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Alright, I've been wanting to upgrade my laptop for a while, and now I'm ready to make the jump, but I need some advice My main work uses are Autodesk Inventor for some product design, no stress tests or analysis work to speak of, but I'd also like to get into animation and video editing encoding. Also it has to be able to have two monitors to begin with and be upgradable to four. As far as games are concerned, it should be able to run CS:GO at >100 FPS, and BF4, Titanfall and Starcraft at ~60. 

Ideally, the main focus for components should be upgradability. A full ATX mobo is a must. No need to have too many SATA Ports as I should have a NAS before I have too much data, but onboard RAID is still a good idea. I won't be overclocking or I'll be making the case myself,(will post more on this later) so no need to worry about that. The power supply should probably modular, and > 750 Watts. The rest ill leave up to the forum with this and some other general information as a base. The budget for the computer internals is probably around $650, but That can be increased and I can save for it for a bit longer. Not yet released components can be added in if you think they will make a considerable difference. I wont be building this until the end of the summer or later if need be.

 

Thanks in advance for all the help ladies and gents of Tek.

Other info:

Location: Indiana, US

No need to worry about a mouse or keyboard

I'm handling the monitor(s)

I prefer AMD, but I could be swayed otherwise.

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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3RhQS

The only thing really saving face for the AMD FX series at this point is its massive overclocking capability with unlocked processors down the whole line. They are decent for CAD builds, but Intel dominates the productivity world currently (and will continue to do so for at least the next two years, when AMD is set to refresh the FX series). All that being said, the FX line is still a decent processor, and is close to half the cost, but you would notice a small to significant difference between a stock FX6300 (or 8350 for that matter) and Haswell refresh 4590 in processor intensive CAD usage... you could, however, afford a better GPU, 16GB ram, or SSD if you went with the FX 6300...

You could save $10 and get the MSI H97 board if you don't require built in RAID...

I would recommend 16GB of DDR3-1600+ memory, but the price had me handcuffed... especially for animation and video editing...

For the GPU, you'll find the R9 270 to be far superior to the 750 ti, and should handle Titanfall at ~60 constant FPS (anything over 60FPS would be superfluous for a 60hz monitor)... I would not, however, recommend it for dual monitor gaming... but really there isn't anything on the market you can afford at $650 guts price point that will game smoothly on a dual monitor setup...

I would also recommend a 120GB SSD boot/core program drive, but again, more $$$... (I would recommend looking at Crucial, Samsung, Intel, and Kingston HyperX series, whatever's cheapest)

Also, a 750w+ PSU would be extreme overkill...

 

Bottom line: you're asking for a lot out of a $650 budget, so either expectations should be tempered or the budget increased... this is more along the lines of what I would recommend for what you want out of it...

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3RiIP