Thanks for looking here!
First, here's my build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QD8GMp
I've got about a 1400-1500 dollar budget for this PC. I plan on playing games like Arma 3, Battlefield 4 (not so much Hardline), Crysis 3, and a bit of Microsoft Flight Simulator X, all on rather high settings. I also want the crossfire rather than the GTX 970. It pushes more frames which is more important to me than running 4k (which I won't get for a while) and if nothing else, it looks beastly. I want a smooth, frame rate drop free experience. I looked at the 960 but with only 2gb of vram, it doesn't really work because I want this to work at least a few years into the future.
The second part of the build is video editing and after effects work. This was the primary factor at the beginning of me picking out parts. Then, I decided that realistically, I'll be playing more games than editing. I was wondering if Adobe After Effects or Premier utilizes the r9 280s? Either way, I want to keep the crossfire in the build.
The third part to this build is overclocking. I've never overclocked a desktop pc before but I do kinda want to try it. I've heard some bad things if the overclock goes bad and when I overclocked my Rasberry Pi, it corrupted a bunch of SD cards but that was because I wasn't giving it enough power. Is it safe to overclock and how much of an overclock do you think I can get with this board?
Fourth and final is the color scheme. If you didn't already notice, I'm going with a black and white theme. I am wondering about the windforce cards because I think they have a blue light on them. I think though that that is only for the Nvidia cards and not for amd. If they do, I'll switch them for a Saphire Dual-X or just live with a bit of blue.
Thanks for reading this because I know its long. I've been researching for about 7-8 months (my parents won't let me build the computer until the summer) and believe that for what I want, this is pretty good. I don't plan on making major upgrades to the parts in the future and never plan on getting the i7 4690k. I looked at benchmarks that show that its about 2 seconds faster in rendering and not that much faster in gaming than the i5 4690k. So what do you think? Any problems or suggestions? Anyways, thanks for taking the time to read this and give advice.
-Golfer760
One last thing, H440 (Black and White) or the Phanteks Enthroo Pro?
First, here's my build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QD8GMp
I've got about a 1400-1500 dollar budget for this PC. I plan on playing games like Arma 3, Battlefield 4 (not so much Hardline), Crysis 3, and a bit of Microsoft Flight Simulator X, all on rather high settings. I also want the crossfire rather than the GTX 970. It pushes more frames which is more important to me than running 4k (which I won't get for a while) and if nothing else, it looks beastly. I want a smooth, frame rate drop free experience. I looked at the 960 but with only 2gb of vram, it doesn't really work because I want this to work at least a few years into the future.
The second part of the build is video editing and after effects work. This was the primary factor at the beginning of me picking out parts. Then, I decided that realistically, I'll be playing more games than editing. I was wondering if Adobe After Effects or Premier utilizes the r9 280s? Either way, I want to keep the crossfire in the build.
The third part to this build is overclocking. I've never overclocked a desktop pc before but I do kinda want to try it. I've heard some bad things if the overclock goes bad and when I overclocked my Rasberry Pi, it corrupted a bunch of SD cards but that was because I wasn't giving it enough power. Is it safe to overclock and how much of an overclock do you think I can get with this board?
Fourth and final is the color scheme. If you didn't already notice, I'm going with a black and white theme. I am wondering about the windforce cards because I think they have a blue light on them. I think though that that is only for the Nvidia cards and not for amd. If they do, I'll switch them for a Saphire Dual-X or just live with a bit of blue.
Thanks for reading this because I know its long. I've been researching for about 7-8 months (my parents won't let me build the computer until the summer) and believe that for what I want, this is pretty good. I don't plan on making major upgrades to the parts in the future and never plan on getting the i7 4690k. I looked at benchmarks that show that its about 2 seconds faster in rendering and not that much faster in gaming than the i5 4690k. So what do you think? Any problems or suggestions? Anyways, thanks for taking the time to read this and give advice.
-Golfer760
One last thing, H440 (Black and White) or the Phanteks Enthroo Pro?
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