Big Budget Build Help

[littlepigboy5]

My friend has recently aquired a LARGE sum of money, unfortunately because a relative passed, but nonetheless he has asked me to plan and build him a pc costing anywhere up to 7k, obviously less is better.  If you guys want to throw at me a full parts list great, but I had a few questions.  I know that I want 980 tis(titan xs would be a waste of an extra 400) and the predator x34.  I am also going to do a full custom hardline tubing.  He doesn't play brand new triple AAA titles, he plays world of warcraft mostly.  (Trust me i get that this is overkill for what he plays, but he said he want's balls to the walls beautiful, and im gonna give it to him).  Do i want 3 980 tis if i am going to overclock the predator x34 as high as i can?  I think he will be fine with 2.  What case should I use?  Where should i look for watercooling parts, I have everything picked out on EK's website, but I feel like their is a better place to purchase watercooling parts, EK seems to be super premium, but if there isn't going to be a huge price difference, I'll stick with the stuff I have already picked out.  Those are my questions, but again, if anybody want's to put together a build with this stuff in mind, that would be great, too, i'd love to see some other opinions, Thanks.

 

EDIT:  BTW this is all in USD.  We live in the US.

[TheRandomness]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($374.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus X99-PRO/USB 3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($325.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill TridentZ Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($219.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($327.77 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($327.77 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($649.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($649.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($109.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($186.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Monitor: Acer Predator X34 100Hz 34.0" Monitor  ($1299.98 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $4473.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-01 11:49 EST-0500

When your RAM costs more than your case. Could save some money here and there.

[Omon_Ra]

I'd honestly wait until Pascal/Polaris comes out for the GPU's. Get a single 980ti until they drop if he wants it ASAP. Then you can make sure anything works and won't need RMA'ed after doing a custom loop. Two will probably be fine whatever you go with. Remember that SLI can cause some instability in certain games, so make sure the ones he plays work well with SLI. In his case it may be better to just get one top tier card and then add a second if he feels like he wants more. As far as a case goes, what does your friend want? Full tower, mid-tower, etc? I personally like mid/full towers as they're easier to build in, especially if you're doing custom watercooling.

[stealth80]

For the cooling I'm pretty sure there are other places in the US which you can buy from. On that budget I would go big case dual loops.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor  ($554.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI KRAIT EDITION ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($249.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($329.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($297.49 @ Micro Center)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($65.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($649.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($649.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($649.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($165.98 @ Newegg)
Monitor: Acer Predator X34 100Hz 34.0" Monitor  ($1299.98 @ NCIX US)
Total: $4914.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-01 11:51 EST-0500

 

That's what I would do, dual loops and a case from Caselabs. You could save quite a chunk going to a 5820K and 2x 980ti, but if you drop the processor you can't add a 3rd gpu

[tbroadwater2010]

This will be fun. I have belief that running more than 1 980ti for WoW is about idiotic but here you go anyway

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor  ($999.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus RAMPAGE V EXTREME EATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($505.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($679.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($84.98 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($84.98 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($196.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($649.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($649.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Corsair 750D ATX Full Tower Case  ($159.99 @ B&H) 
Power Supply: Corsair AX1500i 1500W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($392.36 @ B&H) 
Monitor: Acer Predator X34 100Hz 34.0" Monitor  ($1299.98 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $5705.22
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-01 11:50 EST-0500

That leaves you with around $1300 for water blocks, cooling and anything else. I would go with EK water cooling because i have heard good things. This is no holds barred, balls to the walls, no shits given, sexy build. Its way overkill and there are parts that are not necessarily worth the money but they will look BA in your case. 

[Zach TOm]

8 minutes ago, littlepigboy5 said:

My friend has recently aquired a LARGE sum of money, unfortunately because a relative passed, but nonetheless he has asked me to plan and build him a pc costing anywhere up to 7k, obviously less is better.  If you guys want to throw at me a full parts list great, but I had a few questions.  I know that I want 980 tis(titan xs would be a waste of an extra 400) and the predator x34.  I am also going to do a full custom hardline tubing.  He doesn't play brand new triple AAA titles, he plays world of warcraft mostly.  (Trust me i get that this is overkill for what he plays, but he said he want's balls to the walls beautiful, and im gonna give it to him).  Do i want 3 980 tis if i am going to overclock the predator x34 as high as i can?  I think he will be fine with 2.  What case should I use?  Where should i look for watercooling parts, I have everything picked out on EK's website, but I feel like their is a better place to purchase watercooling parts, EK seems to be super premium, but if there isn't going to be a huge price difference, I'll stick with the stuff I have already picked out.  Those are my questions, but again, if anybody want's to put together a build with this stuff in mind, that would be great, too, i'd love to see some other opinions, Thanks.

