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So I'm almost done with my first PC (yay!), and it was great building it, so I figured why not take the next 2-3 years and build an extremely powerful PC that can both game and do processor intense tasks? Anyway I was so happy I thought of the idea that I finished my part picking in one night. But I do need someone to judge my build.

Anyway I'll post my build below. In parentheses next to each link, I'll tell why I picked it, so you can tell me if I went overkill for MY specific needs.

But, before I post the build, I want to let you know what I'm doing.

1. I will be rendering 4k or 1080p images, and editing lots of 4k or 1080p video

2. I will be gaming in 4k with the monitor shown below, and expect ultra settings 60 FPS if possible, if not 45+ is fine

3. I'll be compiling code. I haven't programmed a lot recently, but I expect after I build my computer to do it a lot more, which will give me 2-3 more years of experience. So I'd say a lot, but not like professional-game-creating level

Now here's what you (may have) been waiting for:

Graphics Card (I will be SLI'ing 2): Click Me (I picked because I want to have great performance gaming in 4k, and great after effects editing)

Processor: Click Me (I picked the 5960X because I want outstanding performance in processor-hungry tasks)

Motherboard: Click Me (I picked this because it has a lot of PCI-e slots for my graphics cards, and a couple extra in case I want to add in a future wireless card, USB adapter, or sound card. I also picked it)

RAM: Click Me (I chose this RAM, because it's lightning fast, and there's 32 GB of it. I don't know if I should go for 64 gigs however)

Case: Click]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811353028]Click Me[/url] (I picked this case because it's cheap, it's got lots of USBs, an eSATA, and 2 audio jacks, plus it's LED. The ports are on the top of the case too, which is good—my case is going under my desk. Finally, this case is cheap for a full tower. Please let me know if it's a bad case though, because for the price it seems to good to be true)

Hard Drive: Click Me (I picked because it's large, and it'll (hopefully) be enough to store games and 4k video/photo)

SSD: Click Me (I picked this so I could store the operating system, and other files I want to pull up quickly, which may include games)

Power Supply Unit: Click Me (Where do I start, this thing provides more than enough power if I wanted to upgrade, it's 80 plus platinum if I ever need to work efficiently if I'm rendering/editing for a while, and most importantly, JohnnyGuru recommended it 10/10)

Monitor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G3KG2230 (I picked because it's IPS, and has a good response time for an IPS display)

Cooler: Click Me (I picked this because I hear the NH-D15 is quiet, reliable, keeps the processor cold, and frankly I don't give a crap that the fans are ugly)

Anyway please leave suggestions about things I should spend more on, and especially things I should spend less on, since even though this is long term, it is over 3 thousand dollars.

Thanks!
 
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If this build is meant for 2-3 years from now, or even 8 months from now, it's absolutely senseless to even try and configure a build at this early date. Much of this hardware won't even be available in two years, or will be ridiculously expensive if you're trying to find it new at that time. There will likely be much newer, and more powerful options available in the graphics card arena even just several months from now and the CPU may not be the best choice at that price range in a year.

CPU cooler is a good choice for an air cooler. PSU is good although I don't see the sense in paying an extra 75 bucks for Platinum efficiency when it's only going to save you about 7 bucks a year on your energy bill. It would take you the full length...
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If this build is meant for 2-3 years from now, or even 8 months from now, it's absolutely senseless to even try and configure a build at this early date. Much of this hardware won't even be available in two years, or will be ridiculously expensive if you're trying to find it new at that time. There will likely be much newer, and more powerful options available in the graphics card arena even just several months from now and the CPU may not be the best choice at that price range in a year.

CPU cooler is a good choice for an air cooler. PSU is good although I don't see the sense in paying an extra 75 bucks for Platinum efficiency when it's only going to save you about 7 bucks a year on your energy bill. It would take you the full length of it's warranty period to recover your costs. I'd stick with a good fully modular Gold rated Tier 1 or 2 unit from EVGA, Seasonic, Super Flower, XFX or Antec. Specific model is of course relevant here.

As for everything else, the same applies. There is no sense in even attempting to configure these items now as many of them will not still be on the market in two years or the prices of pretty much every item listed will be so distinctly different as to make them no longer good choices. Builds should be configured within days or weeks of the target purchase date. Doing anything else is a waste of time.
 
