Upgrade of PC and playfield

[bhudkins]

I recently went through and updated all of my tables making sure I was running the most recent table and b2s, that sent me down a rabbit hole of upgrading my playfield and PC. Currently running a 1060 gfx card and a HD TV 60hz for the playfield. I have a smaller cabinet so I am using a 32 inch playfield. I got the below playfield monitor

 

Acer Predator 31.5" UHD 3840 x 2160 IPS Gaming Monitor | AMD FreeSync Premium | 144Hz | Up to 0.5ms | HDR400

 

and this is the PC I landed on

 

MotherboardMPG Z790I EDGE WIFI, Intel® Z790 Chipset, LGA 1700, Mini-ITX Motherboard

ProcessorIntel Core™ i9-14900KF 24 (8P+16E) Cores 2.4 - 6.0GHz Turbo, LGA 1700, 253W MTP, Processor

Video CardGeForce RTX™ 4070 DUAL-RTX4070-O12GD6-EVO, 2520 - 2550MHz, 12GB GDDR6, Graphics Card

OverclockingOverclocking, Single GPU, Optimal and Stable Performance

Memory32GB (2 x 16GB) Ripjaws S5 DDR5 5600MT/s, CL28, Black, DIMM Memory - TAA Compliant

Power SupplySF750, 80 PLUS Platinum 750W, Fully Modular, SFX Power Supply

Cooling

CPU Cooling624S-M2 ARGB, 240mm Radiator, Liquid Cooling System - Performance Guarantee

Thermal CompoundAS5-12G, 12g, 9 W/m.k, Grey Thermal Paste

Storage

Primary M.2 Storage2TB FURY Renegade, 7300 / 7000 MB/s, 3D TLC NAND, PCIe NVMe 4.0 x4, M.2 2280 SSD

 

I did tons of reading on doing 4K @120HZ and I believe I should be good with the above setup, probably should have asked this prior to ordering everything but I should be good with this setup right? I notice on my existing setup I get stutter, trying to eliminate that all together and hoping this will do it.

Thanks

[darrinbrewer]

its my understanding a i7 and 4070 are minimum for 4k 120hz play field and then 2 additional screens

The 4070, i understand that, but id like to test a setup with a lesser CPU,

my current builds were a 12th gen i5,and i moved to a 14th gen i3, with a rtx 4060, and i never go over 55% CPU usage on the i3, the whole pinball setup seems more "clock speed" dependant than how many cores you have.

 

Edited March 3, 2025 by darrinbrewer

[SilasVaughn]

Yes, your new setup is excellent for 4K at 120Hz. The RTX 4070, i9-14900KF, and fast SSD should eliminate stutter and handle demanding VPX tables smoothly.

 

Edit: I am happy for you

Edited August 12, 2025 by SilasVaughn

[bhudkins]

Yes, got my new rig finally and it all worked out well. Plays most everything at 4k 144, few tables I have dialed down to 4k 120 and all tables load in under 5 secs. Very happy!