"Future-Proofing" My Rig

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MalevolentMiles

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So, in my first time building a gaming PC, I'm going with a GTX 780 Ti.

My question is how powerful I should make the components around that, assuming money isn't a huge issue, but I want the most bang for my buck?

If I went with a larger than necessary PSU and a i7-4770K, would that make my rig easier to upgrade in the future?

Could I just stick another 780 Ti in there when the time comes and be done with it, or would it not be that simple?

Again, this is my first time building a PC, so I could really use some advice.

Thanks in advance.
 
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First and foremost, don't skimp on the PSU. A cheap PSU will let you down repeatedly, with crashes and b.s.o.d.s etc. the entire time you have it fitted and could fail and take all of your other components with it (including, I believe, from my experience your monitor, although it could have been a coincidence that my CRT image literally melted away as the rest of my components fried).

To be honest I don't have a hugely wide experience with this stuff and it would be interesting to hear what people have to say about what I'm about to write, but I'd say if you really want to go that route, my advice would be: buy a good quality high-tier motherboard. Not so bleeding edge that you're paying 90% of the money for an extra 10% performance...
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future proof is using 4x780Ti and 4x36core xeon class then use it in 1366x768 res....

there's no word for future proof in technology..
gtx 8 / r9 3 class is far more powerfull than any current strongest graphic card..

be a wise user and consumer..

buy what is you really need for today, and tomorrow you can buy that you really need for tomorrow..


well...if you really want something futureproof, then you have to build something like this..:D
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First and foremost, don't skimp on the PSU. A cheap PSU will let you down repeatedly, with crashes and b.s.o.d.s etc. the entire time you have it fitted and could fail and take all of your other components with it (including, I believe, from my experience your monitor, although it could have been a coincidence that my CRT image literally melted away as the rest of my components fried).

To be honest I don't have a hugely wide experience with this stuff and it would be interesting to hear what people have to say about what I'm about to write, but I'd say if you really want to go that route, my advice would be: buy a good quality high-tier motherboard. Not so bleeding edge that you're paying 90% of the money for an extra 10% performance increase or something silly like that (unless you've got money to burn) but a motherboard with the most upgrade potential at a price range that you can afford. put the money into the best value high-tear board you can find in terms of up-scalability and then split the remaining money between the rest of the components (RAM, GPU, CPU, etc. (don't skimp on the PSU)) put the cheapest components it'll take onto it. Assuming you don't have to buy a cheaper mobo to afford this, the money you save doing this put aside to spend on incremental upgrades as time goes on and as the hardware becomes cheaper. This way you'll have lots of lovely upgrade overhead built into your machine for when it becomes cost-effective to take advantage of it.

Alternately, you could just keep upgrading it all incrementally, selling the components on ebay to offset the cost of each upgrade, although this would probably work out quite labour intensive, considering all of the component swapping you'll be doing to sell the stuff while there's still a premium on it. Also you'd be risking fraudulent buyers screwing you over and so you might loose the money you've potentially invested in expensive equipment.

...and don't skimp on the PSU.
 
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