My room mate and I PC builds. What y'all think?

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Here's our build. There for gaming and editing. My roomate build is more for editing and work wise but he'll game on it. After a year in or at least 6 months in we'll do SLI. Our budget was suppose to be under $2000 but he went a little over buts that's ok.

ROOMATE BUILD: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2Xj9mG

MY BUILD: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/bhWLRB

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Build's seem decent for what you'll use it for. Only a couple of things to keep in mind; alot of people recommend 32 gigs of ram for editing. You could fit this in the budget by getting a haswell i7 instead of having broadwell but thats not too much of a big deal. One thing that I think is an absolute must though is not buying windows at that price. You can purchase legitimate keys for far far cheaper here https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoftsoftwareswap
Other than that it looks good!

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Thanks and I totally forgot about buying windows keys... smh lol

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Just a word of caution, /r/microsoftsoftwareswap keys aren't always "legit". A lot of them come from MSDN or Dream Spark, and expire after a few years or whenever the MSDN/Dream Spark account is cancelled. While the keys do work without a crack or anything, most of the keys sold there aren't supposed to be resold. So I guess it's legit in the sense that it works, at least for a while.

That said, I still recommend it. I got a key from there a bit over a year ago, and it still works. Just be aware of the complications.

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There's a couple things I'd change. The PSU, add some more storage to yours and upgrade to skylake. Had to go for a different GPU (the zotac amp!, still a very good card), different RAM (although it's still hyperX fury, just black), different mobo (the MSI krait Z170 board) and AIO (the same as your mate's, the nepton 280L), in the process.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wKyzTW

As for your friend's I'd just save a bit by applying the same PSU to his build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wNfBnQ

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You might want to consider getting an R9 fury given Nvidia's recent issues with DX12

And at 2 thousand dollars, you might as well get the other system to X99, and there are less expensive 480gb SSD options