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[NEW BUILD] Need ram,motherboard, case and CPU. Budget: less than 1000.

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January 10, 2014 1:44:18 PM

Hi,
I was going to upgrade my dell, but I finally decided, to use the equipment for a new PC.

The PC will be use for computer graphics development and for development in general. It will not be used for gaming, but a gaming computer is a nice target. The only part that I will not be doing is overclocking the computer, so I don't need a board that overclocks. if it has it, and the price is not a big difference, it is fine.

Budget: preferably less 1,000...maybe less...

For the motherboard:

What I do need, is the ability to have at least two graphics card in the board. If it has thunderbolt, even better. Some brands that I know are asus, gygabite, asrock and evga. I'm open to suggestions.
Ideally, the board is designed for "dual gpu".

The memory:

good ram that goes along with the board. I was hoping for 32GB but I think it may bring the price up too much.

The case:

Preferably, a mid-tower that I can fit a few drives (maybe 1 or 2 solid states and 1 or 2 HD), and the power supply. This EVGA power supply is longer than you will find in a normal desktop computer. For sure, a case that is easy to work with...

The cpu:

Intel I7 a good price. if not a intel i5. I really think is boresome to change the cpu once it is installed.
I will try to add an SSD, but I'm not sure if I will be able to afford this.

The video card and Power supply that I have, are not technicly mine, but I can use them. It is possible that when I finish what I'm doing, the person may want to buy the computer for the money I purchased. But just in case, if they don't, I want to have good system, to be able to add video and powersupply later.

I already have a
1) Power Supply: EVGA 1000 G2 SuperNova powersupply
1) Video Card: EVGA Pci express 3 GTX 680 4gb ram GDDR5 memory
1) Hard Drive :WD Green 2 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, SATA III, 64 MB Cache - WD20EZRX

I need to get
1) Case: mid-tower with enough size for evga power supply and 2 video cards

2) Memory: at least 16gb of ram, but 32GB will not be bad.

3) motherboard: hopefully that can support 2 video cards.

4) CPU: a good cpu.. intel i7 if possible but if not i5.

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January 10, 2014 2:11:27 PM

For the CPU and motherboard I would suggest the Intel i7 4770K with an Asus Z87-A LGA 1150 board.

Interestingly, a gaming rig differs a bit from what you want because the higher end Intel chips start adding more cores/threads as opposed to emphasizing clock speed. Most games do not benefit from these extra cores/threads as much as they could, and therefore the higher chips don't offer a great gaming performance increase for the price, but graphic development is exactly where they shine.
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January 10, 2014 2:17:29 PM

Actually since you mention you won't overclock, the i7 4770 (without the K) may be better for you because it's the same as the 4770K without the ability to really overclock. It is cheaper.
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