Who is into building PC's/Gaming rigs?

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Intel Core i9 9900k O/C'd to 5.1GHz on all cores
EVGA RTX 2080 Ti XC Ultra O/C'd to 2070MHz (130% Power limit bios)
Asus RoG Maximus Hero XI
Samsung 970 Pro 1TB NVMe m.2 SSD
2x 500GB Samsung EVO 850 SSDs for storage
16GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance 3000MHz
EVGA 1000watt GQ PSU
Corsair Hydro H115i Platinum 280mm AIO Cooler
6x Corsair ML120 Pro 120mm RGB fans
Lian Li PC-011DW Arctic White
Blu-Ray player snuck into 2nd PSU housing.

The system is connected to a 65" TCL 4k TV. Games tested are: GTA V, Forza Horizon 4, Project Cars 2 (Thrustmaster TMX Pro), Star Wars Battlefront 2, Crysis 3, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (aka the GPU cooker with 75C degree temps on the 2080ti) and Doom.

All games run pretty much maxed out with the exception of high-end anti-aliasing on some titles. 4k is still remarkably unforgiving. Mind you, this is all with overclocking, nvidia control panel tweaks favoring performance, no frames rendered ahead, etc. I'm sure once newer drivers come out things will improve slightly, but for the most part, solid-locked 60fps max setting is attainable. Tested game results: GTA V runs 60fps at 4k with everything (including PCSS shadows) maxed except MSAA; I use FXAA. Forza Horizon 4 60fps 4k HDR with everything maxed-out including 8x MSAA. Project Cars 2- 60fps 4k with everything maxed and mid tier AA. Battlefront 2- solid 60fps at 4k HDR everything maxed including DX12 and PCSS shadowing. Crysis 3 60fps solid at 4k with no AA on, but I literally cannot see any improvement with it on, it's one of those games with indiscernible AA on or off. Hellblade is the cooker; it runs the GPU at 75C but pumps out solid 60fps at 4k with HDR and everything maxed out. I have to remove the side glass panel to get it to drop to 62C as this game rides the GPU like a farm kid on an unassuming hog. The glass reflects heat and the card's cooling just dumps it's heat out the side. I am waiting for the EVGA liquid AIO cooler to drop as the GPU is the only real noise maker. Last game I tested was Doom; it runs 60fps with everything maxed out but it makes me absolutely motion sick beyond belief and I can't really play it much.

The case is configured following Gamer's Nexus guide on their best tested fan placement for this model; 3 intakes at the bottom, 3 at the side, and the AIO cooler at top exhausting with placement forward in the case as much as possible to avoid the GPU's waste. Temps are remarkably cool on the CPU with Hellblade, which I consider the stress tester game. Everything else runs extremely cool with nothing really going over 50C at heavy loads. Idle is always around 35C with fans on silent. I expect improvements with the GPU AIO. Overall the system is pretty silent. These ML120 fans are very quiet and are no joke. The RGB is ridiculous and everything is controlled by Corsair's iQue except for the mobo's RGB which is too dim and obscured to be noticed and the GPU RGB. Gaming is nuts on this setup. 60fps at 4k with maxed out settings on many titles is just a whole other level of existence. The next best thing and something I consider the next standard would be 120Hz and above. I used to play on a 1080p HDTV with it's built-in "120Hz" mode and it absolutely worked for gaming, but you need to feed it a solid 60FPS. All in all I'm quite pleased, this is indeed a treat.

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Your very expensive and nice build is exactly why i refuse to get into 4k. I want over 100fps @ 144-165hz on a 1ms display.
 

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Sitting happy with 2.5k for me haha

4790k with 1080GTX been great

Wish I could say that, my new tower has more than 7k in it now after I've upgraded it a bit more since posting and still buying.

Didn't notice until now, there's like 4 us with the same exact desk just in the last few pages.
 
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Any input with my situation regarding my display choice? Should I try bumping to a 1440p monitor and see if that alleviates some of my issues? Maybe my laptop CPU is bottlenecking my GPU?
 

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Any input with my situation regarding my display choice? Should I try bumping to a 1440p monitor and see if that alleviates some of my issues? Maybe my laptop CPU is bottlenecking my GPU?

If you've never used a monitor thats 1440 + 100mhz and up you will notice a huge difference in display, a lot of the time tho people end up doing another CPU or GPU first but that's not always the case. In my old PC I was using a flat screen TV for a while which was stuck at 60hz and when I got my BenQ and ramped it up all the way and to 144mhz it literally felt like a hidden upgrade and saved a lot of money. But yes go with a 100+1440 monitor, it will make you feel like you've upgraded to a expensive GPU.
 

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If you've never used a monitor thats 1440 + 100mhz and up you will notice a huge difference in display, a lot of the time tho people end up doing another CPU or GPU first but that's not always the case. In my old PC I was using a flat screen TV for a while which was stuck at 60hz and when I got my BenQ and ramped it up all the way and to 144mhz it literally felt like a hidden upgrade and saved a lot of money. But yes go with a 100+1440 monitor, it will make you feel like you've upgraded to a expensive GPU.

I get what it all does and everything, and I've played with 144Hz before, but my question pertains more to if doing this upgrade will probably help sort some of my issues I'm having or not. I don't wanna buy a 1440 monitor if it's all for nothing. And it won't be 100Hz+ because I doubt my current system can even push that and I have no real interest to leave my laptop at the moment.
 

