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Okay, so I have to preface this with a story of what happened exactly so you'll know where I'm at.
I built a top of the line gaming PC two years ago, the components of which I will list below. It was still trucking along doing great aceing specs on most new AAA games. I went on vacation two weeks ago and while I was gone a hot water pipe burst in my house. My PC was downstairs and got really soaked in water, ultimately it is completely destroyed. Examining it shows signs of both rust and corrosion. Thankfully I have renters insurance so they should pay out to replace everything because my adjuster called the home a total loss and said everything I had was destroyed. (it sat in 100% humidity for 4 days before someone noticed). I parted the PC in my claim and noticed that despite being old parts, the prices didn't drop much. So I believe that I can build a new and better PC for less today. I'm just looking for suggestions to have comparable or improved specs over my old rig, this is mostly because I haven't been keeping up with component news lately due to my busy work schedule. The one part I pulled from my old rig is my Samsung EVO 500GB SSD, it may or may not work, I have no way of knowing at this point, but it looks fine due to where it was placed in my PC case (a Corsair 600C). Anyways, I'm going to list my old rig below and I'd appreciate some feedback on what I could replace components with to have a similar (or improved) rig. Money isn't really a factor, but I figured I'd keep the budget at $5,000 since that's about what my old rig parted out at in total. The primary function of the PC is gaming. I play most of my games on the PC. The only work I typically do on it is writing. Although it's possible that I might use it for audio mixing in the near future.
Case: Corsair 600C
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark S (This dumb limited edition motherboard is only available new for $1,000+ dollars)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 16GB
CPU: Intel i7 4790k Devil's Canyon
GPU: Asus Strix 980ti
PSU: EVGA Supernova 750w
Cooling: Corsair H100i
Fans: Corsair SP fans, 3x140mm 2x120mm
Drive: Samsung Evo 850 500GB SSD
Optical: Asus disc drive
Wireless card: Asus AC-19000 dual band (I know, not practical, but I needed it at one point)
OS: Windows 10
Mouse: Razer Mamba TE (I like simple, but quality mice)
Keys: Corsair K70
Montior: An old Sony Bravia TV, really hope to improve this part a lot.
Cables: Cablemod custom cables
So that WAS my rig. Now I need something new, I feel like for the price of some of these old components I can build something better at this point.
Thanks for any an all help.
I built a top of the line gaming PC two years ago, the components of which I will list below. It was still trucking along doing great aceing specs on most new AAA games. I went on vacation two weeks ago and while I was gone a hot water pipe burst in my house. My PC was downstairs and got really soaked in water, ultimately it is completely destroyed. Examining it shows signs of both rust and corrosion. Thankfully I have renters insurance so they should pay out to replace everything because my adjuster called the home a total loss and said everything I had was destroyed. (it sat in 100% humidity for 4 days before someone noticed). I parted the PC in my claim and noticed that despite being old parts, the prices didn't drop much. So I believe that I can build a new and better PC for less today. I'm just looking for suggestions to have comparable or improved specs over my old rig, this is mostly because I haven't been keeping up with component news lately due to my busy work schedule. The one part I pulled from my old rig is my Samsung EVO 500GB SSD, it may or may not work, I have no way of knowing at this point, but it looks fine due to where it was placed in my PC case (a Corsair 600C). Anyways, I'm going to list my old rig below and I'd appreciate some feedback on what I could replace components with to have a similar (or improved) rig. Money isn't really a factor, but I figured I'd keep the budget at $5,000 since that's about what my old rig parted out at in total. The primary function of the PC is gaming. I play most of my games on the PC. The only work I typically do on it is writing. Although it's possible that I might use it for audio mixing in the near future.
Case: Corsair 600C
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark S (This dumb limited edition motherboard is only available new for $1,000+ dollars)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 16GB
CPU: Intel i7 4790k Devil's Canyon
GPU: Asus Strix 980ti
PSU: EVGA Supernova 750w
Cooling: Corsair H100i
Fans: Corsair SP fans, 3x140mm 2x120mm
Drive: Samsung Evo 850 500GB SSD
Optical: Asus disc drive
Wireless card: Asus AC-19000 dual band (I know, not practical, but I needed it at one point)
OS: Windows 10
Mouse: Razer Mamba TE (I like simple, but quality mice)
Keys: Corsair K70
Montior: An old Sony Bravia TV, really hope to improve this part a lot.
Cables: Cablemod custom cables
So that WAS my rig. Now I need something new, I feel like for the price of some of these old components I can build something better at this point.
Thanks for any an all help.
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