So I have a good idea of what components I want for my build, I definitely want to overclock (Only if I watercool) and do SLI, possibly watercooling. I will be using this for uni work, gaming and will also be doing a lot of rendering in Cinema4D, Maya and stuff like Sony Vegas, PhotoShop etc... I know I can get similar results for a lot cheaper but at the end of the day I want something which will still be good in 3 or so years time because I don't plan on upgrading again for a few years atleast unless it's for small things like adding more ram or hard drives.
Also whilst I can have a decent budget in the longterm (£4500 | $5500), short term I can't afford it all in one go, so I will be breaking the build up in to parts, with four month gaps in between each part...
Part 1 will be buying : Case, Motherboard, cpu, ram, PSU - Storage and GPU will be taken out of my old build
Part 2 will be buying: Two GTX Titans
Part 3 will be buying: Watercooling stuff (Will plan this out closer to the time as it's not a definite thing yet)
Would you guys advise I buy the stuff in parts, or should I just save the money up and then just buy the whole lot??
Also if you have any suggestions on the parts I have selected feel free to suggest alternatives, I wouldn't mind reducing the cost here and there as long as I am able to keep similar performance, anyway here is the parts http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/seriuzbuzinez/saved/2du8
And the same parts below if you don't want to use the link
+1 on this. From what I have seen with the 780s preform almost as good as the Titans do and are a few hundred cheaper. This video shows the benchmarks(only as single GPU preformance though), there is also a 1080p one if you would like to see it:
I also agree with quad channel, especially on a rendering PC, you will need it. I would also recommend getting a good SSD for your OS and your programs and projects(not games), atleast 120GB, preferably 250GB. And why not get a 900D? I hear they made a lot of upgrades from the 800D and people are a lot happier with it as well as it gave a lot of new options for cooling and such.
I modified your build to include two 780s instead of the Titans. This allowed me to fit 32gb of really nice RAM, some higher quality HDDs, an SSD, and a better cooler into your budget
Would just like to say thanks as you both made great points, and yeah I will definitely be using two GTX 780s after seeing the SLI benchmarks... something I completely overlooked... I am will probably just use the Samsung SSD out of my laptop as it don't give me enough storage. And I looked at the 900D and that thing is massive, I would have to rebuild my desk... I will think about the 900D :D
Yeah I heard about the new Ivy-E... I won't even be ably to buy anything until mid - late september anyway so hopefully by then we will hear something about it, also what other motherboards would you recommend which are just as good? I choose what I did as it can do dual x16 slots, and as above I will think about the 900D, I only choose that watercooler as I plan to eventually do a custom loop so the AIO cooler will only go to waste, or I could sell it I guess.