Gaming PC X99

[vivek.talkin]

I am building a gaming pc and I have a lot of questions with parts to pick and I dont know whom to ask, but was watching linus videos online and came to know about this forum and would appreciate If someone could take some time to explain some things. The basic parts of my system will be:

 

1) Processor --    i7-5820K

2)GPU           --    GTX 980Ti

3)X99 MOB   --    ROG Rampage V

4) DDR 4 Ram -- Hyper X 2666Mhz (4x8GB)

 

I would like to know if I use 2 GTX 980Ti, will the CPU bottle neck them ... what about 28 PCI slots, I heard 980Ti uses x16 PCI. How that can be 5820k is new cpu ?

 

 

Now, Ram .... here just wanted to if Hyper X 2666Mhz(CAS 15) is one of the best out there and I have decided correctly to go with these.

 

 

 

GPU -- I am confused !!!

 

There are like 5- 7 different GTX 980Ti out there .... and each have different specs.

I looked at MSI GTX 980Ti which has 1000 Mhz base clock and supports G-Sync(mentioned) 

 

I was comparing Many 980Ti's and  seems like every company has different specs. what is SC w/ACX and how its different than SC+ w/ACX (EVGA)

 

Also, in some specs it was mentioned they support 3D but there was no mention of this feature. Some mentioned 4K support, some didn't even say anything.

 

I have attached screenshots of comparison between different GTX 980Ti's I could find and please help me decide with which sholud i go.

 

and also, if you could, please do through in suggestion for full/huge ATX tower with transparent side pannel and enough room for 240 or 360 mm radiator, to show off

 

Thnx for Helping

 

[Fictionvl]

when it comes to GPUs different brands basically mean different coolers, as you can see some have higher clock speeds some have low, basically the higher the better, because that cooler can maintain that clock speed. but all in all they're the same card.

 

and I don't think that the 5820k will bottleneck 2 980 Ti's, u might want to get a really big wattage PSU tho 

[ItsGinger35]

Gigabyte G1 Gaming Windforce 980 Ti? Overclocks like a pro and is OC'ed out of the box.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Ima let someone else handle this because it's going to be a long conversation.

[WereCat]

Get GTX 980ti Gigabyte G1 Gaming. I would argue it is the best GTX 980ti out there so far.

I believe that you are building this just to play games? If yes then X99 is prety much pointless as it wont have ANY benefits at all for just games over Z97.

Rather save yourself some money and go for Z97 with i7 4790k and DDR3 RAM and you wont notice any difference in performance except that you will save quite bit of extra money.

No, neither i7 5820k or i7 4790k wont bottleneck GTX 980ti or two of them.

Unless this build is mainly for bragging rights.

[Enderman]

you dont need x99 for gaming

its a pointless waste of money

you will get better performance with an i7 4790k plus you will save a lot of money

[rcarlos243]

First of all what monitors resolution and refresh rate do you have?

If it's just 1080p 60hz then a 980 ti would be a waste of money imo.

I suggest you upgrade the cpu to 5930k if you are still planning to run SLI as it would also allow you to have upgrade path to NVMe SSD or when NVIDIA Pascal gets released as it has 3x higher bandwidth(HBM2) which could saturate the PCIE .

[TheCaptain53]

X99 is nice, but it's mainly aimed towards the prosumers. Z97 is the king of gaming platforms right now. I had a Z77 build for years and it worked flawlessly with games. Then I upgraded to X99 for a few reasons, 1. I wanted better rendering performance with videos, 2. I kept on running out of CPU resources while I gamed because I usually keep a lot of stuff opened and running in the background while I game. 3. I had the ability to upgrade at the time. 4. I wanted a nice motherboard to be able to connect a lot of storage drives to, and 5. I wanted to stream, game, listen to music, compress files, and be able to check for updates simultaneously. I use X99 to render videos, run AutoCAD software, and to be able to design various things with professional grade software. Z97 = gaming and X99 = professional use.

^THIS

[vivek.talkin]

I know a lot of you guys are concern about 5th Gen i7 and it's correct. For gaming only, I  would have bought 4790k, which is awesome chip.

 

But, I am going to run test lab at home for Servers (Multiple Hyper V machines). Mostly for work. For that server platform is better.

I work with microsoft as solution engineer , have to test and implement new technologies that we provide to customers and support them.

 

I dont want to have 2 different PC for different purpose !!!

 

That is the reason for Using this Chip. As far as i7 5930k, It has almost same Clock speed as 5820k and the performance is more or less same. The cost on the other side is like WHAT THE HELL !!!

 

 

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Someone also asked question about monitor and Now I am wondering about the Screen aswell

 

I think I should go with 4K Asus or ViewSonic Monitors or should I go with TVs and connect them ? (This card will support 4K easily :-| )

 

Anythoughts ?

[simson0606]

I know a lot of you guys are concern about 5th Gen i7 and it's correct. For gaming only, I  would have bought 4790k, which is awesome chip.

 

But, I am going to run test lab at home for Servers (Multiple Hyper V machines). Mostly for work. For that server platform is better.

I work with microsoft as solution engineer , have to test and implement new technologies that we provide to customers and support them.

 

I dont want to have 2 different PC for different purpose !!!

 

That is the reason for Using this Chip. As far as i7 5930k, It has almost same Clock speed as 5820k and the performance is more or less same. The cost on the other side is like WHAT THE HELL !!!

 

 

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Someone also asked question about monitor and Now I am wondering about the Screen aswell

 

I think I should go with 4K Asus or ViewSonic Monitors or should I go with TVs and connect them ? (This card will support 4K easily :-| )

 

Anythoughts ?

all right, then x99 is the way to go. the 5820k won't bottleneck 2 980ti's.

i wouldn't recommend a tv for gaming, but something like a 28 or 32 inch 4k pc monitor will do great. (also i think phillips has a 40 inch 4k monitor if you like a large monitor)