Ultimate <$2500 Workstation

[CNGaming38]

I'm looking for the ultimate Gaming/Recording/Rendering PC, for under $2500 Canadian, including Monitors and other peripherals, i.e. Mouse and keyboard (Preferably Mechanical with Cherry MX Browns). This is what I have right now, but it goes quite a bit over budget, I'm just tempted to completely remove one of the monitors, but i'd rather keep all three, so i'm just looking for suggestions, tips, advice, and frankly a little bit of help choosing my parts.

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/4KygHx

Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/4KygHx/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($449.99 @ Amazon Canada) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($117.77 @ DirectCanada) 

Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI Plus ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($249.99 @ NCIX) 

Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($216.76 @ DirectCanada) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($134.99 @ Canada Computers) 

Storage: Western Digital Red 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($114.90 @ DirectCanada) 

Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card  ($403.98 @ Newegg Canada) 

Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($99.99 @ NCIX) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($104.98 @ Newegg Canada) 

Monitor: BenQ GL2460HM 60Hz 24.0" Monitor  ($175.50 @ Vuugo) 

Monitor: BenQ GL2460HM 60Hz 24.0" Monitor  ($175.50 @ Vuugo) 

Monitor: BenQ XL2411Z 144Hz 24.0" Monitor  ($289.99 @ Amazon Canada) 

Keyboard: Corsair Vengeance K70 Wired Gaming Keyboard  ($148.98 @ DirectCanada) 

Mouse: Razer ABYSSUS Wired Optical Mouse  ($38.50 @ Vuugo) 

Total: $2721.82

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-23 20:00 EDT-0400

[Fluxx]

How much rendering are you doing?

 

You could go with a 4790k instead.

[thekeemo]

1. cheaper cooler 212 evo is enough

2. cheaper monitors a 22" 1080p ips is $140 

3. a 290x is $380

[Kermit]

By buying only from NCIX, your paying almost $150 more than you normally would, if that bothers you.

[Zauski]

You could get away with a Xeon.

[MRE Teck]

gfy

[Wirbelfeld]

Are you actually doing a ton of serious 3D rendering and XFX? If not lose the i7 and you should be within your budget.

[CNGaming38]

How much rendering are you doing?

 

You could go with a 4790k instead.

I'm not planning on heavily rendering, but it will be 30-40 minute clips once or twice a day, which may not justify the 6 core, but it's only 30 bucks more or so for 6 cores compared to 4, so I think it's worth it, yanno, you got to have the future proofing.

 

1. cheaper cooler 212 evo is enough

2. cheaper monitors a 22" 1080p ips is $140 

3. a 290x is $380

1) The Hyper 212 evo won't be enough for the heavy overclocking I'm planning on doing,

2) I'd rather not get such a small monitor, I might switch the 24 inch ones to 22 inch ones, but I need my 24 inch, 144 hz one for my main gaming and such

3) That is true, but I've had relatively awful experiences with AMD in the past, but I may switch if it offers higher performance, I haven't done a ridiculous amount of looking up benchmarks.

[CNGaming38]

Are you actually doing a ton of serious 3D rendering and XFX? If not lose the i7 and you should be within your budget.

I've heard that it's a significant bonus from going to an i5 to an i7 in terms of the video rendering that I'll be doing, plus, if I buy the 5820k now, I won't have to upgrade nearly as quickly, and theoretically, my CPU will only get better as games adapt to multithreading and having more cores.

[thekeemo]

I'm not planning on heavily rendering, but it will be 30-40 minute clips once or twice a day, which may not justify the 6 core, but it's only 30 bucks more or so for 6 cores compared to 4, so I think it's worth it, yanno, you got to have the future proofing.

 

1) The Hyper 212 evo won't be enough for the heavy overclocking I'm planning on doing,

2) I'd rather not get such a small monitor, I might switch the 24 inch ones to 22 inch ones, but I need my 24 inch, 144 hz one for my main gaming and such

3) That is true, but I've had relatively awful experiences with AMD in the past, but I may switch if it offers higher performance, I haven't done a ridiculous amount of looking up benchmarks.

290x = 970 in gaming

290x > 970 in openCL