Well first of all, World Comunity Grid sounds like something good at first, but it is a colossal waste of money and energy, so lets quickly forget about that.

And you forgot to tell us one of the most important information. Whats your budget. We have to know how much money you want to spend.

This post was edited by maulepan on Apr 29 2016 11:33am

Well, like I said, I'm definitely planning on doing this on a budget by picking things up piecemeal. Since all I really need is the proc, ram and gfx (and maybe cooling), I'm definitely hoping to keep those three under $1000. Hopefully around $6-800, really. I'm almost positive I can get the 5820k for around $250 if I've got a little patience, and like I said, I'm thinking of waiting until Memorial Day to see how the prices drop on gfx cards - if the new cards are as hot as they're expected to be, I'm hoping I can get a 980 for the same price as a 960 is now. Though if I can pull it off earlier, that'd be nice, which is why I was considering getting a 960 and then throwing in a 980 later. Though maybe Ill split the diff and just get a 970 with plans to throw in another?

I highly doubt that you will find a 5820k for anything close to 250 but good luck.
Also i have to recommend the r9 390 (saphier is a good one) over the gtx 970. The 970 starts to struggle with the VRAM in some newer titles.

Fry's has just gotten under $300 with them after a pretty long slide downward as long as I check their daily deals, like around $280. I figure as we get closer to memorial day where Intel is likely to announce new chips, they'll drop that a bit more before it's too late and the chip becomes the official old and busted compared to the new hotness. At the very least, I'm pretty confident about squeezing it in under 300.

Honestly, I meant to ask about that but it's such a stupid noob question that it all but slipped my mind. I was wondering if SLI means that it has to be nvidia or if that means that I can branch out and look at something like the r9 390, but you seem to have answered that for me, you hero, you. Definitely going to start broadening my video card search, then. I guess in my noobliness, I thought that two mediocre video cards running SLI would be better than one badass of a card, but it seems like both of you are saying that's not the case at all, yeah?

No, a single, more powerfull card is better. There are just to many issues with multi-gpu setups. Not every application supports it and the result does not equal the power of two cards.

Nice. Yeah, I'm definitely convinced then - I think it's going to be the r9 390, unless I can find a 980 really cheap. Not really digging this whole 3.5M limit on the 970 idea, seems like it's going to be kinda the opposite of future proof.

Lol you still on the vram

Tell me why 970 sli with competes with 980ti across the board
3.5gb vs 6gb

http://www.techspot.com/review/1114-vram-comparison-test/

This post was edited by yupitsmeh on Apr 29 2016 07:31pm

Like half of your article looks like this tho



And the other half look like old games that aren't written to use that much ram. Call me in a year or two plz

fucking christ are people that uneducated they cant comprehend a fucking bar graph and read the conclusions

lol half when you have 1 example?

people dont understand what vram cache, allocation, and actually vram used are?

This post was edited by yupitsmeh on May 2 2016 06:16am

or dont understand why 4gb cards beat out 8gb cards

its not all about vram

many other variables bandwidth, coding, shall I continue on?

btw when you run out of vram you will know, trust meits like a continuous lag spike and you think your pc froze up