$3500 Budget What would you do.

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I have a budget of $3500 for a gaming computer. I'm not an extremely experienced builder so i want to reach out to some more experienced minds than mine. Dont include HDD/SSD's or operating systems as i have those already. The only things i want in this list are the case and everything inside of it.
 
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I was going to say exactly the same thing. Even if you have a big budget, it doesn't mean you have to use all of it. Really depends what you want to do with the PC. Can you be more specific? What games are you going to play? What resolution are you going to use? Do you already have a monitor?

Since you already have the SSD/HDD plus the OS, you already save hundreds of dollars there. So if you just spend 1200$ on the rest you will have a killer rig and save more money for something else like a vacation trip, etc...

Unless maybe, you want to play on 3 monitors with a 5760 x 1600 resolution, then maybe you could go closer to that 3500$ limit.
 
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Here's what, and why:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($279.99 @ Microcenter)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-C14 CPU Cooler ($73.00 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 PROFESSIONAL ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($254.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($109.55 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($1019.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($1019.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Cooler Master Storm Trooper ATX Full Tower Case ($144.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic Platinum 1000W 80 PLUS Platinum Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($220.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Optical Drive: LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer ($59.99 @ Microcenter)
Total: $3183.46
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-06-18 13:52 EDT-0400)

The 4770K & motherboard will give you the best performance now and into the future as more and more games include hyperthreading. The motherboard is top notch and will give you good overclocking.

The Cooler is a must. It blows down to keep your motherboard and RAM cool. This is a must for your motherboard's regulators will be getting hot as will your plain ram. In order to fit the huge cooler you can only use two ram sticks and they must be without heatsinks. This air cooler is as good as the best of the water coolers.

For a 3 way monitor setup, you need massive amounts of graphics power and a good dosage of VRAM. I hear that the most demanding games on three displays now can use up to 5GB of video ram. So, for a best of the best system, you need the mighty Titan with its shameless six GB of video ram. Two of those will make any game smooth on three displays.

The case is a nice one, the power supply is about the best there is.
 
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Dual titans ay? that build does look like a monster lol, may i ask why 1600 mhz ram opposed to 1866mhz
 
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Intel did a marvelous job with their CPU on-chip ram cache and RAM controller. Dual channel 1600 DDR3 ram works really great. Getting lower access times is of no measurable help in speed. Even getting faster clocked ram like 1866MHz helps only a percent or so and even then only in a few applications. When overclocking the Haswell, you don't want to be overclocking the RAM for that will reduce the rate you can overclock the cores by. And with Intel, overclocking the cores will give your the best improvement in speed.

With AMD the story is different. They are faster for sure with faster RAM.
 
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Here is what i have picked out over time.

COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Black Steel/ Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case

CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 Desktop Memory

ASUS Rampage IV Extreme LGA 2011 Intel X79

EVGA GTX 780 x2 SLI

CORSAIR AXi AX1200i 1200W

Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011

Seagate Desktop HDD.15 ST4000DM000 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

ASUS Black Blu-ray Burner SATA BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS

ASUS Xonar Phoebus PCI Express x1 Interface Gaming Soundcard Set

 
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They very well could, but note that for triple monitor setups, up to 5GB of ram can be required and the 780's only have 3GB. Of course when you have SLI setups, the RAM doesn't add. And if those Titans are overclocked to well above 1GHz, I've seen them running happily at 1.2GHz, they will toast 780's.
 
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