Building for a buddy... What do you think?

[Søren Bjerg]

This guy is giving me a budget of 10k AUD lol

Please tell me which colour you want your sleeving, it’s very important to make your build neat!

Motherboard:

ASUS X99-DELUXE LGA 2011-3 Motherboard - 539

http://www.mwave.com.au/product/asus-x99deluxe-intel-lga-20113-atx-motherboard-ab56606

Awesome motherboard that supports the monster that is the i7-5960x.

Has 8 DIMM slots so I can install 8x8 sticks of DDR4 ram.

Looks awesome

FIVE PCIE slots – up to 3 GPUs supported

Up to 3200 mhz memory speed supported

10x USB 3.0 slots

Processor:

I7-5960x Extreme 8 Core 2011-3 3 GHZ CPU – 1338.99

http://www.mwave.com.au/product/intel-core-i7-5960x-extreme-haswelle-8core-lga-20113-30ghz-cpu-processor-ab56567

20mb of L3 Cache (awesome)

8 Cores

Low base clock but can be overclocked

It is i7 so it supports hyper threading

RAM

2x G.Skill Ripjaws 4 32GB (4x 8GB) 2400mhz DDR4 ram - 699

http://www.mwave.com.au/product/gskill-ripjaws-4-32gb-4x-8gb-2400mhz-quad-channel-ddr4-red-ab57851

2 kits for a total of 64gb of ram

Very fast ram

Looks cool

DDR4 so it is very power efficient

Storage

Intel 730 480GB SSD – 295

http://www.mwave.com.au/product/intel-730-480gb-25-sata-iii-ssd-retail-ssdsc2bp480g4r5-ab54192

480GB of super fast storage… enough said

WD Black 4TB – 284.99

http://www.mwave.com.au/product/wd-wd4003fzex-4tb-black-35-7200rpm-sata3-hard-drive-ab52542

WD is a very nice brand, lots of storage

7200RPM hdd

Graphics Card

Winfast Leadtek GTX 980 Hurricane - 729

http://www.mwave.com.au/product/leadtek-winfast-geforce-gtx-980-hurricane-4gb-video-card-ab58299

One of these 980s, and I give you my other 2 (which are basically brand new)

Have really good cooling

Very quiet

And to replace my two 980s, I would take 2 of these - 1478

http://www.cplonline.com.au/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-980-4gb-graphic-card-gv-n980d5-4gd-b.html

Same price as you would normally pay, but we both benefit here

3 Way SLI Bridge – 29.99

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=26013&cPath=1587

Operating System

Windows 8.1 Professional - 169

http://www.mwave.com.au/product/microsoft-windows-81-professional-64bit-dvd-oem-ab52159

DVD Burner

ASUS DVD Burner – 19.99

http://www.mwave.com.au/product/asus-drw24d3st-24x-internal-oem-dvd-burner-drive-ab49180

Nothing special here, you don’t need anything insane for a dvd burner

Blu-ray

Pioneer Internal Blu-ray Burner Drive - 85

http://www.mwave.com.au/product/pioneer-15x-internal-sata-oem-bluray-burner-drive-bdr209db-ab52546

Same as before

Power Supply

Corsair AX1500i 80+ Titanium ATX PSU – 529

Fully modular

Extremely power efficient

Looks awesome

Case

To house this monster…

Corsair 750d Full tower - 199

http://www.mwave.com.au/product/corsair-obsidian-750d-full-tower-case-ab51781

Just a great case

Fans

5x Noctua 140 NF-A14 Industrial 3000RPM Fan - 175

http://www.mwave.com.au/product/noctua-140mm-nfa14-industrial-ppc-ip52-3000rpm-pwm-fan-ab55447

Total

$6570.96

^ This is what I'm sending him as a first build, what do you think?

He wants to do surround gaming with 3 monitors, he builds racing sims. 1440p or 4K is what he wants.

He also does some editing and stuff, I know this is extremely overkill but that is what he wants.

Thanks

Forgot to add that I'm putting in the kraken x61

[kwljunky]

 

10k? 

Any chance you are feeling charitable?

[Søren Bjerg]

10k? 

Any chance you are feeling charitable?

haha 

I'm hoping he pays me

[Castdeath97]

Maybe put a larger sad while you can.

[kwljunky]

haha 

I'm hoping he pays me

Are you not taking the money up front? 

[Søren Bjerg]

Are you not taking the money up front? 

He's my friend, I don't need payment. 

 

 

 

pls gibe me 17 titan blacks friend

[Søren Bjerg]

Maybe put a larger sad while you can.

Don't think he needs that. Although I'll ask

[kwljunky]

He's my friend, I don't need payment. 

 

 

 

pls gibe me 17 titan blacks friend

Ah ok, what monitor are you going for? 

 

[Linux User]

Raid 8 ssds like Linus CUZ WHY NOT

[Analog]

I would go with this board if this is more of workstation system. -> http://www.asus.com/us/Commercial_Servers_Workstations/X99E_WS/ 

[Lutkeveld]

1) I don't believe you

2) If this is true, don't bother. If you have to ask on a forum, 10k is too much of a responsibility for you.

Let a shop build it and have proper warranty.

[Gloxxy]

I'd possibly buy 2 x 480GB SSDs and Raid 0 them to get a proper read/write speed boost.

[Søren Bjerg]

Ah ok, what monitor are you going for? 

 

He is choosing those, probably three 4K monitors. He will run them at 1440p he says and then eventually run at 4K when it's possible to do triple 4k gaming.

[Søren Bjerg]

1) I don't believe you

2) If this is true, don't bother. If you have to ask on a forum, 10k is too much of a responsibility for you.

Let a shop build it and have proper warranty.

1) If I remember I'll post picks

2) There is no problem with asking the Linus forum for tech tips, that's the point of the forum, I'm making sure that this is all good. 

[Søren Bjerg]

I would go with this board if this is more of workstation system. -> http://www.asus.com/us/Commercial_Servers_Workstations/X99E_WS/ 

It's not a workstation, it's primarily gaming.

[Lutkeveld]

If I knew my buddy needs to verify things on a forum I wouldn't trust him with my 10k for a pc.

[Analog]

It's not a workstation, it's primarily gaming.

 

Ok, still, this is a much better board.

[Guest]

He is choosing those, probably three 4K monitors. He will run them at 1440p he says and then eventually run at 4K when it's possible to do triple 4k gaming.

Just buy 3 x 1440p 27" ROG Monitors from the off if you have $10K budget. You won't be doing 4K triple monitor gaming for some time yet as cards are nowhere near powerful enough for that.

 

And don't get a 5960X if it is just for gaming. It is a massive waste of money. Just go for an i7 4790K if you want a strong cpu.