New Build advice needed

[Jacky60]

I will be building a new rig in the next three months and while I should have a pretty sizeable budget I'm not going to spend money just for the sake of it. Thinking of Ivy bridge E 4960x or 4930K depending on benchmarks and possibly 7970/7950 Quadfire or dual/tri SLI Titan/780. Assuming AMD frame timing driver works I would probs go quadfire for price. Will be at 2560x1440 or more probably 2560x1600 although may well go 1920/1080 eyefinity.
Is it worth getting a 120hz monitor, is there a good argument for Titan/780 if AMD fix frame times with driver. I'm pretty OK with some MS as I guess I'm used to what's happened in the last two years.
Should I consider any other solutions and if so why, also any 3 way sli or quadfire case recommendations?

Games Arma 3, Crysis 3 and anything else uber demanding.

 

[raghu78]

If you are going to build in 3 months wait for the HD 9000 series. looks like a late sep or oct launch. should bring competiton to the high end GPU market. so even if you pick Nvidia you will get better prices. also its always good to stick to 2 - 3 GPUs (2 is ideal) . beyond 2 cards scaling starts falling off and the 4th card in most cases provides poor scaling. so you are better off with 2 powerful cards. CF frame pacing driver should be out on july 31. so you can see reviews and then decide if you want CF or SLI.

http://videocardz.com/43446/amd-radeon-hd-9000-series-launching-october

http://wccftech.com/amds-generation...bly-launching-october-branded-hd-8000-series/

 

[BigChickenJim]

Sounds like a spectacular system no matter which way you decide to go, but as the guy above me said, two cards almost always scale better than 3-4. Two Titans or even two 7970s (to a slightly lesser extent) are going to absolutely demolish just about anything for at least the next 3-4 years. Adding extra cards before you need them will put you well beyond the point of diminishing returns in the current or near-future environments, not to metion the extra power drain and heat they'll bring to the party.

Speaking of heat, how on earth are you planning to cool this creature? Nuclear reactor cooling pumps?

 

[3DVagabond]

Just because they have a driver to address frame metering doesn't mean quad crossfire scaling is going to get any more reliable. I also wouldn't consider running more than 2 cards without custom water cooling. Possibly 3x 2slot cards with 1-4-7 spacing of the pcie slots with a fan blowing directly on the cards. But that's it, IMO.

 

[Jacky60]

I realise scaling decreases with the number of cards but two 7970's is a non starter for me, my two 6990's would often be faster and I want at least 50% more graphic performance, ideally 100%. I'll wait until Sept Oct to see what AMD bring and benchmarks for Intel 4960x/4930K.