i7 4930k

[WinNut]

because, ill get a larger res monitor

3way for a single 21:9 is still overkill. A single R9 290 (non X) can drive that perfectly fine. You are just wasting your money on unnecessary hardware.

[Phoenix70]

3way for a single 21:9 is still overkill. A single R9 290 (non X) can drive that perfectly fine. You are just wasting your money on unnecessary hardware.

im looking  at the LG 34UM95... If dual 290 or 290x can handle every game without AA at ultra or high settings at playable/smooth framerates, I am happy with it

   

[WinNut]

Still a single 290X can pull that off.

[Phoenix70]

Still a single 290X can pull that off.

are you sure about that? seems just a bit too much power for 1 card

[WinNut]

are you sure about that? seems just a bit too much power for 1 card

I'm pretty sure that a single 290X can handle a monitor of that caliber. Ask Linus what GPU he used to drive the monitor in his review.

 

*cough* @LinusTech *cough*

[ericlee30]

Do not waste your money on the 4930K, if gaming is your main priority. go with the LGA1150 socket and a 4770K if you want a beefy i7.

[Phoenix70]

I'm pretty sure that a single 290X can handle a monitor of that caliber. Ask Linus what GPU he used to drive the monitor in his review.

 

*cough* @LinusTech *cough*

still, i dont think he played every game at high or ultra at 45+ FPS.... anyway, a 2-way crossfire is just nice. a 3rd one might be overkill, but ive seen nice scaling at high resolutions

[Phoenix70]

Do not waste your money on the 4930K, if gaming is your main priority. go with the LGA1150 socket and a 4770K if you want a beefy i7.

ill get an i5 4690k

[AllstaRawR]

I dont know then... maybe a 290x lightning and 4790k? for some reason, 4 cores and 8 threads seems kind of "bad" to me. 290 and 4790k?

 

... Why? The 4930k is 6/12. Does that make it just as bad, or is it the two extra cores that you like? Either way, you'll probably get 2 OC'd 290X's out of a 4670K in almost all games.

 

EDIT: Just saw your response. Good choice! Let me point this out really quick. Star Citizen uses the CryGen engine, one of the few that really uses all of your cores. Even with that the usage difference between my i5 and i7 is only about 5-10%.

[Phoenix70]

... Why? The 4930k is 6/12. Does that make it just as bad, or is it the two extra cores that you like? Either way, you'll probably get 2 OC'd 290X's out of a 4670K in almost all games.

ok then

[AMICLG]

Or if you want access to more PCIe lanes for 3 way SLI/Crossfire.

Almost all high end boards that support 3/4 way cards have a PLX controller so they have 3.0 @ x8/x8/x8/x8 and high end cards don't start bottlenecking until 2.0 @ x4 which is equivalent to 3.0 @ x2 or 1.0 @ x8 so even running them in 3.0 @ x4/x4/x4/x4 wouldn't even come close to bottlenecking the cards. So the only real use for the extra PCI-E lanes on 2011 is having GPU/s with a 10 Gigabit network and/or raid card/s.

[EricPont]

Great but not really worth it better off with a i7 4770k and a msi lightning r9 290x or a gtx 780ti