Crazy expensive build

[ShadowVision452]

I have an expensive plan and just was needing help finding some ram to fill the motherboard. It's max 64gb and 8 slots so I need all the slots filled and 64gb of ram too. Ddr4 also. I want to fill the slots because I don't want to see empty slots doing nothing. I don't want to spend $1000 on ram so Corsair Platinums are not what I want. I'm going for a more $400-$500 option instead. I'm going to be custom watercooling everything and making a custom from scratch desk to put it all in (clear plexiglass top to see all the glory). It's a white and black build theme. The HDD and SSD are on a great deal on Newegg, pcpartpicker doesn't have it though.

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/GgtwRB

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

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($549.19 @ Vuugo)

Motherboard: Asus X99-A/USB 3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($348.50 @ Vuugo)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($449.00 @ Canada Computers)

Storage: Western Digital Black 5TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($340.86 @ NCIX)

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB Superclocked Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($1409.50 @ Vuugo)

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB Superclocked Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($1409.50 @ Vuugo)

Power Supply: Corsair RMx 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($214.99 @ NCIX)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($128.00 @ shopRBC)

Total: $4849.54

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-23 20:43 EST-0500

[HKZeroFive]

Just get some aftermarket 980Tis...

 

There's literally no reason to get Titan Xs (unless if it's for a very, very specific purpose).

[desertcomputer]

980ti Aftermarket will be cheaper and perform better in games. 

[VinsinityKT]

I have an expensive plan and just was needing help finding some ram to fill the motherboard. It's max 64gb and 8 slots so I need all the slots filled and 64gb of ram too. Ddr4 also. I want to fill the slots because I don't want to see empty slots doing nothing. I don't want to spend $1000 on ram so Corsair Platinums are not what I want. I'm going for a more $400-$500 option instead. I'm going to be custom watercooling everything and making a custom from scratch desk to put it all in (clear plexiglass top to see all the glory). It's a white and black build theme. The HDD and SSD are on a great deal on Newegg, pcpartpicker doesn't have it though.

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/GgtwRB

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

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($549.19 @ Vuugo)

Motherboard: Asus X99-A/USB 3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($348.50 @ Vuugo)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($449.00 @ Canada Computers)

Storage: Western Digital Black 5TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($340.86 @ NCIX)

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB Superclocked Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($1409.50 @ Vuugo)

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB Superclocked Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($1409.50 @ Vuugo)

Power Supply: Corsair RMx 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($214.99 @ NCIX)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($128.00 @ shopRBC)

Total: $4849.54

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-23 20:43 EST-0500

Nothing says expensive like dominator platinums which are around 560 but G.Skill TridentZ are in your price range

[stealth80]

For start don't bother with the Titan X, get 2x 980ti and save yourself $800. Get windows for around $30 from G2A, that's $900 saved. Ok now What you could do is grab a 5930K and grab a 3rd 980ti

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor  ($738.00 @ Vuugo)
Motherboard: Asus X99-A ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($352.13 @ DirectCanada)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($449.00 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: Western Digital Black 5TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($340.86 @ NCIX)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($849.88 @ Canada Computers)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($849.88 @ Canada Computers)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($849.88 @ Canada Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair RMx 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($214.99 @ NCIX)
Total: $4644.62
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-23 21:11 EST-0500

 

 

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[ShadowVision452]

For start don't bother with the Titan X, get 2x 980ti and save yourself $800. Get windows for around $30 from G2A, that's $900 saved. Ok now What you could do is grab a 5930K and grab a 3rd 980ti

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($738.00 @ Vuugo)

Motherboard: Asus X99-A ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($352.13 @ DirectCanada)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($449.00 @ Canada Computers)

Storage: Western Digital Black 5TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($340.86 @ NCIX)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (3-Way SLI) ($849.88 @ Canada Computers)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (3-Way SLI) ($849.88 @ Canada Computers)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (3-Way SLI) ($849.88 @ Canada Computers)

Power Supply: Corsair RMx 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($214.99 @ NCIX)

Total: $4644.62

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-23 21:11 EST-0500

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Thanks for the Windows 10 tip! I'll for sure get it for that cheap! I'll upgrade to the 5930k CPU. Money isn't really the concern, I do realize I could save quite a bit on the Titan's vs 980ti but I really want to get Titan X and just have crazy cards with tons of ram. I'll have a 4K tv, 4K monitor and 1080p monitor to run. Only one I'll use at a time for gaming but I'll have the others running my stream and other programs. Any suggestions for RAM for it?

[ShadowVision452]

Just get some aftermarket 980Tis...

