Seeking better suggestion for building a new system

evildoer12

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Hi!

I currently created a list of my desire system build but still not sure, I am having a dilemma if this is already a good setup both for work and gaming (Please see the list below).

I am a DevOps and my work mostly deal with Programming, web specifically. I also frequently fired up VM to create a cluster environment locally to simulate high scalability/availability.

I also plan to increase my GPU up to 4-way SLI/CFX on the long run. I am working on a project that utilises GPU by a Database Engine. You will notice that I am still undecided on AMD or NVIDIA GPU since I am also planning on mining bit coin. I am also planning to populate the memory slot with the same specs. I have not consider a Quadro or FirePro because I am not sure if it is worth the price.

I have read on Liquid Cooling but have no hands-on experience at the moment and I am open to any suggestion and help on what/which setup to take, since over clocking is inevitable.

I am worried as well with Wattage requirement when GPU and RAM Slots is populated together with a liquid cooling and accessories for it. Will the current PSU I have picked is sufficient to support my long-term setup?

Last but not the least, it can run latest games and future games on the long-term. :D

Any comments or suggestion is much appreciated. :D

CPU: Intel i7-4930K
MB: ASUS RAMPAGE IV Black Edition
RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB 2x8GB DDR3 2400MHz
GPU(Still Undecided): Asus GTX 780 Ti 3GB DDR5 384bit / ASUS R9 290x
PSU: Corsair AX1200i Digital ATX 80PLUS Platinum Modular
 
Budget?

4 way is only slightly better than 3 way. Soemtimes its worse.

3 way is only a bit better than 2 way

hardly anyone goes more than 2 way sli these days. The scaling is too crap.

The ax1200 will do 2 way and maybe 3 way. You'll need 1500w for 4 way of any big card.

I think you can just use lga1150

You need to look at recommended systems as specified by the software makers.
 

evildoer12

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I am also thinking the same way and will save me some bucks with the price. the question now, is it worth doing a 4-way CFX or not, if so, since AMD is known for high power consumption, what PSU do you recommend. Still looking for 4-way CFX benchmark with this card and currently with no luck.


I can go to $2000 - $3000 for the initial build and upgrades together with the liquid cooling will be added later on.

I intended to just use LGA1150 but apparently Max RAM support is up to 32GB and I am not confident it can provide better headroom and near specs replication from our cloud deployment, this is why I ended up with LGA2011. But if you can suggest a LGA1150 that can support up to 64GB of RAM I have no issue on re-considering.