Computer config

[cathlabrob]

I'm trying to configure a new gaming rig.  I have a budget of about 5K.  This was from an online company but I think I may be able to build it cheaper.  Any suggestions as to how it can be improved?

 

 

 

 

00013 MTower™ PCIe Workstation (Base Configuration) $1,119.00

01839 Intel® Core™ i7 3970X @ 4.40GHz Hi-Perf. Silent Sealed Water Cooling 15MB Shared

L3 Cache DMI Six-Core VT (P9X79 DLX MoBo only) $1,199.00

02260 16GB DDR3 1866MHz Corsair® Vengeance Heatspread (Z87 or X79 MoBo only) $219.00

04467 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX TITAN 6GB DDR5 PCIe 1xDVI-I 1xDVI-D 1xHDMI 1xDP SLI Ready Kepler 2 Double Precision $999.00

05015 No Monitor (credit) ($140.00)

03168 480GB Solid State Drive Corsair® Neutron Series™ GTX SATA 6Gb/s 550/470MB/s Seq.R/W <.3ms seek Shock Resistant 1500G. 5 Yr. Mfg. Warranty $429.00

32137 Optional 480GB Solid State Drive Corsair® Neutron Series™ GTX SATA 6Gb/s 550/470MB/s Seq.R/W <.3ms seek Shock Resistant 1500G. 5 Yr. Mfg. Warranty $479.00

24001 RAIDMode 0 Performance RAID (SATA or SAS Ctrl. Requires 2x identical HD) $39.00

17012 HDD Std Ctrl. accordingly to Motherboard and HDD Type Selected Incl. w/ Base

23011 SATA/SAS bay module accordingly to case selected, May require add'l controller to support SAS drives. Incl. w/ Base

06061 DVD+RW/DL/+R-R/CD-RW Double Media 4.7/8.5GB 18x $29.00

41116 Blue Ray Burner+DVD+RW/DL/+R-R/CD-RW Double Media 25/50GB 2xwr/4xrd/12x $159.00

09007 On-Board sound accordingly to motherboard specifications Incl. w/ Base

12001 On-Board Network port(s) accordingly to motherboard specifications Incl. w/ Base

13001 Logitech® Corded Black Windows Keyboard Incl. w/ Base

14010 Logitech® Corded 2+ Wheel Mouse Black Optical Incl. w/ Base

16098 Genuine Microsoft® Windows® 8 Professional Edition 64-bit on DVD $59.00

22251 Asus® Rampage IV Extreme Intel® X79-4xPCIe 16x Mechanical (2x16x/3x8x16x- 8x+1x16x@8x)-Quad Ch. 8 Banks DDR3 1333/2400(O.C.)-1x1Gb Ethernet-

                   2xSATA6Gb+4sSATA3Gb RAID 0/1/10/5-Digital Audio-8CH-S/PDIF Quad SLI® EATX $219.00

44039 1300W Cooler Master™ SilentPro™ Hybrid- 80 Plus Gold 90% efficient- 135mm Hydraulic Dynamic Bearing Fan- Active PFC- RSD00-SPHAD3-US $209.00

49004 Vibration Dampener Power Supply Gasket - Installed $9.00

49003 Vibration Absorbers Silicone Case Fan Mounts/Washers - Installed $19.00

49002 Sound Dampening Acoustic Foam Material - Custom Cut Installed on Side Panels $39.00

27157 MTower™ CM-Elite™ 430 2x12cm Quiet Fans-Front Grid-2x Front USB- 3x 5 1/4" 7x 3 1/2" (No O.C. & Single CPU MoBo only) Incl. w/ Base

 

Sub Total: $5,085.00

 

[Samdb]

DO NOT buy a 3970X for gaming. Go for the 4670K.

You don't need 16GB of !866MHz, 8GB of 1600MHz will be fine.

You don't need a Titan, a 780 will be fine.

Change your motherboard to something like the Z87 Mpower.

And a 650W power supply will be fine. For the above specs.

You don't really need all of the sound dampening stuff.

 

I'll get you a build. Just don't waste your money on this.

[Volbet]

Is the system only for gaming, because if it is I would suggest you go with a 1150 build insted of a 2011 build. You will get all around better gaming performance. Also if you only plan on running one Titan you don't need a 1300W power supplie, go with 850W. 

 

Just for the next time, use PCPartPicker to list your parts, since it make it alot easier to make sense of.

[CoolBeans]

If you have 5k then I recommend a custom watercooling loop

[Hirad123]

Do what coolbeans said 

[sabot]

Do a multimonitor setup.

[CoolBeans]

This is if you do not need an OS the rest of the money is for a watercooling loop

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1lj77

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1lj77/by_merchant/

Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1lj77/benchmarks/

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($499.99 @ Microcenter) 

Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme EATX  LGA2011 Motherboard  ($415.99 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($200.57 @ TigerDirect) 

Storage: Samsung 840 Pro Series 512GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  ($439.99 @ NCIX US) 

Storage: Western Digital WD Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($270.99 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($675.98 @ SuperBiiz) 

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($675.98 @ SuperBiiz) 

Case: Corsair 900D ATX Full Tower Case  ($339.99 @ Microcenter) 

Power Supply: Corsair Professional 1050W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply  ($215.98 @ Newegg) 

Total: $3735.46

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-27 16:18 EDT-0400)

[cathlabrob]

Thanks all for the advice, I will do all that was mentioned above.  I already have two monitors.  I do some Adobe stuff but nothing that will tax any system.

