Building or at least making an attempt at building my first rig. I'm working with a possible budget of $4,000 USD but obviously I hope it doesn't come too close to that. The primary focus of this build will be for gaming (Just to name a few in no particular order: Battlefield, Dead Island, Civilization, Star Craft, Command and Conquer, Star Citizen) however by profession I'm a Web Developer, an avid user of Adobe Premier / Sony Vegas, I dabble in Adobe After Effects, and I've gotten my feet wet in Cinema 4D. As a content creator...I really want 3 screens but as you'll see in the list below I picked out 3 really good gaming TN monitors. I definitely would like some feed back in this area. I'm not too concerned with the keyboard and mouse. I just picked out a set that appealed the most to me. Right now all I have is my MacBook Pro so I'd like an actual Windows Desktop so I can be more productive and play some games. Full list on Newegg Case: Thermaltake Chaser Series Chaser MK-I (Already Purchased) Fans: BitFenix Spectre Pro 2x 120MM, 1x 140MM, 2x, 200MM Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Plus CPU: i7-4790k GPU 1: EVGA GTX 780 Superclocked 3GB GPU 2: EVGA GTX 780 Superclocked 3GB PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2 RAM: G.SKILL Ares Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 CPU Cooler: Enermax ETS-T40-BK Black 120mm Twister SSD 1: SAMSUNG 840 EVO 500GB (OS, Programs, Games) SSD 2: SAMSUNG 840 EVO 120GB (Scratch Disk) HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200 RPM (General Storage) Monitors 3x: ASUS VG248QE Black 24" 144Hz 1ms Keyboard: Logitech G710 PLUS (Sort of worried because of reviews about broken keys and key lighting issues though) Mouse: Logitech g502 Proteus Core DVD Drive: ASUS OEM Drive Let me know what you think. Does this build make sense to you or is it completely overkill? Are there things you would change about it?
Thanks for the reply brob, I had considered a water cooling kit over a tower cooler so I wouldn't have to worry about the cooler hitting the ram but thought a tower cooler would be simpler. I'll look into the Kraken X61, any reason you suggested this over any of the cooler master watercooling kits? Any reason I should go for the 780TI over the 780? I didn't think there was that much justification on getting the TI. I was even considering the GTX 880 that's supposedly coming out soon if it's any good. But to answer your other question, the build is mostly for gaming but I need a reliable rig for working from home or various other freelance jobs I run into because nothing beats having an actual desktop when you're trying to be productive.