moment simply is not totally capable of gaming on 4k displays at a steady 60fps.
It would highly depend on the game though and due to the clarity of the image you are less likely to need AA which could give you quite a few extra fps if it is turned off.
At resolutions such as this you would probably find that the titan black would perform a bit better due to it's large frame buffer. If it did perform better though it would only be by a few fps so the ridiculous price is still unjustified.

I am quite sure you won't be disappointed by this rig though. For gaming, I doubt you could get better performance.
 
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jackeet

Active member
TheGeeza said:
You are probably still going to struggle to achieve a constant fps at 4K even with this beastly setup. Hardware at the moment simply is not totally capable of gaming on 4k displays at 60fps.
It would depend on the game though and due to the clarity of the image you are less likely to need AA which could give you quite a few extra fps.
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Ok mate I do still currently have my 24" Asus monitor so you think 1 780ti is more than enough mate?
 
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TheGeeza

Guest
For 1080p and 1440p the 780ti is more than capable of playing games at a steady 60fps.
Don't let me talk you out of buying your ultimate build for 4k though. It is you decision after all :)
 
J

jackeet

Active member
TheGeeza said:
For 1080p and 1440p the 780ti is more than capable of playing games at a steady 60fps.
Don't let me talk you out of buying your ultimate build for 4k though. It is you decision after all :)
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Ok thank you brother for help and you also Cadwah, I do appreciate your help. I am going to toy with the idea I am taking one of the builds that you created above whether it be SLI or single ti. Decisions..decisions, say money is no issue, (I dont mean it in an arrogant way) I mean in the sense I am happy to pay for this.
 
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Cadwah

Rising Star
You could increase the PSU to 1000W in the single Ti build which would allow you to add another Ti should you decide you need it in the future...
 
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