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I've been working around several configurations in my head and this is the beast I've come up with. I am building this pc to last me for the next 5 years with absolutely no issues of needing to upgrade just to play at good settings. I didn't opt for an m.2 since it would eliminate a pci slot, and honestly I'm fine with SSD in SATA. Anyway, I'm going with white and black. I've already bought a bunch of corsair white led fans, white modular cables and a white 24 pin cable as well. So please, share your thoughts here. I've never built an entire pc from ground up, so I want to make sure I don't goof something up here and buy a sub part part.


PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/FzFDqk
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/FzFDqk/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($324.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H110i GTX 104.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($149.88 @ OutletPC)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste ($6.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($150.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LED 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3400 Memory ($229.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($156.07 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Hybrid Gaming Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($775.00)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Hybrid Gaming Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($775.00)
Case: Corsair 750D ATX Full Tower Case ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($158.79 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($16.88 @ OutletPC)
Fan Controller: Thermaltake AC-001-BN1NAN-A1 Fan Controller ($46.00)
Total: $2900.35
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-03 10:56 EDT-0400
 
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1st this is ofc my opinion.

If u want this: "I am building this pc to last me for the next 5 years with absolutely no issues...", then i think you should not go for SLI, and choose only a single 1080. Because with SLI being Driver and Game support dependable you Will run into issues with SLI.
 
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What is this pc for? Its in my opinion needlessly expensive, it would be cheaper and probably last you even longer if you were to build 2 pc's with that money one now, and one a few years down the road. SLI can cause issues due to poor support by a lot of game developers and unless you demand max settings 4k 60fps in every game, its pretty overkill and not worth it imo. That asus board has pretty good built in fan control software so you don't really need a controller. Personally I would go with 16gb of ram, a cheaper cooler unless you plan to do some serious overcloking and even then, and a single 1080 with a cheaper power supply.
 
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I meant to remove that fan controller. And this build is supposed to last me for 5 years with ultra settings. Currently my monitor is a 2K but I intend to upgrade that next year to a 4k.

I do intend to OC the cpu but not the gpus, which is why I want to go sli.

Everyone keeps talking about games not supporting sli, but windows 10 has adaptive video card pairing technology that enables 2 gpus to sync even if game devs don't enable an actual sli option.

I am wanting to do 2 x 1080s instead of one titan x(p) because the results I get now aren't going to necessarily be much better, but down the road when games get heftier, I think the sli option will work out better than a single. Especially for all that vram.

I've basically been given a budget of about $3K by my wife and so I am trying to mush as much awesomeness into as I can.
 
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I think you should get one 1080 now which will max out pretty much any game at 1440p 60fps plus, then in a few years upgrade to a better gpu thats what most people do and is widely considered the best option,

Im not talking about whether or not sli is enabled by developers but how well they implement sli into their games. In a lot of games you don't get proper scaling, it can introduce visual artifacting, stuttering, micro stuttering, and other weird issues. Since such a small percentage of gamers use sli a lot of developers do not feel the need to properly support it.

I would spend like 2 grand max on a pc, then maybe take your wife on a shopping spree with the other grand for even letting you spend 3 grand on a pc. Then when you feel the 1080 is not performing to your standards upgrade it with whatever generation of gpu's is out at that time like maybe nvidia HBM cards.
 
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