Okay, so I have need of a new system as I am presently using a 5 year old Samsung 15" laptop that is starting to show it's age and I have now enrolled back into uni as a mature age student.
I have some spare cash for the build so it needn't be to stingy but the primary goal is to future proof it as much as possible and it has to be able to easily run 3 or 4 27" or above monitors one of which must be 4k. They will be used for photographic and video manipulation
As I live in Australia, some parts may not be easily available down here so choose carefully. If I pick a build scenario from any replies that I receive, I will happily post pics etc once purchased.
Thanks for reading and your suggestions. :)
Michael
stupid international shipping to Straya....
G'day by the way!
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Throwing a list together for ya.
Ok, so this is top-end, since you said budget wasn't a big issue and you want quite a number of expensive monitors.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qJfq8d
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sadly, many of your suggested components are not readily available here in Oz... including the mobo, video card and they want $2339.00 for the 4K monitor!!!
Under no circumstance do I recommend the 9590 really, A 5820k will destroy it at not so much of a higher price, Hell a 4690k at slightly lower clocks has almost the same multi-threaded performance. The main issue with this though is ofcourse the pretty high pricing on DDR4.
It's not a bad CPU in and of itself.
You said you budget wasn't an issue. :P
Didnt say I wanted to throw my money away though... lol.
PCCG, MSY, PLE, Netplus, Centrecom, M-Wave..... any of those nearby for local pickup? Cause your wallet will be 'Lannistered' by the postage costs.
What budget roughly? If you intend on doing any AAA gaming then expect the build price to astronimical.
If not then bulk out on a X99 combo + whatever gpu will suit + storage needs - Do you need RAID? etc..
Heres a very rough build list that is probably well over your budget. But hey you didnt specify one.
http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/vTVsrH
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If you're going to run 3 monitors, usually you'd want them all to be the same size
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Not going to be used for gaming, just to have 3 seperate things happening at once one needing the higher resolution monitor.
Okay, so pinching some of the suggested builds so far, this is the rig as it presently stands: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/mGpq8d - comments are very welcome.
Thx especially to deejeta, I really liked your choice of graphics card (water block to cool & loose the red??)
I'm just tinkering with ram, fans, watercooler stuff and power supply to fit the gunmetal colour case and chrome/silver/shinneeeey mobo.... again suggestions welcome. :)
What a beast!! .... do you really need win7 ultimate though? pro supports large RAM amounts as well.
heres a cheap mechanical kb that just come up on ozbargain today - instead of the k40
http://www.msy.com.au/viconline/peripherals/12184-steel-series-64225kb6gv2-6gv2-cherry-black-professional-mechanical-keyboard.html
Seven is just a band-aide until ten arrives and then - "we shall see what we shall see" As for rhe keyboard - as long as it has chetty brown I'm not fussed either way...
Why not just get a 980ti, or wait a week and see what AMD is coming out with?
and if it isn't for gaming why the 980 SLI?
Streetguru - SLI for accelerated video decoding and processing (mostly so I don't have to hang around too long waiting) gpu over cpu is the way of the future with rendering in my humble opinion... as always though, I am open to suggestions.
Isn't that more of a workstation card kinda thing though.
http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/6sBDdC 980's are bad rendering cards. They are much slower then 290x's in video rendering and general compute performance. The 290x's with the 8gb's of v-ram can manipulate footage and pictures much faster then a 980 can handle. The 8gb's of v-ram allow for tons of footage to be offloaded to your graphics card, which allows for extremely fast access and scrubbing of the footage. The compute performance of a 290x is greater then a Titan X in OpenCL by a large multiple. This means that in rendering a 290x sprints through projects.
streetguru - perhaps, but this will also be my personal rig and therefore I am after versatility as well as 'future proofing' if there really is such a thing... lol.
thecaveman - your suggestion brought the price down considerably which is always good - why that particular mobo?