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Kirin_gaming on 18 March 2015
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DrDoomz said:
Kirin_gaming said:

If you're planning on building a 4k rig I would wait for cards with more than 4gb of ram.I game at 4k with 3xgtx780ti and I always have to turn down textures, sometimes even shadows, the 780ti is a 3gb card though.Back when I built the rig in 2013 3gb was more than enough to max everything at 4k, nowdays some games use more than 4gb even at 1080p.

Now if you still want to build that rig,and money is not a problem, I suggest you get 3 EVGA gtx 980 classiffied.Only 2 980 are not enough if you want to a completely smooth experience with no frame drops whatsoever.

For cpu and again only if  money is not a problem get an i7 5960X but only if you aren't planning on upgrading in a few year later, if you're planning on upgrading later, get an i7-5930K.

For ram is the same get ddr4 if you aren't upgrading, and ddr3 if you are upgrading later.

How are you able to link 2 gfx cards? I thought SLI only allowed 2? Is one a dedicated PhysX card?

Yeah, upgrading in 2-3 years. Is EVGA the best manufacturer for 980's? Heard they ran hotter and noisier than gigabyte or msi?

thanks. :)

To use SLI just plug  2 or more of the same card into the PCI E and install the drivers provided with the cards, not every motherboard supports SLI though, so decide which cpu you are getting and make sure that the motherboard for that CPU supports SLI.

About the 980's I can't speak from personal experience about the 900 series but my GPU is x3 780ti Classified which are from evga and they run flawlessly, the gpu clock is @ 1300mhz which is 425mhz above the base clock of the stock card, so basically what that means is that I got really good chips from them.I'd say EVGA is a really good manufacturer, but it never hurts to do some research.