First PC Build

I recently built an X99-based rig for an engineer at the company I'm at... https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/i7-5820k-r9-390-engineering-build/92688/4

Not cause he needed X99, but because price/performance to the 6700k was better and the 6700k was out of stock EVERYWHERE :P

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Yeah thats a very awesome system.
Realy a sweet spot for gaming + productivity workloads, content creation etc.

6700K 4 cores 8 threads, realy makes no sense,
if you can buy a 5820K 6 core 12 threads for significantly cheaper.
X99 also offer more expendability aswell as more pci-e lanes etc.

This is inherently true. That and the 5930K offers the same level of perf that the 5820K does but with even MORE LANES... All the lanes.. LOL

Well I feel terrible. I feel like I've been asking questions maybe I didn't need to ask and have gone away from my original ideas. I'm not particularly bound by any dollar amount other than me not willing to spend the money (So we'll say $1500 MAX - No peripherals considering I already have some. An exception I suppose would be a DAC and I've been thinking some sort of GPU cooler)

Gaming is my main incentive in this build, but I had been asking all these questions because I had thought about fiddling around with maybe some video recording (of games I play) and editing. Other than that I guess that most intense thing I would be doing is hosting games for my friends and I.

Based on all the help I've received thus far I'm going to see what I can put together here and I'll post something in a little bit. Again I apologize for asking questions that kept getting everyone off track and confused at what I wanted.

Ok... So I've come down to basically two different builds finally (I hope):

Build 1: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8G6vBm
Build 2: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zPNJJx

Which do you think will perform better? Is there anything you would change? As far as maybe Price/performance or maybe something I picked is unnecessary or might bottleneck another component.

From the two you posted... it's a no-brainer to do the i7 with a 240GB SSD... I wouldn't put blue ram on a red mobo... but that's being nitpicky :)

but for $1500.... I'd do an X99 rig: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tDr94D

The Define R5 is a really nice case, but so is that Phanteks, and it's super easy to build in... great cable management, solid build quality... I added a case fan since it only comes with one for whatever reason...

for X99 you'd want 4 channel RAM since it's supported...

you won't see a big gaming increase but it'll murder 3D rendering... for an extra $20, I see no reason not to basically :)

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