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Is the r9 390 even powerful enough to push a 120 on high ends of things? Or am I just dropping useless money

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I did not mean the wear on the GPU, I meant keeping up a high frame rate in games. You are pushing almost 3.7M pixels at 1440, while only 2M at 1080. That is a lot more work, thus lower FPS in games.

Okay, so stick to a 1080... 120/144hz monitor and I should be ay-okay?

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Sorry for the quad post.. I don't see a mobile edit button..

Is the r9 390 even powerful enough to push a 120 on high ends of things? Or am I just dropping useless money

If you want the highest end performance? The 980 Ti or Fury X would have been the better buy...

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Thank you both. After eating I'll post up a few monitors (also after reading the stick on latency) for pointers.

@TechGod I am far from needing highest performance - I only wish to prevent any bottle necks or headaches in the near future

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Thank you both. After eating I'll post up a few monitors (also after reading the stick on latency) for pointers.

@TechGod I am far from needing highest performance - I only wish to prevent any bottle necks or headaches in the near future

Then the card that you've placed on order is capable of doing so:P

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I was interested in a UltraWide screen- I can power one of these for my coding projects and video editing- it is only when I try to run a 1440 monitor on ultra settings is when I'll bottle neck/ right?

If I were to use a UltraWide for my casual use (including coding and rendering) would I hold up?

It is strictly heavy gaming that would produce error, right? I'd like to think the heaviest of my use beyond occasional gaming is small 3D renderings and 8bit games I produce. :-P

Also playing with autocad on a very entry level hobbiest

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... I am just all over the place. :-P

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The 390 can handle ultra wide (even 1440p) for productivity and gaming, until you start running heavily demanding games.  The 390 will run them, but not maxed... you will have to tinker with the settings.

 

You can always go dual monitor.  One monitor at 144Hz for gaming, and one (60Hz) you turn on only when you need the extra screen space.  I would have a really hard time on a single display now that I have used two for so many years.

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The 390 can handle ultra wide (even 1440p) for productivity and gaming, until you start running heavily demanding games.  The 390 will run them, but not maxed... you will have to tinker with the settings.

 

You can always go dual monitor.  One monitor at 144Hz for gaming, and one (60Hz) you turn on only when you need the extra screen space.  I would have a really hard time on a single display now that I have used two for so many years.

Is a dual monitor setup really that good?

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Is a dual monitor setup really that good?

 

For me it is.  Like right now:  I am watching a show and reading the forums.

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For me it is.  Like right now:  I am watching a show and reading the forums.

My parents probably wouldn't me to as it is overkill in their mind. Besides, I have a $2500 NZD budget for everything (monitor,keyboard, mouse, OS, the actual components of the PC etc..) and while I could use that budget to get two monitors, I'll use it to build a beefy rig the buying a second monitor whenever I have the money next. 

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My parents probably wouldn't me to as it is overkill in their mind. Besides, I have a $2500 NZD budget for everything (monitor,keyboard, mouse, OS, the actual components of the PC etc..) and while I could use that budget to get two monitors, I'll use it to build a beefy rig the buying a second monitor whenever I have the money next. 

 

It does not have to be a $300 monitor... some cheap IPS will do, $125 or so.

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@TechGod

All my components will be here today!!

...besides my CPU.. That just left N.J. ....

And I have four days off work.

:-(

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I'm going to buy a Asus VG248QE ..

It's a 144hz 1080 24".

The. Look into ordering a 1440 ultra wide soon :-)

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Got some of my stuff today!

 

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Picked up the VG248 monitor from Best Buy. Got my Raspberry Pi in the mailbox (on top of the PC)- my Vmoda M100s got here yesterday. Great headphones

 



And everything else besides the CPU should be here tonight!

CPU (I'd assume coming from NY weighing .84lbs shipping weight) that hit Denver at 3pm. So hopefully tomorrow!! :-)

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And now to address the ugly clutter as seen :-)

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Hello, being my first build I have several questions-

 

 

So reading the manual has covered most items - such as using PCI_2 for single card best preformance along with using SATA1/2 as my boot/massive

 

so.. I suppose my only question is direction of fans.

 

 

 

So - the CPU cooler.. 

am I going to want it this way facing the ram?

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or. other way.. 

 

 

and that's about it til I come to putting it in tomorrow [if my CPU gets here!! IT'S THE ONLY THING NOT HERE!!]

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Hello, being my first build I have several questions-

 

 

So reading the manual has covered most items - such as using PCI_2 for single card best preformance along with using SATA1/2 as my boot/massive

 

so.. I suppose my only question is direction of fans.

 

So - the CPU cooler.. 

am I going to want it this way facing the ram?

 

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or. other way.. 

 

 

and that's about it til I come to putting it in tomorrow [if my CPU gets here!! IT'S THE ONLY THING NOT HERE!!]

 

Yes, with the fans drawing air from the memory side and pushing it out over the i/o backplane towards the rear exhaust fan.

 

Would you post a side-on pic showing how close the cpu cooler fan is to the memory modules and the radiator to i/o backplane please?

 

if you click on the Special BBCode button, 3rd from the top left, and select Spoiler New as the BBCode type, you will be able to keep the thread short while including as many pictures as you would like. Really helps when scrolling through.

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Thanks. Is there a problem with putting memory in the slot closest to the fan, or will the fan touch it?

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