Zekkyou said:
disolitude said:
I honestly think if this is just for gaming, you're wasting your money.
I can't find a single scenario where you would want an X79 rig for gaming to be honest.
Single moitor setup at 1080p - you will hit 60 fps maximum with AMD FX/1155 CPUs easily
Single monitor setup at 2560 - GPU becomes the bottleneck before CPU
Multimonitor setup - GPU is bottleneck
3D gaming - GPU
Only instance where x79 platform makes sense for gaming is if you are doing 3way SLI/Crossfire and have 3 monitors that are 120 hz and you want 3 X 120 frames per second.
For rendering and other CPU intensive stuff its a different story...but for gaming you can save major coin by getting the AMD AM3+ platform or 1155.I'd recommend AMD to be honest due to dollar/performance ratio... Benchmarks show that newer games like Crysis 3 and Metro run as good if not better on AMD's 8 core processors and with consoles going that route, the optimizaton for AMD will only improve.
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I should probably have mentioned this is for my youtube channel, so it will be used for a lot of rendering and video storing (hense 2 2TB hardrives). I do want it to be pretty future proof (so in 3 years time still be able to run games at max. Though that's hard to judge with the next gen popping along). Would it still be worth moving down on the platform? I know little about computers past the basics of what each part in general does :/ But thanks for your time ^^
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Yep you are right.It will be hard to judge especially with prices of current hardware dropping with the PS4 around the corner and new hardware coming out.
You have to think - A 500-700€ machine can run everything on Max Settings with ease depending how lucky you are with the price of the single pieces.
RIght now and this is MY opinion those parts you listed are somehow a waste of money cause you don't need them at all RIGHT NOW...
They will die of boredom cause there is nothing out to challenge them...not even Crysis 3.
When NextGen is coming out it will be different and so will be the available PC hardware and their prices.
Short before a NextGen is launching it is probably the hardest time to build a PC cause you can't be completely sure if its worth the money right now.
"Your" PC will be able with ease to do NextGen games but it could be better and probably cheaper in a while and it will survive longer.
Depends on how much you need a new rig right now probably.
