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Approximate Purchase Date: e.g.: Hopefully by this Friday. If not, next week.

Budget Range: $1600 before shipping and tax

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming/Movies/Work

Are you buying a monitor: No

Parts to Upgrade: ALL OF THEM

Do you need to buy OS: Yes

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg/Amazon

Location: San Francisco, CA

Parts Preferences: Intel/Nvidia

Overclocking: Yes

SLI or Crossfire: Yes

Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080

Additional Comments: Needs a side window and LED fans....ALL OF THEM haha (I'll just replace the fans...fans not included in the budget)

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Cause I moved to another country lol and dam you BF4 system requirements!!

Additional Info:
I don't need a keyboard/mouse. Need a wireless adapter. I really like the latest stuff that's why the i7 4770k. I could compromise but i still want a good Z87 mobo from MSI/ASUS. I'm an ASUS fanboy...hey, they my old build from 2008 with 9800GTs (DAM that's ancient) is still up and running so I want the GPU to be ASUS only lol. Oh yeah, and it needs an SSD! Thanks in advance!

Parts I've picked out so far (need opinions):

Vertex Class: Overseer HSX Series SuperCombo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1413457

SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD128BW 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147192

ASUS USB-N66 Dual-band Wireless-N900 Adapter
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320132

CORSAIR Hydro series H50 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181010
 
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The i7-4820k IS a Haswell processor just not a 1150 socket but rather a 2011. That platform is very good and for the money you are dropping I think it will perform better than a regular i5 or Z87 i7 but that is your choice of course. With that platform you get the benefits of quad-channel RAM performance and also the Haswell-E CPU I mentioned has higher cache than the best i7 on 1150 socket so there is also that. If you are really focused on gaming go for the i5-4670k and yes go for the GTX 780 but I was thinking that for a single monitor at that resolution you won't see too much additional benefit going from a 770 to a 780 (or even a 760 to a 770). You are only getting my opinion and I personally have a i7-3770k and GTX 760 and...
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$1600 is a nice chunk of change, you will get a very nice system for that much cash. I would of course start with the CPU and why not go for the Haswell-E in the form of the i7-4820 for $330? That will fit onto a 2011 motherboard and I say match it with a Asus Sabertooth X79, also for $330 (both newegg prices). Get yourself a nice MSI GTX 770 Lightning Edition for $430. You have about $500 left in your budget for the rest. A 120Gb SSD from a decent company will set you back around $100-120, a storage HDD will be between $60-80 for a 1Tb drive. RAM you can go with either like 8Gb single stick for $45 right now for Patriot Viper Extreme which will allow you to add a second stick for 16Gb all the way up to four sticks for 32Gb which is the max you would ever use most likely (on sale on newegg right now). Scoop a 750 watt PSU from Corsair for around $75 and whatever case you like and a decent air cooled CPU cooler and I think you have a very solid and still upgradeable rig that will suit you for the next 5 years or more. Did I leave anything out? I think that platform will make you very happy and that processor will be great as well as the GPU which you can always add a second or third GPU in SLI as well. My $0.02.

Edit; I said newegg I meant tigerdirect. forgot which link I followed :)
 
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I'd much rather stick to haswell so any other platform is not an option for me. Also, I've noticed that it is possible to sneak 2 GTX770s or 1 GTX780 with my budget...just gotta sacrifice the processor and cooler. Question now is, will an i5 4670k gonna bottle neck the GPU? Oh yeah I'll be using a 120Hz 1080p monitor if that helps.
 
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The i7-4820k IS a Haswell processor just not a 1150 socket but rather a 2011. That platform is very good and for the money you are dropping I think it will perform better than a regular i5 or Z87 i7 but that is your choice of course. With that platform you get the benefits of quad-channel RAM performance and also the Haswell-E CPU I mentioned has higher cache than the best i7 on 1150 socket so there is also that. If you are really focused on gaming go for the i5-4670k and yes go for the GTX 780 but I was thinking that for a single monitor at that resolution you won't see too much additional benefit going from a 770 to a 780 (or even a 760 to a 770). You are only getting my opinion and I personally have a i7-3770k and GTX 760 and game at 1200p, all ultra settings, getting 60fps all the time to match my 60Hz monitor. Good luck, I am sure whatever you buy, for $1600 it will kick some serious tail so long as you get a solid GPU and a computer that won't hold it back. Right now that is any i5 from Sandy Bridge on for anything up to and including a GTX 770. The Haswell-E CPU won't be bottlenecked by any GPU I know about and the cache and RAM benefits also come in handy with gaming performance. Hope I added something to the conversation.
 
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