sweq wrote Can someone provide valid points to why my build is bad? Besides being expensive of course. My build should run 4K ultra smoothly and the aesthetics are hnggg.

If you compare your build to Sanctorum, you'll see why.

You suggest an 8gb ram in a $3000 build. Only used an i5 6600K when you could have got an i7 6700K. Chose a motherboard that is almost double the price that Sanctorum picked. Monitor is also double the price which is just wasteful. The cooler isn't as good either and you're trying to ram it into a Micro-ATX case, so the heat that's generated in there will be horrible (I am sure that the airflow would be okaii, but Crossfire AMD cards in a Micro-Atx and you'll have a little radiator in your room XD along with the cramped space to work with. As well, the 980ti is a more powerful card singular card, so when you play games what don't support SLI, the 980ti will be the better option.

I suggested 8GB ram because he wont be needing more for gaming and I focused purely on GPU power. And a single 980 ti can't run on ultra at 4K on all games...
The build would be tight, but it would also be beautiful. The motherboard is more expensive because of asus premium price, purely aesthetics. The features are an extra.

Thy-Art-Is-Murder wrote Monitor is also double the price which is just wasteful.

4K beautiful IPS panel 4ms response time G-sync monitor wasteful? Shows your knowledge...

sweq wrote I suggested 8GB ram because he wont be needing more for gaming and I focused purely on GPU power. And a single 980 ti can't run on ultra at 4K on all games...
The build would be tight, but it would also be beautiful. The motherboard is more expensive because of asus premium price, purely aesthetics. The features are an extra.

But a load of games i've seen on YouTube run better with 16gb of ram. Not by a whole lot, maybe 3-6 frames max but in the budget he has, it'll be fine, and if the OP wants to ever get into YouTube, photoshop or video rendering, he will benefit from 16gb instead of 8 and a single 980ti can do more than what you think. A single 970 can run Gta v at 4k at normal i think with a steady 60fps, so i think that a 980ti can run that game at high or so. Along with other games too. I am not a know it all with each cards but a 980ti will be better than a Nano in games that don't support SLI/Crossfire and the 6gb Vram will be a boost to a few things too. Less power consumption is also a benefit here along with less heat generated. With the build that Sanctorum put together, the OP can easily add another 980ti into the build for SLI action.

So you'd spend over $100 more on a motherboard for basically what you're saying is purely "Aesthetics"?

sweq wrote

Thy-Art-Is-Murder wrote Monitor is also double the price which is just wasteful.

4K beautiful IPS panel 4ms response time G-sync monitor wasteful? Shows your knowledge...

My knowledge? I personally think that is a waste of money. You can get this monitor for half the price which is also 4k, 5ms response time. I don't think spending over $500 is worth it when you can get this.

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and with a $3000 max budget, do you think it's wise to spend almost 1/3 of the budget on a single monitor as it supports 'G-sync'?

Thy-Art-Is-Murder wrote

sweq wrote I suggested 8GB ram because he wont be needing more for gaming and I focused purely on GPU power. And a single 980 ti can't run on ultra at 4K on all games...
The build would be tight, but it would also be beautiful. The motherboard is more expensive because of asus premium price, purely aesthetics. The features are an extra.

But a load of games i've seen on YouTube run better with 16gb of ram. Not by a whole lot, maybe 3-6 frames max but in the budget he has, it'll be fine, and if the OP wants to ever get into YouTube, photoshop or video rendering, he will benefit from 16gb instead of 8 and a single 980ti can do more than what you think. A single 970 can run Gta v at 4k at normal i think with a steady 60fps, so i think that a 980ti can run that game at high or so. Along with other games too. I am not a know it all with each cards but a 980ti will be better than a Nano in games that don't support SLI/Crossfire and the 6gb Vram will be a boost to a few things too. Less power consumption is also a benefit here along with less heat generated. With the build that Sanctorum put together, the OP can easily add another 980ti into the build for SLI action.

So you'd spend over $100 more on a motherboard for basically what you're saying is purely "Aesthetics"?

I picked the motherboard because IMO Asus has the best features (OC) and it looks god like. You can also add 8 more gigs to the build I providedm, and the FPS gain of the RAM doesn't compare to two nanos X-fire.

Thy-Art-Is-Murder wrote and with a $3000 max budget, do you think it's wise to spend almost 1/3 of the budget on a single monitor as it supports 'G-sync'?

If you truly can afford the HIGH END BUDGET and care about the smoothness of G-sync. Yes. I'm more of a 144Hz+ guy, but g-sync is respectable and 144Hz IPS is not available on 4K.

Still, an i5 in a build like that will be the component holding the rest of the system back.

Zayev wrote Still, an i5 in a build like that will be the component holding the rest of the system back.

Only for other purposes outside gaming like video editing. etc...

sweq wrote

Zayev wrote Still, an i5 in a build like that will be the component holding the rest of the system back.

Only for other purposes outside gaming like video editing. etc...

quite a few games where a i5 will still hold them back.

Alexyy wrote

sweq wrote

Zayev wrote Still, an i5 in a build like that will be the component holding the rest of the system back.

Only for other purposes outside gaming like video editing. etc...

quite a few games where a i5 will still hold them back.

Which games and hold how much back 3-5 FPS? For the FPS you're getting with the two nanos...