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What I'd suggest it's the probs best build for the money.

Craig wrote

Sanctorum wrote You can easily get a rig for £550 that will play games at 1080p at ultra settings.

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It's a little over budget so you'd have to drop the cooler or SSD if you can't afford it. XFire support as well, but I wouldn't exactly be adding another 390 to that rig.

Since 500 was his max, you're well over budget.

Not to mention that PC is very unbalanced.

850W PSU with a 390?

That silly cooler on that chip?

Shit, read it as 550, oops. The 850w is for XFire support, though I definitely wouldn't be using 2x390s with an 860k. The TX3 EVO is a decent budget cooler, it'll do fine. I'm not sure why everyone thinks you need hella expensive coolers all the time? Especially if it's not in the budget.

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£500 and will easily play 1080p games at ultra.

Sanctorum wrote

Craig wrote

Sanctorum wrote You can easily get a rig for £550 that will play games at 1080p at ultra settings.

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It's a little over budget so you'd have to drop the cooler or SSD if you can't afford it. XFire support as well, but I wouldn't exactly be adding another 390 to that rig.

Since 500 was his max, you're well over budget.

Not to mention that PC is very unbalanced.

850W PSU with a 390?

That silly cooler on that chip?

Shit, read it as 550, oops. The 850w is for XFire support, though I definitely wouldn't be using 2x390s with an 860k. The TX3 EVO is a decent budget cooler, it'll do fine. I'm not sure why everyone thinks you need hella expensive coolers all the time? Especially if it's not in the budget.

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£500 and will easily play 1080p games at ultra.

Some games it will, but it will struggle with games like GTA V, the 860k is just not strong enough across it's cores, GTA loves hyperthreading!

Craig wrote Some games it will, but it will struggle with games like GTA V, the 860k is just not strong enough across it's cores, GTA loves hyperthreading!

860k and i5 are both quad core chips. The i5 is better, yes, but the 860k with a 390 will play GTV at ultra settings @ 1080p. It's probably not what I'd get but I'm showing OP that he can play games at ultra 1080p within his budget.

Sanctorum wrote

Craig wrote Some games it will, but it will struggle with games like GTA V, the 860k is just not strong enough across it's cores, GTA loves hyperthreading!

860k and i5 are both quad core chips. The i5 is better, yes, but the 860k with a 390 will play GTV at ultra settings @ 1080p. It's probably not what I'd get but I'm showing OP that he can play games at ultra 1080p within his budget.

Well, with my old i5 it used to struggle while sitting at 99% usage across all 4 cores. The game hates quad cores so was just point that out. Like you said, the i5 performs that little bit better, so i can only imagine the 860k will struggle even harder.

I had to turn down settings to achieve a solid 60FPS coz otherwise the frame drops were huge as the CPU couldn't handle it.

Neither my 390 or 970 could run GTA V at Ultra with good enough FPS to consider it playable, I get around 30-40fps with most settings at Very High, just my personal experience.

_Skittle wrote Neither my 390 or 970 could run GTA V at Ultra with good enough FPS to consider it playable, I get around 30-40fps with most settings at Very High, just my personal experience.

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Are you serious? My friend plays GTA V at high-very high settings at 4k with a 390. I play ultra at 1080p with my 970 easily.

Sanctorum wrote

_Skittle wrote Neither my 390 or 970 could run GTA V at Ultra with good enough FPS to consider it playable, I get around 30-40fps with most settings at Very High, just my personal experience.

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Are you serious? My friend plays GTA V at high-very high settings at 4k with a 390. I play ultra at 1080p with my 970 easily.

I too play at 4k with everything on high and a few little things on ultra with no AA. I achieve about 55-60FPS on avg with SweetFX.

The 970 does seem to struggle when certain settings are applied to ultra, so i can see where shittle is coming from. His CPU can't be helping though.

AM3+? Shouldn't be holding him back too much. I get 50+FPS at 1080p everything maxed out with my 4790k and 970, only a few vehicle and weapon texture mods. All latest drivers, I think the 390 should perform better than the 970 in GTA V, especially at higher resolutions. If I was playing GTA V at 1080p with a 390 and getting sub 50FPS on Very High settings, I'd be checking that shit out 'cause that shouldn't be right.

Sanctorum wrote AM3+? Shouldn't be holding him back too much. I get 50+FPS at 1080p everything maxed out with my 4790k and 970, only a few vehicle and weapon texture mods. All latest drivers, I think the 390 should perform better than the 970 in GTA V, especially at higher resolutions. If I was playing GTA V at 1080p with a 390 and getting sub 50FPS on Very High settings, I'd be checking that shit out 'cause that shouldn't be right.

The 970 is better than the 390 at 4K. And I am not on AM3+.