Thanks for the thread, I just picked up this Area 51 and realized all I play is TFT2 and Total War, so I was looking for a good game to run on this system and will be looking at Fallout 4.
The 2 GTX 960’s SLI will yield about the same framerate as a single 970 so I went with the cheaper 960’s and was able to get it from Alienware with an 17-5820 CPU for just over 2 grand.
Next year I will swap out the 960’s for Titan z’s if they are affordable, otherwise go with 980’s.
Quantity Item Number Description Unit Price
1 210-ADHC Area 51 Base $2026.13
1 370-ABWO 8GB Dual Channel DDR4 2133MHz (4GBx2) $0.00
1 580-AAOJ Alienware Standard USB 2.0 Keyboard (English) $0.00
1 490-BCNN Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 graphics with 4GB total (2x 2GB) GDDR5 - NVIDIA SLI Enabled $0.00
1 658-BCKI 7260 AC Driver $0.00
1 400-AFON 128GB SSD 6Gb/s Main + 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s Storage $0.00
1 619-AHCY Windows 10 Home (64bit) English $0.00
1 570-AACL Alienware USB Optical Mouse $0.00
1 429-AAMV Slot-Loading Dual Layer DVD Reader $0.00
1 555-BCFD Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 @ 5GHz + Bluetooth $0.00
1 450-AAGO US Power Cord $0.00
1 340-AGUD Safety/Environment and Regulatory Guide (English/French) $0.00
1 801-1894 Onsite/In-Home Service After Remote Diagnosis, 1 Year $0.00
1 801-1893 Dell Limited Hardware Warranty Plus Service $0.00
1 340-ACUM System BOOT for Windows, AW51 $0.00
1 340-ANMJ Resource DVD W7/W8.1 $0.00
1 340-ALTG Ship Group,ANW-DT,Dell Americas Organization,CENTAURI $0.00
1 340-AMZI Placemat (English,French,BRPT,Spanish) $0.00
1 332-0550 Dell.com Order $0.00
1 332-1286 US Order $0.00
1 321-BBLW Alienware(TM) 850 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply $0.00
1 338-BFPQ Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K (6-cores, 15MB Cache, Overclocked up to 3.8 GHz w/ Turbo Boost) $0.00
1 412-AAEX Centauri CPU heatsink $0.00
1 332-1530 Dell.com Order $0.00
1 340-ALTH Shipping Material $0.00
1 817-BBBB No FGA $0.00
1 658-BBTV Cyberlink Media Suite Essentials for Windows without Media $0.00
1 525-0016 Dropbox, Digital Delivery, 20GB for 1 year Promotion $0.00
1 750-AALQ No Controller $0.00
1 389-BFSO Regulatory Label, 850W $0.00
1 338-BDFP Intel(R) Core(TM) I7 CPU Label $0.00
1 658-BCSC Microsoft Office Software Image $0.00
1 658-BCUO Additional Software $0.00
1 817-BBBP None Included $0.00
1 340-ACQQ No Option Included $0.00
Item Sub Total $2026.13
Very nice box. Those 960 SLI’d cards should let you run the graphics pretty high up/flat out with no issues.
I like reading about the Titans and sure wouldn’t kick them to the curb but DAMN are they expensive. As much as I play ( a lot) I am pretty much a Bethesda gamer and can’t justify that cost for the minimal scenarios these games will push an R9 390 or GTX980. Especially when another $300 bux would get me another R9 390 that would be impossible for even a raider war in the city to slow down in SLI.
But as a one card solution and sheer geek cred, they are Absolute king of the hill for sure.
Now IF, and I stress IF the mods for F4 somehow raise hell with an R9’s framerate, which I doubt will happen, then SLI here I come.