I posted a thread yesterday and it was very well received, i got alot of help from the incredible community. I wanted to build a $3000 pc for heavy Editing/Gaming/Graphics/Programming etc..
I got a couple of suggestions, but inevitably I wanted to take a shot at making my own build... with zero Hardware experience/knowledge.
So here's the link: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xpA4 *UPDATED*
It's probably terrible, so please go easy on me :3 and i'm having difficulty squeezing in a 24 or 27" monitor in there without blowing my budget out of the water. So if you could please suggest ways to enhance the build and bring it under the $3000-$3050 margin, that would be fantastic! :D
Good sir, how about you try out the i7-3930k? It is .3ghz slower and has 3 less mb of intel smart cache, it is also over $500 less. It is just like the 3960X but slightly lower clock speeds and lower TDP. I believe the performance difference will be very minimal honestly, considering both are 6 cores with hyperthreading.
Not the slightest clue on that, i am sure someone who knows a lot about monitors can help you out for sure though. What monitor were you trying to add?
Once again, I'm not a hardware expert but i mainly work with graphic programs and do freelance graphic design so i need a monitor with good colour representation, a good size (so 24-27") and just something affordable I guess.
Get a Dell with IPS pannel, like a DELL 2709w. It has really good colour accuity and pixel size, also has a better response time than older samsung pannels (it uses a known good colour but laggy pannel revised).
I'd suggest you get a better video card for this much money, depending or your needs (hd 7970 or 680 gtx), dropping an SSD maybe, and the sound card is not worth it, unless you also have a good speaker system and headphones. I know the i7 extreme is good, but I don't think they're worth it, especially after a few years, when the mainstream will overpower it, the cost of upgrading later is lower (not on this platform though, don't know about haswell and after, if you wanted system longevivity you should've gone with AMD socket A a long time ago, or LGA 775, or AM3+ two years ago). What about a i7 3930K, just 3 mb less cache and a little slower, it's Ivy bridge, and you can overclock it easily, and spend a little of the cartload of money saved on something like this
Are you sure a 89$ keyboard is worth it? Have you tried it beforehand? I'd reccomend any mechanical keyboard your comfortable with and that has the features you like but it's up to personal preference. All i'm saying is be skeptical, especially with newer brands, though in the case of peripherials, the word of the people is usually the truth (you know it's good if so many say so, in this sense)
I've taken the suggestions from the comments combined with the expertise of my friends and this is my epic under $3000 Heavy Editing/Gaming PC, The link has been updated in the main post! :D Please leave feedback/suggestions!
ok so you want an ips panal mad oc options and fast large volume storage. i only changed you water cooler (kraken x60), memory (32gb 1866 black) psu (xfx 850w silver) ssd (vertex4) monitor (asus 27inch ips 5ms response same rez as the dell) the dell monitor you picked had a 7ms response time. so i got this ofr $3008 be for rebates http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xW0Z
if you want to raid your hardrives i would go with red drives form WD http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xW6W
the red drives are one grade below WD's server drives. they are very reliable! they have 3tb red drives too but they are 149 each.
and under 3k http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xW3Y 2997 before rebates
I'm not actually too sure what RAID is and what the 0 to 10 numbers mean, but my friend (HUGE hardware geek) said i should put the two HDD's in RAID or something like that, and the SSD will be partitioned to hold Windows 8 and Mac OS (Hackintosh :P)
The Dell IS better, thank you :3 I need an IPS display with a resolution higher than 1080p because my main use of the computer aside from gaming and editing, is mainly Graphics Design and recording Speed Arts/Tutorials etc. So the Dell monitor was greatly reccommended for me by my mate, and when I went to the store to check out the display... it was gorgeous *__*
For graphics you don't need low latency, that's for gaming, and if you truly want low response time and are seriously gaming then go CRT. The Dell's panel is almost the same as my samsung ips panel but has much lower latency, and from personal experience I can say it looks great, though the sRGB settings look off (too bright yellows) without tuning.
Why so much memory, even 16 is too much. Better spend the money on a good SSD or save for later.
About RAID, that article covers the basics, research or just look at a how-to setup video.