I purchased an HP LED 24" 6MS ZR2440W IPS. I would like this to constantly run my desktop, email, web browsing, music, etc. as a second screen. Now, I would like to purchase another monitor for gaming. It will be directly in front of me, so it doesn't necessarily need to be an IPS.

I would prefer if it costs less than $700.

I play both slower games and faster games, so foremost I want great picture quality, but to a lesser degree, a monitor that can handle frenetic FPS games.

The GPU will be a EVGA GTX680 4G FTW.

What about the BenQ XL2420T?

I read some reviews -- seems it's one of the better TN LCDs. Has some nice features.

Not sure if it's good enough though.

Also, I see that it says DisplayPort cable not included, but offers DisplayPort 1.2 technology. I'm not familiar with DisplayPort. I've always used HDMI. Is this simply a competitor? Better quality? Will it work with the graphics card, or will I need an adapter?

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If you mainly want to game, you just burned more money than necessary.

The Asus Maximus V Formula motherboard is something for enthusiats who intent to highly overclock their systems on water cooling.

A 3770K CPU is good if you do lots of office stuff, running highly threaded applications, but no gain in gaming over the 3570K.

A 1200W PSU? You could power 2 gaming rigs with that. 600-650W will be more than enough for one GTX680.

4x8GB RAM modules will be slower, as you loose the dual channel speed bonus. With 2x4GB you'll have "alot" of RAM, 16GB is already considered

overkill by some.

If you want to save a big wad of cash you should swap a couple of the parts. But if money is no object then keep everything and enjoy your new, massive e-peen.. Bragging rights inclusive! And make sure to post up some pics.

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Will 2x8GB RAM be good, or will that also make it slower?

Why hasnt anyone said its been proven that having mor than like 8GB of ram actually decreases your games performance.

People have linked and talked about it on here at length and basacaly what we have seen is that more than 8/16GB of Ram actually drops game performance.

Granted its only like 3-5FPS just saying. also 8GB would have been plenty for you. probbly should drop back to 8/16GB and get 1866MHz Ram.

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If that's the case, I'll probably return it. Do you have any articles or studies on it? Thanks for the tip. I had no idea; it just happened to be a good deal and I figured why not.

Also, what do you all think about getting a GPU cooling fan, like the Arctic Accelero Hybrid? Needed if planning to OC, just plain needed, or waste of money?

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/arctic-accelero-hybrid-review-with-nvidia-gtx680/

That makes sense. Thanks for the tip. I'll likely look into buying another monitor, strictly for gaming, within the next couple months. Then keep the IPS for simultaneous running of my desktop.

would running two monitors simultaneously halve the performance of the GPU?

did i skimp too much on the monitor? i feel like i spent a lot on the CPU and GPU, and potentially bought a monitor too modest to appreciate the motor under the hood.

This is the other monitor I was looking at.

Not really a "Rate my setup" post because I've not even set up the PC yet. I've simply ordered the pieces with the recommendations of a few friends. I've not pieced together a PC since 2003, so I may have overlooked something. Since I've not touched the pieces yet and can certainly return and replace pieces if needed, let me know if there's any changes I need to make or weak areas I definitely need to improve in the future. I did go kind of cheap on the monitor, but only because I plan to add a second in 3-6 months. If this isn't the thread for questions like this, let me know.

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