best pc for ultra high gaming and rendering animations

love dhillon

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which should be the best solution between these
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Motherboard
ASUS P9X79 PRO Motherboard
Sapphire AMD/ATI HD 7970 DDR5 Vapor-X 3 GB 3 GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
Asus NVIDIA GTX680-DC2G-4GD5 4 GB GDDR5 Graphics Card

i want rendering and gaming ultra fast

tell me any other suggestions also

and prossesor with ram
 
I'd consider the ASUS boards overpriced. Also, for much the same price you get a nice factory OC on the GPU:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($539.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 CPU Cooler ($82.26 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock X79 Extreme6 ATX LGA2011 Motherboard ($199.98 @ Outlet PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($109.99 @ Best Buy)
Video Card: MSI Radeon HD 7970 3GB Video Card ($413.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $1346.20
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-04-30 03:20 EDT-0400)
 

flong777

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The GTX 680 is definitely more powerful than the 6970 and it includes CUDA which may help your rendering if your software is designed to use it. CUDA is spotty as to its effectiveness - for example Wickipedia says it does NOT help texture rendering.

The ATI 7970 is also a great card but you might want to consider to 7950s in crossfire. This costs about $100 more than the 7970 and is a more powerful setup than a single 7970 or a 680.

As mentioned by Someone Somewhere, the Asrock boards usually offer better pricing than Asus but the Asus boards you list are top boards.

CPU - depending on your budget the I-7 3770K at $320 (note this is Ivy bridge and has the 1155 socket not X79 - you need a different motherboard) is probably your best bang for the buck. If you have a bigger budget move up to the I-7 3930 ($560) or the I-7 3960 ($1000). The I-7 3960 is currently the fastest CPU overall but the I-7 3770 keeps up with it in many benchmarks and it is $700 cheaper. Probably the 3930 or the 3960 will render better but others on this forum are more qualified to address this.

16 GB of minimum 1600 DDR3 RAM is the best choice for the money for your use. You could move up to 1866 or 2133 RAM if you have the budget but it only gives you a 2%-5% increase in speed (based on what I have read). You could move up to 32 GB of RAM but the reviews I have read say it is not worth the additional cost.

If you really mean "ultra-high" look into the ATI 7990 or two GTX 680s in SLI or two ATI 7970s in crossfire. You could add a third card but I am not sure it improves performance that much. You could also look at the GTX Titan but I have heard they are overpriced. I have read an article that says two Titans scale (combine performance) really well but again are over priced.