gaming setup for 1440p

[sonnenhof2]

Okay, so it's my first time building a gaming rig and I'm planning on playing at 1440p (sometime across all 3 of my monitors)

Will this be able to handle it:

i7 4770k (OC)

MSI Z87 GD65 Gaming

12GB hyper X beast RAM 1866mhz

2 x MSI Nvidia GTX 760

512GB samsung evo SSD

2tb WD HDD

Corsair H55 AiO CPU cooler

Corsair 750D

A load of corsair fans

I think that's all the info you'd need to judge it.

(I'm new to the forum so I don't even know if I'm doing this right!)

Thanks a load guys.

[Imabigmac]

So wait triple 1440p gaming and only dual gtx 760s?

 

Don't even bother with a H55. 

 

I don't know where to begin. 

[brownninja97]

ditch the liquid cooler, its not worth it if it isnt a dual rad, get a air cooler, a dark rock 3 would destroy the h55 at the same price.

[Totalschaden1997]

Why does everybody want to SLI 760s?

Better go for a i5-4670k and get a better GPU instead.

[jamese669]

Okay, so it's my first time building a gaming rig and I'm planning on playing at 1440p (sometime across all 3 of my monitors)

Will this be able to handle it:

i7 4770k (OC)

MSI Z87 GD65 Gaming

12GB hyper X beast RAM 1866mhz

2 x MSI Nvidia GTX 760

512GB samsung evo SSD

2tb WD HDD

Corsair H55 AiO CPU cooler

Corsair 750D

A load of corsair fans

I think that's all the info you'd need to judge it.

(I'm new to the forum so I don't even know if I'm doing this right!)

Thanks a load guys.

yes it will be fine

[Butterfish]

Edited

 

i5 4670k (OC)
MSI Z87 GD65 Gaming
8GB RAM 1600mhz
Nvidia GTX 780/R9 290
512GB samsung evo SSD
2tb WD HDD
Corsair H100i CPU cooler
Corsair 750D
A load of corsair fans

[ericlee30]

Why does everybody want to SLI 760s?

 

Must be the price? Buy one now get one later. Thats the only thing I can come up with.

[Butterfish]

yes it will be fine

Its a really bad gaming build, so not rly

[Cacao]

Welcome! How do you plan in getting 12gb of ram? You want to do 8+4gb? I'm not sure 2x 760s are the best choice, while they perform well for the money, they don't have much vram and almost no room for upgrades. What about a 780 or 780ti? What's your total budget for the system and where are you buying from? We might be able to put together a better part list for you.

[rustikles]

A few tips to make your planning go smoother 

• Try out pcpartpicker for part searching and compatibility
• Unless you have one graphics card already, a powerful single card will be better than SLI/Crossfire dual cards.
• There's a build planning subforum here on LTT

Also, you would be better off with a 4670k and a better CPU cooler like an H100i if you want to go that route, unless you have a need to do CAD or an excessive amount of video rendering. There are also slightly cheaper, comparable air coolers like the NH-D15 that will perform just as well.

[Butterfish]

I believe you need a PSU for that build too?

[Manny Calavera]

Edited

 

i5 4670k (OC)

MSI Z87 GD65 Gaming

8GB RAM 1600mhz

Nvidia GTX 780/R9 290

512GB samsung evo SSD

2tb WD HDD

Corsair H100i CPU cooler

Corsair 750D

A load of corsair fans

^this^ exellent, you spared me some time writing this, but people with night theme have hard time reading this

 

also, you dont really need h100, air coolers are fine ( bequiet, phanteks, noctua )...

 

also, pcpartpicker. where u from?

[needmorewood]

2X 760 is not what u want. a 780ti is way more your speed

[Butterfish]

2X 760 is not what u want. a 780ti is way more your speed

more like R9 290 on high res 1440p

 

and its cheaper here at my place!

[needmorewood]

more like R9 290 on high res 1440p

 

and its cheaper here at my place!

that could work as well. he just had an nvidia solution at first so i thought he would want to stick with it.

[othertomperson]

Must be the price? Buy one now get one later. Thats the only thing I can come up with.

 

Unless you already have one (in which case just buying another makes sense), there's not really a price benefit over buying a 780. About £400 either way.

[ericlee30]

there's not really a price benefit over buying a 780. About £400 either way.

There is if you buy two 780's But i do get were you are coming from

[othertomperson]

There is if you buy two 780's But i do get were you are coming from

 

Well if you want two 780s, you want two 780s

[legend8887]

Okay, so it's my first time building a gaming rig and I'm planning on playing at 1440p (sometime across all 3 of my monitors)

Will this be able to handle it:

i7 4770k (OC)

MSI Z87 GD65 Gaming

12GB hyper X beast RAM 1866mhz

2 x MSI Nvidia GTX 760

512GB samsung evo SSD

2tb WD HDD

Corsair H55 AiO CPU cooler

Corsair 750D

A load of corsair fans

I think that's all the info you'd need to judge it.

(I'm new to the forum so I don't even know if I'm doing this right!)

Thanks a load guys.

Get the Corsair H100i and a GTX 780Ti. Not GTX 760's for 1440p.

[sonnenhof2]

Thanks so much guys, a great help, I shall definitely be including your suggestions into my new build!

[ShadowCaptain]

I will just say that using my 4770k and 780ti, it blows through 1440p on a single display on ultra, havnt had a game drop  below 60FPS yet

[gylmir]

@ShadowCaptain that may be great but we don't even know what games he want to play nvidia based or amd ?

 

tell us your budget and what games you want to play at those screens it would help us better to help you

[dragoon20005]

If the games he plays prefer amd cards

The r9 290/x will be the choice for 1440p gaming.

Correct me if I am wrong.

[ShadowCaptain]

@ShadowCaptain that may be great but we don't even know what games he want to play nvidia based or amd ?

 

tell us your budget and what games you want to play at those screens it would help us better to help you

True, I  am talking in general, across all types of games, it doesnt really matter if they are AMD based or not when you have a card with that much horsepower

 

But I agree with better knowing his budget and how he will use it, just telling my experiance to help the OP gauge what I feel is the necessary power to play the latest AAA games at ultra 1440p

 

 

If the games he plays prefer amd cards

The r9 290/x will be the choice for 1440p gaming.

Correct me if I am wrong.

 

Not necessarily, On a high end system things like Mantle dont really make much difference, it would matter if he was using an AMD cpu/APU as things like mantle would greatly benefit using a less powerful CPU

 

You can see what I mean looking at the graphs on this article

 

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Battlefield-4-Benchmarked-on-GTX-780-Ti-Direct-3D-and-R9-290X-With-Mantle-API-424863.shtml

[dragoon20005]

True, I am talking in general, across all types of games, it doesnt really matter if they are AMD based or not when you have a card with that much horsepower

But I agree with better knowing his budget and how he will use it, just telling my experiance to help the OP gauge what I feel is the necessary power to play the latest AAA games at ultra 1440p

Not necessarily, On a high end system things like Mantle dont really make much difference, it would matter if he was using an AMD cpu/APU as things like mantle would greatly benefit using a less powerful CPU

You can see what I mean looking at the graphs on this article

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Battlefield-4-Benchmarked-on-GTX-780-Ti-Direct-3D-and-R9-290X-With-Mantle-API-424863.shtml

I see, but that report don't really say much. Only way to find out is building my own A10-7850 rig with the MSI 290x Lighting. Yes I gone nuts.