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Thank you guys for pointing me in the right direction. I think this is what I'm going to settle on. The performance options I was seeing at my original price point weren't quite doing it for me so an extra 80 or 90 bucks to perk it up a bit is okay. I'll beef up the boot drive in the future but for now storage is a bit more important. If there's anything glaring that should be replaced or stepped down here let me know otherwise this looks alright to me. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD A10-6790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($129.96 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+ Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard ($95.98 @ OutletPC) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Z Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory ($81.00 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($56.99 @ Micro Center) Case: Corsair 250D Mini ITX Tower Case ($74.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: SeaSonic 300W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($42.98 @ Newegg) Total: $481.90 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-04 23:17 EDT-0400 Thanks again for all the suggestions!

You guys are amazing. Thanks for the help!

Thank you guys for pointing me in the right direction. I think this is what I'm going to settle on. The performance options I was seeing at my original price point weren't quite doing it for me so an extra 80 or 90 bucks to perk it up a bit is okay. I'll beef up the boot drive in the future but for now storage is a bit more important. If there's anything glaring that should be replaced or stepped down here let me know otherwise this looks alright to me. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD A10-6790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($129.96 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+ Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard ($95.98 @ OutletPC) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Z Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory ($81.00 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($56.99 @ Micro Center) Case: Corsair 250D Mini ITX Tower Case ($74.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: SeaSonic 300W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($42.98 @ Newegg) Total: $481.90 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-04 23:17 EDT-0400 Thanks again for all the suggestions!

Thank you guys for all your time. I believe this is going to be a better build in the end. here's what I'm going with; I'll just run the noctua in single fan config for now to fix the memory clearance issue in dual fan mode. If temps become an issue which I seriously doubt, I'll replace it with an AIO. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks CPU: Intel Core i7-4930K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor ($578.99 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler (Purchased For $87.04) Motherboard: Asus P9X79 LE ATX LGA2011 Motherboard ($224.99 @ NCIX US) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($299.99 @ NCIX US) Total (Not Yet Purchased): $1103.97 Total (Already Purchased): $87.04 Total: $1191.01 (Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.) (Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-26 21:19 EDT-0400) If there's anything glaringly wrong with that feel free to let me know, otherwise consider this topic closed. Thanks guys!

Awesome thanks for the advice. I took a look at some benchmarks for the d15 single vs dual fan and you're correct, it's only about 3 degrees difference at load so that's not a big deal for me. Sadly I already purchased it as I'd seen some pretty concerning reviews of AIO kit pumps failing, and it actually slightly outperformed the H110. I'll flip the top fan around in my case to intake mode to get some more cool air over the heatsinks and monitor the temps from there. Fair enough on the motherboard. I'll look at getting the P9x79. And I'll throw that saved cash into a better ram kit. I don't know why but I always thought having all 8 slots populated would give me better performance. Don't know where I got that idea. Also wouldn't have thought about getting an 8 module kit. Thanks for your advice, I really appreciate it. I think at this point I can go ahead and line up the components and buy them. Thanks again!

Clearance shouldn't be an issue, the two memory kits I'm looking at are both 40mm high and according the Noctua's specifications here: http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=compatibility_gen&products_id=68&lng=en there should be 64mm of clearance for memory without a fan on the side in question, I'm only 8mm short on the other side and I think I should be able to move the fans up enough to compensate. I chose the Sabertooth board for the better monitoring options and the 5 year warranty, do you think that's a good enough reason to pay 80 bucks more for the board or is the P9x79 really the better choice here? The ram looks good, but would using 8 Sticks of 4Gb 2133 CL-9 Ram be better? Improving my rendering workflow is the primary concern for the processor. I do it on a daily basis and every little bit I can cut off of test renders helps, and the 4930k does benchmark about 25-35% faster in that respect than the 4770k which is enough for me to want to make some sacrifices in the short run to get it, and I plan to update the GPU early next year after the new lines are released anyway. Thank you guys so much for your help.

