APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: As soon as I know what I'm buying - I would have liked to buy parts 2 weeks ago. My mom going into the hospital has stalled my research and pushed me back significantly. I am asking for help because I don't have a lot of time to research effectively right now. I have read a lot of articles on Toms so I'm not completely daft. I have a pre order for the CE of FF XIV and no PC strong enough to even play it. My last build was just before FFXI came out, I did all the research myself but it took over a month, and now I don't have a month. Hopefully, she'll be fixed up and out of the hospital soon, or I may not have time to build it or even play FFXIV anyways. I pray thats not the case more for my moms sake.
BUDGET RANGE: I have a fairly high budget ~ 3,000 - I'd even pay more given a good justification. The cavaet is I only want the computer for playing FFXIV at max settings across 3 screens at 3760x1080 resolution, since a higher resolution would prove to be to costly for monitors. I don't want to spend a lot of money if I don't need to, since future scalability isn't extremely important to me. Its finding the balance between performance for FFXIV and cost.
SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: FFXIV as previously described. The FFXI build I have can do a lot of the other things I use the computer for.
PARTS NOT REQUIRED: I have no other parts available for reuse - I intend to get everything new, since my old build is still going to be used and its 7 years old, I don't have unfortunately any parts available to reuse.
PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: www.newegg.com - I used newegg 7 years ago, and I had a good experience with their customer service. I'm not familiar with other websites, but if an item is cheaper, I'm not against trying them out.
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States - New Jersey
PARTS PREFERENCES: My last build I decided to go Intel and ATI - I've been looking at NVidia cards and I'm not particularly sold. I'm pretty much set on an SLI or CROSSFIRE configuration, and the 3 monitors is a must. > 20" screens. I intend to overclock - I haven't done it in the past but its not as difficult now as it once was. I'm confident. I'm even willing to work with water cooler if necessary. I have an engineering background just not in computer hardware.
OVERCLOCKING: Yes
SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Yes if recommended
MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1920x1080 individually. 3x1920x1080 or 3760x1080 is the goal.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: I have a few things in the room already making noise, previous computer, girlfriend watching TV, cat water fountains... as quiet as I'd like it to be, I usually wear headphones anyways so its not as big a deal. I have written a few things down in doing research but nothing I'm set on really. Reading the balancing article and SLI scaling articles have really made me doubt anything that I have come up with so far, so I'm leaving it to the experts to give me at least a starting point to pick and prod at.
I appreciate any help you all are willing to give me.
BUDGET RANGE: I have a fairly high budget ~ 3,000 - I'd even pay more given a good justification. The cavaet is I only want the computer for playing FFXIV at max settings across 3 screens at 3760x1080 resolution, since a higher resolution would prove to be to costly for monitors. I don't want to spend a lot of money if I don't need to, since future scalability isn't extremely important to me. Its finding the balance between performance for FFXIV and cost.
SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: FFXIV as previously described. The FFXI build I have can do a lot of the other things I use the computer for.
PARTS NOT REQUIRED: I have no other parts available for reuse - I intend to get everything new, since my old build is still going to be used and its 7 years old, I don't have unfortunately any parts available to reuse.
PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: www.newegg.com - I used newegg 7 years ago, and I had a good experience with their customer service. I'm not familiar with other websites, but if an item is cheaper, I'm not against trying them out.
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States - New Jersey
PARTS PREFERENCES: My last build I decided to go Intel and ATI - I've been looking at NVidia cards and I'm not particularly sold. I'm pretty much set on an SLI or CROSSFIRE configuration, and the 3 monitors is a must. > 20" screens. I intend to overclock - I haven't done it in the past but its not as difficult now as it once was. I'm confident. I'm even willing to work with water cooler if necessary. I have an engineering background just not in computer hardware.
OVERCLOCKING: Yes
SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Yes if recommended
MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1920x1080 individually. 3x1920x1080 or 3760x1080 is the goal.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: I have a few things in the room already making noise, previous computer, girlfriend watching TV, cat water fountains... as quiet as I'd like it to be, I usually wear headphones anyways so its not as big a deal. I have written a few things down in doing research but nothing I'm set on really. Reading the balancing article and SLI scaling articles have really made me doubt anything that I have come up with so far, so I'm leaving it to the experts to give me at least a starting point to pick and prod at.
I appreciate any help you all are willing to give me.
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