What are you going to use this computer for?
I can't imagine a single sane thing to spend 4000$ on that wouldn't be accomplished equally well by half that
There's no end all be all best, but since this is a gaming forum, I'll build the best gaming build I can get for that price:
Air cooled only: [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2bqYN[/url]
Water and air cooled: [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2br8W[/url]
The best cooling would be a custom water cooling loop. The 840 pro's should be put into RAID 0.
[QUOTE=RandomGamer342;43019960]What are you going to use this computer for?
I can't imagine a single sane thing to spend 4000$ on that wouldn't be accomplished equally well by half that[/QUOTE]
gaming
The builds I made are pretty much the best you're going to get at that price.
I'm going to revise my motherboard recommendation to: [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-z87gd65gaming[/url]
and case fan recommendation to (same amount): [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/part/rosewill-case-fan-rfx120[/url]
turns out my budget was raised to 5000-6000$, are those still best parts?
I'm going to revise my first two builds, but I'm not going to get anywhere near $5000.
Replace the preinstalled case fans with the ones in the build.
Air only: [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2chdL[/url] (replace the fans in the heatsink with the fans in the build).
Water and Air: [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2chgY[/url] (mount the h100i at the top of the case, replace its fans with the ones in the build).
The only thing you can do more is to get two more 780 ti's. But in general with games that are reasonably well optimized for SLI:
Single GPU - Normal framerate.
Two way - [I]Near[/I] double framerate.
Three way- Two way plus about five frames per second.
Four way- Sometimes less than two way, sometimes slightly more, often less than 3 way.
Because of this I can't recommend buying that many 780 ti's, but I will make seperate builds for these:
Air: [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2ch6P[/url]
Air and Water: [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2chgY[/url]
The best way to ensure you can always play games at their max specs is money in the bank. Spends 1700 on a pc now and keep the rest to upgrade in the future.
Technology is just going way to fast, and upgrading in the future will net you better results than spending 2000$ now.
[QUOTE=74pantera;43030177]turns out my budget was raised to 5000-6000$, are those still best parts?[/QUOTE]
jesus christ can you give me some of that money ???
i mean other than that go with flayne's builds since im not exactly the expert at liquid cooling but if you do plan on doing overclocking you will need liquid cooling
do you have any monitors or peripherals by chance or do you have to buy it new?
[QUOTE=taipan;43032258]The best way to ensure you can always play games at their max specs is money in the bank. Spends 1700 on a pc now and keep the rest to upgrade in the future.
Technology is just going way to fast, and upgrading in the future will net you better results than spending 2000$ now.[/QUOTE]
wow shit how did i miss that taipan is 100% right about this
you really shouldnt blow all that money on building a pc with the best parts possible because to get an actual future-proof you will have to upgrade overtime so you should buy a $2000 something computer and save the rest for rainy days or better parts
[QUOTE=flayne;43020316]There's no end all be all best, but since this is a gaming forum, I'll build the best gaming build I can get for that price:
Air cooled only: [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2bqYN[/url]
Water and air cooled: [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2br8W[/url]
The best cooling would be a custom water cooling loop. The 840 pro's should be put into RAID 0.[/QUOTE]
I came.
Question: Why do you seem to prefer the i5 over the i7? :D
Also, for ram why not try 32GB DDR4?
OR
Buy a $2000 PC which will give you +-20 fps less and buy a $3000 car / Bike? haha :D
[QUOTE=Jeff2307;43035221]I came.
Question: Why do you seem to prefer the i5 over the i7? :D[/QUOTE]
Because it's better for gaming.
[QUOTE=Jeff2307;43035221]I came.
Question: Why do you seem to prefer the i5 over the i7? :D
Also, for ram why not try 32GB DDR4?
OR
Buy a $2000 PC which will give you +-20 fps less and buy a $3000 car / Bike? haha :D[/QUOTE]
Why the fuck would you want 32GB of RAM. The build is already overkill enough (also DDR4 isn't readily commercially available yet). The i5-4670k is the fastest gaming processor you can get (excluding server processors). The reason you ask? Well:
Haswell, being the latest microarchitecture Intel has to offer, is the fastest microArchitecture presently available.
The 4670k is simply 4 uninhibited cores of this performance.
The 4770k is 4 cores, each running 2 threads (at around half the performance each).
Ivy Bridge-E has slower single core performance, so even if you turn off hyper-threading, the 4670k will still beat it in quite a few low-threaded games.
TL;DR - The 4670k has the best single core performance of any desktop processor presently in existence. Old games and new games rely on this above anything else, though I will grant you that this focus is shifting, it's shifting very slowly (in other words the 4670k is still the best investment).
[editline]1st December 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Death_God;43035070]jesus christ can you give me some of that money ???
i mean other than that go with flayne's builds since im not exactly the expert at liquid cooling but if you do plan on doing overclocking you will need liquid cooling
do you have any monitors or peripherals by chance or do you have to buy it new?
wow shit how did i miss that taipan is 100% right about this
you really shouldnt blow all that money on building a pc with the best parts possible because to get an actual future-proof you will have to upgrade overtime so you should buy a $2000 something computer and save the rest for rainy days or better parts[/QUOTE]
Actually, as I said in another thread, high end air coolers can sometimes outperform closed loop water coolers. However, as I've said in posts in this thread, custom water cooling is the best choice out of any cooling solution that isn't considered exotic, e.g. Liquid nitrogen.
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