Ultimate Gaming/Video Editing Build

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popesloth

Honorable
Jun 6, 2013
112
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10,680
Will
be purchasing everything as soon as waterblocks for the 780ti are out
overclocking
water cooling (water cooling will bring the build over 4k)
be running 1x 2560x1440 monitor and 2x 1920x1080 monitors
watercooling both gpus and cpu
Gaming, Modding, Programming, Video and Photo Editing, Streaming, Using the internet
and some 3D modeling
Won't be upgrading for a few years
Will be running the ssds in raid 0 and hdds in raid 1

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/24bVN
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/24bVN/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/24bVN/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($309.99 @ Amazon)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Cooling MX-2 4g Thermal Paste ($7.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Hero ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($189.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($213.33 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 840 Pro Series 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($134.98 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 840 Pro Series 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($134.98 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($149.92 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($149.92 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($735.66 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($735.66 @ Newegg)
Sound Card: Asus Xonar Essence STX 24-bit 192 KHz Sound Card ($161.67 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 750D ATX Full Tower Case ($139.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair RM 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($191.17 @ Amazon)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Professional (32/64-bit) ($199.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $3455.24
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-18 05:00 EST-0500)
 
Solution
You should limit your budget to $2000...

Your spending $3500 without even a monitor...

Take out the second SSD, take out the second hard drive

Why get two 780 ti's... Get 2x780's, I'd get 2x770's (4GB version) because really your being ripped of by Nvidia and the market. It's just a game they are playing to squeeze money out of people who don't know about hardware...

That'll put you back into the lower $2,000 region where you should be...

You can buy new Storage along the way. Prices get cheaper and sometimes there are special deals where you can pick up some good drives really cheap. Considering the 750D you picked out, it has tons of space to do whatever you want. (Great case btw)