reubenahmed

i5 8400 with a RTX2080 and 32Gb of RAM to play fortnite and CSGO..... I have seen it all now folks

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/CwgPxr/dell-s2417dg-238-165hz-monitor-s2417dg
 
boom, only 400$ each, 24 inch 1440p 165hz g sync.
thats another 900$ for your PCs, which can hopefully upgrade the GPUs to a 2070.

2500$ total for 4, or 2500$ each, monitors included or not.
I'd reccommend a 27" 1440p 144hz g sync
Heres a 2500$ build, with monitor.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU Intel - Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $529.89 @ OutletPC CPU Cooler EVGA - CLC 280 113.5 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $104.89 @ OutletPC Motherboard Gigabyte - Z390 AORUS ULTRA ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $238.68 @ Amazon Memory Corsair - Vengeance RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $129.99 @ Amazon Storage Crucial - MX500 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive $134.89 @ OutletPC Video Card EVGA - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB XC ULTRA GAMING Video Card $799.99 @ Newegg Business Case Fractal Design - Meshify C TG ATX Mid Tower Case $89.99 @ Amazon Power Supply Corsair - TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $69.98 @ Amazon Monitor Dell - S2417DG 23.8" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor $395.90 @ OutletPC   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total (before mail-in rebates) $2549.20   Mail-in rebates -$55.00   Total $2494.20   Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-14 14:14 EST-0500    

The last time I spent 2k on a display was the Sony FW900 22.5 viewable 2304x1440 @ 80hz.  in freakin 1999 lol

It's nice to see the possibility, but it's a little hard to power with a lot of the AAA titles available.
With that size I wouldn't be surprised if it eclipses $2,000, especially given the audience it's going after.

@reubenahmed @Max_Settings Clearly he's aiming to enjoy glorious Solitaire or Commander Keen at 4k120

And you'll have to trade the rest of your body for a PC to drive it.

If you want 1440p @144 you might need to consider more GPU horse power. A 1070 ti would be my minimum at that price point. But i understand those are hard to get these days. But around 350 $ they should fit the budget. Depending where you live used 1080 might even be an option for you.
Or (availability provided) GTX 2060/1160 or team Red a VEGA 56 (if you can get one). In my region it is easier to find a used vega 64 than a vega 56 for somehow the same price (~350 € in that case).
Mind you vega is a bit stronger on the power draw site (up to 300 W), so unless you can get a great deal team green is probably the better choice unless AMD is announcing something Radeon VII based in the 350 $ category anytime soon.
 
PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rPL8q4
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rPL8q4/by_merchant/
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($199.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($76.00 @ Newegg Business) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($119.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($67.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8 GB TURBO Video Card  ($359.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Fractal Design - Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($59.89 @ OutletPC) 
Total: $928.73
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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So you have nothing to worry about. Get a solid PSU and a decent graphics card and you should be set. I'm not sure if you could get away with 8gb if RAM for just gaming, if so that'll help reduce price. I prefer 16gb, but Im not just gaming. If you use the stock cooler on your CPU, make sure whichever case you choose, has decent airflow.

12/3 would be better because then all you have to do is add another breaker without running another line. I doubt that's the case, though. It's more than likely a 12/2 wire. 
 
Not sure what the guy is talking about above about not getting great performance at 480w, lol. 
 
What games do you plan to run? I would get at least gold rated PSUs, the better they are, the more efficient they will run (titanium>platinum>gold).
 
What's your budget, what are you looking to spend on each machine? Does that include price for monitor? Do you have an idea what monitors you want? I assume you will be using controllers and not mouse and keyboard, right? 
 
It's hard to help without a budget, and I don't think you're going through all this trouble for cheap setups? 
 
