PC build thread

[emwearz]

I'm pumped about that GTX 1080. Planning to pre-order and hopefully have it on release day (May 27).

Is it worth picking up a 4K monitor yet?

Unless you are desperate I would wait Dave. See how it actually performs (I would take anything Nvidia says with a grain of salt, they are hyping their card) in real world applications (read: games) and wait for the early adopters tax to fall off.

As for a 4K monitor, again you have to wait. The 980Ti / TitanX, did not have enough juice to run many games maxed at 4K. Most fell in the 30-50fps range, so depends how the 1080 performs.

If you do decide to get a 4K monitor, you would want it to have G-Sync just in case.

It is a big waiting game until third party sources get their hands on the cards and put them through the ringer.

[dsheinem]

I'm pumped about that GTX 1080. Planning to pre-order and hopefully have it on release day (May 27).

Is it worth picking up a 4K monitor yet?

Unless you are desperate I would wait Dave. See how it actually performs (I would take anything Nvidia says with a grain of salt, they are hyping their card) in real world applications (read: games) and wait for the early adopters tax to fall off.

As for a 4K monitor, again you have to wait. The 980Ti / TitanX, did not have enough juice to run many games maxed at 4K. Most fell in the 30-50fps range, so depends how the 1080 performs.

If you do decide to get a 4K monitor, you would want it to have G-Sync just in case.

It is a big waiting game until third party sources get their hands on the cards and put them through the ringer.

The problem is that I am currently running without a card at all, and my Doom preorder arrives Friday. I am faced with the option of buying a cheaper card now that I will want to upgrade eventually (perhaps a 950 or 960) or waiting two weeks for the 1080.

[noiseredux]

Didn't you have a 700 series card? What happened?

If you NEED a new card, the 1000 series and 900s are so close in price I'd probably do the same, yeah.

[dsheinem]

Didn't you have a 700 series card? What happened?

I got rid of it sometime last year and figured I would just pick up a new card when I was ready to dive back into a PC game that would require one. Doom this week and No Man's Sky later this summer are going to be PC titles for me, so time for a new card.

[emwearz]

Oh, if that is the case then I would jump in the deep end with the GTX 1080, no doubt, no point investing in the 9XX's now.

[dsheinem]

Oh, if that is the case then I would jump in the deep end with the GTX 1080, no doubt, no point investing in the 9XX's now.

Yup, that's the thinking. Now if only I could find a place online to preorder...

[noiseredux]

so here's the standing desk:



I'm planning to do full game room pics once my 27" Predator arrives and I can swap the 23" Acer over to the standing desk.

[TSTR]

YES

[isiolia]

Oh, if that is the case then I would jump in the deep end with the GTX 1080, no doubt, no point investing in the 9XX's now.

Yup, that's the thinking. Now if only I could find a place online to preorder...

nVidia has an "notify me" thing for when they start with orders, though that's probably for the Founders Edition things they're doing that seem to be pricier.

I dunno. I'm in not quite as extreme a situation, but will probably wind up jumping on a new card sooner rather than later. Probably not the most sound financial decision, but I've been waiting on 'em for a while now

Unless these new cards pull out -much- better numbers, 4k is probably still a bit ahead of the curve. Even if they wind up able to power 4k at good framerates, there are still very few greater-than-60Hz 4k displays, and they're very expensive. While I'd be loathe to spend a lot on a TN monitor, G-Sync/etc seems to be the better thing for gaming right now.

[emwearz]

This is my "custom" cooled R9 290 (With 390X Bios and memory straps).


It is using the heatsink from a Gelid Icy Vision V2, with two DeepCool PWM 90mm fans zip tied on, they are using the CHA1/CHA2 headers which are tied to the GPU temps, so they increase/decrease accordingly. Nice and cool now. It sits with +75mv, 1100hz/1400Mhz overclock, so on stock cooler it was throttling and the standard Icy Vision fans were loud and rubbish.