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Looking to build my 1st Personal/Gaming PC!

What's up everyone,

 

I'm looking to build my first personal/gaming pc within the summer of 2014 and I'm in need of some serious help to do so. I'm a college student studying Software Development & Network Engineering. So obviously I'll be needing a rig to run my school required software, as well as I'll be getting into the photography & editing. I do a lot of torret'ing majority for music/movies, so storage is a must and lastly the rig will always be used for gaming (Light/Medium). But one thing is, I want to run all 3 OSs, (Windows, OS X, & Linux). A lot of things... I know, but I want to build something where I do have to do all these other stuff later on in the future. I was everything to be built at one shot.

 

So here's what I want my system to consist of:

-  3 OSs (IF THAT'S POSSIBLE), which are: Windows 7 or 8, OS X Mavericks and Linux.

- Dual Monitor (More Pixels, the more happier I'll be)

- Lots of storage (4-8 TBs & a decent SSD)

- Amazing sound audio (Both sound card & speakers)

- Decent cooling

- A crazy looking case with a nice window to show off my system

 

And my price budge is around $1500 to $2500-3000!

 

Thanks a lot for whoever is willing to help me with this project.

 

 - Suneil Panday 

 

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What's up everyone,

 

I'm looking to build my first personal/gaming pc within the summer of 2014 and I'm in need of some serious help to do so. I'm a college student studying Software Development & Network Engineering. So obviously I'll be needing a rig to run my school required software, as well as I'll be getting into the photography & editing. I do a lot of torret'ing majority for music/movies, so storage is a must and lastly the rig will always be used for gaming (Light/Medium). But one thing is, I want to run all 3 OSs, (Windows, OS X, & Linux). A lot of things... I know, but I want to build something where I do have to do all these other stuff later on in the future. I was everything to be built at one shot.

 

So here's what I want my system to consist of:

-  3 OSs (IF THAT'S POSSIBLE), which are: Windows 7 or 8, OS X Mavericks and Linux.

- Dual Monitor (More Pixels, the more happier I'll be)

- Lots of storage (4-8 TBs & a decent SSD)

- Amazing sound audio (Both sound card & speakers)

- Decent cooling

- A crazy looking case with a nice window to show off my system

 

And my price budge is around $1500 to $2500-3000!

 

Thanks a lot for whoever is willing to help me with this project.

 

 - Suneil Panday 

If your looking in to building your first PC I don't reccomend running 3 os's Linux and windows I can see working fine it just when your talking about running some Mac Os there going to be some problems first of all your going to have to agree with your self your not going to have any offical support as well as its illegal as it breaks the terms of service of osX because your not running apple hardware. I suggest you just stay with Windows and Linux 

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Depending if you want a more silence optimized system I would go with this:

Fractal Design Define R4 w/ window (Could switch with NZXT Phantom if you like it better)

i7 4770k

Asus Maximus VI Formula

16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866MHz

Corsair H100i

Samsung 840 Evo 120GB (Boot Drive 1)

Samsung 840 Evo 120GB (Boot Drive 2)

WD Black 4TB 7200 RPM

WD Black 2TB 7200 RPM

MSI GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB (Could switch for 2-way SLI 780)

Corsair RM1000 (Overkill but you have plenty of space to add another card or something)

Asus Xonar Phoebus

Asus BW-12B1ST

Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)

TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 (WiFi card)

Razer Blackwidow Wired Keyboard (No touchpad)

Razer Deathadder 2013 Mouse

Audioengine A2

Noctua NF-F12

Noctua NF-F12

TOTAL: $3600

Here is the PC Part Picker link: http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/

I know that this is $600 over your max budget but this is a very high-end computer. Some downgrades can be made to put it in your budget, but this is what you should shoot for as a completed build. This thing will be an absolute BEAST. All you will have to do is upgrade the graphics card every 2.5-3.5 years. Hope this works for you and if it doesn't, I hope it gave you a good idea of the parts you should go for.

Red Dragon: CPU: i5-4670k @4.1GHz RAM: 16GB Crucial Ballistix Sport MOBO: MSI Z87-G45 GPU: EVGA GTX 980 ACX 2.0 4GB PSU: Corsair RM750 COOLING: Corsair H100i MAIN MONITOR: Asus VG248QE

Other Devices: PHONE: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge LAPTOP: Gigabyte P55W-BW1 DAC/AMP: Audioengine D1 DAC HEADPHONES: Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro 80 Ohm Mic: Blue Snowball

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