Hello Everyone!
Link to the build in question at PC Part Picker : Here
Just as a heads up on the title. I work IT in the army, so I'm not afraid to get messy with this build, opening up a computer and installing parts doesn't scare me in the slightest. As well, I'm currently playing Battlefield 4 on a mac book pro that I hacked/force installed the latest AMD drivers for my 6750m. I do a lot of work in blender as well as a hobby, and the renderer in it is CUDA enabled, so I'm hoping for a boost over my 2.3 GHz Intel I7 Quad Core Hyperthreaded as far as render performance goes.
I've gone and built myself what I think is going to be my rig of choice on pcpartpicker. Mind you, I can not under any circumstance allow my pre-shipping price to go above $1000.
As far as why I chose what I did, I mainly wanted to focus on getting a decent nvidia card (due to needing CUDA) while still getting something that wasn't half bad for my CPU. I've always been a bid of an ASUS fanboi myself, so that's what pushed me toward my mobo and gfx choice. I have a few old PCs laying around that have decent optical drives in them, so that's why I didn't bother adding one of those. I grabbed the Western Digital from the $1200 lifhacker build.
My main problem is I know how computers work, and I know what I would want to buy if money were not an option, but I'm not entirely sure how the middle ground works out in the building world, and was hoping the community might be able to shed some light on my ability to pick out parts for a sub $1000 PC.
Your help is greatly appreciated, as long as I've made a good pick on the case and the memory, I had found a combo that saves me $20 bucks on the pair, so I'll spring on that right away. As far as the rest of the build, that will all come to fruition within the next few weeks.
Link to the build in question at PC Part Picker : Here
Just as a heads up on the title. I work IT in the army, so I'm not afraid to get messy with this build, opening up a computer and installing parts doesn't scare me in the slightest. As well, I'm currently playing Battlefield 4 on a mac book pro that I hacked/force installed the latest AMD drivers for my 6750m. I do a lot of work in blender as well as a hobby, and the renderer in it is CUDA enabled, so I'm hoping for a boost over my 2.3 GHz Intel I7 Quad Core Hyperthreaded as far as render performance goes.
I've gone and built myself what I think is going to be my rig of choice on pcpartpicker. Mind you, I can not under any circumstance allow my pre-shipping price to go above $1000.
As far as why I chose what I did, I mainly wanted to focus on getting a decent nvidia card (due to needing CUDA) while still getting something that wasn't half bad for my CPU. I've always been a bid of an ASUS fanboi myself, so that's what pushed me toward my mobo and gfx choice. I have a few old PCs laying around that have decent optical drives in them, so that's why I didn't bother adding one of those. I grabbed the Western Digital from the $1200 lifhacker build.
My main problem is I know how computers work, and I know what I would want to buy if money were not an option, but I'm not entirely sure how the middle ground works out in the building world, and was hoping the community might be able to shed some light on my ability to pick out parts for a sub $1000 PC.
Your help is greatly appreciated, as long as I've made a good pick on the case and the memory, I had found a combo that saves me $20 bucks on the pair, so I'll spring on that right away. As far as the rest of the build, that will all come to fruition within the next few weeks.
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