This should be great for 1080p
 
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This would be better for 1440p
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $199.99 @ Amazon Motherboard ASRock - X470 Master SLI/AC ATX AM4 Motherboard $109.99 @ Newegg Memory G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $119.99 @ Newegg Storage Crucial - MX500 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $67.89 @ OutletPC Video Card Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB Windforce OC Video Card $299.99 @ Newegg Case Cooler Master - MasterBox Lite 5 RGB ATX Mid Tower Case $64.99 @ B&H Power Supply EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $59.89 @ OutletPC   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total (before mail-in rebates) $987.73   Mail-in rebates -$65.00   Total $922.73   Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-14 06:23 EST-0500    

I figure budget is not that much of a problem?
And 480 Watt should be plenty for your needs. Some people don't get power draw and psu choosing right. 
 
Just highes specs for gaming possible atm:
A 9900k has a tdp of 95 watt, 
A high oc 2080 ti draws 250 watt. So with the over all system you might be around ~380 Watt without overclocking. If you pump up your cpu you get higher but I just use balls to the wall hardware as an example. A 1440p 144 hz (Asus ROG Swift PG278QR) draws 90 watts not oc to 160 hz. 
So we have 470 watts under synthetic load because with regular usage you are probably not able to get it maxed. Maybe with rendering but gaming? I don't think so. 
 
If you get a good psu you have 9
~94% efficiency at 50% load (be quiet dark power pro 1000 w) and and 93% at 100% load. 
So your 470 Watt system can draw 500 watt from the wall (470W/0.94 = 500 W) 
(efficiency numbers for 230 V, 120 v is slightly lower but not much) 
 
So with four balls to the wall gaming rigs you gonna have a bad time if you want to draw more than 2000 W. 

Build the rigs with 2600X processor and GTX 1080 and they'll only draw 250w each under gaming, 480w would be enough for 9900K and 2080 Ti.

I would do something like this, myself. GTX 1080s are over priced and you can pull similar performance from a 1070 ti for less. I picked the asrock boards since they're on sale. You can add more storage if you want, I'm not sure if you planned to do something else. 
 
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I would definitely get Platinum or Titanium rated PSUs, that way you can get the most out of the power you have available.
480W isn't going to get you much, as far as gaming performance goes. And 120fps will be hard to hit with such a low powered machine, 1080p 60 is likely a better mark to aim for.
 
I would go with Ryzen APUs to save money, and they're not that bad either. You could wait for gen3 APUs to come out, which should be much improved. Otherwise, I'd go for a Ryzen 3 and 1050 Ti. 8GB of RAM is probably enough. Go with SSDs and complete air cooling to lower system power draw. 
1080p 60Hz monitors would also have lower power draw, but I would run another breaker just to be safe. It also gives you more headroom for higher-end PCs

1080fps240 is overkill, I would go for 144hz 1440p or 144hz1080p, you need the best possible powersupplies to get the efficiency to not overload the breaker, If I were you I would add 1 more breaker, as sometimes you want to heat some water for coffee, put microwave, maybe portable heater, If you would run 230V your psu's would run more efficiently and you woud have more headroom on each breaker.

The biggest variable seems to he the vram from what I can tell from the 11gb to 24gb. If i am going to spend $2,500 i want to get this right the first time. Would the better overall performance be from the dual 2080ti or the 24gb vram from the Titan be more valuable in my application? Why?
 
Personally, have the triple screens for productivity but want to use them for gaming now as well... why not you know. 

Failing cards concerns only the first batch of the produced cards so far. Those which are produced recently should have no problem.

Merry Christmas I wish everyone with health

Steve Burke from GamersNexus has been working with Nvidia to troubleshoot and resolve these issues, and so far it seems he has been able to fix many problems, you should check out his vids on the 2080 ti.

Most of them are thin and lights which don't have good cooling
You can buy from HID if you want, although you can do the repaste by yourself. Avoid MX-4 and NT-H1
Yes you can undervolt both CPU and GPU for lower temps and stabler clock speeds. Guides in my sig below

If your biggest concern is thermals then the Asus Zephyrus is the best laptop for that, they have really killed it from that standpoint., although the small battery kills it for me.  Imo you're still getting heaps of processing power in any of those laptops and even if the clocks do drop a bit during say a render it still will crush anything 7th gen.  Also if you're really about thermals you could always liquid metal it.

Why would you get laptop if its connected to the wall? If you dont travel a lot, just get pc