[Samdb]

If you don't want a loop, go with this. However let me know if you want a custom loop.

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1lj7S

[s3ns3]

omg. just listen to these guys ! don`t do it !

[cathlabrob]

what a great website Coolbeans!

[CoolBeans]

 

This is if you do not need an OS the rest of the money is for a watercooling loop

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1lj77

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1lj77/by_merchant/

Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1lj77/benchmarks/

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($499.99 @ Microcenter) 

Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme EATX  LGA2011 Motherboard  ($415.99 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($200.57 @ TigerDirect) 

Storage: Samsung 840 Pro Series 512GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  ($439.99 @ NCIX US) 

Storage: Western Digital WD Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($270.99 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($675.98 @ SuperBiiz) 

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($675.98 @ SuperBiiz) 

Case: Corsair 900D ATX Full Tower Case  ($339.99 @ Microcenter) 

Power Supply: Corsair Professional 1050W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply  ($215.98 @ Newegg) 

Total: $3735.46

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-27 16:18 EDT-0400)

 

Maybe wait for Ivy-E and Samsung Evo drives

[SSOB]

I can make you a config in like 5 mins for 5k.

 

Of course get a comstom loop you want your system to look like this right?

(well it isn't going to look exactly the same like this cause well this is pretty impressive but you get the point)

[SSOB]

Maybe wait for Ivy-E and Samsung Evo drives

Samsung evo drives are actually not so good for professional aplications only normal constumer stuff , and it's a buget oriented ssd... he's got 5k to spend why would he buget on that and the 840 Pro is still better than the EVO 

(source , it's dutch but you can look at the graphs):

 

On the ivy-e part , i agree but the graphs on toms hardware show that it's going to have really similar performance to the current 2011 CPU's

[Overl0rd]

If you do want such a system, you should contact SingularityComputers on Youtubehttp://www.youtube.com/user/SingularityComputers

When it comes to ultimate watercooled rigs, he's the man for the job and a true professional.</p>

[CoolBeans]

Samsung evo drives are actually not so good for professional aplications only normal constumer stuff , and it's a buget oriented ssd... he's got 5k to spend why would he buget on that and the 840 Pro is still better than the EVO 

(source , it's dutch but you can look at the graphs):

 

On the ivy-e part , i agree but the graphs on toms hardware show that it's going to have really similar performance to the current 2011 CPU's

I did not know that about the Evo's, but I mainly recommend it because of the price to size. Still the Ivy-E is a little faster and is right around the corner.

[SSOB]

If you do want such a system, you should contact SingularityComputers on Youtubehttp://www.youtube.com/user/SingularityComputers

When it comes to ultimate watercooled rigs, he's the man for the job and a true professional.</p>

He asks wayyyyy too much for systems a basic 4670K watercooled with a 780 costs like 25% more than if you were do to it yourself , 25% maybe doesn't sound as much but if your spending 5K it's going to be 1.25K more that's alot IMO

[WoodenMarker]

You're gaming. I don't see how you need more than this: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1lkw5

[Overl0rd]

He asks wayyyyy too much for systems a basic 4670K watercooled with a 780 costs like 25% more than if you were do to it yourself , 25% maybe doesn't sound as much but if your spending 5K it's going to be 1.25K more that's alot IMO

It may be more money, but I can most certainly guarantee you that you won't get the same result if you do it yourself. I've watched a lot of his build logs and the sheer amount of detail and perfection he puts into it is unrivaled. It's not just some assembling, also case modding, painting et cetera. If you are spending this much on a pc, why don't turn it into a piece of art?

[SSOB]

It may be more money, but I can most certainly guarantee you that you won't get the same result if you do it yourself. I've watched a lot of his build logs and the sheer amount of detail and perfection he puts into it is unrivaled. It's not just some assembling, also case modding, painting et cetera. If you are spending this much on a pc, why don't turn it into a piece of art?

I'm talking basic stuff , no painting / big mods , if you want him to do that stuff he charges 20dollars an hour extra so it could end up in 10K that's not what you want if you aren't rich

[SSOB]

You're gaming. I don't see how you need more than this: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1lkw5

He is going to do adobe stuff too 

[WoodenMarker]

He is going to do adobe stuff too 

Bump to i7/16 gigs of ram. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1llmr

I doubt it's even that intensive though. He got 16gigs of ram in the original post ._.

[SSOB]

Bump to i7/16 gigs of ram. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1llmr

I doubt it's even that intensive though. He got 16gigs of ram in the original post ._.

But what if he is rich and really wants to spend 5K , he could get an awesome liquid cooled setup.. and asthetics matter :P

[WoodenMarker]

But what if he is rich and really wants to spend 5K , he could get an awesome liquid cooled setup.. and asthetics matter :P

That's up to him. 

[SSOB]

That's up to him. 

Of course