NEW RIG IN THE WORKS

[BeastManKinSlayer]

Case: Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow edition

Power Supply: Corsair AX1500i

Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus V Rampage

CPU: Intel COre i7-5960x

RAM: 64 GB (8x8GB) Kit of Corsair Dominator Platinum

Storage: 5x4TB Western Digital RED in RAID 5 with 1 Samsung 850 Evo 120GB SSD boot drive

GPU: 4x EVGA Geforce GTX 980 in SLI

Display: 3x BenQ EW2750ZL 1080p monitors.

 

          To my knowledge, there are no compatibility issues, but I could have missed something. At the time of posting, this rig will cost me $6,917.40 USD

[Charcoal_]

Uh... That's quite a lot...

[SeanAngelo]

2 minutes ago, BeastManKinSlayer said:

Case: Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow edition

Power Supply: Corsair AX1500i

Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus V Rampage

CPU: Intel COre i7-5960x

RAM: 64 GB (8x8GB) Kit of Corsair Dominator Platinum

Storage: 5x4TB Western Digital RED in RAID 5 with 1 Samsung 850 Evo 120GB SSD boot drive

GPU: 4x EVGA Geforce GTX 980 in SLI

Display: 3x BenQ EW2750ZL 1080p monitors

 

 

terrible

[IAcKI]

So are you actually going to buy this?

[Charcoal_]

Just now, IAcKI said:

So are you actually going to buy this?

Going by the other 3 posts they've made, yes...

[BeastManKinSlayer]

Yeah, I kinda already have the money set aside. Waiting until my tax return comes in

[jcw150]

Only a 120GB SSD? and 980 instead of 980ti?

[jcw150]

and only 1080p monitors... surely an ultrawide on its own would be better 

 

EDIT: unless you are using this build for a simulator

[BeastManKinSlayer]

1 minute ago, jcw150 said:

Only a 120GB SSD? and 980 instead of 980ti?

The SSD is just for booting

Just now, jcw150 said:

and only 1080p monitors... surely an ultrawide on its own would be better 

The 1080p's are just a holdover until I can get my hands on a couple Predator X34's

[SeanAngelo]

3 minutes ago, BeastManKinSlayer said:

Yeah, I kinda already have the money set aside. Waiting until my tax return comes in

sorry but its such a bad rig.... i dont see why you would wanna spend a huge amount of money on that.

[BeastManKinSlayer]

Just now, SeanAngelo said:

sorry but its such a bad rig.... i dont see why you would wanna spend a huge amount of money on that.

It is capable of running what I need running.

[SeanAngelo]

Just now, BeastManKinSlayer said:

It is capable of running what I need running.

but.... you could do so much better than that.

[jcw150]

1 minute ago, BeastManKinSlayer said:

The SSD is just for booting

The 1080p's are just a holdover until I can get my hands on a couple Predator X34's

I still think a large SSD would be wanted to keep the system feeling sharp and responsive.

 

Just now, BeastManKinSlayer said:

It is capable of running what I need running.

Which is?

[BeastManKinSlayer]

But I'm open to constructive criticism. What would be a better 4 Way SLI rig?

[BeastManKinSlayer]

My budget is 7500 USD, so if you have any better ideas, please let me know

 

[Hackentosher]

What are you doing that will need this much horsepower? Also more than 2 or 3 cards is going to be a waste as the scaling is not going to allow the cards to be 100% efficient in that configuration. Also, lose the 1080p panels, one of the cards, downgrade to a 5930k, spend the money you saved on some nicer monitors and a bigger ssd.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, BeastManKinSlayer said:

But I'm open to constructive criticism. What would be a better 4 Way SLI rig?

2 way SLI 980Ti's lmao 

after 2 GPU's performance cripples 

[jcw150]

Just now, BeastManKinSlayer said:

But I'm open to constructive criticism. What would be a better 4 Way SLI rig?

2 way sli 980ti because

• of problems with microstuttering at 3/4 way SLI
• massive amounts of heat and power usage
• money
• no room for more expansion

[Hackentosher]

Just now, BeastManKinSlayer said:

My budget is 7500 USD, so if you have any better ideas, please let me know

 

Honestly you should probably be spending like $3k on a rig even for 4k/ultrawide/vr gaming. We really need to know what you're doing to make a good suggestion on hardware.

[BeastManKinSlayer]

Will it be capable of running 4 VM's? LAN parties are a pretty frequent, and my gaming room is limited for space. The four of us can't pile into it with all of our rigs.

[Hackentosher]

Just now, BeastManKinSlayer said:

Will it be capable of running 4 VM's? LAN parties are a pretty frequent, and my gaming room is limited for space. The four of us can't pile into it with all of our rigs.

OOOOHHHH. YOU WANT TO DO 4 GAMERS 1 CPU!!! Why didn't you say so?

[jcw150]

1 minute ago, BeastManKinSlayer said:

Will it be capable of running 4 VM's? LAN parties are a pretty frequent, and my gaming room is limited for space. The four of us can't pile into it with all of our rigs.

for 4 VMs you will need more than 8 cores really

 

if the other people have there own rigs ask them to bring their own graphics card (that's what I do with my girlfriend)

[BeastManKinSlayer]

2 minutes ago, jcw150 said:

for 4 VMs you will need more than 8 cores really

 

if the other people have there own rigs ask them to bring their own graphics card (that's what I do with my girlfriend)

The only problem with that is that the PC will also be my personal rig, and I would really rather not take out GPU's every other weekend. Total first-world problem, but meh

[Hackentosher]

1 minute ago, BeastManKinSlayer said:

The only problem with that is that the PC will also be my personal rig, and I would really rather not take out GPU's every other weekend. Total first-world problem, but meh

Why don't you build a totally reasonable $1500 main rig, and then toss together a couple of LAN rigs using older hardware. Get a couple of 680's and 2500k's, that would be much more effective and less of a hassle to manage.

[jcw150]

Just now, BeastManKinSlayer said:

The only problem with that is that the PC will also be my personal rig, and I would really rather not take out GPU's every other weekend. Total first-world problem, but meh

Taking out GPUs is very easy.

 

Here's the main issues, if you have 4 GPUs you will need one other (like in linus's video) for unraid VGA out so you will have to use a board like the one Linus used in 7 gamers.