Hello all,
I'm moving to the US recently after being in the middle east and am building a big gaming rig to treat myself. I'm going to list all the PLANNED components so nothing is left to question, then go into detail about the question.
Case: Cooler Master Cosmos II
- Huge case, lets me install basically anything I want and how much of it I want (no space issues)
MoBo: MSi X99A Gaming Board
Monitors: 3x Acer XB271HU Predators
CPU: Intel Haswell-E i7-5820K
Primary Drive: Samsung 850 Evo m.2
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4 3000 (4x8GB sticks)
Now for the graphics cards. Currently I've been looking at getting these:
MSi's Gaming Nvidia GTX 980 Ti, most likely 2 of them (1 at first, then buying another in a few months) in SLI. My primary concern here is - am I being stupid by trying to run 3 1440p monitors with 2 GTX 980ti cards? Or rather, should I, instead, be looking at the Titan X for its 12GB of VRAM? I know the GTX 980ti cards have 6, which sounds like a huge chunk to me, but I am out of my element in guessing whether or not it will be enough to run games at high settings on my monitors.
Now, one thing to keep in mind is that I don't really expect to be playing many games on all 3 screens together - I will probably play many on a single screen and use the others for multitasking, etc. But there are a few games I'd like to play at (preferentially) max settings with all 3 screens. MechWarrior Online and various flight sims for example.
Something I have to remind myself is, just because I don't want to play Witcher 3 or Battlefield 4 (I have neither of those games and usually they don't quite appeal to me to begin with) - it doesn't mean there won't be a high quality game that trudges along that I'll want to play at full blast. Am I being unrealistic with the GTX 980ti's? Will I have to shell out for a Titan X (let's be honest, probably two Titan X's) just to run my rig and monitors at their maximum potential?
Edit: Perhaps I should mention that at some point in the future I'd like to start doing video game streaming, HQ video editing, and maybe even 3D modeling (for 3D printing, specifically) - as an FYI.
I'm moving to the US recently after being in the middle east and am building a big gaming rig to treat myself. I'm going to list all the PLANNED components so nothing is left to question, then go into detail about the question.
Case: Cooler Master Cosmos II
- Huge case, lets me install basically anything I want and how much of it I want (no space issues)
MoBo: MSi X99A Gaming Board
Monitors: 3x Acer XB271HU Predators
CPU: Intel Haswell-E i7-5820K
Primary Drive: Samsung 850 Evo m.2
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4 3000 (4x8GB sticks)
Now for the graphics cards. Currently I've been looking at getting these:
MSi's Gaming Nvidia GTX 980 Ti, most likely 2 of them (1 at first, then buying another in a few months) in SLI. My primary concern here is - am I being stupid by trying to run 3 1440p monitors with 2 GTX 980ti cards? Or rather, should I, instead, be looking at the Titan X for its 12GB of VRAM? I know the GTX 980ti cards have 6, which sounds like a huge chunk to me, but I am out of my element in guessing whether or not it will be enough to run games at high settings on my monitors.
Now, one thing to keep in mind is that I don't really expect to be playing many games on all 3 screens together - I will probably play many on a single screen and use the others for multitasking, etc. But there are a few games I'd like to play at (preferentially) max settings with all 3 screens. MechWarrior Online and various flight sims for example.
Something I have to remind myself is, just because I don't want to play Witcher 3 or Battlefield 4 (I have neither of those games and usually they don't quite appeal to me to begin with) - it doesn't mean there won't be a high quality game that trudges along that I'll want to play at full blast. Am I being unrealistic with the GTX 980ti's? Will I have to shell out for a Titan X (let's be honest, probably two Titan X's) just to run my rig and monitors at their maximum potential?
Edit: Perhaps I should mention that at some point in the future I'd like to start doing video game streaming, HQ video editing, and maybe even 3D modeling (for 3D printing, specifically) - as an FYI.
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