Does the Asus Z87 Sabertooth support a wireless card? Also is the EVGA GTX 770 good for 1080p gaming on max/high setting?

[Deidara2319]

I'm aware the board doesn't have built in wifi so does it have a pci port that can support a wireless card or does it need a pci express adapted card? Also is the EVGA GTX 770 gpu good for gaming on games like battlefield 4 on ultra/high at 1080p?

 

[boosted1g]

GTX 770 is a good card, of course a GTX-780 is better if you have the budget.

Just get a pci-ex1 wireless card, or even bettet get a 500mbps powerline network adapter. The powerline adapters will be better for gaming then wireless can be, only thing better obviouslly is wired straight to router.

 

[photonboy]

1) GTX770:
I have a GTX680 which is basically the same thing (ASUS model. Love it.) I play every game at 60FPS. For games like Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, Metro 2033/LL I had to spend a bit of time finding the optimal settings though.

I also force Adaptive VSYNC on for many games. For example, in Crysis 3 I tweak the quality settings so I drop below 60FPS roughly 10% of the time. When that happens I get a small amount of screen tearing (VSYNC automatically turned off with Adaptive VSync). If screen tearing starts getting too frequent I drop a few quality settings to stay synched at 60FPS more often.

2) Wi-Fi:
The Z87 Sabertooth does not support PCI, only the new PCIe. As said, a regular Ethernet cable is "best" however wireless has improved so much it might not make much difference.

Cheaper card of good quality:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/tp-link-wireless-network-card-tlwn881nd

"Better" card but you may not need it:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/rosewill-wireless-network-card-n900pce

Other:
They did a lot of testing and discovered the PING speed was generally the most important for on-line gaming and that most wireless products were roughly the same. Not sure if that's correct, but it's what I read. The article concluded that things like "KillerNIC" were a waste of money.

Sensitivity (i.e. theoretical Mbps) is more important to ensure high enough bandwidth for streaming local video. I use a cheap USB stick with a half decent Netgear router and have no issues (I can send almost 7MBytes/sec, my Netflix is about 1/10th of that, and even my BluRay rips are only about 2MB/second).