Hello, I'm building my second computer. First one I had a friend who knew more help me choose better parts, but we've both been out of the loop for a few years. I was hoping a few people could look this over and tell me if there's better options for equivalent price. My build limit is around 2000$.
Intel Core i7-4770K
Noctua NH-U12P
ASUS Sabertooth Z87 - [Considering ASUS vi Formula]
G.SKILL Sniper Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) - [considering only 8GB though]
Corsair AX 860 (860W)
EVGA GTX 770 4GB x 2 (SLI)
Cooler Master HAF 932
It's meant to be a good gaming rig, but I also use it for some video editing and quite a bit of simulation work (CPU intensive). I will almost certainly be overclocking the CPU. I managed to get my current i7-930 to 3.8GHz (stock 2.8GHz).
I have dual 1920x1200 monitors, reading through some of the forum posts I've seen people recommend 4GB Graphics Cards if you're using multiple monitors. I have issues with my crossfired 5850's where the secondary monitor will flicker when both screens have something going on (movie and game for example). Never figured out why, but its not the monitor. If I change which one is the primary then the other one starts flickering, even though I didn't touch any of the cables.
The G.SKILL RAM was cheap and had tons of great reviews, I overclocked my old rig's ram but didn't really see any performance leaps, so I'm not too keen on spending quite a lot more for RAM.
Anyways, any suggestions for alternative parts would be appreciated. I'd like to keep around 2000$, the above would run ~1994$.
Intel Core i7-4770K
Noctua NH-U12P
ASUS Sabertooth Z87 - [Considering ASUS vi Formula]
G.SKILL Sniper Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) - [considering only 8GB though]
Corsair AX 860 (860W)
EVGA GTX 770 4GB x 2 (SLI)
Cooler Master HAF 932
It's meant to be a good gaming rig, but I also use it for some video editing and quite a bit of simulation work (CPU intensive). I will almost certainly be overclocking the CPU. I managed to get my current i7-930 to 3.8GHz (stock 2.8GHz).
I have dual 1920x1200 monitors, reading through some of the forum posts I've seen people recommend 4GB Graphics Cards if you're using multiple monitors. I have issues with my crossfired 5850's where the secondary monitor will flicker when both screens have something going on (movie and game for example). Never figured out why, but its not the monitor. If I change which one is the primary then the other one starts flickering, even though I didn't touch any of the cables.
The G.SKILL RAM was cheap and had tons of great reviews, I overclocked my old rig's ram but didn't really see any performance leaps, so I'm not too keen on spending quite a lot more for RAM.
Anyways, any suggestions for alternative parts would be appreciated. I'd like to keep around 2000$, the above would run ~1994$.
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