Any of the new high end NVidia or ATI cards will work for you. To me it all depends on your preference and which card brand you have had the best performance with in the past. I say this because most games released are specifically programed to take advantage of certain brands or chipsets of video cards. What do most of your games call for? That would be the brand to start the most serious of considerations with.
I prefer NVidia because the cards have always worked great for me while some earlier ATI Radeon based cards actually did fail on me. Look at refresh rates and shaders and the size and type of memory the video card is equipped with. DDR5 used to be the fastest memory and was when I picked up the nVidia 660 2gigger I am running now. I run three monitor surround and it does great but I am only running a quad AMD Black Label 3.4GHZ CPU.
There are some screaming video cards out there and the hottest ones of course are the big dollar ones so if $$$ is not an issue the sky is the limit!
But. As you said. You don't want to go over $3,500 USD. That will probably be an issue. Especially how fast the technology is advancing.
Best of luck!
[Edited by LudicrusLeon, 5/9/2014 4:26:17 PM]
GDDR is not the same as DDR. That being said, GDDR5 is still the fastest tech in Graphics Memory. DDR3 going on DDR4 is the fastest in desktop memory.
Any of the new high end NVidia or ATI cards will work for you. To me it all depends on your preference and which card brand you have had the best performance with in the past. I say this because most games released are specifically programed to take advantage of certain brands or chipsets of video cards. What do most of your games call for? That would be the brand to start the most serious of considerations with.
I prefer NVidia because the cards have always worked great for me while some earlier ATI Radeon based cards actually did fail on me. Look at refresh rates and shaders and the size and type of memory the video card is equipped with. DDR5 used to be the fastest memory and was when I picked up the nVidia 660 2gigger I am running now. I run three monitor surround and it does great but I am only running a quad AMD Black Label 3.4GHZ CPU.
There are some screaming video cards out there and the hottest ones of course are the big dollar ones so if $$$ is not an issue the sky is the limit!
But. As you said. You don't want to go over $3,500 USD. That will probably be an issue. Especially how fast the technology is advancing.
Best of luck!
[Edited by LudicrusLeon, 5/9/2014 4:26:17 PM]
Thinking about after doing some more research I will probably go with the Titan if not that then a 780 ti, as far as amd/ati go I have always been happy with nvidia my current 560 has pulled off max settings in almost all my games the one exception being Crysis 3. Thanks for all the info everyone, I think my biggest problem is that I love building gaming rigs more than using them. But on the subject of memory are there any DDR4 motherboards yet?
[Edited by invaderzim48, 5/9/2014 9:55:59 PM]
I just ordered my first 64 bit pc a coupla days ago from Falcon-Northwest. I'm no builder and I've always wanted a Falcon. They talked me out of the 6 core and into INTEL's best 4 CORE: I7-4770K. They told me that was way plenty for gaming. I also ordered more ram than I needed (32 gb) and they suggested using a GTX TITAN BLACK for my 30" screen. I'm having my case air brushed in Michael Lavalie's True Fire. But you're using 3 monitors, so I dunno. My specs:
ASUS Z87 MAXIMUS VI EXTREME Mobo
INTEL CORE I7 4770K Liquid Cooled
G.SKILL 32GB 1866MHZ DDR3 - RIPJAWS
EVGA GEFORCE GTX TITAN BLACK
CRUCIAL M550 SSD - 1TB Primary
WESTERN DIGITAL BLACK - 2TB Secondary
SILVERSTONE ST1000P MODULAR 1000W PS
Win 7 Pro
Free Copy WatchDogs
Air-Brushed True Fire case:
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[Edited by element5, 5/10/2014 1:17:25 PM]
I have looked into falcon northwest, but honestly I just want to build it myself. My current rig is an ibuypower that was a pre build, I will have to upgrade the motherboard if I want a new graphics card because of PCIe 3.0 and then I will have to upgrade my cpu because my current one is an amd and all 3.0 boards are Intel. Then I would have to upgrade my 700w power supply. So yeah Im never going to buy another pre-build again.