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I get what it all does and everything, and I've played with 144Hz before, but my question pertains more to if doing this upgrade will probably help sort some of my issues I'm having or not. I don't wanna buy a 1440 monitor if it's all for nothing. And it won't be 100Hz+ because I doubt my current system can even push that and I have no real interest to leave my laptop at the moment.

If you're wanting a more detailed problem you need to bench and figure out where everything lies. Do you have something like HWmonitor? It shows utilization's as well voltages which help out a lot trying to determine if you're having bottleneck somewhere. What mobo/cpu/gpu/psu are you using?
 

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If you're wanting a more detailed problem you need to bench and figure out where everything lies. Do you have something like HWmonitor? It shows utilization's as well voltages which help out a lot trying to determine if you're having bottleneck somewhere. What mobo/cpu/gpu/psu are you using? It could be something really simple, but we would need #'s to work with.
 

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If you're wanting a more detailed problem you need to bench and figure out where everything lies. Do you have something like HWmonitor? It shows utilization's as well voltages which help out a lot trying to determine if you're having bottleneck somewhere. What mobo/cpu/gpu/psu are you using?

I've already posted those results (post 1136, one page back). Lol
 

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I've already posted those results (post 1136, one page back). Lol

Yeah I know but it doesn't say PSU brand and wattage and thermal #s along with mobo and we need to see voltages and clocks along with it and probably the performance tab to see if its hitting limitations.
 

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I've already posted those results (post 1136, one page back). Lol
Yeah I know but it doesn't say PSU brand and wattage and thermal #s along with mobo and we need to see voltages and clocks along with it and probably the performance tab to see if its hitting limitations. My recording PC is running a 1060 and after changing monitors it had an entire new life with running ultra on quite a few games holding 80-120ish fps. You can still pick up a cheap-ish monitor, my side screens are Viotek 32's at 144mhz for around 280$, i'm still guessing tho you'd get a lot of benefit out of a 1440 as what you have posted looks fine, still hard to tell w/o #'s tho.
 

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Been internally debating to bring myself to do this, but I think I'm going to pick up a 2560x1440 monitor and see if asking more from my graphics card instead of my CPU will improve my FPS. If not, I'll return it. I hate to do that, but I have to get to the bottom of this. Lol
 

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build list? If you did and i missed it, link please.

Lately i find this stuff fascinating. It's as bad as modding cars.
I have pics and some parts list a couple of pages back, the GPU's took the brunt SLIing at $1,900 each, but they are the best performing 1080ti's I've tested over the last year and they turned out really worth it even when I did a small comparison to the 2080's. Page 54.
 

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Picking up a Dell S2716DGR today. 2560x1440, 1ms response with a 144Hz refresh and G-SYNC.

A little doubtful it'll solve my issues, as I think the i7-8750H is my main culprit, but it's worth a shot. I'll probably hang onto this unit regardless as it looks to be a stellar monitor that I can use down the road for my desktop build that's inevitably coming.
 

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A little doubtful it'll solve my issues, as I think the i7-8750H is my main culprit, but it's worth a shot. I'll probably hang onto this unit regardless as it looks to be a stellar monitor that I can use down the road for my desktop build that's inevitably coming.
Should have sold the gaming laptop and went with a rig. You will eventually, but i would have sold the laptop before it loses any more value. thinking of selling mine and getting a macbook pro because i want to start editing videos.
 

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Should have sold the gaming laptop and went with a rig. You will eventually, but i would have sold the laptop before it loses any more value. thinking of selling mine and getting a macbook pro because i want to start editing videos.

I'm not selling my laptop. Lol

It's perfectly fine and is a killer gaming laptop when you stay within developers' lanes. Nobody can be faulted at Dell/Alienware or Rockstar because a modification to a game, made by the community at hand, doesn't run well. Through more and more research it's obvious that you just have to have an overkill system to play LSPDFR at otherwise vanilla parameters (so say on Ultra at 1920x1080 with 60FPS).
 

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I'm not selling my laptop. Lol

It's perfectly fine and is a killer gaming laptop when you stay within developers' lanes. Nobody can be faulted at Dell/Alienware or Rockstar because a modification to a game, made by the community at hand, doesn't run well..
You're speculating that the CPU is the main culprit, are you gonna swap the CPU out? I havent tinkered with laptops since 2015, but the CPUs these days could be soldered on. But at that point, swapping CPUs, again, might as well get a rig. Let us know when you finally sack up and build a rig.

I have pics and some parts list a couple of pages back, the GPU's took the brunt SLIing at $1,900 each, but they are the best performing 1080ti's I've tested over the last year and they turned out really worth it even when I did a small comparison to the 2080's. Page 54.
Wait you spent $1900 for ONE 1080ti? The 2080ti is around $1300. Even at $1300, the 2080ti isnt worth it yet, they should have come out with hdmi 2.1 on those cards.
 

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You're speculating that the CPU is the main culprit, are you gonna swap the CPU out? I havent tinkered with laptops since 2015, but the CPUs these days could be soldered on. But at that point, swapping CPUs, again, might as well get a rig. Let us know when you finally sack up and build a rig.

I had a rig. A couple actually. I will eventually buy/build another, but thanks.

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