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Thanks everyone for the responses. A single 1080 Ti seems to be what everyone is pointing at. Now lets see if I make the sensible choice, lol.

Yeah they have, Still doing pretty alright.

Wow, thank you for all of that! A part of the build budget is a 1440 Ultrawide at about 1,000, probably the Asus PG348Q. My other concern is my Vive and having a great experience there as well. Just as a side note, I currently using 2xR9 290X. So ready for the upgrade!

Agreed that the 2080 ti is definitely not the best price to performance. I do have a little money to throw at something and am doing a completely new build right now. After all the reviews throughout the day, I am trying to make up my mind.

Whats a better decision 1080 Ti SLI or 2080 Ti? Straight forward question and would love to hear arguments. Thanks

Having been through many chairs myself, I would advise if you can afford a more expensive chair then seriously consider it. Especially if you sit for 8+ hours and you want it to last a while. Chair quality is an unsung hero for long term sitting.

thats disappointing

My situation is that I have 3 1080p monitors set up in eyefinity and an additional monitor overtop of those, I am using 2xR9 290x GPUs. I would like to be able to connect in my TV in the room and an additional support display however with crossfire enable I can only use the 4 ports on the main card, which are all filled up. I was thinking of using an MST hub to display the eyefinity setup and open the other three ports on the card, that way I can have a total of 6 outputs. I have been trying to read around about MST support and how it works. Does anyone have any first hand epxerience doing this? How easy is it to setup? Is there a hub you can recommend? Any information would be helpful!

Just use the same memory and upgrade. That mobo is a dual channel only board, so it won't benefit from quad channel

Well if he doesn't like that, you probably don't want to be his friend. just kidding.

I have ran in to this before but it was due to an under-voltage on the CPU. The last one I did I was working with a 4670K, trying to find a right balance of speed vs voltage. When I would undervolt, it would lose it in the benchmarks and games with 1 - 5 minutes. The more demanding the game was the quicker it would crash the game. The manual for your motherboard might be correct that it is technically ok to use the 4 pin into an 8 pin but that doesn't mean it is fully optimized the power your CPU is requesting. Also, power supplies degrade just like anything else and after seven years I think you certainly need to replace. Good luck and I hope its an easy swap.

both builds will accomplish what he is looking for if he wants to game on a single 1080p. The only thing I can say is "Sorry your friend is an idiot". I would honestly just leave him to his own ideas if he doesn't want to take your advice.

You have to ask yourself what is going to be your primary use for this computer and how much resolution you are going to be using. If you are going to use an eyefinity setup then I would consider the 290x. I personally have an eyefinity setup and run 2x290x in crossfire and the GPU power is pretty important running that many pixels. The ram I would suggest 2x4Gbyte sticks because it will better utilize the dual channel capabilities in the future, also keep in mind it is a 4 slot board so you can expand down the road if you choose. Also, the 2400 Mhz is a bit overkill for a rig that is for gaming, however, if you are also interested in content creation I can see the slight benefit in going to 2400 Mhz.

For that price difference I would choose the 290. Especially if you are going to be playing at 1080p, the 290 will be plenty of power.

There is some overhead on the HDD that reduces available space, but the big reason for the difference has to do with how windows calculates space vs HDD builders. Windows will calculate bytes based on multiples of 8 where as the manufacturer of the HDD will calculate in multiples of 10.