Need help building my first computer

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I would go with a monitor that is IPS (so it has great colours and viewing angles, plus quick response times) and at a resolution of at least 1920x1080, with a 60Hz refresh rate. It is what the vast majority of gamers have, and you can easily add a second one later (a second monitor is virtually indispensible if you are a coder ). Do not get a Gsync monitor. It is a waste of money (in my opinion) and at resolution, you don’t need it. (It is only for frames-per-second that are less than the refresh rate of the monitor).

No-one has yet shown any problems with with 970’s memory segmentation, as far as I am aware. If someone could point me to , I’d be grateful. The 290X is on a par with the 970 (in fact, the figures seem to lightly favour it, but with a 60Hz monitor, you would never see the difference). After the GTX970 was released, the prices for the 290 and 290X collapsed, so the reviews, which at the time were unanimously in favour of the GTX970 are a little out-of-date. You get what you pay for. I like the 970 which is more modern (newer tech, yay!) and power-efficient, but if you are more worried about upfront costs (or you don’t pay the electricity bill) you could go for the 290X, and be happy.

And then we can have conversation again in a coupe of years.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2tuqd4/i_benchmarked_gtx_970s_in_sli_at_1440p_and_above/

Shows that above 3.5gb the 970 does have a major problem.