There's literally no reason to get Titan Xs (unless if it's for a very, very specific purpose).

The specific reason is to have crazy GPU's and I want to be fully covered with a viturally shared 24gb of RAM vs 12gb. 4K plus ever growing RAM needed for AAA titles will eat up the 980ti faster in the future than Titan's. Will it not?

[ShadowVision452]

Nothing says expensive like dominator platinums which are around 560 but G.Skill TridentZ are in your price range

Yeah they look nice but crazy expsensive lol. Alright thanks! I'll look into them:)

[GarnetDevil]

I'd rather go with 3-way SLI 980 Tis, destroys 2-way Titan X anyday

[HKZeroFive]

The specific reason is to have crazy GPU's and I want to be fully covered with a viturally shared 24gb of RAM vs 12gb. 4K plus ever growing RAM needed for AAA titles will eat up the 980ti faster in the future than Titan's. Will it not?

 

SLI doesn't work like that. It's only 12GB of VRAM. The VRAM doesn't add up.

 

6GB of VRAM is more than enough for games today and in the near future.

 

If you're spending money to get 2 Titan Xs, you might as well go three-way 980Tis...

[ShadowVision452]

How's this? Canada Computers has the RAM $200 cheaper than anyone else. Good deal by the looks of me. Will this RAM work for me?

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/4pQT6h

Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/4pQT6h/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($738.00 @ Vuugo)

Motherboard: Asus X99-A/USB 3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($348.50 @ Vuugo)

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 64GB (8 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($374.98 @ Canada Computers)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($449.00 @ Canada Computers)

Storage: Western Digital Black 5TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($340.86 @ NCIX)

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB Superclocked Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($1409.50 @ Vuugo)

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB Superclocked Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($1409.50 @ Vuugo)

Power Supply: Corsair RMx 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($214.99 @ NCIX)

Total: $5285.33

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-23 21:46 EST-0500

[ShadowVision452]

SLI doesn't work like that. It's only 12GB of VRAM. The VRAM doesn't add up.

6GB of VRAM is more than enough for games today and in the near future.

If you're spending money to get 2 Titan Xs, you might as well go three-way 980Tis...

I know it doesn't add up. It's just a secondary aid. Well Rainbow SIX Siege uses 4GB of GPU memory (not all max settings) and if you add 4K on top of that, that's close to 6GB being used. I'd rather be more then plenty safe and go with the Titan's 12GB. If you start to 3 way and 4 way SLI then performances start to decrease. Linus did a video on that for gaming.

[HKZeroFive]

I know it doesn't add up. It's just a secondary aid. Well Rainbow SIX Siege uses 4GB of GPU memory (not all max settings) and if you add 4K on top of that, that's close to 6GB being used. I'd rather be more then plenty safe and go with the Titan's 12GB. If you start to 3 way and 4 way SLI then performances start to decrease. Linus did a video on that for gaming.

 

If you use 2xAA, VRAM will be close to 6GB. Disable it and it's only about 4GB for Rainbow Six Siege on 4K Ultra.

 

An aftermarket 980Ti is going to overclock better than any Titan X. So save the money and get a 2-way 980Ti. You'll see slightly better performance.

[ShadowVision452]

I'd rather go with 3-way SLI 980 Tis, destroys 2-way Titan X anyday

For gaming, once you go with multiple GPU's performance starts to actually decrease. Linus did a Video on it. Here: http://youtu.be/UnS0xWtoRzk

[GarnetDevil]

I know it doesn't add up. It's just a secondary aid. Well Rainbow SIX Siege uses 4GB of GPU memory (not all max settings) and if you add 4K on top of that, that's close to 6GB being used. I'd rather be more then plenty safe and go with the Titan's 12GB. If you start to 3 way and 4 way SLI then performances start to decrease. Linus did a video on that for gaming.

Most Titan Xs are reference design (except EVGA's hydro copper and Gigabyte Xtreme, but they are crazily expensive), which means they are set to run at normal clock, for the money you spend you can actually get 3 980 Tis with aftermarket cooler and factory OC'd which bodied the Titan Xs ref anyday

The amount of RAM in GPU doesn't really matter in gaming (e.g: My 760 has 2Gb of ram, but when I play GTA V, I turn on Ignore ram suggestion limit and go up to 2.4GB and still runs at stable 60 FPS), only thing I see for a 12GB ram gpu to make sense is when you do 3D rendering and animation, what matters is the 980 Ti and the Titan X are close in terms of gaming performance and the most expensive 980 Ti is still probably $200 ~ $300 cheaper than the Titan X and is definitely better

 

So for gaming, Titan X is not a p/p choice, 980 Ti is

[ShadowVision452]

If you use 2xAA, VRAM will be close to 6GB. Disable it and it's only about 4GB for Rainbow Six Siege on 4K Ultra.

