About to take the plunge into 4K

[Adam Reed 29]

Hi all, hope your well.

 

 I am about to take the plunge and buy this Philips 40'' 4K monitor 

 

My question is, with the below PC specs, will this run P3D V3 well, and is it worth me just going for 1980x1080 instead, will this increase performance?

 

 

The new PC i'm about to order;

 

Tower: NZXT Phantom 530 full tower

Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus VIII Ranger, Intel Z170, S 1151, DDR4, SATA3 6Gb/s, PCIe 3.0, SLi/CrossFire, DP/HDMI, ATX

CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K, Skylake, Quad Core with Hyperthreading, 4.0GHz overclocked to 4.6GHz 

Cooling: Corsair Hydro H110i GTX cooler with dual SP140L fans.

RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black, PC4-2400 (3000mhz), CAS 15-17-17-35, XMP 2.0, 1.35V

GPU: 6GB MSI GTX 980Ti

PSU: 750W Corsair, 80 plus gold, modular

SSD: (M.2) 256GB Samsung SM951 , Upto 2150MB/s Read, 1200MB/s Write, 90K IOPS (With OS on)

SSD: 512 GB Samsung 850 PRO.

OS: Windows 10 Home 64 bit 

 

Any help appreciated , thanks. 

[Rmmm 17]

Hello Adam..

I am planning a very similar system except with a 55" 4k LED television as primary monitor.  I will go with the EVGA Classified 980Ti, because the cooling system is highly regarded.   Also, I plan to use a Noctua NH-D15 or D15S for cooling the CPU.   Have not made my mind up on the mobo as of yet.  System on SSD will use a Samsung 950Pro with NVME.   HDD my existing WD Black Caviar 2TB hard drive.

 

I am thinking to hold off my purchase until the new Nvidea Pascal GPU's arrive.   This should drive the 980Ti prices down quickly.

 

Hope this helps.   Your system choices look good to me.

 

RMM

[strider1 575]

Hi all, hope your well.

 

 I am about to take the plunge and buy this Philips 40'' 4K monitor 

 

My question is, with the below PC specs, will this run P3D V3 well, and is it worth me just going for 1980x1080 instead, will this increase performance?

 

 

The new PC i'm about to order;

 

Tower: NZXT Phantom 530 full tower

Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus VIII Ranger, Intel Z170, S 1151, DDR4, SATA3 6Gb/s, PCIe 3.0, SLi/CrossFire, DP/HDMI, ATX

CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K, Skylake, Quad Core with Hyperthreading, 4.0GHz overclocked to 4.6GHz

Cooling: Corsair Hydro H110i GTX cooler with dual SP140L fans.

RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black, PC4-2400 (3000mhz), CAS 15-17-17-35, XMP 2.0, 1.35V

GPU: 6GB MSI GTX 980Ti

PSU: 750W Corsair, 80 plus gold, modular

SSD: (M.2) 256GB Samsung SM951 , Upto 2150MB/s Read, 1200MB/s Write, 90K IOPS (With OS on)

SSD: 512 GB Samsung 850 PRO.

OS: Windows 10 Home 64 bit 

 

Any help appreciated , thanks. 

 

I have a 42" wasabi mango 4K monitor with a 780 6GB card. I don't use PD3 but xplane 10 runs really smooth with extreme settings ! Unless I am in New York city with addons, then I have to turn some setting down. A 4k monitor at 40+ is awesome !

[jjjallen 37]

You will luv 4k.  Seems that my NVidia SLI setup works well with 4K but have not done any testing.

 

Cheers

jja

[ErichB 3,636]

It is certainly one of the best investments you can make to upgrade your overall experience. I bought the same monitor and the difference is night and day. My previous monitor was a DELL 30 inch U3014.  The size is a massive change that you are in awe of  - for days afterwards.  The resolution almost completely eliminates AA issues.