$3000 build!

[Pugilism]

I'm pretty excited to get this thing put together and have it running!

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BN388d

I've ordered everything except the second 780 Ti.

The whole build WITHOUT SLI should be done by Tuesday!

[XiaoPineApple]

4790k with a z87 board?

[Rheinwasser]

pictures!

bu you should have asked the forum before ordering..

[Pugilism]

4790k with a z87 board?

Is there a compatibility error?

[CJPowell27]

The price of that monitor is ridiculous 

and very umbalanced

[TheDEFYANTonE]

I agree, a Z87 board was a bad idea. Broadwell is ~6 months out, and you need Z97. I also agree with the monitor thing, my Acer is overclocked to 120Hz and it was $130. 

[Norman_the_Owl]

There's nothing glaringly wrong with that build, Z87 boards still work with the 4790k. It won't work for broadwell, but that won't affect you.

 

And yea, the monitor is expensive, but oh well. It's a great monitor.

[flibberdipper]

Most of the time you will need a regular Haswell CPU to flash the BIOS to get the Haswell Refresh CPU's to work properly. And that monitor is balls overpriced.

[Pugilism]

Well, once it's built and I test it a bit, i'll come back and post on how terrible my decision obviously was.

[alpenwasser]

Well, once it's built and I test it a bit, i'll come back and post on how terrible my decision obviously was.

Don't worry too much, folks on the internet sometimes get a bit enthusiastic

about giving advice. You post a build log, you'll usually get feedback, especially

if you make some unusual choices (heck, I'm sure there are more than a few

people who'd like to give me a slap on the head for building a 1366 system in

2013/2014, but that's not going to dissuade me ), but such is life.

[gylmir]

true there is nothing wrong with Z87 and Z97 is not that much better people have to think more with their brain

since most people won't use all the new and special features of the z97 boards and never will use them so why bother buying an mobo when you only use 20% of it for most people i speak.

 

its like alpenwasser says you can build older pc that will perform near to the new pc its like ugrading from 4770K to 4790k it will be better but just a waste of money for like 2% more performance if you already would need it.

i like your build and hope to see some pictures when you start it

 

and would you overclock the cpu? would like to see benchmarks to.

[Pugilism]

Well, i'm getting a refund for my z87 and getting a z97 instead.

[CyanOG]

Why are you buying thermal paste the 212 evo comes with thermal paste

[13CA350]

Why are you buying thermal paste the 212 evo comes with thermal paste

If something comes with thermal paste, you can almost always bet that it's not high quality

 

And you could almost do my build with one monitor and a 750 watt psu and maybe some other slight downgrades

[Trik'Stari]

All that, and only 8 gigs of ram? Should go for at least 16.