Building a £3000 rig, whats specs should I get?

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EzraSurvives

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Hey all, this is my 1st ever post, how exciting! haha
I often find the answer i'm looking for on this website so i thought its about time I made an account and joined in!

Okay, here's the problem..
I'm looking to be building a £3000 rig, here's what i'll be using it for..

1. Playing all the latest games on ultra graphics over 2 1080p monitors
2. Recording game play from 1 monitor with commentary, possibly live streaming in the future
3. Heavy video rendering, my currant rig takes 3 hours for a 15 min clip to render 1080p 60fps which is unacceptable, must be fast at rendering.
4. general internet and regular usage.

Specs i'm thinking about getting..

GPU - GTX TITAN 2 WAY SLI
CPU - I7 3770K (water cooled)
PSU - No idea, help? (1000w?)
RAM - 32GB (That's more than enough)
MOBO - No idea, thoughts?
HDD - I don's know, I need loads of space, i'd like to have an SSD in there too.
CASE - Corsair Obsidian 650D (Thoughts?)
OS - Windows 7
MONITORS X2 - Acer S240HLbid 24'' Full HD widescreen LCD monitor with LED Backlight
Sorry if i've missed anything out.

So yeah, there's the rig i'd like, if you think i should change something please reply, oh and i'd like to keep the budget around £3000, if it goes just over that's not a problem.

Thanks for reading, i look forward to seeing what happens now! :D
Cheers!
 
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g-unit1111
You most likely won't need 32GB for your uses, even heavy duty usage doesn't need more than 8GB. Instead of 2 x 1080P monitors, on your budget get one 2560x1080 monitor or a 2560x1440 monitor. This is what I would do:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4930K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor (£431.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X60 98.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£107.52 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: ASRock X79 Extreme6 ATX LGA2011 Motherboard (£179.23 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£160.45 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Sandisk Extreme II 240GB 2.5" Solid...
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You most likely won't need 32GB for your uses, even heavy duty usage doesn't need more than 8GB. Instead of 2 x 1080P monitors, on your budget get one 2560x1080 monitor or a 2560x1440 monitor. This is what I would do:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4930K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor (£431.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X60 98.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£107.52 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: ASRock X79 Extreme6 ATX LGA2011 Motherboard (£179.23 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£160.45 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Sandisk Extreme II 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£145.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£47.89 @ Scan.co.uk)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) (£544.79 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) (£544.79 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT Phantom 630 (Gunmetal) ATX Full Tower Case (£136.61 @ Novatech)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000G2 1000W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£130.68 @ Dabs)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£13.15 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£103.19 @ Aria PC)
Total: £2545.29
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-09 00:18 BST+0100)

- CPU with more cores will be better for rendering
- Liquid cooler
- 1K Super Flower PSU
- Windows 7 Pro in case you want to add more RAM
- Did not include monitor - get a 2560 x 1080 monitor
- Dual GTX 780 gives you same performance as dual Titan for less money
 
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SLI of two Titan is slower than SLI with two GTX780.
If you're working with premiere you would not need a SLI as Premiere only uses one GPU. You either would not need a single GTX780 oder Titan along with the rest of the system. SLI as well as GTX780/Titan would only make sense for gaming.
For gaming in SLI an i7-4770K ist the right way to go - for video an i7-4930K would be much better, especially as you intend to go with a 780/Titan.
An SSD for the systeem, software and games is fine. A Samsung 840 EVO, either 250 or 500 GB.
HDDs would be for video. And if you want to work fast, you would need a very fast storage-system with extra controller. Therefore you would need a 2011-platform, as you want to ad two GTX780 as well as a controller.
I think going with an ASUS P9X79 WS would be the best way.
You shouldd also consider using two GTX770 with 4GB instead of an GTX780 - that would be better pricepoint.
Either MSI N770 TF 4GD5/OC Twin Frozr Gaming or MSI N780 TF 3GD5/OC Twin Frozr Gaming, these guys are the most quite ones.
You should take 32GB (4x8GB) of RAM, 1600MHz or 1866MHz, 1,5V.
As you need to go into RAID, you should definitely use Seagate Constellation ES.3, either 1TB, 2TB, 3TB or 4TB each. Depends on the amount of storage that you need in total.

You should at least start with 4 harddisks to have enough performance. By adding more harddrives, you ad more space and more performance. You can add later on the fly as well.
Space in RAID5: n-1
transferrate in RAID5: (n-1)x80% (just take 150MB/s for the seagates)
A RAID5 with 4 Seagate Constellation ES.3 2TB would be 6TB with 360MB/s - this s he minim spead you should have.
A RAID5 with 8 Seagate Constellation ES.3 1TB would be 7TB with 840 MB/s (what would be the maximum speed with an 8-port-controller).
A HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL would be fine for this build. You would need some special cables like 2x LSI 3ware mini SAS x4 (SFF-8087) to 4x SATA , 0.5m (CBL-SFF8087OCF-05M)

You would need a case with 8 bays for 3,5"-drives. You should use a case with good anti-vibrations mounts for the drives and it would be very good to have a very sturdy case, maybe sound dampened, as otherwiese the up to 8 harddrives can make a lot of noise. For example a Fractal Design Define XL R2.

For recording you should have a look at AVerMedia Game Broadcaster HD.
http://www.avermedia.com/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?Id=565

Two monitors do not make sense for most games. Either one monitor or three of them. For one monitor your SLI would not make any sense at all. A really good gaming-monitor is the BenQ XL2411T.

If you're going SLI with 2011-socket and Controller and lots of hard-disks a PSU with 1000W would be fine.

And an ASUS Xonar DX 7.1 would be a nice an suitable addition for such a rig.
 
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