hahah nice one. PC dominance is real 😀

Dude a quick update here. Systems built and I got a great pc vs ps4 post ROFL…get this.

1080p, 16x anisotropic filtering, 8xMSAA, every detail setting in the game on ULTRA and I’m AVERAGING 167 frames per second. hahahhaha

That true I was forgetting this was for 2016.

As for star citizen I’ll be playing at 1080p on my 70inch lcd so I’ll have plenty of headroom for either 8xMSAA or most likely I’ll use super sampling.

man full tower of HD’s thats awesome. Well the SSD storage well i think it will only cost me £250 for 2TB of SSD storage by the end of 2016 because the manufacturing process is getting cheaper and cheaper, just last year it halved the price of SSD when you could get 250GB for £140 crucial released 500GB MX200 or someat SSD drives for about £140-150 i think that will happen again this year so 1TB drives may halve in price and next year maybe not halve in price again maybe 25% so they should get really cheap. Espcially with this new 3D stacked chips, there getting really cheap in manufacturing, how much they sell em for is another matter.

For SC that uses full 4K texturing you want good AA like 4x MSAA well actually apparently you dont need AA at sub 30inch apparenlty) all the details 4GB and small amount of power is no good 390x is where its at the 490x is going to drop its load and 2x 490x’s should be brilliant

They are both GCN architecture and praise the lord both dx12 tier 3 while nvidia is just tier 1 even through 2015.

The kicker in performance other than the insane number of cores will be the HBM.

Your specs look good. I’m all for spending the money and doing it right. None of this my $700 pc is as good as a ps4 crap..no thanks if I build a pc I want to build powerhouse.

You got a lot of ssd storage. Until prices go down I’m using my ssd for windows and any games I’m playing and normal drives for basically anything else.

I have a media server with a raid 5 array in my basement. Its basically a full sized tower with nothing but hard drives in it. Powered by a core duo and 4 gigs of ram. Simple, cheap and amazing. Any room of my house you can pull up the menu and watch anything you want. I spent months ripping DVDs and blurays.

ah so your an SC supporter to hahaha. Fair play 😀 The DX12 mix matched GPU is true BUT it will still come down to driver level, i can guarantee Nvidia will at least shut off physx capability with an AMD card present in the system.

390x, 290x theres no difference the only difference is 290x is less powerful so it processes less of the screen. Ive heard that iGPU’s can be used as well all though they have to have HSA compatibility and the only iGPU;s are AMD’s APU’s and skylakes becuase no other intel iGPU will have HSA compatbility.

heres my future build hahah

6/8core intel skylake/amd zen
16-24GB DDR4
1200watt PSU
2-3 8GB 490x/Pascal
250GB M.2 SSD
2x 1TB SSD RAID 0
2x 5TB HD RAID (mirroring whatever number that is)
case
4K 28-30inch IPS monitor

think thats it

estimating £2500-3000 pending on how many GPU’s i put in 😀

what you think?

ROFL star citizen. Basically. I paid for that game forever ago and can never play with anything they release.

My goal was a rig that could do 3 things really well and if it does these 3 things well it can do anything. Play star citizen, make use of occulus rift and video editing.

The 32 gigs of ram is for video otherwise I’d have gone with 16. The 290x is for games today and the 390x will be for star citizen and VR. again hopefully the dx12 rumor about mix matched GPUs holds true because I’d rather not sell the 290x I’d rather use it and give the 390x a nice boost. If it doesn’t turn out that way instead of buying the 390x right away I’ll wait till AMD puts 2 of them on a single liquid cooled card like they did with the 290 series. Hence the 1000 watts PSU.

yeah hahahah im planning my 2016 build now im thinking will star citizen need 2 or 3 GPU’s if it needs 3 then i need a 6 core because 3x 8x PCIe 3 lanes = 24… i7 quad cores only have 20 lanes, 6 core has 28 i think well the 5820k does the one up has 40 lanes .

then im think M.2 SSDs taking up 4x PCIe lanes to, if i want a dedicated sound card etc etc grrr its hard.

stupid thing is im only building it for 4K Star Citizen… 1 game. thats kind of insane i think.

What type of game/stuff have you build your PC for seeing as its quite high end?

Oh i fully expect Intel’s 2016 lineup to need a new motherboard. I’ll only upgrade if there is at least a 25% boost in real world performance though.
I doubt I’ll ever need 4 gpu slots so low end “enthusiasts” motherboards so suffice. Even on the low end they are pretty friggen awesome. I almost bought the high end one but then I thought to myself how stupid it would be seeing as the only benefit I’d see is the ability to use 4 cards in crossfire and my budget isn’t that high lol

Nice, well regarding the CPU space skylake is rumored to have 30% IPC increase and new micro architecture but of course with Dx12 shouldnt be a match for a 6 core… more cores/threads feeding the GPU the better so might be faster.

With Intel CPU’s youll be upgrading your motherboard as well as they only last for 2 gens, tick/tock new motherboard, tick/tock, new motherboard etc

I though Black magic was a box of chocolates?!!