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rcald2000

rcald2000

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MB: x99 motherboard

CPU: 5930K / 5960X (prices: $500 / $900 respectively)

RAM: 64GB. Brand/Speed?

case: Should have space for: two 980 Ti hybrids & CPU water cooling. Window or no window?

CPU cooler: Water cooling preferable. If Corsair, what model? Open to Hyper 212 EVO, but water cooling preferrable

! $2,000 budget excludes items below, which I already own.

*** Already own components ***

PSU: EVGA 1300 G2

GPU: EVGA 980 Ti (reference)

2 x Intel 750 400 GB

4 x Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB
 
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Not a huge fan of ripjaws but the other lower profile memory was at least another $100 if not closer to $200 more.

So you could do this a few different ways. If you decide on the 5930K, then you could up the mobo to a ROG board, the Rampage V extreme for around $130 more.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132505

You could also downgrade the mobo by a $100 or so and do the 5960x but the 5830K is pretty powerful overclocked.


I would go with the Enthoo Primo, even though it's $100 or so more, it is much bigger and has huge amounts of room for water cooling. 4 120 mm up top, so you can mount a 280 mm h110i GT or the 240 mm h100I GTX , in addition to being able to mount one of the sli hybrid rads up top...
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Xemko

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($559.98 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler ($89.75 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($190.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 64GB (8 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($499.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Sandisk Extreme Pro 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($219.99 @ Adorama)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case ($94.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1725.58
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-12 01:20 EDT-0400

I personally see no reason to pay extra 180$ for i7 5830k. i7 5820k should be fine for 2way SLI.
 
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rcald2000

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@Xemko

Thanks for taking the time to develop this build.

CPU: Normally I would agree with you about the 5820k, but my concern is losing bandwidth when you factor in my Intel 750 PCIe SSD. Although Microcenter does sell the 5820k for only $300 vs $500 for the 5930k.

CPU Cooler: I've heard great things about Noctua. I'm still having trouble getting over how big air cooler are. haha.

Motherboard: I like ASRock, even though I have no experience with them. My sense is that they are the value option these days, which is never a bad deal. Do they make motherboards with more PCIe 3.0 x 16 slots? I only ask because I'd like to have the option of installing more than one PCIe drive, but not a huge deal.

RAM: Any advantage/disadvantage to 2666 or 2800? I noticed that their kits aren't much more expensive than 2400, which is why I'm asking.

Case: I like the case, a lot.
 
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Reaper_7799

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I have that case, it's really nice for the price and it's big but I don't know about two rads for the 980 ti's in sli, plus watercooling for the processor. If you take out the upper 5.25" bays, there's space for 3 120mm up top but the water cooling for your processor.

There's a water cooling mount you can attach to the drive cages though but I'm not so sure about room from the back of my 980 ti to the drive cage is not a whole lot, I guess it would depend what set up you go with. I left my cages in and attached two 120mm fans to them to help get air into my gpu. You might have to really get something a bit bigger. Cable management is superb in this case though.
 
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rcald2000

rcald2000

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@Reaper, I'm not sure that I need any cages. Well I'd like to purchase an inexpensive Blu-Ray drive. It would suck if I needed to leave in the entire drive cage for a single Blu-Ray drive. I don't plan to use any hard drive nor SATA SSD's. I plan on running exclusively off at least one Intel 750 PCIe SSD. I like what I've heard about this case.
 
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Not a huge fan of ripjaws but the other lower profile memory was at least another $100 if not closer to $200 more.

So you could do this a few different ways. If you decide on the 5930K, then you could up the mobo to a ROG board, the Rampage V extreme for around $130 more.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132505

You could also downgrade the mobo by a $100 or so and do the 5960x but the 5830K is pretty powerful overclocked.


I would go with the Enthoo Primo, even though it's $100 or so more, it is much bigger and has huge amounts of room for water cooling. 4 120 mm up top, so you can mount a 280 mm h110i GT or the 240 mm h100I GTX , in addition to being able to mount one of the sli hybrid rads up top, and you might be able to fit both of them up top. The 5.25" bays, it has 5 of them and you could mount one dvd/blueray burner on the lower and use the space up top to try and fit the other 980ti rad.

If that wont work, the other one you will have to mount in the front of the case if you go with a larger 240 or 280 for your processor, the upper portion and then take out the fan it comes with and add a 140MM in the front. It has room for another fan in the back at the bottom, in addition to the 140mm it already has as exhaust in the back up top, plus plenty of room for fans or radiators on the bottom.

You could also go down to a Corsair H80 I GT, which is only a 120MM rad and will allow you much more room to work with the sli rads of the 980 ti, even in the enthoo pro maybe but I still think the lPrimo is the better case. Here's a review on the Primo too, it's a super nice case.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181089 -----corsair H80 I GT




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWttZcWWF9Y ------Enthoo Primo review




http://pcpartpicker.com/p/fxpwvK -----Parts list-----



CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor $559.98

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $99.99

Motherboard: Asus X99-DELUXE/U3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard $389.99

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 64GB (8 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory $529.99

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Primo ATX Full Tower Case $234.99

Total: $1815.00



 
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