Need Help on a $1.8k RIG PLS!

[Richieheavens]

My Cousin is buying a Custom RIG from SimLim sq..

for gaming at 4k

no need monitor and keyboard... just the rig.

Budget $1800

he got no credit card. prices can all be from similim sq?

Pls advice!

thxs a Million

 

[royfrosty]

Gaming at 4k?

Up your budget bro. Not unless you want to game at a lower detailed settings.

 

[Richieheavens]

If can't 4k, how about 1070 built instead

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[singupingu]

Even 1070 will have to lower graphics setting to maybe high or lower. If that's okay with you, here is some qn.

1. Is aesthetic important?
2. What kind of form factor? (atx? Matx? Itx?)
3. Rig on floor or table?
4. Other than games, any other intensive softwares will you be using the rig for?
5. Want overclocking?
6. Water aio or fan cooler?
7. WiFi?

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[Richieheavens]

Even 1070 will have to lower graphics setting to maybe high or lower. If that's okay with you, here is some qn.

1. Is aesthetic important?
2. What kind of form factor? (atx? Matx? Itx?)
3. Rig on floor or table?
4. Other than games, any other intensive softwares will you be using the rig for?
5. Want overclocking?
6. Water aio or fan cooler?
7. WiFi?

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ATX form
Rig on floor
Pure gaming
No need overclock
If can have water cooler, would be good
No need WiFi.
Aesthetics if within budget

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[singupingu]

I'm intending to recommend you i5 hence water cooling is overkill already plus take tolls to your budget.

If you can compromise to a matx build with a mid tower, then we can do a gtx 1080 for 4k gaming. Otherwise down to a 1070 and improve on the other specs and aesthetic while game at 1440p

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[royfrosty]

Even 1080 is also showing signs of struggling in 4k. Some games cant even hit 60fps. But that will really depend on your settings set.

Even i also feel that some games a single 1080 wont cut it on 4k.

Really depending on your choice of games. The actual good 4k card will be titan x pascal.

 

[Richieheavens]

With my budget able to get 1080? Can scretch to 2k

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[royfrosty]

With my budget able to get 1080? Can scretch to 2k

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There is a few ways to go about it.

1. Get a titan X pascal, but that you will need to spend which is around 3k plus budget.

2. Get 2x 1070, cheap option to sli, performance somewhere exceeded a single 1080, BUT there is a catch, you will need a z170 board, and a bigger wattage psu and that will add up the cost to your overall. Doing so also do not guarranty you the high performance considering most current games dont even scale well using multi gpus.

3. Buy a single 1080 but lower down all your settings. Which really kinda defeats the purpose of building a new rig but could not get nice graphics at the start.

 

[singupingu]

Sli is not optimized for every game.

Titan x too expensive.

Sli 1070 will end up more expensive also.

Just gotta make do with a single 1080. It's the current highest end and 6 months more for 1080ti if you really want Titan performance.

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[singupingu]

Since you up budget to 2k, I copied paste my suggestion from another thread.

Gigabyte ga h110m-ds2 + i5-6500 - $396
Value ram 2x8gb - $144
FSP hydro 600w bronze - $99
Ocz Trion 150 ssd 500gb - $185
WD BLUE 1tb hdd - $72
Palit sjs gtx 1080 - $988
Tecware f3 (2 fans included) - $49
Additional chassis fans x2 - ~$50 (optional)

Total - $1933 ($1983)


All pricing from pc themes.

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[Byfrost]

My Cousin is buying a Custom RIG from SimLim sq..

for gaming at 4k

no need monitor and keyboard... just the rig.

Budget $1800

he got no credit card. prices can all be from similim sq?

Pls advice!

thxs a Million

What Genre of the games your cousin is playing? Give some titles as example.

Games like DOTA, Heros of the Storm is not extremely demanding. In fact, a GTX760 is more than enough to play DOTA on 4K settings.

Games like Witcher 3, is another story.

 

[Richieheavens]

What Genre of the games your cousin is playing? Give some titles as example.

Games like DOTA, Heros of the Storm is not extremely demanding. In fact, a GTX760 is more than enough to play DOTA on 4K settings.

Games like Witcher 3, is another story.

Witcher 3, batlefield, crysis etc

Get from tradepac cheaper?

 

[singupingu]

If you're experienced builder and know what's up and how to troubleshoot then go ahead. If first timer pc theme is your friend.

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[Byfrost]

Even 1080 is also showing signs of struggling in 4k. Some games cant even hit 60fps. But that will really depend on your settings set.

Even i also feel that some games a single 1080 wont cut it on 4k.

Really depending on your choice of games. The actual good 4k card will be titan x pascal.

There is a few ways to go about it.

1. Get a titan X pascal, but that you will need to spend which is around 3k plus budget.

2. Get 2x 1070, cheap option to sli, performance somewhere exceeded a single 1080, BUT there is a catch, you will need a z170 board, and a bigger wattage psu and that will add up the cost to your overall. Doing so also do not guarranty you the high performance considering most current games dont even scale well using multi gpus.

3. Buy a single 1080 but lower down all your settings. Which really kinda defeats the purpose of building a new rig but could not get nice graphics at the start.

Witcher 3, batlefield, crysis etc

Get from tradepac cheaper?

As above, you need to increase your budget for 4K gaming. or..

1) Want smooth 60 fps, prepare to play the games at medium graphics settings.

2) Want nice graphics at max settings, then have to sacrifice FPS and play at 30+ fps.

 

[lifeishard]

Your cousin using which 4k monitor?

 

[neobear224]

1440p la, why 4K. 4K everything so big, the font so small

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

1440p la, why 4K. 4K everything so big, the font so small

Maybe to watch prawn for super clear picture.

 

[Richieheavens]

Dont need 4k liao.. but 1080gtx built.

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