An aftermarket 980Ti is going to overclock better than any Titan X. So save the money and get a 2-way 980Ti. You'll see slightly better performance.

Yeah AA is needed less for 4K because of the pixel distance so RAM is reduced but I'm going to water cool them, so two over clocked Titan X's won't be out of the picture.

[GarnetDevil]

For gaming, once you go with multiple GPU's performance starts to actually decrease. Linus did a Video on it. Here: http://youtu.be/UnS0xWtoRzk

To be honest the scaling is mostly depend on how games utilize it, if a game sucks at scaling , hold your horses and wait for patch as well as new GPU driver

[ShadowVision452]

Most Titan Xs are reference design (except EVGA's hydro copper and Gigabyte Xtreme, but they are crazily expensive), which means they are set to run at normal clock, for the money you spend you can actually get 3 980 Tis with aftermarket cooler and factory OC'd which bodied the Titan Xs ref anyday

The amount of RAM in GPU doesn't really matter in gaming (e.g: My 760 has 2Gb of ram, but when I play GTA V, I turn on Ignore ram suggestion limit and go up to 2.4GB and still runs at stable 60 FPS), only thing I see for a 12GB ram gpu to make sense is when you do 3D rendering and animation, what matters is the 980 Ti and the Titan X are close in terms of gaming performance and the most expensive 980 Ti is still probably $200 ~ $300 cheaper than the Titan X and is definitely better,

So for gaming, Titan X is not a p/p choice, 980 Ti is

I'll be water cooling the cards, I'm not going to use reference coolers. Yes I know the RAM isn't need, now, but future games will have even better quality meaning more rendering needed. I will be renedering videos and doing some 3D programs too. Designing 3D creations that come to mind. I'm Canadian and with the Canadian rupes economy I'll be spending a meer $200 more and be upgrading to the EVGA Titan's from the EVGA 980Ti editions.

[ShadowVision452]

To be honest the scaling is mostly depend on how games utilize it, if a game sucks at scaling , hold your horses and wait for patch as well as new GPU driver

Yes it depends on the game and developers but I'm not going to wait months after each release until it gets to a playable state with drivers and updates. That's why the games are optimism end more for single and slightly dual because that's all they figure consumers will own for gaming.

[ShadowVision452]

Most Titan Xs are reference design (except EVGA's hydro copper and Gigabyte Xtreme, but they are crazily expensive), which means they are set to run at normal clock, for the money you spend you can actually get 3 980 Tis with aftermarket cooler and factory OC'd which bodied the Titan Xs ref anyday

The amount of RAM in GPU doesn't really matter in gaming (e.g: My 760 has 2Gb of ram, but when I play GTA V, I turn on Ignore ram suggestion limit and go up to 2.4GB and still runs at stable 60 FPS), only thing I see for a 12GB ram gpu to make sense is when you do 3D rendering and animation, what matters is the 980 Ti and the Titan X are close in terms of gaming performance and the most expensive 980 Ti is still probably $200 ~ $300 cheaper than the Titan X and is definitely better

So for gaming, Titan X is not a p/p choice, 980 Ti is

What settings do you run on GTA V for that?

[GarnetDevil]

What settings do you run on GTA V for that?

All very high, shadow high, FXAA on MSAA off, reflection AA x2, basically everything maxed except shadow

 

[ShadowVision452]

All very high, shadow high, FXAA on MSAA off, reflection AA x2, basically everything maxed except shadow

Oh nice, pretty good for a 760!

[GarnetDevil]

Oh nice, pretty good for a 760!

It's very optimized, plus mine's factory Oc'd

[ShadowVision452]

It's very optimized, plus mine's factory Oc'd

Yeah, that's good man. I understand the price to performance part of the Titans and 980ti but I want to just make a completely bad ass and awesome looking build. I'm redoing my entire room(paint, remove closet, new window, hardwood floor) and build a custom desk from wood and have a plexiglass top to see the water cooled pc and LEDs to light it all up nicely. White and black PC theme. It'll be expensive and a long project but I think it'll turn out amazing. I'll be posting updates and so forth on the Build logs but I'm still in planning and design obviously and have to save a slight amount of money. Thanks for your help and advice though man!

[stealth80]

If money no object Corsair Dominator ram is about the best and it looks nice