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Adding to darkbreeze's comment, buy all the components at one time. Don't space it out. You have to take into account availability and warranties for items. If receive a bad motherboard 3 months before the PSU, how are you going to know that it's bad? You won't. Buy all components at the same time.
 
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I agree 100% with darkbreeze. List your current PC specs, I am curious to what your are currently using. I would like to know whether it needs upgrading or not.
 
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Yeah the motherboard, graphics card and processor were the things I was gonna get last anyway. Either way though, I want to play at 4k resolution. IMO anything above 4k is unnoticable. The power supply I will definitely downgrade to the EVGA G2. In fact I just looked, and I can get a 1300W unit for less than the platinum. Also should I also reconsider RAM in the future too? I'm not sure how soon DDR5 will come out, and if Intel's latest processors in the future will use it
 
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DDR5 is years away in all likelihood. DDR4 is fairly new and will be around for a while. It takes much time for them to implement new memory standards into motherboard and CPU architectures so even after the standard is created and finalized, that doesn't mean it will be implemented anytime soon. DDR4 won't be going away anytime soon. DDR3 was the primary memory standard for about 7 years, having gained mainstream usage by about 2009. The DDR4 standard was finalized in 2012 but didn't see implementation until this year.

By the time you are ready for these components, your options will be so different that nothing you decided now would even be relevant anymore. Just wait and configure your build later, or add some of these components as you go. Drives, power supplies, displays and memory will still all be usable when you move to a new platform so they won't be wasted if you don't wait to get them closer to when you're ready to pull the trigger on the rest of the system.
 
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Oh god I just facepalmed. I can't believe I didn't think of that. I think it's because I bought my components at different times with the computer I'm building
 
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My current PC has a totally different purpose, but here are the specs:

Intel i7-4790k

MSI Z97 Gaming 5

16 GB RAM 1600 MHz CAS 9 (DDR3)

NZXT Phantom 410

Radeon R9 380X

Noctua NH-D15

Rosewill Photon 750 Watt

Toshiba 5TB 7200 RPM HDD

Mushkin Enhanced Reactor 1 terabyte SSD

Computer goal: Overclock processor to 4.7-4.8 GHz, overclock RAM to 2133 MHz, then game at 1080p high-ultra on games, video edit, render, and compile small amounts of code
 
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Well, the only thing you could technically improve on at the moment is the GPU. Intel's CPU generations have small raw CPU performance increases. For example, from Sandy to Ivy, 10% increase. Ivy to Haswell, 10%. Haswell to Skylake, 10%. That's 5 years of generations and I'd guess now is when the Sandy Bridge owners would begin to upgrade because those margins are easily overcome by overclocking.

For the foreseeable future, the only thing you're going to have to upgrade is the GPU. Use that $4K for something else. Car, vacation etc.
 
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Funny you say that, I'm still a teenager :3 but I really wanna build this PC, I really want a really powerful as hell PC
 
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Careful, more money doesn't always mean more powerful CPU. Read Tom's reviews about diminishing returns.
 
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Well that may be true with the 5930k vs the 5820k where the 5930k you'd want to buy if you wanted to do a 3 way SLI, otherwise same performance. But with the 5960X has 4 more threads than the 5820k that the app can take advantage of, plus overclocking capabilities making it a monster. Price to performance though the 5820k would dominate. But I'm not on any budget, that's why I made this build, so I do wanna do 5960X (unless I decide video editing and rendering is boring and sucks)
 
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There is almost nothing you can run, aside from incredibly complex movie and high end video editing applications, professional CAD or graphics applications with very specific plugin packages or VERY MANY layers, folding@home in addition to normal heavy use and a few other seriously uncommon uses that could ever even tax a 5820k overclocked to something like 4.3-4.5Ghz as long as you also have maybe 16 or more GB of RAM to go with it.

SFAIK, there are no consumer applications, and probably no professional applications under about five grand that would see any benefit from the system you're considering and in all honesty this thread looks like nothing but another of the many, many troll/wishlist posts we get every day. Closing thread. If you're 13, you can't afford a CPU that runs a thousand dollars by itself anyhow. Don't post any more threads like this, we'll be keeping an eye out.
 
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