4000$+ Computer build

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My Budget is about 4000$'s Canadian although I am likely going to go higher how much higher about 4500$'s including tax and shipping. Which is why I picked 4000$'s as my primary budget (yay taxes)

I currently live in Canada and due to my location I prefer to use www.memoryexpress.com as my retailer of choice because of price beat and cheaper shipping drives their cost well below NCIX and newegg. I have all the peripherals I could ever need I have multiple keyboards, mice, and dual 1080p HD tv's being used as my monitor. ( I am well aware of the atrocious frame and delay problems.)

This computer will be a Gaming/ Home Media PC, on my offday's I will be diving into games when I am working and I get home I like to watch movies or TV shows as well as my favorite Youtube channels on it until I fall asleep.

I do overclock but I do it only when my hardware starts showing its age; I don't like to screw around and manually adjust my own voltages I usually just use the stock motherboard profiles for overclocking.  I will be using a closed loop water cooler on my system, and will likely in the future be installing a closed loop system on the videocards. I am not interested in doing a custom loop; I have in the past but I don't want to go through that hassle again.

I will be buying another copy of Windows 7 and its meager price is included in the 4000$ budget.

When I game I'd like to game at the highest settings I can given the hardware I will be investing in and I'd like to get 50-60FPS+ I usually game at 1920 by 1080. I play pretty much every type of game from RTS, TCG, FPS, but I strongly focus on Sandbox type games whether they are RPG to games like GTA. Although RPG's are my favorites.

What I'm looking at  building is:

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/T27pmG

I'll be recycling 2 old WD Black 1TB drives and 1 Seagate 2TB drives.

 

 

Other Notes:

I want to stay with the case I've chosen and I'd like to stay with an Asus Brand motherboard, as they have always treated me well even in situations when I had to RMA boards. I could probably downgrade my PSU, and I could be swayed on a different videocard combination. 

 

 

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  • Maybe wait until the GTX 880s are released.
  • You don't need 1300 W of power. 800 W would be sufficient.
  • Motherboard is overkill, I would recommend a ROG motherboard such as the Maximus VII Extreme when it's released, good for overclocking.
  • At such a large budget, I would consider 1440p gaming rather than two 1080p monitors.
  • Maybe consider a better SSD such as the Samsung 840 Pro or Corsair Neutron GTX.
  • Split the 4 TB hard drive into 2 smaller ones to increase stability.
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Fine suggestions, any idea when the 880's are due to hit the market?

the 1300W PSU is onsale right now on memory express for 220$'s after the rebate , I can get a Fractal design 800W 80+gold for 150$'s  or I can get a strider gold 1000W for 220$'s. I find powersupply's to be really tricky when choosing the right one. because of the 20,50,100% efficiency ratings. I am trying to pick  one that will be efficient where my computer is at most of the time which is basically @ idle as its a media station 10/14days. (too tired to game after work, working 10 on 4 off.) This is efficiency for the sake of being anal though because I have a stabilized powerbill where I pay a flat rate all year round I can leave all my lights my AC, and all my electric heaters on 24/7 and my bill doesn't get higher.

Watching Jays2cents video about what his actual power draw from the wall under load vs. idle then considering how much more power the 780's use vs the single 580,and the fact that it will be housing 5 harddrives, and have multiple devices hooked to it at all times; I thought a rough estimate of 200-220 Idle/ watching movies would be about right but I'm probably wrong and I am definitely overthinking it. Also I could recycle the 1000W stridergold in my current PC and get a 650-750 replacement for it.

Fairpoint about the motherboard, I was looking for something to give me the option for thunderbolt and alot of onboard USB ports (have 9 devices, 2 keyboards, 2 Mice, webcam, Mixamp, Gamepad, Tablet, and Ipod connected likely more in the future). Any suggestions on what to pick instead staying inside the Asus brand?

I'd go fora  higher display but I am using 2 46" 1080P Toshiba TV's as my monitors right now given the distance I sit away from them (about 8-10') I can't go to smaller higher definition displays right now, and upgrading to 4k  would be prohibitively expensive so I'm sort of stuck where I'm at right now until 4k and 1440P displays become more available/ affordable.

I've heard good things about the 840pro the Sandisk choice was made to show support for them sponsoring a recent SCII tournament as well as generally positive reviews. the 840 pro is actually 55$'s off right now so it does make more sense to go that way.

The 4TB harddrive isn't actually gonna stay in the system I left that part out. I am buying it in preparation for getting a NAS server up and running. Ultimately I will in 1-2 months time be stripping all the harddrives except the SSD, the 2tb Seagate + 1TB black drive out of my system.

 

I should have been a little bit more specific about what my longterm plan is.

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careful with that board .. i went though 6 of them in 3 days because the CPU fan pins were bad - asus dropped the ball on quality control with it

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Bro wait for X99 and Nvidia 800 series Or Amd Next line of Video cards(when do those come out I have no idea.) But it will be Next year. But X99 is later this year and it will blow Current Cpus out of the water. with DDR4 and all the goodies.

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If you are always waiting for the next best thing to come out with computers you are waiting forever and you never build anything at all. There will always be a next thing on the horizon that will blow everything away. There comes a point where you pull the trigger on that. For me that's when my current computer hits the age of 5 years old which it just did. In that case I buy the best of what is available at the time. I wont feel let down or disappointed that I didn't wait because that is the reality of building a computer/ the nature of technology.

 

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thanks for the heads up on that one, I've been looking at alot of boards, and the more I think about it staying brand loyal to just asus might not make sense so If someone can recommend another quality option with similar features that people will vouch for I'll go that route.

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I agree that waiting for new computer components to be released is pointless, but the X99 chipset and Maxwell architecture is going to be released quite soon though so you may as well wait for the new products.

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I have the p9x79 and the deluxe .. i recommend both boards sorry if i scared you - just that worry some people wait a while to build there computer and by the time they realize something is wrong its past the store warranty and they will have to deal with asus rma, its probably one of the worst rma processes that i know of *even if its a mistake on there end they want you to pay for shipping, i would understand if they were a small company but at some point they should man up 

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"2H 2014" im hoping a hard date will be announced in august :( but im not holding my breath 

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fair enough but the wife like unit made the comment to just order it now before she decides that going on a 3rd vacation this year is a better use of the money so kind of have to make the choice before this occurs.

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the only things different i would do is a cheaper, case, water loop, motherboard, and a 32gb ram kit instead of 2 separate kits (once in blue moon 2 kits work play together well)

the crosair h100i is $100

the motherboard you want without all the extras is about $280

also you can buy a much cheaper case to .. like the thermaltech - Core V71

for power id look for a 1000w platinum - it will still be cheaper then the one you picked