Well honestly the main function of this rig is medium to heavy photo editing and light video editing. But thrn i i would br playing dragon age enquisition, titanfall, gta v, sim city, nba 2k15, skyrim, borderlan
d etc...
I'd wait to see what AMD releases. Let it shake up the market some. They'll either deliver a superb set of GPUs worth buying, or they'll at least motivate Nvidia to drop its prices in response, maybe opening up the opportunity for you to purchase a GTX 980.
However, you'll ultimately need to either SLI/CFX in the future since pretty much all GPUs are running at max capacity at 4K - unless you're okay spending $1,000 only to play in medium settings.
Well honestly the main function of this rig is medium to heavy photo editing and light video editing. But thrn i i would br playing dragon age enquisition, titanfall, gta v, sim city, nba 2k15, skyrim, borderlan
d etc...
for skyrim you could need to oc to 4.7ghz to match a. I5 2400 on dragon age a stock 8350 is the same as an i5 2500k,titanfall should be fine with any like simcity and borderlands,
But amd new amd cards would be released in a month withHBM would be better in performance but limited to 4GB maybe you can get a 290x like a place holder
Keep in mind that Xbone would be 1080p30fps at best, or lower resolution 60fps for those faster paced games.
4k is ~4 times as many pixels as 1080p.
1920*1080= ~2 million
3820*2160= ~8 million
Meaning you don't have to run the monitor at 4k to get more out of a gaming PC.
(though the convenience of a gamepad is not to be underrated. And 30fps looks ok if it's stable/locked to 30. But you can have both of that on PC as well~)
edit: oh and 2x290 is a pretty solid combo to drive 4k. Intel CPU might have advantages as PontiacGTX pointed out, but the AMD cpu still beats console cpu performance/minimum FPS.
edit: also just picking up 1 290 and seeing what AMD puts out in half a year is an option too. Nothing wrong with running weird resolutions between 1080p and 4k on your screen for some games, you can add any resolution you want with Custom Resolution Utility.
Having a PC just puts you in full command of what hardware to use and what settings to run, it's an extra effort but I wouldn't want to miss it.
Nothing wrong with running weird resolutions between 1080p and 4k on your screen for some games, you can add any resolution you want with Custom Resolution Utility.
Scaling isn't great without direct multiples of screen resolution though. 1080p is exactly half of 4k on the X and Y axis so it scales well, while 2560x1440 doesn't go into 3840x2160 very well.
XFX DD 290's have very bad VRM cooling, you shouldn't buy those ones.
Should default to i5 CPU too. Get a good PSU, as well.
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