Dream System Build

klemons

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First Ultimate Dream Build:

Considering building the following...please share your thoughts.

Corsair Obsidian Series 900D Black Aluminum ATX Super Tower Case (add 4 120mm fans)
Asus Rampage IV Black Edition X79 Extended ATX Mobo
Intel Core i7-4960x CPU
Corsair Hydro Series H80i CPU Cooler
Artic Silver 5 High Density Polysynthetic Thermal Paste
64GB Corsair Vengence Pro SDRAM DDR 1866 (8x8GB DIMMS)
EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 Gold Certified Power Supply
2x Nvidia Geforce GTX 690 GPUs in SLI
Primary Drive: Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SSD
Secondary Drive: Seagate 6TB 128MB Cache 3.5" 7200 Rpm HDD
2x Pioneer Blu-Ray Burners Optical Drives
Creative SoundBlaster X-fi Titanium HD Sound Card
Windows 7 Ulitmate 64Bit OS

I already have a 30" monitor (2560x1600), wireless keyboard and gaming mouse. May consider monitor configuration (4k+) in the future when the prices come down. Am I missing anything?

 
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You're overbuying on many levels. IMHO, of course.

Win 7 Ultimate
64GB RAM
2 x optical drives
1TB SSD
6TB HDD
1300W PSU

Sure you can spend that much, but 40% of the price gives you 99% of the performance.
"future-proofing" is a bad concept, and not what you think it is.

klemons

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Future-proofing. It is an actual consideration for a buy. I had looked at an Alienware ALX with same CPU and GFX card, but could not get it in SLI. 64 GB RAM is the maximum the mobo will hold and my purpose is to build the kind of system I have never had. SSD and HDD are for maximum speed and capacity. The system would be used for gaming and for multi-media applications.
 

USAFRet

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You're overbuying on many levels. IMHO, of course.

Win 7 Ultimate
64GB RAM
2 x optical drives
1TB SSD
6TB HDD
1300W PSU

Sure you can spend that much, but 40% of the price gives you 99% of the performance.
"future-proofing" is a bad concept, and not what you think it is.
 
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