Buy a budget rig and replace earlier or buy a premium rig and replace later?

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Wut333

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Hello, my desktop just died and so I am in the market for a new one.
I had built my current one, but this time around I want to buy a pre-built system as I am terrible at cable management.

I'm looking to either buy something that is somewhat budget and will be replaced in 1-3 years or something that is very high end that will be replaced/upgraded in 4-6 years.

Here are two options I am looking at right now:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227504 (Budget)

or

https://www.digitalstormonline.com/configurator.asp?id=842831 (High end)

My daily desktop use isn't all that graphics intensive, the first rig will honestly fit my means for the time being. I will really only run in to trouble when trying to play the games on max.

I am wanting to upgrade to 4K when it is more relevant without having to upgrade my hardware though. 3x 4K monitors will probably be my setup in the foreseeable future.

Anyways what do you guys think is the best option? Pick up a rig that matches my means for the time being and replace in 1-3 years or pick up a rig that is in excess of my means for the time being and replace in 4-6 years?
 
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Crtn

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What i am doing is budgeting a rather expensive rig and going to use it for the longer time, rather then buying a rather budget system.

You could build that digital storm pc for much cheaper then that. i could even put a part list together and probably factor in a few of your 4k monitors. Depending on the time frame in which you buy your monitors, you could wait and get some of the new parts they are coming out with this next year or so. like ddr4 memory and the new haswell cpus. As well as the new nvidia gpu's.

Are you planning to game on all 3 monitors? at once or on a single monitor? running 3 of these monitors would seriously need some power and a 780ti sli may not cut it for you, a r9 295x2 or titan z has more memory to handle the large resolutions, and the radeon card is half the price of the titan z. Benchmarks at 4k are here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-295x2-crossfire-performance,3808.html


http://pcpartpicker.com/p/79yNgs this only has one r9 295x2, and you could if you wanted to, add another one. but a 1500w psu would be required for cf.
 
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Calnin

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By the time 4k displays are more affordable for everyone, the overall graphics market should be able to better support them in the midrange markets.

I'd recommend maybe just building a system or something with a strong CPU and a GPU that's going to last for a while on 1440p and then upgrade to something in the future when 3x 4k displays is much more affordable. Especially if playing upcoming titles on max settings is going to be an intention of your's.

As for cable management, get a good case that has plenty a way to hide cables behind the case and maybe invest in a modular PSU.

As for the build posted above, there's no need for a 1TB SSD and 16gb is more than enough for now, if more RAM is needed in the future, just add in another 16gb. If you want more space for stuff, i'd just recommend having several hard drives one for different purposes if loading speeds is going to be an issue, ie: 1 for media, 1 for gaming, etc. I'm not sure about the i7 4930k, but just my criticisms of the build suggestion above.
 
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Crtn

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just going overkill, 16gb is plenty, and a few standard hdd will be good enough, a 1tb ssd is way overkill, and a 4770k will be just fine for what is being done. the nzxt h440 case will be good forfor hiding cables and has plenty of space.


 
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