im throwing all my life savings into my gaming pc

Turtle The Cat · Apr 2, 2014

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3kZ3y
if you can trim the price please do so

i want to run 6 monitors 1080p
run al the games on real life graphics (not trolling) (exaggerations where i want the graphics to be supppppppppppppppppppppper max)

stream for 24 hours

Turtle The Cat · Apr 2, 2014

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3kZd0 i trimmed it abit got 2 690s

browndj3 · Apr 2, 2014

Have you checked through these parts with a power supply calculator? I don't know if you'd actually need a 1600W psu, to be honest.

Turtle The Cat · Apr 2, 2014

trimmed it for me because someone told me i dont need 1600w http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/

IRyannHD · Apr 2, 2014

4 way SLI I would not advise, you get driver issues, and unless you really are doing intensive tasks it will not give you much more performance than 2 way SLI, get 2 780ti's it's MUCH cheaper than the 4 680s and you will get a TON of more performance, also with the money saved from the GPUs get some higher frequency RAM, 1866 will run faster and is compatible with the board.

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-780-Ti-vs-GeForce-GTX-690

Turtle The Cat · Apr 2, 2014

Turtle The Cat · Apr 2, 2014

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3kZs3 3700$ woot thank you so much for your advice

i dont have to spend my entire money

USAFRet · Apr 2, 2014

You can blow life savings of $5k on a very weird PC, but only $200 on a new PC for your grandma?
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2088763/200-build.html

hmm.......

Rationale · Apr 2, 2014

Shouldn't you probably go for a blu-ray drive instead of a DVD drive? For a $30 difference it seems worthwhile.

Rationale · Apr 2, 2014

USAFRet :

You're really going to give him a hard time for a $200 gift? Stop being ridiculous. Anyone I know would be thrilled to get a decent PC as a gift. You saying it's not enough is revealing more about your sense of entitlement than anything else.

esco_sid · Apr 2, 2014

those gtx680 are way overpriced get gtx 770 for half the price at same performance or better yet 2 780 TIs

Rationale · Apr 2, 2014

esco_sid :

He's already switched to 2x 780 TIs in the latest build.

IRyannHD · Apr 2, 2014

You have a REALLY solid build, the components are top of the line, the only thing I would change is the ram, get some 1866Mhz ram 16gb and you have got a extremely good build! Have fun!

Austin R · Apr 2, 2014

USAFRet said:
You can blow life savings of $5k on a very weird PC, but only $200 on a new PC for your grandma?
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2088763/200-buil...

hmm.......

His grandma only needed a basic computer not a gaming rig, she probably gave him a limit to spend.

USAFRet · Apr 2, 2014

Rationale :

Nope. I am going to question "throwing all my life savings" and trying to weasel another PC to within $200.
If you have that much money to spend on 2 PC's, there is zero need to try to squeeze one of them into $200.

Rationale · Apr 2, 2014

USAFRet :

That other PC was a gift. That means free. That means it was lucky to exist at all. She's lucky he was kind enough to build a PC for her to begin with. Most people would have picked up an Acer Aspire pos with an APU for $150 and called it a day.

IRyannHD · Apr 2, 2014

USAFRet :

How is he weaseling another PC, that was a completely different thread for a completely different PC, that may have been made from wages or something and he may have decided to use his savings on something for himself.

Jake Thorn · Apr 2, 2014

Rationale :

USAFRet :

You're really going to give him a hard time for a $200 gift? Stop being ridiculous. Anyone I know would be thrilled to get a decent PC as a gift. You saying it's not enough is revealing more about your sense of entitlement than anything else.

Go read the thread, OP is ridiculous.

IRyannHD · Apr 2, 2014

Jake Thorn :

Maybe because that was out of a monthly wage or something, not out of the savings, so he wanted to save money as he may not have wanted to use the savings, not a big deal, this person has a great build thanks to us and you should be happy we've helped him.

USAFRet · Apr 2, 2014

Rationale :

Yeah, I get that. But given a $5,000 budget (throwing all my life savings)....shaving off 5% (with zero performance difference) gives enough to not worry about trying to squeeze a whole PC into $200.

Whatever.....personally, I think both of those threads are over the top, in different directions.

20fpsATmost · Apr 2, 2014

The dude is dropping $4,000 on a PC. What a hoss. Can i come over to your house when you finish building it? I want to see the crispy graphics!!!

Swordkd · Apr 2, 2014

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4930K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor ($564.98 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($89.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock X79 Extreme6 ATX LGA2011 Motherboard ($224.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($154.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 500GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($269.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($84.79 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290X 4GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($685.91 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290X 4GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($685.91 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Phantom (White) ATX Full Tower Case ($110.98 @ Best Buy)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 1050W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($198.98 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($19.98 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $3181.46
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-02 20:15 EDT-0400)

Some questions: Do you really need 1gb of SSD storage? Why a 1tb Velociraptor? Tons of money to be saved between those two areas. If you are serious about a 6 monitor setup, I'd either wait for the 6gb's 780ti's to come out, or go with a Radeon 290x. Six monitors needs more than 3gb's of memory per card, period.

I don't see a good reason to drop that much on that motherboard. You can get a solid motherboard for a lot less. I agree with getting 1866mhz Ram, just as long as you aren't paying much more for it. This is the build I came up with, including changes for the questions I had.

Jake Thorn · Apr 2, 2014

IRyannHD :

If someone is going to throw away their "life's savings" on a pc, then they should have at least an inkling about the costs of pc components. And trying to fit any marginally decent PC inside $200 is not reasonable in the least. It begs the question of if OP is serious about either post. And that's not even mentioning the nonsensical parts in this build.

Rationale · Apr 2, 2014

USAFRet :

Given that he stumbled into using 4 GTX 680s at first, I'd say it's reasonable he thought he'd use every cent of his savings on his PC. For all he knew (and it's pretty clear he's not that tech smart) $200 would be a noticeable detraction from his life entertainment goal.

Is it ridiculous? Yes. I think anything over 30 fps is sort of ridiculous. Let alone 5 monitors or whatever he's building.
But it's also easy to see why he would put a tight limit on the amount he could spend on a gift PC, thinking it could cripple his predetermined goal at the last minute.

IRyannHD · Apr 2, 2014

unless he's gaming on all the monitors stick with the 780ti's but the MOBO is good although I prefer the asus mobo he had for the sake of $200 and I would stick with the old HDD and windows 7 as 8 sucks...(in my opinion, I hate it, tried it, hated it.)

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