GamingFTW's $3000 Dollar build

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I will be doing a build actually in a few days as of posting this. I should have enough money to start.

Here is the build: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/GamingFTW/saved/3lfV

I will also be posting a build log as a blog post and I will also be doing a few videos on tutorials.

It may not say 3k but the monitor I will be getting will pretty much make it 3k. The monitor is an Asus PA279Q, http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-PA279Q-27-Inch-Screen-Monitor/dp/B00DX64DBU

I just wanted to post it here just to make sure its pretty good and passes your "standards" lol.

Let me know if I should change anything.

You might also be thinking (how u get dat money), and well I'm not at liberty to say. But I will say it is out of my own pocket.

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Why only a 280X? why not a 290 or 290X? or even 780 or 78 Ti?

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The OCZ Vector 150 costs the same as the Corsair Neutron, but it's faster. The OCZ Vertex 460 is about as fast and $40 cheaper.

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I agree. Looking at the monitor, it leaves him with a budget of $2200, so there's plenty of room at add one of those, except for the 780 Ti.

Of course, there is much to be said for saving a couple hundred dollars, especially since the 280x will still be a decent card for 1440p.

OP, did you ever consider getting a Korean 1440p monitor? It would be a lot cheaper, although support and reliability may not be as high. Still I believe you can get them in the ~$300 price range.

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*EDIT* After some more calculations I can actually aford to get a 290.

I have thought about getting a Korean monitor at first, but I just love quality and colors plus I do graphic design. AdobeRGB will do me good.

There is also a cheaper one that does I think 70% of Adobe RGB http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-PA279Q-27-Inch-Screen-Monitor/dp/B00DX64DBU

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I went with the Corsair based on this endurance test http://techreport.com/review/26058/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-data-retention-after-600tb

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Fair enough. I wish that test included more SSDs though since it didn't include any from PNY, Mushkin, Crucial, OCZ, or A-Data, and those are moderately common brands on the market. Well except for PNY maybe, but I don't keep track of everything like that.

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I agree, I would like to see a test of the OCZ. The way that the Corsair SSD just increased in speed and is still fine after 600TB's of writes is truely amzing.

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

 

Changes a few thing;

Better CPU

Cheaper but still good quality PSU. For a single GPU 850w is overkill.

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620W BRONZE. Is way too little for that. I always say 33% more than the recomended, and really? bronze? Come on... 1:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhUnIx6zF_E#t=110

But I wanna try AMD. I love multitasking, I usually have 30+ tabs at a time so I would benefit from the extra cores.

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620w is close, but should work.  Antec's HCG series is also of decent quality.

Just gonna point out as well that the RAM isn't listed as a price.

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Yeah, it just went out of stock on Sunday but you can get it on ebay, which I will be doing because it doesn't matter when the RAM comes with a lifetime warranty.

I like headroom in my power supplies. You DON'T SKIMP ON POWER SUPPLIES. I can't stress that enough....

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Doesn't mean you have to go overkill.

But yes, having extra wattage for overclocking and breathing room on a PSU is good.  It extends longevity and usually has less heat output.

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Your overkill and my overkill are two different things. I plan on upgrading the shit out of this. I and don't want the first thing I have to upgrade being my power supply.

Overkill for this thing would be 1000W.

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620w would be plenty, but if you want 33% more you could go with a 700w PSU.

 

30+ tabs IS NOT MULTITASKING.

Tabs idle, tabs use little to no resources.

You wont benefit from the extra "cores", which they dont even provide.

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Yeah, I was initially interested in the OCZ Vector 150 since it appears to be a cross between a consumer and an enterprise SSD performance and reliability wise, but I can't find too much info on it other than speed and power consumption.

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If he wants to go overkill on his PSU let him lol!

I went overkill on mine- It will run better by being less stressed overall and leave plenty of room for future upgradablility-

Also- vmN is right, At this price point you might aswell get the intel. It's a very solid part and multi-tasking is not a real reason for getting 8cores- the i7 has your 8 virtual cores and MUCH MUCH better IPC, while being a new better archetexture and using much less power

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I know 30+ tabs isn't multi-tasking. But if you insisted here is my desktop currently.

http://i.imgur.com/C29p8GW.png

 

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Well, you didn't say you were going to be upgrading it on the OP.  If you're going to upgrade, then yes, go with a higher wattage power supply.

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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3w0iv :)