Gaming/creative proffessional editing rig...

[Akrobatiks]

Hey guys,

First of all, props to Linus for making the best PC component reviews on youtube!!

 

Just finished an upgrade build to my main creative rig. Im a proffessional photographer, so I use my machine for a lot of photo/video editing and also happen to be a gamer.

 

On a side note, you can check out my work here: www.jamielinkphotography.com

 

This build started because of a failing power supply that took forever to diagnose and sparked me to start the process of upgrading my machine that was about 4 years old. Im absolutely loving the new power, although my next step is to upgrade my monitor's and I'm not sure if my GTX 760's will hold up to 1440p or 4k gaming, so I'm going to be upgrading the Graphics Cards here in the next couple of weeks. Cant decide between 2 GTX 970's or if it would be worth it to drop the extra cash to grab 2 GTX 980's so if anyone has any suggestions it would be much apprecciated!!

 

My old machine specs were
     Core i7 950

     8gb Corsair Vengence DDR3 Ram

     2 - GTX 580's SLI

     1000w Thermaltake PSU

     Tri-Monitor Setup - 3 acer 22's

     250 GB Caviar Black HDD (for OS)

     - 2TB WD Caviar Black Hard Drive
     - 2 - 2TB Lacie Rugged External Hard Drives

     Thermaltake Armour Liquid Cooling Case (VH600LBWS) - I had a bigwater 760 on my previous build from like 8 years ago that failed and fried my previous CPU, so it was just sitting in the case unused

 

My new machine specs:

     Intel Core i7 4790K overclocked from 4Ghz to a stable 4.6Ghz
     Corsair H110 Closed Loop Liquid Cooling System
     16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 ram
     2 - GTX 760 SC's running in SLI
     1200w EVGA PSU
     Tri-Monitor Setup - 2 acer 22" & 1 Dell 24" Ultra-sharp High Color
     7 TB of hard drive space:
     - 512GB Crucial MX100 SSD (Running the Operating System)
     - 2TB WD Caviar Black Hard Drive
     - 2 - 2TB Lacie Rugged External Hard Drives
     - 500GB Samsung Hard Drive
     - 250GB Seagate Hard Drive (Acronis System Image Backup)

Here are the pics from the build -

 

[pyropanda1]

Nice build! Love that triple monitor wallpaper

[timemachine]

Sweet build! what made you go with the 760s?

[Akrobatiks]

The faulty power supply fried one of the PCI-e slots in my old motherboard and initially I thought one of my GTX 580's was fried. I got a really good deal on the 760's so I picked them up and they ran a lot cooler and faster then the 580's, so I kept them. But now Im looking to upgrade because they can struggle at times with ultra settings on Assassins Creed Unity and I want to be prepared for the new titles next year.

 

Just cant decide between spending the extra coin for 2 gtx 980's or just going with 2 gtx 970's to save some coin. 

[deguzi]

I cant remember which vid, but i recall linus saying 2 970's would probably be better than getting one 980. He is usually the type to recommend going for a single card solution but said that in this case the price to performance of the 970 sli setup is much more worthy than a single 980.

Someone can correct me if im wrong, but im just throwing it out there.

Flawless build btw

[mikeeginger]

The faulty power supply fried one of the PCI-e slots in my old motherboard and initially I thought one of my GTX 580's was fried. I got a really good deal on the 760's so I picked them up and they ran a lot cooler and faster then the 580's, so I kept them. But now Im looking to upgrade because they can struggle at times with ultra settings on Assassins Creed Unity and I want to be prepared for the new titles next year.

 

Just cant decide between spending the extra coin for 2 gtx 980's or just going with 2 gtx 970's to save some coin. 

Get the 970's way better value and nearly as good as the 980's 

use the saved money to get two none reference cards  

[Akrobatiks]

Hey guys,

 

So today I added one of my old GTX 580's into my rig to run my two side monitors. I was starting to get annoyed with switching back and forth from multi-monitor mode to "maximize 3D performance" when playing games and having to close several applications that conflict with the mode change.

It was pretty much plug and play and worked perectly after the intitial settings setup.

So far, its been working perfectly and its nice to have the other monitors displaying my temp and OC software while gaming!

[Akrobatiks]

Ok guys,

 

So I went ahead and jumped on two GTX 970 G1 Gaming cards a few days ago. Really happy with them so far, although I didnt do so well on the Overclock Lottery, because I cant get 3dMark stable past 1455Mhz. Even though Heaven will stay stable up to about 1505Mhz, 3dMark crashes every time until I back off to less than 1460Mhz.

 

Ah well, I'm running at 1920x1200 right now until I can grab one of those ASUS PG278Q ROG Swift 1440p monitors if I can ever find one in stock...