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new PC for GTA 5

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jb91

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Hello,

i want to build a completely new PC for GTA 5 (release in January 2015).

This is what i came up with:

https://www.digitec.ch/en/ShopList/Show?shopListId=9BD46D81195F84ADD2BC5D1324DFA6F0

I'd like it to be around that price, but am interested in suggestions on what i could do different. Do these parts make sense / match at all?

Also, what's very important to me, is that this hardware won't be "outdated" already, once the game is out. Is anything major coming out until January / Feburary next year (CPU / GPU)?
 
jb91 said:
Also, what's very important to me, is that this hardware won't be "outdated" already, once the game is out. Is anything major coming out until January / Feburary next year (CPU / GPU)?
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mfenn's 3rd rule of PC building applies here:

"Don't build a PC for an unreleased game with an unknown performance profile".

Very likely your GTX 980 + i7 4790K will play gee-tav just fine, but nobody can tell you whether or not it makes sense until the game is out and there are benchmarks available.

Small note since I don't recommend purchasing anything right now, you shouldn't pair a Z87 board with a Haswell Refresh processor, go Z97.
 
Thanks for your help! Had no idea, that the z87 mainboard could cause a problem here. Now my choice would probably be one of these, and I'm not sure which one to go for:

https://www.digitec.ch/en/s1/product/asus-z97-a-lga-1150-z97-atx-motherboard-2580160?tagIds=76

https://www.digitec.ch/en/s1/product/asus-z97-k-lga-1150-z97-atx-motherboard-2580167?tagIds=76

I've done a quick google search on it and what I found was that only the z97-a has SLI. I'm not planning on getting a second video card, so would the z97-k be the better choice for me?

Edit: this one would also be in that price range:

https://www.digitec.ch/en/s1/product/gigabyte-ga-z97x-gaming-5-lga-1150-z97-atx-motherboard-2585541

Another EDIT: Would it be worth it to wait for a mainboard that supports USB 3.1?
 
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Of those three, I would go with the Z97-K because it does what you need at the lowest price. However, I should stress that you should not be picking out any specific parts right now. Wait until we have a firmer idea of what GTA V will require.
 
mfenn said:
Of those three, I would go with the Z97-K because it does what you need at the lowest price. However, I should stress that you should not be picking out any specific parts right now. Wait until we have a firmer idea of what GTA V will require.
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I've read that the Gigabyte mainboard has some BIOS settings that allow you to easily overclock the CPU. Currently more inclined to get the Gigabyte.

About RAM, would it be worth it to get 2133 MHZ instead of 1600 MHZ? Thinking of getting these https://www.digitec.ch/en/s1/product/hyperx-genesis-4x-4gb-ddr3-2133-ddr3-2000-dimm-240-ram-320274 but not sure if the difference is even noticable, and if they even work with the mainboard.
 
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jb91 said:
I've read that the Gigabyte mainboard has some BIOS settings that allow you to easily overclock the CPU. Currently more inclined to get the Gigabyte.
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All of the big motherboard manufacturers have auto-OC features built into their BIOSes. ASUS calls theirs OC Tuner, which is present on the Z97-K.

jb91 said:
About RAM, would it be worth it to get 2133 MHZ instead of 1600 MHZ? Thinking of getting these https://www.digitec.ch/en/s1/product/hyperx-genesis-4x-4gb-ddr3-2133-ddr3-2000-dimm-240-ram-320274 but not sure if the difference is even noticable, and if they even work with the mainboard.
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Yes, they will work, no the difference is not noticeable.

But really, don't get your heart set on any specific components at this time.
 
mfenn said:
But really, don't get your heart set on any specific components at this time.
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I don't. Just trying to inform myself, i will wait though before i buy it.

I was also wondering if i should get 2 GTX 970 instead of 1 GTX 980. The price difference is marginal compared to the theoretical performance increase of two 970s. However, i've heard about major problems with SLI, primarily micro stuttering. Is this still a big issue as of now?
 
I think you'll see the two get closer together as prices come back down from the stratosphere.

You've always been able to get two of the second from the top card for about 1.2-1.5x the price of the top card. And in the best case, you can get performance ~1.6-1.7x that of the top card. So from a value-for-money perspective it works out in the best case.

However, going with a multi-card setup always brings along with it the headaches of SLI/CFX. Those are:

- Microstutter
- New games not working until a driver update
- Bad scaling on games with wonky engines or bad port jobs
- Increased power, heat, and noise

So in short, yes, the tradeoffs are still there. Whether or not they are worth it depends on your particular application (i.e. game).
 
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