 

EDIT:  BTW this is all in USD.  We live in the US.

I would go to performance pcs for the watercooling parts and for the tubing and fittings primochill, blocks ek, radiators hardware labs, and for the case you could go with a case labs sma8. I'll hit you with a part list in a sec

[littlepigboy5]

9 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

For the cooling I'm pretty sure there are other places in the US which you can buy from. On that budget I would go big case dual loops.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor  ($554.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI KRAIT EDITION ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($249.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($329.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($297.49 @ Micro Center)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($65.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($649.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($649.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($649.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($165.98 @ Newegg)
Monitor: Acer Predator X34 100Hz 34.0" Monitor  ($1299.98 @ NCIX US)
Total: $4914.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-01 11:51 EST-0500

 

That's what I would do, dual loops and a case from Caselabs. You could save quite a chunk going to a 5820K and 2x 980ti, but if you drop the processor you can't add a 3rd gpu

That's what I wanted to do, could you recommend me a case that will fit dual loops?

[stealth80]

Well there is the Thermaltake X9/X5 which are pretty big, I'm using a X9 at the moment and it is huge, they aren't however high quality, which I think would spoil a build of this budget so maybe something like:

 

http://www.caselabs-store.com/mercury-s8/

[Zach TOm]

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/nDXZt6
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/nDXZt6/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor  ($554.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X99 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($308.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($149.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($327.77 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($327.77 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked ACX 2.0+ Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($639.99 @ Micro Center) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked ACX 2.0+ Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($639.99 @ Micro Center) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked ACX 2.0+ Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($639.99 @ Micro Center) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 1200W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($235.98 @ Newegg) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  ($87.95 @ OutletPC) 
Other: Case labs SMA8 ($650.00)
Other: Watercooling  ($2500.00)
Total: $7063.41
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-01 12:05 EST-0500

 

Look at jayztwocents for inspiration

[littlepigboy5]

2 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

Well there is the Thermaltake X9/X5 which are pretty big, I'm using a X9 at the moment and it is huge, they aren't however high quality, which I think would spoil a build of this budget so maybe something like:

 

http://www.caselabs-store.com/mercury-s8/

That looks beautiful, but I don't even know how I would build in that thing, could you link me to one?

[Zach TOm]

6 minutes ago, littlepigboy5 said:

That's what I wanted to do, could you recommend me a case that will fit dual loops?

The Case-Labs SMA8 is a great case

[Zach TOm]

1 minute ago, littlepigboy5 said:

That looks beautiful, but I don't even know how I would build in that thing, could you link me to one?

Don't go thermaltake their quality is awful for what type of build your going for. Look at jayztwocents's skunkworks 

[stealth80]

1 minute ago, Zach TOm said:

Don't go thermaltake their quality is awful for what type of build your going for. Look at jayztwocents's skunkworks 

Lol pretty much exactly what I said, however the build quality isn't "awful", just not on par with Caselabs, but then Caselabs is 2.5x more $$$ for a similar case

[Zach TOm]

4 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

Lol pretty much exactly what I said, however the build quality isn't "awful", just not on par with Caselabs, but then Caselabs is 2.5x more $$$ for a similar case

Well for a 7k build I would think the guy would want a good case

[littlepigboy5]

10 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

Lol pretty much exactly what I said, however the build quality isn't "awful", just not on par with Caselabs, but then Caselabs is 2.5x more $$$ for a similar case

I'm in the process of customizing the mercury s8 and I have a few questions, does caselabs have a support team I could talk to?

[stealth80]

13 minutes ago, Zach TOm said:

Well for a 7k build I would think the guy would want a good case

You do realise I recommended that exact case with that reasoning ...... 

27 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

Well there is the Thermaltake X9/X5 which are pretty big, I'm using a X9 at the moment and it is huge, they aren't however high quality, which I think would spoil a build of this budget so maybe something like:

 

http://www.caselabs-store.com/mercury-s8/

 

[brob]

The benefit of a 3rd gpu doesn't justify the cost IMO.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($411.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($399.00 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill TridentZ Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($229.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($297.49 @ Micro Center)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 2TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($617.99 @ Amazon)
Video: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING ($799.99 @ EVGA)
Video: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING ($799.99 @ EVGA)
Case: Inwin 909 BLACK ATX Full Tower Case  ($434.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($186.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Monitor: Acer Predator X34 100Hz 34.0" Monitor  ($1299.98 @ NCIX US)
Total: $5478.28
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