Looks like a solid build but is there any particular reason why you'd recommend that I step down from a 4930k Hex core to a 4770k in order to add a graphics card and a lower wattage power supply even if it's 80+ Gold over the 80+ Silver of my current? For my use cases (Heavy video editing and multitasking) wouldn't a 6-Core be a better alternative even if I have to sacrifice some graphics horsepower in the short run which I'm okay with? Don't take this as me shooting down your suggestion, I would just like to understand it a bit more. My selection logic could very well be flawed, but I tend to weight the processor a bit heavier on the list than the graphics card for my purposes. Thanks for the super quick response, I'm actually impressed at how fast you came up with that and within 30 dollars of budget

Similar to the current price of the components. $1,050 US is the upper limit of what I have left in the budget. Thanks! Any suggestions? This would be preliminary choice: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231503

EDIT: Thanks to the advice of the posters below I am going with this for my final build: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks CPU: Intel Core i7-4930K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor ($578.99 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler (Purchased For $87.04) Motherboard: Asus P9X79 LE ATX LGA2011 Motherboard ($224.99 @ NCIX US) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($299.99 @ NCIX US) Total: $1191.01 (Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.) (Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-26 21:19 EDT-0400) If there's anything glaringly wrong with that feel free to let me know, otherwise consider this topic closed. Thanks guys! Original post begins here: ------------------------------------ Hello everyone, first time posting here so be nice So I'm rebuilding my core system right now with the following use cases in mind: Multiboxing online games Music and Video editing and production Multi-monitor gaming Let me preface the next part by saying I'm not necessarily buying all my parts from newegg, but I'm using newegg as it's a pretty easy stats reference and it's all in one place. So here's my current system for some contrast with newegg links for all the specs you could ever want. 3x Lg E2360 23" 1920x1080 Screens EVGA x58 SLI-3 Motherboard - Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188068 Intel Core i7 950 Processor (Stock 3.06Ghz) - Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115211 24gb G.Skill 1600mhz Ram - Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231358 1x EVGA Gtx 590 Classified - Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130693 2x Samsung 2Tb 5200 Rpm Storage Drives - Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152245 OCZ Vertex4 256Gb SSD - Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227792 OCZ ModXStream 700W 80+ Certified power supply - Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341018 Fractal Design Define XL - Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352005 So here are the problems I have with this setup: Live encoding of video (Open broadcaster etc) can cap out my processor causing framedrops in game and choppy recordings in some extreme cases. I intend to be able to run up to 20 or more Eve Online clients (graphics settings are of no consequence to me, only the frame-rate and system performance outside of the clients) As it is currently, however, I can only run 11 before I begin to see sharp drops in framerates and my system struggles to do much out of game. (Even opening Chrome is difficult). I believe the bottleneck in performance here is my processor as I start losing frames as soon as my processor hits 100% (pretty obvious if I'm honest) and applications opening slowly out of game is a pretty telling sign that graphics horsepower isn't my problem here. Video editing can be slow and difficult as previewing is problematic with large format recordings and large file size recordings like Fraps outputs which can be in the 4GB range for a 4 minute recording. Rendering is also slow. Taking between 10 and 15 minutes per 2 minutes of rendered video at 1080p by 30Fps. This I know is not going to be magically fixed by upgrading as rendering can and will be a slow process in most cases but it's enough of a factor for me to justify my processor choice. And number 4 leads me into the new build. I'm on a budget (if you can call it that) and can't afford a complete rebuild so I'm only upgrading the Processor, Motherboard and RAM, with a Noctua NH-D15 thrown in there for CPU cooling. Parts List can be found here: Intel Core i7-4930K - System Build - PCPartPicker ASUS Sabertooth X79 Motherboard - Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131801 Intel Core i7 4930k plan to lightly overclock to around 4Ghz. - Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116939 1x 16Gb G.Skill 2133Mhz ram kit with plans to add a second kit at a later date. - Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231473 So there it is. I am looking for general critique before I purchase the components which I plan to do in about 2 or 3 months. The total build cost is going to be about $1,150 US including the cooler which I've already purchased. The main question I have is whether or not I should wait until the new 2011 architecture is released (Not sure when that will be), or will the 4930k be a good option? I'm looking for a system that will fill the holes mentioned above and a system that will serve me well and stable for another 4 to 5 years with a graphics card upgrade. (I plan to likely upgrade the GPU when the 800 series is released as there are no real compelling options to follow my 590 up with at this time.) I built my current system in 2010 minus the graphics card and would like to keep what I have here until 2018 - 2019 (Again, excluding the graphics card). Will likely edit for spelling and grammar. Thanks for your insight and for reading this wall of text