Help!! 1440p Gaming Rig

1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.')
Ans: Gaming and Photoshop. Playing Games like BF4, COD Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, Watch_Dogs, Witcher 3 WH, Dragon Age Series, NFS & Tomb Raider.

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans: 1.5 Lakhs (Can Stretch)

3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: Yes

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Win 8

5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans: 2Tb is must

6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Ans: Yes. 1440p if budget permits orelse 1080p will suffice.

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans: None

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: ASAP

9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: Yes. I myself will assemble this

10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: Online

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans: I want to build a gaming pc which I always bragged about. I was thinking of I7 4930k & Gtx 780ti/R9 290x combo but I can always change my priorities.

I want this pc to run the games on all cranked up settings on 1440p

Thanks in Advance

R

I will suggest you to wait for the haswell refresh processors and z97 motherboards to hit the Indian Market.The Grand Canyon haswell refresh processor namely the i7 4790K is rumoured to have solder/high quality TIM between the die and IHS and thus is expected to be a very good overclocker while staying cool.

For the gpu I would suggest going with an aftermarket AMD R9 290 on the AMD side or GTX 780 on the Nvidia side.I myself own the GTX 780TI and believe it is not a great value for the money card, so I did not recommend it.Though if you want to go for the best you can get the 780ti.

Coming to the monitor, Asus PB278Q is a very good 1440p monitor available for around 38k.You can go with this.

Going with a 4930k/x79 system will take a good chunk of your budget and you will have to comprimise on other hardware components.Also if your aim is mainly gaming and light photoshop/video editing, then an i7 4790k will easily be able to handle it.

So I would advice you to be a little patient and wait for the 4790k to come to India, check out it's reviews and then decide whether you want to go for it or not.The other components can then be recommended.

^From

Here
*www.junglee.com/PB278Q-27-Inch-LED-lit-Professional-Graphics/dp/B009C3M7H0

or here
*www.primeabgb.com/asus-pb278q-27-inch-qhd-gaming-led-monitor.html

Regarding the CPU will see what other members have to say

H

Trust me, you seriously wouldn't want to play on a 60hz monitor when you're spending 1.5lakhs
EDIT : I say wait for PG278Q to arrive. Totally worth it

No One really???

M3gaTron said:
No One really???

you are spending 1.5 L, so better wait for haswell refresh as already told. if you cant wait, you can go for the following.
i7 4770k - 22k
asus z87 pro - 17k
kingston hyperx blu 4gb x 2 - 5.2k/corsair vengeance / gskill ripjwas x
sapphire r9 290 tri x - 36k / 290x /780 ti-your choice
wd black 2tb - 10k
samsung 840 pro 256 gb - 13.5k
seasonic m12ii 650 - 6.5k
Antec DF-85 - 11k/cooler master storm stryker/trooper -15k
ASUS VG Series VG278HE - 38k *www.junglee.com/Series-VG278HE-27-Inch-LED-lit-Monitor/dp/B00906HM6K
logitech g105- 2.8k
logitech g500 - 3.3k

H

Don't buy G500 at all. Its sensor has acceleration which will severely affect the muscle memory.

Have a look at this - *shootersmania.blogspot.in/2013/12/mouse-recommendation-mouse-test-software.html

hitesh said:
Don't buy G500 at all. Its sensor has acceleration which will severely affect the muscle memory.

Have a look at this - *shootersmania.blogspot.in/2013/12/mouse-recommendation-mouse-test-software.html

may be [MENTION=148045]anirbandd[/MENTION] can help. he is using the same without any problems till date.

H

Also, as I mentioned earlier wait for PG278Q to arrive but if you can't wait, I'll suggest you to go with BenQ XL2720Z instead of VG278HE

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rijinpk1 said:
may be [MENTION=148045]anirbandd[/MENTION] can help. he is using the same without any problems till date.

There are no problems at all. The thing is that there are better mouse available with better sensor

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btw you can buy vg278he for 28k

hitesh said:
Don't buy G500 at all. Its sensor has acceleration which will severely affect the muscle memory.

Have a look at this - *shootersmania.blogspot.in/2013/12/mouse-recommendation-mouse-test-software.html

i dont know, i think people "research" too much on the internet. and everyone is an expert in everything. they throw in a few technical terms, and voila!

i think the G500 is a great mouse. a few tweaks here and there, a bit of weight balancing, and you have a killing mouse with it. the only thing to worry with it is, its a large mouse, meant for Large Palm grip gamers. Build quality is top notch. use it on a proper gaming mouse pad.

H

anirbandd said:
i dont know, i think people "research" too much on the internet. and everyone is an expert in everything. they throw in a few technical terms, and voila!

i think the G500 is a great mouse. a few tweaks here and there, a bit of weight balancing, and you have a killing mouse with it. the only thing to worry with it is, its a large mouse, meant for Large Palm grip gamers. Build quality is top notch. use it on a proper gaming mouse pad.

Compare it with mouses having a "perfect" sensor (3090/3095 etc) like G400, DA, Alcor etc and you'll know what I'm talking about.
And all those technical terms are really important believe it or not.

Btw do you play CS ?

Buying peripherals to one's one choice, purpose and convenience cant be scaled against products which are equally good.
G500 is a superb mouse, also is G400 and DA, even my Razer Aby is a great mouse, simply because it suits me well and the others don't, that doesn't make them "a mouse with worse sensors"There will always be better and best and blah blah... a mouse with huge neg accel or positive accel may screw you up, but usually it doesn't make much of a difference as long as it's the MOUSE's accel and not the program's. it's about the mouse OP sees most fit not which other people praise.

Steam communities has discussed DA,Sensei, G500 over and over as best mice for CS.

hitesh said:
Compare it with mouses having a "perfect" sensor (3090/3095 etc) like G400, DA, Alcor etc and you'll know what I'm talking about.
And all those technical terms are really important believe it or not.

Btw do you play CS ?

perfect is the one that you know by heart, and use without any effort.

i used to play in college. not many CS players here now.

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anirbandd said:
perfect is the one that you know by heart, and use without any effort.

I'm talking about the sensor not mouse. What you are saying applies to mouse

hitesh said:
I'm talking about the sensor not mouse. What you are saying applies to mouse

you use only the sensor, or the mouse with the sensor inside it?

H

anirbandd said:
you use only the sensor, or the mouse with the sensor inside it?

Selecting the sensor is one of the steps of choosing the best mouse of yourself. I'm so focused on sensor right now because we are talking about it not because it is the only thing in mouse I care about.

I will suggest you to read up G500's sensor (and sensors in general) and understand why I am against it. There are better mouse available at this range

hitesh said:
Selecting the sensor is one of the steps of choosing the best mouse of yourself. I'm so focused on sensor right now because we are talking about it not because it is the only thing in mouse I care about.

I will suggest you to read up G500's sensor (and sensors in general) and understand why I am against it. There are better mouse available at this range

link on the sensor talk please.

Sorry for not updating.

Change of plans. I will be purchasing Playstation 4. So my new budget for the pc is around 100k

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Sorry for not updating.

Change of plans. I will be purchasing Playstation 4. So my new budget for the pc is around 100k

what... ?

why.??

omg...

[MENTION=148045]anirbandd[/MENTION]

Want to buy best of both world :-D

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[MENTION=148045]anirbandd[/MENTION]

Want to buy best of both world :-D